Vacation

For some, vacation looks like crystal-clear beaches and sun-tans and cold drinks. For others, it looks like airplanes and museums and tourism.

For me, vacation looks a little more like this:

1. not setting an alarm and sleeping in until my back hurts from being in bed too long.

2. not feeling like I have to wake up at a certain time because someone is waiting on me or breakfast won't be served past a certain time or I need to make the most of the day.

3. not showering.

4. not wearing make-up.

5. wearing jammies all day long.

6. leaving my phone upstairs (or in the other room, etc) and not even looking at it for many hours at a time.

7. reading a good fiction novel.

8. flipping through magazines.

9. taking 3 naps a day.

10. reading a good novel and flipping through magazines in between naps.

11. eating 2 pieces of pie.

12. not taking one single picture of anything (see numbers 3, 4 and 5).

13. not having anywhere to go or anyone to see...nothing planned.

14. drinking afternoon coffee because I can stay up as late as I want because I'm just gonna sleep in the next morning and take naps throughout the day.

15. going to bed when I feel like it, preferably falling asleep while watching a movie and cuddling with someone handsome (husband and/or baby).

For some of you reading (all 3 of you), this may sound utterly boring. And if I did this for more than 3 days, I'd be bored too. But when life is always so scheduled and so planned, day in and day out and you live in a big city with lots of people...sometimes you just need to go to Small Town, Nowheresville for a few days and do nothing. Absolutely, blissfully nothing.

Of course, some of this has become a little bit tweaked since vacations past, having an infant to share my vacation with (see #1a, #2a and #12). But let me tell ya...it still feels pretty good.

What's your idea of vacation?

P.S. This is a picture-less post (see #12).