Wow. It’s bee-​​yooo-​​teee-​​ful out­side here in Chicago. It’s a nice 68 degrees out­side and sunny. But the best part is that tomor­row it’s sup­posed to reach the low 70’s!

Unfor­tu­nately, I’ll be stuck behind my desk at work for most of the day. Boo.

At least I was able to enjoy today; as I worked from home. How enjoy­able is it to be able to take a mid-​​morning break to walk our dog­gie? And I just love not hav­ing to wake up any ear­lier to get ready for work on these days, when all  I have to do is roll out of bed, stum­ble to my trusty lap­top and sign into the office. Oh how I wish I could do this more than once a month!

Today being the Wednes­day before the Easter, I’ve noticed a lot more stu­dents out and about enjoy­ing the nice weather. Which makes me believe that these kids are all on some sort of Spring break or semes­ter break of sorts.

Jeal­ous!!

Makes me wish I could be back at school just so I can have those extra days off. And it’s not just because you auto­mat­i­cally get those days off … it’s more that when you’re off at that time, your entire “busi­ness as usual” rou­tine stops. There’s no other per­son that you’re respon­si­ble for when you’re off. There’s no other per­son rely­ing on you to make sure things are in order for him/​her when you’re gone for the week. And most of all, there’s no pile of work wait­ing for you when you return from that time off.

Now, sched­ul­ing a vaca­tion … even just between Hubby & I is a pain in the neck. After all, last time we went away (to Vegas, baby) … and even though peo­ple knew we would be gone, chaos still ensued which ulti­mately ended up with Hubby hav­ing to deal with work-​​related things. While on vaca­tion.

Blech. When did we become so responsible?

But speak­ing of vaca­tion … I know that I’m ripe for another one some­time soon. Maybe it’s the fatigue I’ve been deal­ing with. Or maybe it’s the feel­ing of being over­worked that has me feel­ing like this. Either way, I think it’s time some qual­ity Mr. & Mrs. Apron­Strings time.

Unfor­tu­nately … and this goes back to the whole sched­ul­ing a vaca­tion thing … that prob­a­bly won’t be until August; when we’re sched­uled to go on an Alaskan cruise out of Seat­tle with my parents.**

Oh, I take that back. It’ll be in July to Toronto for Hubby’s cousin’s wed­ding. But even then, it’ll only be for a long weekend.

Any­hoo … I wish that my num­bers would come up in the MegaMil­lions lot­tery. That way I can go on vaca­tion and travel more often!

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Whew. I did it. I blogged for two straight months … IN A ROW!

And thanks to NaBloPoMo … I get this lucky badge to add to my awards and such. Woo-​​hoo!

But hold on to you’re seats, kiddo. I still have 5 mores left of post­ing daily to ful­fill that Lenten promise. So with­out fur­ther ado:

Ran­dom Act of Kind­ness Today: Sun­day it was my kitty, Rain that needed all the atten­tion. Today (and in most days that I work from home), it was my other kitty, Yami. So … before tak­ing our Kozzy-​​girl out for that mid-​​morning walk, I let Yami snug­gle on my lap and paw away at my com­puter for a bit until she got fed up with me try­ing to take a pic­ture of her on the Pho­to­Booth appli­ca­tion on my lap­top. She’s just too adorable to resist … but when ya gotta work …

Grate­ful Thought Today: Work-​​From-​​Home Days … for all the rea­sons I listed above. Plus … the fact that I tend to con­cen­trate bet­ter on reports and projects with­out the con­stant inter­rup­tions and meet­ings. Some­days it can be a chal­lenge (read: still get inter­rupted by emails and phone calls and IM’s), but it’s worth it just to be able to sleep a tad longer.

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** Thank G*D for my par­ents love of trav­el­ing … if it wasn’t for them, I don’t think Hubby & I would have the gump­tion to plan some­thing on our own. But really … it would be nice to have a quick get­away with just Hubby & me; to recharge our batteries.