A Weekend Off

I am sitting in the business center of Embassy Suites Hotel. It is just after 9 pm (I think) and I just finished returning a few e-mails. When I came into the center it actually was for business, (yeah I know, "what a thought" huh?), but there were actually no items in my inbox needing immediate attention, so now am using this "business center" for leisure. YAY! This weekend has been such a breath of fresh air so far! I think I am just badly in need of a real vacation...as of Sept. 22nd it will have been a year for me as the manager of the company I work for, and the only time I have taken off has been for business trips, besides a day (or HALF day) here and there. So they are saying that I can take a vacation after my one-year mark, and I just might get a week paid out of it at that! So I keep telling myself that it will be worth the wait. I really like my job at this point, though it has it's times, of course. Lately though, I have been thinking alot about going back to school. My dad says that is normal for my age...it has been something I have been wanting to do for ever so long!! So I am not sure I entirely agree. At any rate, something has got to start changing at least by the beginning of the year...hmmmmm, I am getting really sleepy now and it has been a really long day, so I think that I shall bid you farewell for the night. Buenas noches.

Non-Labor Day

This has been a truly nice day! Feeling refreshed and rejuvenate, I think I am ready to renter the working world. It was an especially long weekend for me, as I only worked half-day on Friday, so that is nice. But to be honest, it makes it just that much more difficult to go back! Hee hee, well at least it will make for a shorter week. Anyways, I was just thinking of the irony of it all; you know, Labor Day, and it is a weekend where hardly anyone does ANY labor, if they can help it, at all! So funny. Yeah, we are a generation that doesn't really know why we celebrate certain holidays, yet are very "patriotic" in being sure to celebrate, whether we know why or not!

Well, I don't have much time, but thought I'd at least put in my tribute to The National Day Off. Thanks to whoever it is owed, praise to whoever deserves it, and success to anyone who has worked hard for it! I am personally thankful for the opportunities I face every day to earn my own living and enjoy the privileges that accompany it. We live in a very blessed nation; may we take time more often to nurture gratitude in our attitudes and hearts for it. As much as I have my days, like anyone else, where getting up and being to work on time is such a chore, I hope that I will not lose sight of the blessing it really is. At least I have a job! At least I have the freedom to choose the profession of my liking. While some jobs may be only that, a job ("Just Over Broke," as my dad says, hee hee), at least we may continue our education if necessary as we keep a job to fund it, while heading towards a calling...yes, let us be thankful for what we have--it is more than some will ever come close to knowing first hand in their entire life! Now THERE'S a reason to get up in the morning! Ok, I am going to get off my soap box now and call it a night. (You know, so I can be fresh for work tomorrow.....)

"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day." ~Robert Frost~