BFF

This is why you're my best friend.
Thanks melon.

Oops

I just published a bunch of old drafts, but didn't realize Blogger uses the publish time stamp vs. the original draft time stamp. My bad!

Home & Away

At the beginning of this year, each member of my team had to state one thing they were going to do for work-life balance. Mine was to go on vacation -- a lot! With over 15 days of vacation (that's 15 work days) and having only taken one real vacation in the last 2.5 years, it was time to play hard. I set aside a nice chunk of change and started taking advantage of any days Helen Melon was free. Unfortunately that only meant weekends. But that's just as good; sometimes (actually, most of the time), vacations are 2x the work with to prep before and follow-up after.

So where have I been going? Nowhere too far actually, but still tons of fun. Here's a recap:

• Tahoe
• Maui and Oahu
• Tahoe
• Vegas
• Vegas (again)
• Seattle
• Florida, Bahamas, US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Grand Turk, back to Florida (it was a cruise ya?)
• Pismo
• Chicago
• NYC!
• Yosemite
• LA
• Vegas (yes, again)

After 5 consecutive weekends of living life, it feels so good to be home. Yet somehow I still manage to have over 16 days of vacation now... how did that happen? I'm pretty much out of pocket til March, but anyone down for a trip then? I'll go anywhere!