I just realized it’s been a year since I last went on a vacation. So I checked how many VLs I had left, and yehey, I still have 5.81. So I’m taking three days off starting Monday. I’ve been abnormally busy the last few weeks with ISO documentation, setting up metrics, fixing work scheds, filtering hotel requests, preparing presentations and orienting 2 new writers. I think I accomplished a fair amount of work. There have been some issues here and there that I wish I had more time to handle and more energy to create a ruckus over…but I don’t. Still somewhat sick, but much better than the last 3 weeks.

Ganns dropped by the office the other day. He looks great. Too bad the writers are now in EV4 and most of them are new. I bet the old ones (two of them were absent that day) would have loved to see him.

Speaking of the writers, things are finally better with the team. I think sitting together makes a difference. One more and we’re a complete. She joins us this August. I hope they all stick around, at least until my birthday in February. Would love to have a drinking session with them. It would be unbelievably embarrassing if they see me drunk, but I’m not really one to care (hello! I threw up in public!).

I love my job, but it’s not without stress. So off I go on an adventure. I trust Abby and I know I can leave the team in her capable  hands.

What am I going to do? I have no idea. When I had the leave form signed I wanted to just ride a bus and not know where it’ll take me. I was planning on bringing a bottle of tequila and drinking myself to death in a strange place. I was having a bad day then. I emailed my best drinking buddies…Cel and Den, of course. Tried to persuade them that a night 5 days of irresponsibility would be so great for us. I think they almost said yes.

Then, we realized we’re all adults now and we can’t really do that anymore. So we’re going local. Dress up in our party shit. Drink like we’ve never done before. Make sure someone can reach us when we’re drunk dialing. Maybe I should just rent a room and we can work from there. At least that way Cel doesn’t have to drive.

I have my 5 days sorta planned out.

Saturday: Gym for 4 hours
Sunday: Dinner with old friends
Monday: Learn how to drive a manual car
Monday night: Drink like crazy
Tuesday: Get a second opinion about this horrendous cough from another doctor
Wednesday: Stare at fish….I mean go to Manila Ocean Park or maybe Enchanted Kingdom, because it’s fun.

I’ll probably cut it short and go back to work on Tuesday. I think I’m getting old.