4 posts tagged “vacation”

It is about 1 hour
until the kickoff of the Colts pre-season - well actually the NFL pre-season to be specific.  The Hall Of Fame game starts the Sunday Night NFL games on NBC.  Yeah, these games are meaningless but they are a good warm up and excitement builder for me.  I thought the NFL reserved tongiht's game, The Hall Of Fame Game for good teams - so I'm surprised to see the Skins scheduled for this game.  ---  Oh, I think that was trash talk? Yes.

My "no TV" experiment
may be seeing it's last days.  I'm not extreme enough to go without a TV during football season.  I might have to go and panhandle my way to a new one.  It is wierd telling people that you don't have a TV - they just look at you funny.  I might as well just say that I don't have a refridgerator - the response would be the same.

For the last 10 days
I have been on vacation and I had Circle Face for 8 days of it.  She started missing her mom badly at about day 7.  We were supposed to go to Tenn. and visit my mom but the car took a crap and I had to pull funds away from vacation to get the car back in shape.  I do have solo vacations in Colorado in Oct and Organce County CA next spring which thankfully I pre-paid everything except hotel on those.  I plan to use points for lodging on both trips.

PS: 208 days - a couple of you will know what that means.  It feels very damn good too.

Finally got around to scheduling some vacation - actually two vacations.

The Smokies (or pretty damn close):
Circle Face and I are visiting my mom and sister for a week in July (25th -Aug 3rd).  They live in Smithsville, TN - yep it's a metropolis.  I haven't seen my mom for about 6 years so I'm looking forward to spending time with her.  They haven't met Circle Face yet.  As well, my sister has a 14 month old son that I have yet to meet.  I'm mildly excited about this.  The family pretty much fell apart in the late 80s and it's never been the same.  I've seen my mom a handful of times in the last 20 years.  She wants me stay at their house but I just can't do that.  I'll cash in some Priority Club points and stay at the nearest Holiday Inn Express.

The Rockies:
This will be a solo retreat from Sep 30th thru Oct 5th with lotsa book reading and recovery stuff.  I booked a flight to Denver using some United vouchers.  I don't have a hotel reservation yet.  I'll either use my points for a free stay or seek a last minute deal on one of those travel sites.  I'll probably lock up the BlackBerry, unplug alarm clock, and reset the clock on the car stereo - all so that I'll never know what time it is.  The ex and I did the no clocks thing during a trip to Florida in '99 and it was a blast.  I have no plan for this one and I've never taken a solo vacation.  My goal is to just do what feels good for the moment and reflect on the past 2 years of my life.

After a few false starts,
I'm finally going to burn some of my vacations days.  Austin turned me on to a casting seminar that I want to attend on Saturday morning.  As well, I'm going to visit a friend in the valley (yes she does that!).  The cool part about all of this is that I'm going to be able to make this an almost free trip with my miles and travel vouchers.  I'm going to have to pay $80 or so for the rental car - which if I had planned this in advance I could have had it for free as well.  All in all not bad, $80 for a four day weekend in LA.