Vacation?
so yeah I'm finally back to work after working a mere two days over the past two weeks...
the last week in June I was in Ohio at a gaming convention, Origins. It was a really good time. There was much working and dealing with patrons, and gaming, and window shopping, and hanging with peeps. I did end up spending a little bit of money in dealer room even though I intended to only window shop... in my defense I only spent money on really good deals... I got a brand new game that is being released this fall for nine dollars, instead of thirty, and picked up a few source books for a campaign I'm starting at five dollars a piece, less than a quarter of the normal price, and all kinds of crazy free pokemon stuff... on top of the stuff I got for being a volunteer. Overall I came home with much loot and did not have to spend a lot of money that I just don't have :)
I played a couple larps, lots of board games, hung out for a little bit with the very awesome guy known as Feedback from "Who Wants to be a Superhero" (too bad he's married), made a number of new con friends (people who you start to become friends with but will really only ever see at a con), stayed up WAY too late just about every night, had a good time making the road trip with two awesome peeps and their baby peep, and came home completely and totally exhausted.
I showed up to work the following Tuesday and Wednesday, and I say showed up and not went to work, because I really was only there physically. :) And then it was off for the tale end of vacationy goodness...
I spend Thursday - Sunday on the Cape. I went camping in Provincetown with Pookie, Pit, the two Rogues', and our gay boy... It was a good time and I so missed camping. We spent Thursday settling in at the campsite. Friday we were off in town all day - window shopping and watching the Independence Day Parade and a little bit of bar hopping with friend we met up with along the way... bars are much more fun when one has the money to drink, but it was still fun... and finally the fire works at night. Saturday we were supposed to hit the beach but the weather did not cooperate, so we hung out at the camp site for the day and went to a great karioke bar at night ran by an awesome Drag Queen. Sunday was all about packing up and sitting in traffic... I never really understood the nightmare of cape cod traffic before... and dear gods was it bad. And it did not help that the AC in Pookie's van is broke... it was sadness, until I passed out in the back seat. I was SOOO happy to get home and take a long cool shower :)
Overall another great weekend and my brain is all refreshed, which is good cause I have some catching up to do at work. LOL it took me all day just to figure out what has been going on and what needs catching up with... But I feel good and that is something to be happy about. Goodness knows when I'll get around to spending anymore of my huge amounts of PTO... anyone else want to take me somewhere new?
the last week in June I was in Ohio at a gaming convention, Origins. It was a really good time. There was much working and dealing with patrons, and gaming, and window shopping, and hanging with peeps. I did end up spending a little bit of money in dealer room even though I intended to only window shop... in my defense I only spent money on really good deals... I got a brand new game that is being released this fall for nine dollars, instead of thirty, and picked up a few source books for a campaign I'm starting at five dollars a piece, less than a quarter of the normal price, and all kinds of crazy free pokemon stuff... on top of the stuff I got for being a volunteer. Overall I came home with much loot and did not have to spend a lot of money that I just don't have :)
I played a couple larps, lots of board games, hung out for a little bit with the very awesome guy known as Feedback from "Who Wants to be a Superhero" (too bad he's married), made a number of new con friends (people who you start to become friends with but will really only ever see at a con), stayed up WAY too late just about every night, had a good time making the road trip with two awesome peeps and their baby peep, and came home completely and totally exhausted.
I showed up to work the following Tuesday and Wednesday, and I say showed up and not went to work, because I really was only there physically. :) And then it was off for the tale end of vacationy goodness...
I spend Thursday - Sunday on the Cape. I went camping in Provincetown with Pookie, Pit, the two Rogues', and our gay boy... It was a good time and I so missed camping. We spent Thursday settling in at the campsite. Friday we were off in town all day - window shopping and watching the Independence Day Parade and a little bit of bar hopping with friend we met up with along the way... bars are much more fun when one has the money to drink, but it was still fun... and finally the fire works at night. Saturday we were supposed to hit the beach but the weather did not cooperate, so we hung out at the camp site for the day and went to a great karioke bar at night ran by an awesome Drag Queen. Sunday was all about packing up and sitting in traffic... I never really understood the nightmare of cape cod traffic before... and dear gods was it bad. And it did not help that the AC in Pookie's van is broke... it was sadness, until I passed out in the back seat. I was SOOO happy to get home and take a long cool shower :)
Overall another great weekend and my brain is all refreshed, which is good cause I have some catching up to do at work. LOL it took me all day just to figure out what has been going on and what needs catching up with... But I feel good and that is something to be happy about. Goodness knows when I'll get around to spending anymore of my huge amounts of PTO... anyone else want to take me somewhere new?