Vacation Anticipation

1 week from today my vacation starts. I haven't been on an actual vacation in 3 years. Last year during my vacation I worked my second job. The year before that I had a yard sale. Everyone who has ever had a yard sale knows it's just like work. You spend several weeks going through your belongings you haven't even looked at in years but know it's time to get rid of. Then you label everything with a price you think is appropiate for sale. The day of the yard sale you get up early to set up tables and display your items in a way, inviting people to buy. Then the people start to come by. You smile and say hello as they pick up things, look at them intently, then put them back down on the table only to move on to the next item. At the end of the day, you pack up what you didn't sell and drop if off at Good Will or the Salvation Army. Finished! Now you go to your cash box to see how well you did with your weeks worth of labor and you count $23.45. Hmmmm.



You think about all those things you had out there and what some of them really meant to you but you knew you needed to get rid of it because you were trying to make room. And you look down into your hand holding the money you received from all those things and you ask yourself "was it worth it?" All that work and energy put in trying to make this yard sale successful, "was it worth it?" Then you think for a minute and nod your head, yes it was worth it. Because all that time you spent sorting through things and all the things you sorted through, brought back some very good memories, things you hadn't thought about in a very long time. And it made you feel good. It gave you a feeling of worth and aliveness that you hadn't felt since you came across your first actual really beautiful memory, and relived it once again.

Now, I didn't want to get into all that, this blog was supposed to be about my vacation. I do want to say that with all of that thinking, and all of that writing that I just put into that above topic, I am looking so much more forward to going on my vacation to rest my brain.

I'll let you know how it goes.