Time for a break! You’ll be happy to know that I did indeed survive Staff Relief. It was definitely a stressful/crazy two weeks, but it went by quickly. Now, all of a sudden, there are only days left before Christmas. I’m still trying to grasp that I have a full two weeks off, much less the fact that since Thanksgiving I have somehow managed to get all of my shopping done. I’m not even sure when that happened, but, whew.

Now it’s hitting me that after this year (or, at least for a while) that I’ll have this kind of ‘time off’ around the holidays. No more “winter breaks,” or “thanksgiving breaks.” Just hopefully some Paid Time Off and/or vacation days saved and added up to maybe equal a week at home.  Although, as the ‘new-comer,’ do you ever really get holidays off? Who knows? This will be the price I pay (well, along with the cost of the flight) for deciding to live far far away from the family. Decisions, decisions.

On another note, I still think of my laptop as a new ‘toy.’ After having a desktop for 5 years I still get excited about the luxury of traveling with my computer. I Love It! So, here I am, trying to waste time during a three and a half hour flight.  With full intentions of playing card games (not doing work), I opened it up. For some reason I clicked on documents, saw “My Resume 6/08” and thought, “Hmm, haven’t looked at that in a while…..”

What did I do on my flight? I updated my resume. What inspired me to do this? I have no idea. But, yessss, it’s done!

There will be so many little things like this to think about/get done in the upcoming months. I need to be updating the resume, deciding which online job-search sites are actually worthwhile and/or updated frequently, deciding where to live (well, that might not fall under “little” things to do….), writing/editing application letters, etc. I might as well get started now, right? Just a little something to check off the ‘list.’  Now I’ll go relax.

Happy holidays!

Posted by Mary Ellen Nunes at 12/24/2008 10:36:21 AM |