Vacation was when!

Quick I need another vacation, the one I just had seems a long long time ago and I came home to super stress....more on that later.

Vacation was awesome, I had not really been thinking about it, just knew it would be nice to get away. Dropped Elliot and the dog off at Joes house and Colin and I went to a really beautiful hotel on the coast near Portsmouth. Colin was in an incredible romantic mood all week, which I did not mind at all, nice to have all that attention and showered with gifts because he knows how stressed I have been at work and with grad school. We really did a whole lot of nothing, getting up late, wandering around cute coastal villages, picking out our retirement homes (pathetic I know). We then moved to another hotel about an hour north of Joe because it was on a huge lake and the best bit.....it had a spa. I am still reminiscing on the peach body scrub and vichy shower, and the couples massage was just heaven. The boys, Katie and dog came up for a couple of evenings to mess around on the lake in their kayaks and canoes, dog loved it. I loved sitting and watching them with a chilled glass of wine in my hand.

Big mistake was taking the Saturday to work on Joes house, mistake because all the hard labor undid all the relaxation of the week, but we worked like crazy people, used my weight in soap, kitchen towels and fabuloso, kitchen was gleaming, laundry room is a thing of beauty and finally a family room that you can see the floor has a coffee table (great Barn sale find) and finally it feels like a home. We finished so late we ended up staying the night, not doing that again, student accomodation is definitely not for me, whatever the time is I am taking my cute little body off to find a full service hotel!! But I know Joe was grateful about all we achieved.

Home, back to work and the realization that my thesis is due Aug 24th....now I knew this, have known this for a long time but was just ignoring it, buried it underneath all that other stuff I have been doing. But when I looked at the syllabus for the thesis class and realized how much I have to do by Aug 24th that I should have been working on all year and have not I just about fell over. So, as I cannot take more time off work I have given up alcohol and sleep...yep totally sucks.

Getting there slowly, at this point dont even care what grade I get as long as I pass.