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Has anyone else felt this way?
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chicagoans
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It sounds unanimous -- you should go!
After having kids, my spontaneous trips have been few and short and preceded with me feeling guilty for leaving... but everyone has always done fine and the trips have been that much sweeter for the fact that they felt like a surprise gift.
I hope you decide to go! Pick the May 5 date so you can get the loose ends tied up before you go. We're all so in touch with technology that if there were some crisis, they could reach you anyway. See, don't you feel less guilty already?
And just think of the great trip reports you could post!
After having kids, my spontaneous trips have been few and short and preceded with me feeling guilty for leaving... but everyone has always done fine and the trips have been that much sweeter for the fact that they felt like a surprise gift.
I hope you decide to go! Pick the May 5 date so you can get the loose ends tied up before you go. We're all so in touch with technology that if there were some crisis, they could reach you anyway. See, don't you feel less guilty already?
And just think of the great trip reports you could post!
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islandgirl
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- Location: michigan
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!! i feel like this everyday. i have two chances to go to stj in MAY and JUNE. Hubbie cannot go....my heart says YES YES YES YES and the practical side NO, you better not. help....so very homesick for stj. kids are grown, work no problem getting off. waaaaaaaaaaaa dont know what to do. guess i am a big chicken.
Islandgirl, I feel your pain. When designbyroe says,
"WHAT is stopping you other then you?" the answer is nothing. However, "ME" is a pretty big barrier, isn't it? I am still toying with the idea, but I know myself well enough that my overwhelming sense of responsibility will win. I'm my own barrier!
Good news is, I am at work today and doing my job. I was prepared to come in and tell them to kiss my A** today, but I am in a job where my primary role is to stand up for the little guys against the big guys. The big guys are beating me up pretty bad and I'm just not that tough. But if I walk, the next person in my seat may decide it's more fun and lucrative to be on the side with the big boys. I'll hang in there.
Amazing how a group of strangers can make you feel better than the folks that know you.
"WHAT is stopping you other then you?" the answer is nothing. However, "ME" is a pretty big barrier, isn't it? I am still toying with the idea, but I know myself well enough that my overwhelming sense of responsibility will win. I'm my own barrier!
Good news is, I am at work today and doing my job. I was prepared to come in and tell them to kiss my A** today, but I am in a job where my primary role is to stand up for the little guys against the big guys. The big guys are beating me up pretty bad and I'm just not that tough. But if I walk, the next person in my seat may decide it's more fun and lucrative to be on the side with the big boys. I'll hang in there.
Amazing how a group of strangers can make you feel better than the folks that know you.
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cypressgirl
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obsessedmuch
This one time at band camp...
This is a tiny baby step...
Once, wontongirl called me on a Friday while I was 2 hours away from home working and she said "I'm crossing over the Mississippi River at this moment. Come over here and join me." She was going to Tunica, MS to an entertainment establishment. I was 2 hours from Tunica. I said, "OK." We had planned to return home the next day so it didn't matter I only had the clothes on my back.
Needless to say, we didn't make it home until Sunday around 11:30 p.m. We had the best time!
This is a tiny baby step...
Once, wontongirl called me on a Friday while I was 2 hours away from home working and she said "I'm crossing over the Mississippi River at this moment. Come over here and join me." She was going to Tunica, MS to an entertainment establishment. I was 2 hours from Tunica. I said, "OK." We had planned to return home the next day so it didn't matter I only had the clothes on my back.
Needless to say, we didn't make it home until Sunday around 11:30 p.m. We had the best time!
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designbyroe
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vicki,
i do not know what you do for your livelyhood, i just know sometimes when you need that break and it is ALL green lights other then the yield you have created for yourself......
i know for me......yield used to be a big one and sometimes is and lord knows i have to plan my time, can not leave my clients....
heck i have planned all my time off thur dec and it makes me feel so inflexible.....
but only you know what you will do........
either way as long as you can get to STJ for a break.......
have a mojito at la tapa or rhumblines for me........
i do not know what you do for your livelyhood, i just know sometimes when you need that break and it is ALL green lights other then the yield you have created for yourself......
i know for me......yield used to be a big one and sometimes is and lord knows i have to plan my time, can not leave my clients....
heck i have planned all my time off thur dec and it makes me feel so inflexible.....
but only you know what you will do........
either way as long as you can get to STJ for a break.......
have a mojito at la tapa or rhumblines for me........