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Decompression Days-Need ‘em, Gotta Have ‘em!

August 8, 2008

I’M BACK!

I just returned from the first real vacation I’ve had in seven years.  We went to “hot as hell” Florida and played on the beach almost every day.  One day we even got to see baby sea turtles hatching from their nest in the sand.  We were just there, minding our own business and there they were…scuttling down the sand towards the water. I sent a Tweet by the way if you were following.  See, for all you non-tweeters, Twitter can be useful! (I just wish I had a camera phone)

So why was this vacation so special?  Because for once, that big white elephant in the room called WORK wasn’t there.  No checking email every day, no phone calls to make, no fires to put out…no arguing with the husband about why I’m staying behind to finish up just one more thing.  I did check email periodically, only because old habits die hard and I try to be on top of things.  But for the most part, it was the most relaxing vacation I’ve ever had.

Friends have asked, “So, did you have fun?”.  And believe it or not, I didn’t have a quick answer.  Fun wasn’t the word I would use to describe the vacation… more like relaxing.  We stayed at a relatives house while they were on their own vacation and the house was right on the water (St. Lucie River), had a pool in the backyard and was seriously 6 minutes from the beach. After driving 2.5 miles we were sitting on the beach every morning by 10am soaking up the cancerous sun.  Ahhh!  It was heaven!  We ate lunch on the beach most days and I looked at my husband one day and said to him, “This is the life. I can’t imagine living down here and being able to go to the beach every weekend!“  For the first few days it would start raining around 4pm or 5pm and that gave us good reason to be back at the house, decompress some more and take a nap.  Again…relaxation!

We had no agenda but ours, didn’t have to get dressed and eat at a restaurant every morning, noon, and night.  Stress free dining.  Keith and I went into West Palm one night by ourselves and had dinner with friends.  In the old days, I would’ve gone to West Palm to party hard but now, dinner with good friends, good food was just the ticket.  We had the best time at Spoto’s Oyster Bar in downtown West Palm Beach.  Great service by the bartender who was also playing waitress that night.  Oysters were fresh and we even toasted to our vacation with OYSTER SHOTS!

At the end of the week I thanked my lucky stars that I work for a company that values an employees vacation time and realizes how important that time is, both for the employee and the company.  I’m back… refreshed, re-energized and ready to do whatever it takes to help make LUCRUM successful.

Written by JacintaSpinola · Filed Under LUCRUM News 

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