Holiday...celebrate...

Ugh. Hung over. Still excited, but more subdued.

The Guile Theme from Streetfighter goes with everything.

LAST DAY OF WORK (for a little while) IS DRAGGING. I'm a trying very hard not to inflict too much of my enthusiasm on my work colleauges, but I pretty much feel like this guy:

Ahhhhh yeah.

Bonus Weezer!

U S A

T-minus three days till we fly out on the big trip. This will be the longest period of leave I've taken since starting work first time and I'm unbelievably excited about it. My manager at work has started calling my Smug Boy because I can't stop beaming at everyone as I walk the corridors at work.

It's a strange thing, I never expected it to be so long between holidays. If you'd told me when I was a teenager that it would be six years between overseas trips, I would have looked at you like a crazy person. But, as my capacity to earn and finance overseas trips increased, other expenses increased with them. Leave was taken up with going back home, not going on holiday. 

Work is another interaction - while working with long term unemployed people trying to help address their barriers to employment, getting away from work was a major priority. But after moving to Canberra and joining the public service, work became an interesting challenge rather than something to be avoided. While there were ups and downs and stresses, for the first five years it was engaging and somewhere that I wanted to be most (if not every day). Over the last year or two, as I've stretched myself going for more challenging work and taking on more responsibilities, it's started to feel more stressful again and something that I need to escape. Growth hurts!

That ended up being deeper than intended. That's what happens when you start writing too early in the morning.

What I actually set out to say is that I am goddamn super duper freaking uber excited!

I've been filling every spare moment of my days planning things to do and trying to remember how to be on holiday and the rhythms I like to find. Looks mainly like I'm going to be eating and drinking my way around the US. I might post about it here. I might not, depends how many free afternoons I get. Whhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!