My staycation in a nutshell...or rather in a blog post...

About six weeks ago, I was granted special permission to take my faux birthday work holiday at the end of May rather than in the middle of May.  This meant that Monday would be Memorial Day, Tuesday would be my faux birthday, and Wednesday through Friday would be vacation days.  How beautiful is that!!!!!

My staycation remained totally top secret until the day before said staycation when the big guy declared in our department meeting, "Angie won't be in next week!!!"  He, then, turned to me and said, "Wasn't that a nice reminder?"  Too which I replied how it wasn't a reminder as I had not broadcasted my vacation.  Thanks.  NOT.

My work week ended with copious amounts of grace showered on me.  

I sent 14 futuristic emails - emails with send dates of Tuesday, May 31st.  I copied and blind copied individuals.  It will help make things trackable and be best for everyone involved to see that I, Angie Good, did plan ahead and delegate my workload.

Friday evening we had the Pensacola Christian College ensemble at church.  It was such a wonderful patriotic celebration followed by sweet fellowship with my church family.  

Saturday Aaron and I headed up to Madison, Wisconsin's Children's Hospital.  Funny story from this trip.......after I spent several hours with Aidan's mom, she said, "I should go say 'hi' to Aaron."  And I inquired, "Aaron who???"  She looked at me and said Aaron's last name and then the lightbulb clicked on and all was well.  Aaron who???  Ummmm...the teenager you brought with you, Angie Good!

Sunday involved teaching Sunday school.  In involved time spent with 87% if the Delaney clan.  

Monday - Memorial Day - I spent the afternoon at Lake Geneva.  I started reading the June book club book - The Secret to Hummingbird Cake.  Approximately 125ish pages in, the book takes a sad turn.  Picture me sitting near the lake, beach hat, cute swimsuit, barefoot, reading this book and weeping because the fictional character got sick.  I sat there crying and thinking, How ridiculous!  Angie Good, you are crying over a fictional character.  I came to the conclusion that I was also - on some level - weeping for Aidan too.  The sadness of the book just caught me off guard...there was NO indication of the situation on the back cover...which might have been nice.  Something smallish like a box of Kleenex.  Maybe they could rate a book's sadness by the number of Kleenex boxes.  You know how they have a star system to rate movies...why not tissue boxes for sad books!  I think this is my genius moment for the day!  I'll work on this. 

Tuesday I hit the gym with DeDe - what a wonderful gift her friendship truly is in my life.  After the gym, I went home, changed, ate lunch, and headed up to Madison.  I went because someone requested my presence.  And the presence requester had not ever asked me to be there...and how can I say no?  Something like 9 hours later, I drove home.  Not quite sure HOW I got home.  I recall driving home...but as far as the details, well...they're a bit fuzzy.

Wednesday Celia had her vet appointment.  My finicky feline has gained 1 whole pound in the last 12 months.  Wouldn't it be grand if that could be said of us?  I was hoping she lost a pound.  I mean I didn't have to cram her into her cat carrier.  The poor thing gets so traumatized when she has to go in the car.  Her pitiful meows break my heart...but then I remember the law and the fine if I don't get her tag and I tell her to please stop crying.  I remind her that she's fine.

After her appointment, I went and got some groceries and then attempted to get to the bottom of my FedEx door tag conundrum.  The groceries were a success.  The FedEx issue - not so much.

Wednesday evening before church I met my lovely friend for some tea at Starbucks before we headed to church.  

I volunteered to teach the children on Wednesday nights in the month of June as it's my month off from teaching Sunday School.  

Last night we learned about kindness and how Jesus said others will know us by our love and how our actions ripple out and effect others.  Some of the kids wrote notes for Aidan and his family.  Some of them wrote notes for their parents.  It was sweet.

And this brings us to today - Thursday.  Wow!  It's already Thursday.  

On Wednesday my friend Trudy notified me that she would be kidnapping me Thursday morning at approximately 8 a.m.  Her 8 a.m. turned into 9:30 which was such a gift.  Ninety extra minutes to work on the FedEx conundrum...and another mug of coffee.

My FedEx conundrum sort of worked out.  Turns out my new tennis shoes got lost by FedEx.  You see....my insurance program has a rewards program through my gym membership where it tracks my number of gym visits and after 13 months I had enough points to get a really nice pair of gym shoes for free. Turns out FedEx either LOST my shoes or gave them to someone who was NOT Angie Good.  

The issue is being worked on as I type...  I'm actually really thankful I figured out that it was my shoes.  I had no idea what would be delivered to me by FedEx.

Trudy and I hit 3 big church sales.  A cream sweatery-shrug, a raspberry sparkly infinity scarf, a Stampin' Up Copacabana stamp pad - marker - and re-inker, & a clear set of Stampin' Up stamps.  After garage sale-ing, my presence was requested for lunch.

A brief break in the action afforded me some down time at my casa.  (Sigh.)  And then it was off to Addy's dance dress rehearsal.  {Note to self:  Opt to attend the dress rehearsal next time too.}

After the shining 10 minutes of fame, we headed to supper where we laughed and shared and laughed some more.  The kiddos kept me entertained.

Supper completed and I headed off to the gym like the good little gym girl that I am.  Actually that's not even true... Truth be told, before I started my staycation, I gave myself a pretty good pep talk about hitting the gym everyday.  WHICH REMINDS ME -- I HAVE GOT TO REMEMBER TO PUT A COUPLE PAIRS OF EMERGENCY GYM SOCKS IN ROSIE!!! Twice I have worked out without socks which is just gross.  Gym socks are a total must.  

Tomorrow is Friday.  My plans so far for tomorrow are coffee @ 10 a.m. and then I'm supposed to text my gym peep about hitting the gym.  I figure I will be hopped up on coffee so it ought to be interesting.  And that's it.  Nothing after this...so then my quandary is do I want to go to the lake again?  I mean it seems like a no brainer.  Sunny and warm...and I'm wondering if I SHOULD go to the lake!!!???  Quick - take my temperature.  :)

We shall see.

On Saturday my mom will be here for a visit.  Not sure what we will do...but I'm sure it will be epic.