Enjoying My Winter Vacation by Rambling Raven

By Raven • Dec 29th, 2009 • Category: Rambling Raven •

Enjoying My Winter Vacation by Rambling Raven

I am in the last week of my Christmas vacation and I am going to enjoy every last minute of it, come hell or high water. I spent an entire week with my family for Christmas, and although I love them dearly, I am glad to be back in my own house. I love the peace and quiet. I am going to take the rest of this week to think and reflect on me, myself, and I. I am even enjoying staying inside, sipping spiced cider and watching reruns on television. Whatever it takes to make the next several days of my vacation all mine.

I feel better when I feel good about myself. And I feel good about myself when I feel in control of my life and doing the things that make me happy. Most of 2009 I just felt tired, overworked, used and taken for granted. It has only been recently that I picked up a pen and a journal and began doing one of the few things that has always brought me joy—- writing.

I was once told, not to let life past me by. I always thought that that was such a cliché statement to tell someone. It has only been within the last several weeks that I have begun to take that old cliché to heart. This week, this last week of my vacation, I am going to wake up every morning with only one thing on my mind—relaxing. I am going to do what pleases me first, and if that means sleeping in late, going out to lunch or going to the movies so be it. Whatever it takes to just kick back and enjoy being in the moment.

Stress can actually shorten your life, and I intend to keep as much of it as possible at bay. This week I will read, write, watch movies, listen to music and take walks (short ones because it is freezing out). I don’t think that we give ourselves enough of a break. When was the last time you sat back and just daydreamed, or danced around the house with the music cranked up as loud as it can go?

At the end of this week, I will not grumble about going back to work. Instead, I will have fond memories of the time I spent being good to myself. I will look back at all the time I spent pleasing me, for once. I will relish in the time I spent just kicking back and taking in every precious moment. And that will all spill over to having a pleasant New Year and hopefully a new, relaxed me.

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Raven is an educator with a B.A. in Psychology and a M.A. in Education. She has been an avid reader since childhood. Her favorite genres are mystery, suspense, and horror, although she will give any genre a try. She is a life long resident of Chicago. Her love of books opened her mind to people, places and events far beyond her Chicago home. Reading helped to shape her world and her opinion of the events that took place within it. No matter what demands her career requires of her, she has always found time to read and write in a journal. Along with reading and journaling, she loves to watch the sunset, and discuss hot topics with family and friends. She loves baseball, horror movies, mysteries, listening to music from every corner of the world and expressing her view of the latest books with the women of APOOO.
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