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Back and Better Than… Average!

Kate Czlapinski — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:19:03 +0000

My vacation has officially ended… and man did my first day back at work kick my butt! I am beat, so I’m not going to go into too much detail at this point about the vacation (from work and blogging), but I did want to direct your attention to My Recent Photos from our trips to Baltimore, Boston, and a random day spent in New Haven… I haven’t really organized them or edited them yet. To be honest, I’ve hardly looked at them yet, but there they are. It took me forever just to get them uploaded. From what I did see, I think there were a few good ones and lots of crap. I’m coming to terms with the fact that aquariums are just a horrible place to try to take pictures – weird lighting, moving subjects, everything’s behind glass – it’s like the perfect storm for photographic catastrophe!

Anyway, I just wanted to check in, because a few regular readers (hi mom and dad) have been harassing me about not updating in awhile and I know they would want to see all the pictures I took while I wasn’t sitting in front of my computer in my cramped sweltering office.

Less Than One Week!!!

Kate Czlapinski — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:48:07 +0000

So it’s official! As I mentioned awhile back, I’ll be on vacation all next week and I could not be more excited. When I requested the week off , I wasn’t really sure exactly what I would be doing with my week, but I did have a few ideas. I’ve been throwing the ideas at Kevin for the past month or so, and as is so often the case, he was fairly unresponsive. But I think we’ve finally got it all figured out. We’ve even booked a hotel room!

The plan is… three day weekend in Baltimore, MD (Saturday through Monday), a few days at home (maybe catch a Yankee game on day), and then another three day weekend in Portland, ME (Friday through Sunday).

Now we just have to figure out what we’ll be doing on our little vacations… Has anyone been to Baltimore or Portland recently? Any suggestions on places to go and fun things to do?

Vacation

Kate Czlapinski — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:41:44 +0000

It seems that Mother Nature has finally gotten her act together and is sending us some Summer weather here in New England and it couldn’t come soon enough. All that rain and the chilly temperatures were really beginning to get me down!

Anyway, the other day I was thinking about the gorgeous weather and I realized, I didn’t have any vacations or even time off planned for the Summer. I took a look at my calendar at work and I saw a full week still free in August! A full week! I was originally just planning on maybe taking a long weekend sometime at the end of Summer when Kevin is finished with classes, but then I saw that beautiful empty week on the calendar and I just had to claim it for myself. I now have August 10th through August 14th off. I deserve it. I haven’t had a full week off from work since January of 2007 when Kevin and I went to Hawaii. That is just way too long.

Now I need to figure out what I’ll do with my time off. It looks like the Yankees are playing a day game that Wednesday, so that’s definitely on the list (it was on our list of things to do this Summer anyway). Maybe a long weekend… or two, even? Where shall we go? Oh, the possibilities are endless! I’ve been doing some research on Portland, ME. I’ve also been looking into Baltimore, MD, because we have some friends down there that we’ve been meaning to visit.

Oh, I know it’s still about a month and half away, but I just can’t wait! I’m so excited

Do you all have any suggestions for my week off? I’d love to hear them!