Jamie got her X-mas vacation approved today. (Yes, even the boss has a boss.)
What a fucked up holiday season this is in terms of the dates and vacation time and such. The kids are in school until Friday the 21st. Naturally they have the weekend off, then X-mas break, which usually lasts until the day after New Year’s. However with Christmas landing on a Tuesday, that would only be 7 days off (not counting weekends), so they get the rest of the week off as well. They go to school on December 21 and don’t return until January 7th. That’s huge!
So Jamie gets wise and figures she can pull some similar crap with the week of vacation she has left. She has 5 days left and X-mas and New Year’s are holidays. A little glance at the calendar shows that she can take her 5 days as the 24th, 26th, 27th, 28th and 31st. So she’ll work the 21st and, thanks to weekends and some well placed holidays, not have to return until January 2nd.
That’s pretty sweet. I’ll put money on it now that she can’t stay away that long.
Being as I live life on my own terms, it means we can hole up and do the family/holidays thing for a good 10 or 12 days. We’re not going anywhere this year and no one is coming here.
I’m already looking forward to it.