{"id":13888,"date":"2011-01-01T22:49:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T05:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=13888"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:49:01","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T05:49:01","slug":"time-off-for-good-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13888\/time-off-for-good-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"Time off for good behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"

My husband Jamie took off work for two solid weeks over the holiday, but even then, today\u00a0he shared a rather startling revelation with me: He still\u00a0lost 60 hours of vacation time in 2010. I was in the middle of creating a weekly schedule for myself\u00a0in order to practice time blocking in 2011, and I had asked him about vacations, suggesting we schedule time off together- early and often. We’ve got kids in college and young critters at home, so a tight budget and an undisciplined puppy mean we won’t be taking any two week trips to Paris but still, we could easily schedule a morning off on that day, an overnight trip to Indy or Columbus\u00a0this day, a day trip to watch the ponies run in Kentucky on yet another day. It would be fun just\u00a0to try to use up 60 hours and not really go anywhere at all.<\/p>\n

We had 7 major family celebrations since Thanksgiving. Add a handful of office parties and friends gathering together, and dammit I’m looking forward to Monday. Our obligations to other people\u00a0pushed hard into our relaxation time this holiday and\u00a0we all have a bit of\u00a0holiday fatigue which is really unfair to those people we love,\u00a0but also\u00a0it is\u00a0not a healthy way to begin the trek through the long winter months.<\/p>\n

So as I was working out a weekly schedule for real estate related tasks, it occurred to me that I have no option but to\u00a0combat fatigue of any sort\u00a0by\u00a0scheduling some goof off time. The whole reason for\u00a0creating a schedule is to\u00a0help me to meet goals and some of my goals are personal. I want to paint again. I want to spend time with my husband and my friends, nurturing some relationships that have gotten a bit weedy lately. I want to poke around some boutiques that I pass by on\u00a0a regular basis and try out some new coffee shops.\u00a0 In other words, I want guilt-free time that is mine alone to decide how to use and likely the only way to do that is, ironically, to schedule it into my calendar. Surely I’m not the only one Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In other words, I want guilt-free time that is mine alone to decide how to use and likely the only way to do that is, ironically, to schedule it into my calendar. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-flourishing","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2505,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2505\/while-rates-are-low-schedule-your-purchase-closing-at-least-45-days-out\/","url_meta":{"origin":13888,"position":0},"title":"While Rates Are Low, Schedule Your Purchase Closing At Least 45 Days Out","author":"Dan Green","date":"January 16, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Because of negative sentiment about the economy, we're in the middle of the first remortgage boom of 2008. 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