Need a vacation?

I read

Nous avons en partie perdu notre capacité à assumer notre vie et à composer avec les changements d'humeur inévitables, inhérents à notre existence.

N'arrêtez jamais de danser! Dr. Gordon Livingston

I translate:

We have lost part of our capacity to fulfill our lives and deal with the inevitable mood swings inherent in our existence.

... therefore, I think!

OOPS! re-oops! Mood swings ??? life is a big mood swing !

You know I love traveling for work or pleasure ... but ... how do you know you need a vacation?

I had a so-so good weekend ... yes, thinking about work ... and fun fun making plans for my summer vacations. I have sooooo much to do at home. I also have to prepare for customers' meeting in the US this week and next. Two one day round-trips.

I had so many meetings Monday all day ... I have little time for lunch ... Lunch. That's what saved my week.

Imagine the situation ... Monday morning I keep running around between meetings, reports, emails, conf calls ... the total package ... as in the cartoon Astérix & Cléopatre when the pirates' captain say: "Alors les enfants, on s'énerve pas! On les aborde, on les égorge, on les étripe, on les massacre et on les coule!! La routine habituelle quoi!  

(OK kids, we stay calm! We board the ship, we cut their throats, we slaughter them, we butcher them, and we sink them!! What! the usual.)

The Routine!!! 12:30 time to go for lunch ... but before I have to reply to the customer I am meeting Wednesday and who is asking me to move the meeting from 10 to 9 ... as scheduled on Tuesday ! WHAT ???   no way, the meeting is Wednesday NOT Tuesday !!! I will tell the %&$$   that he is mistaking in his dates, but before giving hell ... I check my traveling schedule ...

... and that's when hell broke loose! for the first time, I have mixed my traveling dates ...

It is 12:30, lunch time and I was supposed to be on the 11am flight!!! SHIT! that means I will not make the connection in Toronto ... 

... do not worry there is a God for people like me ! 

I have been able to go back home in a rush, pack in a rush, find my passport in a rush, drive to the airport in a rush, catch a flight to Toronto and board the next flight to my destination at 9:30pm ... I finally arrived at the hotel pass midnight ... meeting the customer at 9:30 the next morning ... and  NOT miss my return flight ... coming home last night around 10pm ... ooooooooooooooof ...

I need a vacation!