When I started doing my blog, my goal was to get something published every weekend. Last weekend was the first weekend I did not upload a blog post since I started publishing them in February. I had every intention of doing it, and had a plan, but time got away from me. For the first time in quite a while, I took an entire week off.
The week started with all of us flying up to Washington DC for the American College of Surgeons Leadership and Advocacy Summit (and we went up early because I sit on the General Surgery Coding and Reimbursement Committee which met before the meeting started). I already posted a blog entry about the Leadership Summit. The Advocacy Summit was equally well done and culminated with several legislative visits where we discussed many important healthcare issue on Tuesday before our flight home.
We then spent a couple of days at home and our son when back to school. I got to go up to his school and read for his class in advance of his birthday and we got to bring in a nice snack for everyone. We then headed to the Animal Kingdom at Disney for his birthday. I got to get up early on Saturday and Sunday to run the Star Wars 10K and Half Marathon over the weekend.
We had a great time, but the cost of any of these vacations is being busier than usual at work. My dad used to tell me that going on vacation was a little bit like sitting in a sandbox. The sand represents work that needs to be done and to make room for time off you have to clear the sand. Unfortunately, most of the time, that just means making a pile on both sides of the cleared area. So you essentially create two hills (or mountains) right before and right after your vacation. I am currently in the midst of the hill after vacation, and am looking forward to it starting to level out in the near future.
