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Jane Takes a Break

Jane is taking some downtime this weekend, dear readers. We have come to that place in our lives where we can finally heave a deep sigh of relief and actually take some time off. Up till now, most of our 'time off' consisted of trips here and there, on business. As much as we tried to tell ourselves that traveling was fun, that seeing the Big Apple or the Rocky Mountains or the Bay Bridge in SF was fun, in the end, all of those trips were for business. We spent the entire time focused on business, and while we enjoyed ourselves, none of our trips have been pleasure trips. On our last trip, we did go visit the Manchester House -- but that's all.

This weekend, we had planned to work, as usual. (blogging is not really work...it's a combination of work and play, and, as a dear friend of ours used to say, if you're doing something you love, work IS play) We have a long list of chores that need doing, both personal (like change the bedsheets, dust the furniture, mop the kitchen floor) and business related (like read the books on our list for review, develop an outline for a client, work on our next book), but we have decided that we're playing hookey.

The interesting thing is that playing hookey is a normal part of the business landscape. Playing hookey isn't anything more than taking some down time. Time for ourselves, time to relax, time to read something not work related. Playing hookey is, and should be construed as, a way to regroup, refresh, revitalize. Jane has forgotten how good that feels. We have allowed work to invade our lives like a huge marching army -- controlling our every waking moment.

We realized, last week, after a discussion with our sister, Mary Anne Red_rose(okay, it wasn't a discussion, it was an argument-- and she won!) that we've been neglecting a very important part of life. The part that says, "slow down and smell the roses." (we are sooooooo jealous of her blog; it's looking tres' fine!)

This morning, in response to the realization that we could, actually, take some down time -- the world will not stop spinning if we take a break -- we did some household chores that others might consider drudgery, but which we were quite happy to tackle. We rearranged our home office to be more feng shui friendly, we pushed the dust mop around the hardwood floors and gathered up an entire pillow's worth of dog hair, we started the laundry (ok, Tom started the laundry, but we're helping switch loads and fold), and we took the dog for a walk.

Whew! This relaxing thing is hard work! LOL  Now, we're presetting this to post on Sunday, and we're going to jump into bed (it's just after 2 in the afternoon) to relax, watch some TV, and read... a totally not-related-to-business book. Our cold lemonade calls. The bed is beckoning. The phone is quiet. We hope, dear readers, you are taking time off, also.

TTFN. 

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Joy Des Jardins

Enjoy Yvonne...you deserve your day of Hookey...and more.

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