Amy Lu's View

“You’re not very good at not doing things…”

Chad told me this at the end of our weeklong vacation in Florida last week. And yeah, I got a titch defensive. What do you mean, are you saying I can’t relax? So then we chatted, (over day drinks)d, about how not doing things isn’t the same as relaxing…

I really am not good at not doing things. And, perhaps even more importantly, I’m not good at not planning what things I’m going to do.

But I can do relaxing things, like hanging out in the sun, and day drinking. And it’s probably a good thing thing that I put a fair amount of planning into day drinking (When can I start? How can I minimize the alcohol content without adding too many calories?)  or I’d be in a coma.

I should probably put even more thinking into hanging out in the sun….How does one forget to put sunscreen on their chest? I know mine is relatively small, but still sun-scorchable. I think I was just so concerned about avoiding my standard goofy random strip(s) of sunburn that I forgot a whole section of my torso. At least my sunburn was even and consistent…

In a further attempt to prove that I am NOT hopelessly uptight, I offer this list of more relaxing things I did on vacation:

• Latch hook (just saying it was relaxing, NOT saying it wasn’t lame)
• Watch the 90’s music channel (Clusterflock should do the Cranberries’ “Zombie”! And I had NO idea I knew so much 90’s music).
• Watch messed-up cartoons: Bob’s Burger, Adventure Time, Rick & Morty
• Took and posted selfies
• Watched a frolicking dolphin up-close
• Read 1 1/2 magazine and 2 chapters of a book
• Shopped at Publix

I also did a fair amount of running and ate a lot of salad, chips, and fake ice cream. Not sure if these activities count as relaxing but they definitely aren’t work related, and took a fair amount of time and planning.

So my vacation time doesn’t actually sound  all that much different than my every day time, but it was definitely warmer and boozier. I’ll count that as a win.