The Blonde Diaries

Wow, it is Thanksgiving already. I can’t believe how quickly the holiday season has come this year and I know things will only continue to fly by. I thought I was doing well by planning ahead and beginning my shopping last month but in reality, I have only been able to get a few things done.

This week, I started noticing some of my fellow book bloggers signing up for their 2010 book challenges. I haven’t even finished all of my 2009 and we are thinking and planning for 2010 already. I need to get a move on it. I feel like I have a fire lit under my bum and I’m trying to read as fast as I can. I have a feeling I can finish 2 out of the 3 I signed up for this past year and will just work on the 3rd one in next year’s batch.

Another thing I need to start thinking about is vacation planning. Crazy I know but we have to submit our budget and staffing requests before the Christmas holidays and I need a pretty good idea on when I want to take vacation so I can plan accordingly. I have a good feeling that Mike and I will be going on vacation next fall and it will probably be on a cruise but I’m not sure where we will sail to. I keep thinking of just going to Mexico but then I see a cruise that has a great destination like st lucia and then I’m back to the drawing board. I really really would love to take a ride on the Oasis of the Seas but that is out of the budget right now and the ship doesn’t hit St. Lucia or any of the other Virgin Islands. I think I just need to find a higher paying job so I can take 2 fabulous cruise vacations each year so I can see every bit of the world as fast as possible. I think I finally have Mike talked into an Asian cruise but I think that will have to wait until our late 30s. Sigh. Never enough time or money.

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