Packing my hurricane repellant

I am a chronic overscheduler. As I was telling some colleagues earlier today, I am nearly incapable of down time. I have been this way since I was, oh, five years old. I think I was the only kid in the first grade with a day planner.

But I like to stay busy. It is a rare for me to have an entire weekend, let alone an entire holiday weekend, free. So when I glanced at my day planner (slightly more grown-up than the one I carried in the first grade) and saw that my Labor Day weekend was 100 percent, completely open, it was almost hard for me to comprehend.

So I decided that I was going to take a vacation.

I know that “stay-cations” are very trendy right now. But a stay-cation for me would result in me overscheduling myself, an extra shift at Whole Foods here, a make-up Pilates class there, 27 errands to run. It would end up being the least relaxing period of time off ever.

So I am taking a “me-cation.” To the Bahamas. I found a ridiculously cheap cruise that docks in Cococay and Nassau. I am VERY excited! To sit on the beach with a fruity beverage and a bevy of books that have been sitting on my coffee table waiting to be read.



Now the ridiculously cheap nature of the trip might due to the fact that I am travelling smack in the middle of hurricane season. And as I type, the Bahamas is smack in the middle of two tropical storms. But all of the tracking maps and forecasts assure me that I am safe. And the cruise line has assured me that the ship can move faster than the hurricane.

I am almost finished packing…four cute sundresses, three books (Autobiography of a Wardrobe, Animal Vegetable Miracle, and Zen of Business Administration), two tubes of SPF 975 sunscreen…and a partridge in a bikini in a palm tree.

I will be back on Monday with pictures and stories. Here’s hoping that you take some time for a “me-cation” this weekend. Because if I can do it, you totally can too!!!