Vacation!

Three more days of work, three more days of wo-ork, three more days of wo-o-ork. That is my song today. My nine-month contract is looking quite good as the last days wind down; three glorious months of summer lie ahead, so close I can almost touch them. No sitting in the office, no waiting for a meeting to begin, no packing up smelly uniforms and cleaning up after the kids…it will be grand alright.
Of course, my mother has already begun bombarding me with “don’t forget to do this, this, and this” in the next week and minute and then “that, that, and these” before the wedding rolls around. Aw Mum, I’ll get to it…hopefully.
The thing about my three month vacation is I sort of know I’ll obsess over some things I would otherwise let slide if I was fully ensconced in workdays and weeks. Hanging paper lanterns: normally I would say hang ‘em wherever, but now that I have three months to think about it, I know I’ll Google images a million different set ups and then fret about which one we should do while really I know it doesn’t matter but what else am I doing? Tablecloth overlays: originally it was a question of whether we wanted just white or white with a splash of color. Now, will it look like a circus with too much going on or will it be a boring funeral reception with just plain white tablecloths? And what if the overlay doesn’t exactly match the bridesmaids’ dresses? Oh dear.