That is the question I asked myself as I drove between meetings and wondered when I’d actually get some work done yesterday. I know that my current slightly befuddled state is partly my own fault. After all, there were times in the last few weeks when I chatted with colleagues when I could have done something more important, when I surfed the internet at lunch time or just before going home rather than writing that paper. But actually I think I am slightly suffering from the fact that I am off on holiday when everyone is back in work (hense the high number of meetings) and I must add to that my tiredness, stress at my mum’s recent illness which has led to me having to cancel their part of the holiday.

Yesterday everything culminated in a call at 6pm asking why I had missed my hair appointment! It was in my diary, but I convinced myself that I had put it in the wrong day and hadn’t quite found the time to check. Luckily they were able to rebook me for Friday, but suddenly I thought I might be travelling with my hair looking as much as a sight as I feel the rest of me looks.

Perhaps one or two good things might come out of the holiday just being the two of us. Firstly, and for the first time in many years we will have a holiday where we will not have to consider anyone elses needs. I would rather have my parents around sharing the experience with me but if that can’t happen, then I intend to enjoy myself. This has involved the ordinary kind of car my dad had booked being cancelled, and me booking us a Mustang Convertable for the final leg of our trip when we will be staying in a house overlooking the Ocean at Bodega Bay. I will have my laptop with me and am hoping to get back into posting onto my blog, because I have to face the fact that I have beome one dreadful blogger lately!

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