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    Plans over Winter Break?

    Hey guys,

    Thought it would be cool to share our plans over Winter Break/the holidays. What do you plan on doing with your time off (if you have time off) or just in general?

    I plan on writing, playing Zelda Skyward Sword, playing Skyrim, and er....playing Skyrim .
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    i plan on passing the holidays as happily as possible while steadily glancing at my watch, waiting for february
    and tax refund time.

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    Until Christmas, the same thing I've been doing since the day after I graduated back in May: nothing. Christmas onward, Skyrim, Skyrim, Gears 3, Rage, Skyrim, and did I mention Skyrim? Oh, and final preparations for college.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dale View Post
    i plan on passing the holidays as happily as possible while steadily glancing at my watch, waiting for february
    and tax refund time.
    How fun--that's exactly what I was planning on doing!
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    Classwork, which means writing poetry when I'd much, much, much rather be writing sprawling and great, enduring fiction.

    Ok, slight exaggeration. But I am just not in the mood to deal with linereaks and stanzas and beats and all that other nonsense.
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    I really would like to finish my story before school starts. I'm so close - 8600 words!!! The longest story I've ever written. I'm also playing Skyrim when I have the time.
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    Hopefully catch up on some much needed R&R. I won't hold my breath though. I'm always hoping for that, but I don't ever seem to get it! Holiday or everyday, it doesn't matter. My life is always the same. ;0)

    I need a vacation down south somewhere. Sitting at a swim-up bar, with a hunky bartender serving me Pina Colada's all afternoon... Awwwww. Sounds heavenly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Helicio View Post
    What do you plan on doing with your time off (if you have time off) or just in general?
    The Christmas break is the one chance all year to just chill out and relax and recharge the batteries before it all starts again. I get about 10 days in a row without having to go to work. For those 10 days, everything slows down and no-one makes any demands on my time. Gotta love that.

    Friend of mine had her debut novel published a few weeks ago in hardback. I've avoided reading it so far because I travel around a lot on business during the week and it would have been thrown in the car, stashed in a bag, read on the loo or over a hotel breakfast, and I didn't want the book to get soiled or ruined. I'll read it at home during the break. That's about the only concrete thing I've got planned.

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    I’m not doing any relaxing. Most of our clients are trying to spend their annual budgets – if they don’t, they’ll get less next year -- so several deadlines. Plus, we’ve got relatives coming in -- a big family dinner at our house Christmas Eve, and another smaller gathering Christmas day. I still have shopping to do also. I enjoy most of it, but it’s all pretty hectic. I hope to take some time off in January.
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    It's always fun when you need a vacation from the holidays, eh?
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    Ha ha. Exactly!
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    I thought about starting, and I wince at the prospect of actually doing it, a New Year's Resolution...before New Years. No point in waiting several weeks to get going. There's a couple of parts to it: finish a poetry series; finish a rough draft of my current novel; and finally, not start writing anything else. No. Distractions.

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    I honestly have no idea. I have so little free time these days that whenever I'm faced with an extended break, I don't know what to do with myself. I'll probably try to finish up a couple of chapters from my story, devote a good deal of time to piano, and make some progress in Burnout Paradise. Also, many of my friends are back in town on break from school and the military, so I'll likely be able to spent a substantial amount of time with them. Besides those things, who knows?

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    Well, really at this point, I'm waiting around for my sister to come home with the dogs. When she moved out, we decided to try the whole things divorced parents do with children and we shuttle them between the houses as she lives 2 hours away, it's working out quite well. She's coming either today or tomorrow. It's been weird not seeing her because we're close and before she moved for a new job I'd see her at least once every 2 days and most days she'd come to my house after work.

    Might be going to Northern Ireland to pick up some stuff we ordered, though I'd have to get up at like 6 in the morning so I might not.

    On christmas eve, we'll get up early and go for breakfast, then into town for any shopping we need to do/just see the general bustle of people, then we'll go for an early dinner, then go home. My sister and I will trade presents with each other and give my parents the presents we got them.

    Christmas we'll get up, open presents, go to relatives house all freakin day, then HOME! and dinner (yum!) with grandparents coming over. Then we'll watch Doctor Who and read/play with/use gifts

    Then we'll hang around my house for a few days before the lot of us will go across to my sisters house for new years. I'll probably stay with her for a few days after my parents go home, then get the train home after she starts back in work.

    I'll hopefully be getting a few books so I'll read those, other than that I have nothing planned else, and as planned as xmas and xmas eve sound, it's really not, that's just what we do every year, tis tradition! (except Doctor Who, that's a new thing). Will continue with the blog, will try not to sleep all day every day and I'm waiting for february to roll around for a meeting with a doctor and to get results on blood tests to see if I am deficient in any vitamins/minerals.

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