I earn enough vacation hours now that I always have "use or lose" vacation time to take off before the end of our fiscal year (August 31). As we get close to that date it's hard to get enough days off if everyone is doing the same thing. So I'm taking a spring vacation and working around the house and the yard, and making some short trips around the area. Details will follow the trips.

This is the end of the semester and all of the students are leaving - there are summer classes but they're sparsely attended. We were a little punch drunk in the office and one co-worker hummed a tune and asked what program it was from. That set us off, Googling tunes and quizzing each other with our computer speakers turned up high around the room. It was a giddy way to end the semester for those of us who have been given a lot to deal wtih lately. Our funny little pressure release was all the more fun because it involved music. :)

Looks like rain again this evening; we need it, and I'll work in the softened garden this weekend. Great timing! I could spend a fair amount of time just putting things away and hanging up clothes. And sweeping and vacuuming dog hair. They're still losing it in great big chunks.

I tried going a day without Zyrtec, planning to use Sudafed to deal with congestion, but that didn't work. By this evening I was feeling the allergies and the first thing I did when I got home was take the antihistamine. The rain hasn't washed away the allergens.

SRS