yet another club that won't have me as a member

it’s National Blog Posting Month!

as much as i’d love to participate, and i so appreciate the challenge, i cannot commit. the idea is great, the participants are numerous, and the prizes are enticing. i would even try to find a way to post on weekends. El Jefe’ is still unaware on this baby blog in its infancy, but i would risk his discovery. i’d get up early or stay up late, and if that didn’t work, i’d make up an excuse or (heaven forbid!) fess up. i haven’t shared this with him partly because he just doesn’t get the blog concept. i love him, anyway.

so i cannot blame el Jefe’ for my failure to registering to NaBloPoMo. i cannot blame the plethora of social obligations clogging my calendar (alas, they are few and far between). i cannot blame my regimented schedule of weekend chores. no, my excuse is a good thing: we are going on vacation!

it has been planned for a couple months. we have reservations. we purchased tickets (including full-price airfare for the Punkin … ouch!) we are spending a week on the lovely island of Kauai starting Thanksgiving Day. we are staying in a timeshare, although we own a home there. the house is an investment; a long-term rental. it was part of the five-year-plan to chuck it all here and relocate … but that was nearly four years ago, two years pre-Punkin. the five-year-plan has been extended or postponed indefinitely, but that just means the goal still exists, we are just unsure of the timing. so the house is a tax write-off, and has not quite reached money pit status (yet).

arriving in paradise on Thanksgiving Day is a bit of an unknown. there certainly is potential for adventure! there is some guilt associated with disappointing my parents, not sharing a turkey and way too many side dishes, but it isn’t the first time we played hooky on Thanksgiving. and we’re staying in a timeshare, which means we’ll be inundated with requests for a tour of the property, and we’d rather have root canals than sit through a presentation. and i was just notified that i could’ve saved $120 per ticket on airfare if i had just waited. and i don’t care. we are going on vacation! it has been a long 16 months.

so i can’t participate because i don’t have a laptop, and i don’t want to be a regular in the business center. not when i’m on vacation!