A bit of vacation
Some recent bookkeeping at the office has reiterated to me that I'm losing vacation from month to month because I simply don't take any. We have a cap on the number of vacation days our company will allow us to "roll over," and mine hit that limit some time ago. Which means that for every month I don't take vacation, 1.67 days of vacation time flies out the window, never to be seen again.
Right now I have something like 30 days of vacation stacked, ready to use. Yes, I could take the whole month of June off and get paid for it. Well, theoretically -- I doubt that my boss would let me do that.
So I've cleared it to take a week off next week and help bump that cap down; obviously I'll need to continue to ratchet it down throughout the year, which I plan to do. This isn't a new problem; it's just sadly very easy not to take time off when you work from home.
I'm not actually planning to go anywhere next week. Bonnie's working and the kids are in school through most of June, so we're not taking off on a trip or anything. I'm just going to be puttering around the house, taking care of a few things I've been meaning to find the time to do but haven't.
First thing on my list was to assemble some new kitchen furniture we recently got. We now have a very nice new pub-height kitchen table and six high-backed padded stools instead of the makeshift dining room table and scrap chairs we've been using for most of the past decade.