Tracy Calabrese

I won’t be spending a full week in my office for the next three weeks.

Vacation day this Friday, off for Labor Day, vacation day the Tuesday after Labor Day and then spending a week traveling for work.

After last week, I needed to just relax. I slept for what feels like half the weekend, sat by the pool, watched some movies, caught up on the shows I missed last week, went grocery shopping and cooked some good stuff to eat this week.

I have the day off from work tomorrow and I am debating on how to spend it. Mani/pedi? See Eat Pray Love (by myself)? Clean my house (not likely)? Visit my parents? Nothing at all? I am thinking a combination of mani/pedi and seeing Eat Pray Love, along with a little bit of cleaning.

I feel like it has been a while since I have had a day off, so I plan to not look at my phone/emails and take one more day to just relax.

FYI - I have a nice, looong weekend coming up over Labor Day weekend, Friday - Tuesday, which I am really looking forward too. I am spending part of it on a girls trip with my mom and some friends and the rest of it doing some things around my house and relaxing.

• The people here seem pretty friendly. Maybe Texas has rubbed off on me, but I sort of like that the people are friendly. But they are a different kind of friendly. They seem…happy. Even on a gloomy day, they seem happy.
• Side-note on the happy people - there seem to be a lot of young, homeless people. From what I can tell, they sort of seem happy too.
• I think the coffee tastes better. Or maybe it is just that this is such a coffee-centric town that they spend a little extra time to prepare it because it is their passion.
• It’s green. And there is water. And trees. And mountains. Oh my.
• I might be coming up here on a semi-regular basis, especially since my “boss” is based here and I have a new client here, so I need some Seattle friends. If anyone in my tumblr network knows anyone in Seattle that wouldn’t be creeped out by meeting someone from the interwebs, well, you know where to find me.

I was just planning out my travel calendar for the next few months and I am pretty darn busy. I have been traveling a lot this year, mostly to NYC, but the next few months have me all over the map.

• Seattle
• Cleveland (I am really going to Geneva, OH)
• New York City
• Austin
• San Francisco
• Napa

I am really looking forward to getting out to the West Coast. It feels like it has been forever since I have been out there. Maybe I will actually make it to Platinum status on American Airlines by the end of the year!