Twas the Night After Christmas

'Twas the Night After Christmas
and all through my house
not a creature was stirring
not even my spouse...

It's funny how the pace of the Christmas season changes...right after Christmas. There is this week between Christmas and New Years that just seems to be in limbo. I'm taking a "kind of" vacation...1/2 time and just doing planning for next year. My friends who work "real jobs" say that not a lot of work gets done.

So I have a proposition. Let's all take this week off. (I don't know what we would do without the people who serve us in gas stations and restaurants, etc but we could manage for a week!) We could take this week and spend the first couple of days reflecting on the previous year. Take a couple of days and have leisurely meals with friends and family then take a couple of days to set some goals for the following year. We could all be rested and start the New Year with a renewed sense of purpose.

If we all do this then we can all be paid...just like we were working! Now, again, we need people working in stores, and gas stations, and utility companies, and we might need doctors and nurses and I want to read the newspaper so they have to work...and....

Maybe this won't work.