to the beach!
(hannah and caroline and me, part fourteen)


so, things will be shutting down around HACAM for a few days, for the the family o'kelley is about to head to the (orange) beach! i must say, it feels like a well-deserved vacation, but the more i think about it, the more "deserved" feels like a pretty relative term. every one of us deserves a vacation, don't we? i don't know if i would go so far as to belittle myself as a slacker, so i won't say that people work harder than i do. but, i do know that there are tons of people that work in much worse conditions than i do. outside. no air-conditioning. less down time. less friendly people to work with. those people probably "deserve" a vacation more than i do.

since our beach trip last year, though, i have been robbed at my store twice. dealt with the fallout of two more robberies at the store, those two of which i was lucky enough not to be around. most recently, i am dealing with the alleged idea that two of my employees have been active and willing participants in taking money (away from the store) that doesn't belong to them. in addition to work stuff, we've added a new baby caroline to our mix and we've been dealing with a no-longer-baby hannah that is developing her own stubborn personality that matches quite honestly with those of her parents. there have been good times. there have been bad. such is probably the case with every family i suppose.

all of this is to say that i don't feel guilty for getting away for a few days. quite the contrary. i think it is going to be a healthy experience to leave huffman and decompress for a while. try not to think about the store. or fielding a softball team. or cutting the grass. or washing clothes. or all other kinds of stuff.

all of this is to say that i can't wait for tomorrow morning. come fourteen hours from now, i'll be on vacation. leave a message if you'd like. there's a pretty good chance that it won't be returned 'til thursday.

take care, all.