I don't wanna go back

Took three days leave to make six days break with the weekend and Christmas holiday, and it's coming to an end.

Spent half the first day attending meeting, replying work related e-mails and phone call, and then the second half feeling bored and lonely.

Spent the second day tidying up the house. Vacuumed, mopped, cleaned, washed and dried, and boiled water making sure all the water containers were filled for the imminent return of family members.

Travelled on the third and fourth day. On driver duty to get family home from inlaws'. Driving long distance is getting tiring, sign of age. Inlaws came with us for a short visit, and inlaws' relatives visited at night of our return.

Mild flu, had running nose and feeling rubbish on the fifth day. I blamed travel stress and the lack of sleep due to the return of the noisy little monsters. Two is already enough to tear the house down, with a third it was pure chaos.

Tried resting most of the day. Tried, not much success.

A failed family outing at the beach in the evening, aborted due to a delay and the existence of the illegal parking fee collector at the public beach. We refused to pay the extortion so we left. Shame really, we have been to that beach so many times before, it's residential area road side parking, yet extortionist pigs were out full force yesterday. Hope it's just due to it being Christmas eve and not a permanent thing.

Oh well, at least we had a big family dinner together at the hawkers' centre. =)

Today, the sixth day, Christmas day. Merry Christmas everyone!

No plan, we don't celebrate Christmas in any special way so it's just another off day. I spent the day reading mostly, and resting. Realised I am not going to meet my resolution of reading more books than last year, I am getting slower in reading, bollocks.

Back to work tomorrow. Only I really don't feel like it... *sigh* =(