Vacation!

Several years ago, I worked at TGI Fridays.  I'm pretty sure I've already mentioned that at some point and I'm also sure that no one reads this anymore anyway but there it is again.  At first, I loved my job at TGI Fridays, however, after about a year I decided to give sobriety a chance and realized my job at TGI Fridays was actually some special form of hell.  It was worth it because I actually met two of my very best friends there (yes, real friends, this isn't about me talking to myself again) and I probably made a good amount of money, but I drank most of that so it doesn't count.

It's also, as my friend, Friend, reminded me, where I discovered "vacation".

I'm not talking about tropical beaches or interesting museums or neat little cafes or other things normal people think of when they hear the word vacation.  This is a special vacation.

When I got too frustrated or pissed off or overwhelmed from having to talk to people without the assistance of alcohol, I would get a tall glass of soda water.  I would take my soda water and go stand in the back corner of the takeout pick-up area, and close my eyes and hold it right up to my face.  The carbonation would pop against my skin and I would pretend I was somewhere else, preferably where TGI Fridays didn't exist.  On particularly bad days, I would put ice in the soda water and blow in the glass a little so I'd get the effect of a nice, cool breeze/

One day, Friend caught me doing this.

Friend:  What are you doing?
Me:  STOP IT I'M ON VACATION! 

This became common enough that people would ask Friend what I was doing.

Friend:  Oh, she's just on vacation.

For some reason, vacation never caught on with anyone else, but it always made me feel better.

Eventually I stopped working at TGI Fridays and with it, my limitless supply of soda water.  I haven't been on soda water vacation in years.  Don't be sad, though--I didn't stop vacationing altogether.  You may remember this one.  My latest vacation (which is usually the result of my family talking too much about things I don't care about) involves going in the bathroom and turning on all the shower heads as hot as they go and just sitting there by myself.   It's fantastic!

I think tomorrow I'm going to try that with soda water!