1. Yes. All the time. This GTKU is brought to you by the woman in 11B on her way to Seattle, then Spokane. Next week, Spokane, then DC. The week after that, a one day trip to Chicago. This year has been particularly bad. 2. A day when the kids have a half day. So morning I can get a massage or pedicure or both, then pick up the kids for lunch and a fun activity. We love going to the bookstore and then riding the carousel at the mall, or going to the library and watching the fish in the fish tank.
1. Yes, a couple times a year for our big event - scouting trips and the actual event. I also attend a yearly conference for professional development. It's just enough. 2. Kids at school, DH and I home together. We do lunch together, and then go our separate ways so I can binge on a TV show and sew or something solo, while he does his own thing too.
1. Not unless I go to an out of state conference. Then I have to have my mom come in to help DH with the kids. But when he travels no one helps me (granted I work less hours than him). 2. I think it is a day when the kids go to school and H and I can have a day date. We probably will end up at a brewery for lunch.
1. I’m new to this job, but will probably be traveling about once a month to visit clients or attend industry events. I traveled a similar amount at my previous job.
2. I’m not good at relaxing. I’d probably tackle a home project, go out for coffee, go to Target, and take a nap.
Post by justcheckingin73 on Nov 28, 2017 13:21:17 GMT -5
1. I travel about 4 times a year - 2 international trips and 2 domestic. It’s just right for me - especially since they are spread out through the year. I’m leaving Friday for London and don’t have another trip planned until the summer for a partner event. I’ll probably have a team meeting in between, although it hasn’t been scheduled yet. It becomes a pain when it’s during tax season - we usually have to call in grandparents to help out.
2. A perfect day off would include waking up without an alarm, being by myself the whole day and either getting out of the house and shopping or staying at home catching up on articles I’ve saved or just generally being lazy. I could go either way depending on my mood.
1. 3-5 Times a year. I wish it was more. 2. I like days alone. I also really miss taking a day in December with DH to hang out and shop. He’s never here so it’s hard. We haven’t done it in the last few years.
1. Rarely. 2 years ago I went to Singapore for 2 weeks when we moved into a new facility and incorporated a new area into our department. This year I may need to do an Asian tour - Singapore, China, Taiwan, Japan for the implementation of a large department project.
2. Right now I'd love a day to myself with no kids and no husband, and no cleaning, organizing, cooking. A lazy day where I'd just binge on TV or maybe read a good book.
1. Occasionally, maybe 2-3 times a year in state about 3 hours away. We used to be able to do some national conferences, but budget cuts. I am still a little salty that the entire staff at the state level went to the national conference in Austin this year, but no actual boots on the ground coordinators went.
2. Wake up on my own, nice leisurely breakfast, a long run, lunch out. Then some just unplanned piddling either shopping or around the house.
1. No not like you ladies do. I do go to a couple continuing education seminars but they are all in state and we tend to drive back and forth instead of staying overnight if possible. After sitting for 6 hours listening to tax law I want my own bed and to cuddle with DD.
2. Yesterday afternoon was pretty perfect. Right now I want a day that I don't have to get up and get DD ready and out the door but can sleep through the whole morning routine and then spend the day doing whatever I want with no one including the dog having a say. A lady can dream...
Post by supertrooper1 on Nov 28, 2017 14:06:14 GMT -5
mommyatty, while in Spokane, head to the historic Davenport hotel and have a chocolate peanut brittle martini. So good. And so is the soft peanut brittle.
1. I haven't travelled for work since 2010. I have turned down a lot of training, as it is all voluntary. I'm at a point where I'm ready to do a week here and there but nothing is available at this time.
2. A perfect day off would be by myself. I would sleep in, go for a pedicure and massage, have a leisurely lunch and go shopping.
1. In my current job, I don't think I've traveled at all this year. Even so, it is just in state to our regional offices. In my last job, I traveled minimum 50%. Do not miss it at all. 2. I would prefer to be totally alone on my day off. I might do some sewing, but will likely be bingeing some shows on the couch.
Bonus travel tip: do not schedule business trips to Idaho in January if you don't know how to drive in snow.
Post by HeartofCheese on Nov 28, 2017 15:14:18 GMT -5
1. I don't travel at all. At one point, I almost traveled to the Colbert Report for a project I was working on, but it didn't end up happening.
2. I would wake up in an exotic location close to a beach that was relatively secluded. I'd roll out of bed, discover I was naked, walk naked out to the super private patio/deck and have coffee lying naked in a hammock on said deck. I don't actually love being naked, but I think in this case, it would be quite freeing. I'd take a shower in my outdoor shower, then walk - naked - to the completely secluded beach. Eventually I would motion for a robe and some pants and maybe a bra. I'd change on the beach and walk to a sushi restaurant out on the water with a glass floor and a beautiful view of the ocean for some brunch sushi. Then to the salon for a massage, a mud bath, a body wrap, and a facial. They bring me a sushi lunch and a cocktail. Then I'd have my hair and makeup professionally done and borrow an amazing outfit from the hotel's clothing store. I'd be escorted onto a catamaran where I would meet my BFFs and lie on the netting while they sailed us somewhere. There would be a big dinner and lots of drinks, then a night of dancing. And when I woke up again, I'd be back home in bed in my old tshirt and baggy jammy pants with my LOs faces 2 inches from mine and no hangover.
1. Do you travel for work? How much? For my full time job, I have traveled twice in the past 7 years - once to Oklahoma City for 3 days and once to Orange County California for 11 days. For my part time teaching gig, I traveled once in the past 2 years for a conference in Vancouver Canada. Since the airfare was so cheap, DH tagged along and we spent 5 days there. It was awesome.
2. What is your idea of a perfect day off? Sleep till I get up. Watch some crappy tv or a movie. Get a good lunch. Lounge some more until the kids and DH come home for dinner.
Post by erinshelley21 on Nov 28, 2017 15:24:07 GMT -5
1. I go on overnight trips 2-4 times a year depending on how I can get my meetings to line up, but it's only 3.5 hours away. If you count 4 hour round trips as traveling I do that lol. I might be down for some legit traveling a couple times per year though. 2. Get up at 7, which is sleeping in these days. Go workout. Breakfast out with DH. Shower. Organize my house. Lunch with girlfriends. Stroll through Target. Pick the kids up a bit early and go home to dinner either in the crock pot, from a restaurant or that DH made and said he would clean up.
1. Hardly at all. 2-3 times a year I attend a conference. Usually only 2 nights away. It’s the perfect amount for me.
2. These days I’m dreaming of a day alone to organize, shop, and throw things away. DH always seems to decide to WFH when I have a day off though so it never happens.
1. Do you travel for work? How much? Very, very rarely and that's only for conferences that I choose to go to. Like, 3 times in 12 years. 2. What is your idea of a perfect day off? Kids are at school/daycare, I'm caught upon chores, laundry and food prep already, and I have a stash of StarCrunch AND Cheetoes. For the sweet and Salty. I'm the only one home. Junk tv, maybe read a little, and nap.
bonus: favorite travel tip? I really don't travel.....
Bonus- i started using packing cubes and I mostly like them
I love my packing cubes. I was talking to a coworker that used to work for TSA and wondering why my checked bags get searched every single time. I thought maybe my Clarsonic looked like a gun. But he said it was from the packing cubes making things too dense on the X-Ray. Annoying, but won't make me stop using them.
1. Do you travel for work? How much? Yep, usually 1-3 day trips every week. I am very lucky that I can do most of my travel as day trips. I'll do San Diego to Seattle as a day trip (3 hours each way). Most places I go are a less than a two hour direct flight. I'm super creative with my flights and often create my own layovers by booking flights individually, often on different airlines, rather than taking the layover the airline wants me to have. Most of my travel is to see longtime clients, so I feel comfortable cutting things very close. My baby isn't sleeping through the night yet every night, so I like being home overnight. The airport concession worker who sells me my water bottle and banana in the mornings knows the names of my children and gives me a hug when she sees me - which is probably a bad sign about how much I travel. Tomorrow I'm headed to San Jose and Thursday is just a driving trip to LA.
2. What is your idea of a perfect day off? No kids . Perfect would probably be a massage at a hotel spa, as well as lunch there and hanging by the pool. More realistic would be gym, hair blowout, some shopping and errands on my own, cooking dinner alone in peace. I also like meeting my husband for lunch but that eats up half a day because of the 40-min drive downtown.
bonus: favorite travel tip - TSA precheck. The best deal ever at $85 for 5 years. Also never checking a bag unless I'm traveling with kids. Bringing flip flops or flats to walk through airports.
Post by sweetptater on Nov 29, 2017 8:47:29 GMT -5
1. Rarely. As in <1 per year now. My last job I traveled about once a month. I know it gets old after a bit, but now watching DH travel 3-4 nights every week makes me miss it so much. I mean, to get to sit in a hotel room? Alone? With no one wanting anything from me? And only being responsible for getting myself ready in the morning? Heaven.
2. No kids (that's a given). And the house would already be clean so that I wouldn't feel like I had to stay home and clean or pick up. I'd go for a run or CF, then head to my favorite coffee shop and just hang out by the fire and read. Then maybe check out the gift shops next door, then head home to putz around and work on random projects that never get done. I'd probably take myself out to lunch too.
So some fun stats about this year. On one airline (the main one I fly, though I’ve flown 4 this year), I have flown 60,676 miles on 43 flights. I’ll fly at least 3 more flights in the next week, including going home today. No wonder I’m tired all the time.
Here are my bonus tips:
-Yes to TSA precheck. Or I do Global Entry because for a while I was going to Canada quite a bit. Well worth the money! -Get a suitcase you love that really works. Wheel them around the store for so long that people start looking at you funny. Because a handle that’s not the right height is fresh hell. Pick it up and hold it over your head. Because if it’s heavy while empty, you don’t want to put it in an overhead when it’s full. -If you travel a lot, keep a second set of toiletries packed in a reusable TSA compliant bag. No ziplocks! They break. And keep your makeup in a makeup bag you can throw in your suitcase. And have a second bag for medical liquids, which don’t count toward your one-quart bag/four oz limit. Contact lens solution is a med liquid! -Use a contact lens case for creams you don’t need a lot of. For example, one side of a free Bausch and Lomb contact lens case holds the perfect amount of curl cream, so I have enough for two hair washes with me at all times. And it takes up less space and is cheaper than an expensive travel-sized Aveda product. And another tip: those free cases in contact lense solution from B&L are the largest I’ve seen. So if you don’t wear contacts, buy some to make slime with your kids and pocket the free case.
mommyatty that’s a lot of flights! I’m at 37 flights this year on my primary airline. The crazy thing is that I didn’t fly for work for 5 months out of this year, during my last two months of pregnancy and my three months of maternity leave. I bet my miles are way less than yours though, since my average flight is under 1,000 miles.
I do plan to switch to Global Entry when my precheck is up for renewal - I feel like it’s worth it even if I just leave the country once every 5 years.
Post by judyblume14 on Nov 29, 2017 15:10:21 GMT -5
1. I used to travel a lot for work. I lived in Europe for a few months; then "commuted" weekly by plane for a year. Now, I do one 3 or 4-day trip per quarter
2. Sleep in. Gym. Meet H for brunch. TV/Read (in winter) or magazines by the pool (summer). Pick kids up a little early from daycare so that we can go out to an early dinner as a family.
1. About 4-5 times a year. Anywhere from 2-6 nights. I love the opportunity but it is a pain to organize because DH is pretty much unable to adjust his schedule to take care of the kids. So I have to organize babysitters and my mom and meals.....I have a six day trip in January and I strongly suggested DH actually use vacation time to cover it. Hopefully he will because that will make it much less stressful for me. 2. Hiking. I sent myself to Sedona for three days when I turned 40 and just hiked and ate and got massages. I dream of doing it again.
Post by covergirl82 on Nov 30, 2017 9:09:07 GMT -5
1. I rarely travel for work. We have multiple locals, but the furthest is only 2 hours away.
2. I would drop the kids off at school, then go get a coffee and bagel. I would go home and catch up on TV shows. Then I'd do some reading. Maybe I'd do some fun shopping in the afternoon if I felt like it, or take a nap. Then I'd pick up the kids from school so I could spend a little more time with them than on a normal day.