be alone for a few days

I am going to Denver for the weekend. I debated putting this under my travel goal but thought it more in-line with this one. I am going by myself and while the trip has a purpose and there is work to be done, and I won’t be alone, it is still time away from home and office. Needless to say, I have my books and music picked out already. Clothes, who cares!!! LOL!!! ;-)

I am looking forward to it!!!

I took two days off from work (to my colleagues’ utter consternation). Though I am technically not alone (DH is home but asleep), it has been wonderful to get time to myself to read books, listen to music, watch movies and get some of the long pending stuff out of the way.

I have not checked my work e-mail once which I count as an accomplishment, though I am dreading going back to work tomorrow because I know I will have at least a 1000+ e-mails waiting for me. Oh well! I think it was worth it.

I would like to escape to a place where no one knows me and spend some time reading books and listening to my music without interruption or worries. Ideally there would be a beach nearby (walkable distance) and I would be able to walk to the nearest grocery store and post office and anything else I may need. Maybe one of those quaint English villages one keeps hearing/reading about. Do they really exist?

I don’t see this happening in the near future. But I won’t give up on this. It is something I crave, something I NEED. It will happen, sooner or later!

To add to my earlier entry…. preferably on a beach cottage, a porch with a rocking chair overlooking he vast empty sea, empty sandy beach for long solitary walks…

Just for a few days, once in a while, I would like to be by myself, with some books and music for company. I crave solitude, yet can’t help feeling guilty about it when I think of how little time I get to spend with my daughter anyways!