Minibreak

I don't know why but I'm feeling very Bridget Jones lately - a bit roundy...yes...but that's not the point. I'm exhausted and frenetic and prone to bouts of wailing at my keyboard each day. A new development in my emotional spectrum - being obsessed with my work and trying to learn to balance the anxiety of a million projects to be started and finished with my usually very worry-free (and somewhat work-free) self.
We've been working approximately twelve hours a day, nearly every day, for the past two months.
The new year is always a busy time for us - lots of resolutions coming out of the woodwork for clients who want to start the year with a fresh look or a new program. And it's great, and we love it, but when I wished for even more fabulous clients in the new year I had no idea the universe would deliver with such an unending generosity.
I've capped my client list now and have started to see a light at the end of the tunnel - no, we're not turning work down, we're just running away from it all for a few days.

It's time for a minibreak.

I've always wanted to go to Kodaikanal, a gorgeous mountainous hill station in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu. While I was living in Auroville it just never happened; I passed it up for Goa more than once and then life went on and things got busy and it fell by the wayside of 'places to go' in favor of 'things that need to get done.'

In an attempt at recapturing some serenity we've hired a car and driver for the four days we intend to be unplugged and have booked a fabulous entire two bedroom house literally on the lake in Kodai, complete with a personal cook. The cost of our escapade? Rs 7,500 ($167 U.S.) for the car and driver, who will drive us the eight hours to and from Bangalore and will be at our disposal while we are there, and another Rs 6,000 for the house for three nights.

We'll open the month of February with a testament to a promise to ourselves not to work every single day in 2007, sans laptops, mais avec Mooshy, of course.