Vacation Report Card

When I started the vacation 2 weeks ago, I set some goals for myself. About 65% of the way through the vacation, I thought it would make sense to assess my performance against those goals. (After reading the last sentence, I guess that you can take the consultant out of the office, but you can't take the office out of the consultant).

The 5 goals I set were:
1. Find an apartment
2. Relax
3. Work out
4. Eat healthy
5. Write

The first and most important goal has been hanging over this vacation like a black cloud. If you've ever hunted for an apartment in NYC, you'll know why. If you never have, I wouldn't recommend it - it's a nightmare. The process started off smoothly enough with me searching around the city for neighborhoods where I want to live. After 2 days and a lot of miles, I narrowed down to a few neighborhoods. What I didn't consider was how expensive these areas are. I knew finding an apartment in NYC would be expensive, I had no idea it would be THIS expensive. I've made some progress, but every day seems like I give up more and more of what I want. I can't wait until this process is over.

Grade: C-

When it comes to relaxing, I've done a good but not great job here. Puerto Rico really helped in this regard and I was able to relax by the pool, the beach, and at the spa. In NYC, it has been a little tougher with the apartment search constantly in the back of my head.

Grade: B-

The one area I've done better than any other over this vacation is working out. This is day 12 of the vacation and I've been to the gym 9 times. I feel and look great, and just in time for the summer as well. I'll deduct a few points since I tweaked my shoulder and probably could have gone harder in a few of the workouts.

Grade: A-

Eating healthy is always a dangerous proposition on vacation. Half of you wants to eat healthy since you have the time to cook and make good choices. The other half says, I'm on vacation - enjoy the good life while you can. I think I've found a happy medium eating healthy during the week and not worrying about much on the weekends when I'm away. It's probably good I'm writing this before I get to New Orleans, not after, or the grade would differ drastically.

Grade: B+

I started off the trip very prolific and have begun to slack this week with my writing. However, there's only 1 post I really want to write that I haven't, and since things have been slow the past week, there hasn't been too much to write about. The next week will probably be slow too as I'm getting busier the next few days.

Grade: B+

Overall, it has been a pretty solid vacation with definite room for improvement. Good thing I still have about 1/3 of it left to make some improvements. If I can get my apartment situation figured out before it's over, I'm giving it an A. If I can't...let's not think about that. Off to New Orleans we go!

Kaps

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