Two days off work

So, this past month or so at work, people have been taking time off, which is as it should be. However, during a three-day period, 4 of my co-working superiors were out at the same time. This, in addition to hourly staff calling in sick or late, left the office a bit short-staffed, and left me a bit overworked. Luckily, I had planned about a month ago to take some days off after this point. My boss had been concerned that I hadn't requested any time off. "Really, you'll be okay to work the whole summer? You sure you don't need to take some time off?" He was basically telling me I "needed" to take some time off, so I picked out two days at random, to have a 4-day weekend.

In fact, I had taken a week off earlier in the Spring, to go on our 1-year Anniversary cruise to Mexico. And I try to save up enough PTO (paid time off) to take a week or two to visit family around Christmas. I wish I was able to transfer "Sick time" to vacation hours, as (knock on wood) I hardly ever call in sick (as evidenced by my 80 hrs of sick-time...). K will be in classes during the day, and in the musical at night, so I've pretty much got two days on my own.

I don't want to schedule everything I'm going to do on my time off, but don't want to waste/mismanage the time either. Tommorrow (Thursday) is supposed to be pretty rainy, so biking is likely out of the question, but I'll probably bike on Friday a bit. Other general "to-do" stuff:

• Update blog/website
• Clean/organize studio
• List some junk for sale on eBay
• Sketch/draw/paint
• Compile work for upcoming shows (State Fair drop-off is Saturday) 
• Catch up with family (via phone)
• Plant some annuals in the front yard/garden
• Get A/C in car checked out (after 5 years without, it's about time...)
• Visit IMA
• Haircut
• Catch up on videogames (Got at least a dozen games I've bought, haven't had time to play)
• Catch a $1 movie at the cheap theatre on Washington (prolly Iron Man 2 or Splice)
• Rent some DVDs from Redbox (gonna try the 'Free' codes found here)
• Excercise
• Meditate
• Read (right now in the middle of Neuromancer and Wastelands)

 These are just a few of the things I might do, like I said, don't want to thoroughly schedule my time-off, but now squander it either.

Any ideas on how to spend time off are appreciated, and I hope to return to work refreshed next week.

-Joe