Decisions, Decisions

Scenario: You're buried at work and buried at home. There is so much to be done, but there just aren't enough hours in a day to complete every task on your "to-do" list. The stress is getting to you. Your focus is suffering, your work is suffering, your family is suffering. You have the opportunity to take a day off, with pay (Thank the Lord for personal days). What do you do with that day?

a. Get away from it all. You need time for you. You haven't spent any time on yourself in a looong time. Look at your hair! It hasn't been cut in weeks/months/years! When was the last time you relaxed and read a good book or saw a movie, or treated yourself to a cup of tea at the downtown cafe...ALONE!?!?! Slept in?!?! Watched the Price is Right?!!

b. The night before your day off, you go to bed early and rise early. Get up, put on your crushing music, your comfy sneakers, hat and apron. You are determined to conquer the umteen billion loads of dirty AND clean laundry that have invaded your bedroom. You are going to cull through the mountain of papers and locate the wahtchamajig that you've been looking for since the 2004 Summer Olympics! You're going to suck up every dustbunny, locate every missing gamepiece, wash, and detail your car, take the clothes to the dry cleaners, dispose of the mystery leftover containers sitting in your fridge, create a monthly meal planner and menus for a century! You might even decide to unpack the 25 boxes that have been sitting there since you moved in a month ago!

c. Don't even think about saying "Go half and half on the day", because there is no way that would work. "Survey Says! XXX!!!!"

d. Why in the world would you take a day off now? You're drowning at the office, and taking a day off would just put you farther behind.

So...what would you do?