Annual Vacation Dilemma, Electric Boogaloo

The flip side of having to burn vacation days before the end of this financial year (defined by my workplace as April-March), is that next year promises to have too few days to do everything I want.

First, I need to take a salt-and-peppering of days to cover Calgary Expo, Avacal Crown, Avacal Coronation, and my birthday.

Next, I'm taking two weeks to go to the UK, tentatively in June.

I'll probably take at least a week off to go to Leavenworth Oktoberfest.

That pretty much blows all of those days away, including the five "banked" days I get for not using them this year. It's also fairly heavily weighted for the first seven months of the year. Next winter is going to be long.

I could potentially shorten the UK trip to ten days (but why?), or skim a few days off of June Coronation (I'm taking the whole following week off, because of the way work allocates holidays and the fact that Canada Day is on a Wednesday this year.

It also means there's some things I can't do. Avacal/Tir Righ War for example - I just can't make it work. Also, I usually dedicate a week in Vancouver. I probably can't do that either - though I can manage a few long weekends, because I am not failing to go to Vancouver for a year. I'm hoping JumpOn will have some deals this year.

Anyway, not sure which is the feast and which is the famine. I guess it depends on whether you're counting days saved or days well-used.