My attempt at a vacation

I have been looking forward to my summer vacation for months. Like many of us, I really needed a break from my work, my office, my phone and my email. I made an agreement with myself and my husband that I was going to completely shut down and off for 10 days. I was excited at the prospect of time off. Maybe I would read, exercise more, smell the roses, sit by the water...who knows what might happen when a girl is taking some well deserved time off. It started off great. We got to our cottage on the lake and I settled in to what I imagined would be a respite from my busy life. After day 4, I couldn't take the silence of not having any contact with the outside world. What if a client needed something and I was the only one who could respond appropriately? What if someone was trying to reach me? It did not seem to matter that my voicemail and email had out of office messages on them. Sadly, I only lasted 4 days before checking email. Geez, how sad is that?! Looks like I have work to do on myself so I can shut it all off and feel perfectly fine about it. Maybe next year I'll go someplace without internet access!