Somehow, every time I get ready to leave for a trip that requires me to take paid time off, everything at work starts to get very hectic and go to hell. Right now, we’re currently working on amendments to contracts and statements of work, potential upsell opportunities that are time sensitive, interviewing potential new team members, and it’s been completely chaotic. Every time I go away, it gets like this. It’s like my clients and internal teams know I am going away and need to speed things up. And when you add planning a three-day-wedding extravaganza, it all results in a lot of exhaustion at the end of the day.

When I am at work, I am really busy, and when I go home, I start my second job — wedding planning. Our wedding only has 75 people. I have no idea how I’d cope if it were double or triple. I guess there was a reason I am not ethnically Indian living in India. Then, I’d really have to hire a full-service wedding planner.