RAI, welcome over here. It's a fun place. Definitely lighter than Newcomers.
WRT the vacation communication, I think either method can be appropriate, it just depends on what your other communications have been like. I have found that communications evolve over time and if you're starting out brisk and businesslike now, as your feelings change over time and you become happier in your post-D life, that you'll become naturally more relaxed in your communications with her too. So I wouldn't stress too much about it, just go with a similar tone to what you've been using up to now.
I just had the vacation communication schedule with Mr. Fantastic today and it was a lot more like Sotto's than yours, but there were so many moving pieces to account for that trying to do it in your style would have been totally unmanageable. But I'm also not fresh out of court, so... write it how you want to say it. Nothing is forever.
Welcome to the other side of the rainbow -- you're in good company over here.
Me42, H40 D12, S8, S7 A revealed: 7/13 Sep 4/14; Agreed to D 1/15
