I return to India for a few weeks of R&R in December because my business gets quiet around the holidays. I'll take some time around the 4th of July for the same reason. The balance of the year, I work around my school schedule. I keep an apartment in the city for business, which permits me to accommodate any day of the week as demand dictates.
I book family vacations, beauty appointments, etc on those days. It gives me time to regroup and to think about all the sex I'm gonna have when I return. Yum!
I pretty much tweak my touring schedule around my period, and try to make as much money as I can in other states vs. at home. I will only take 2 hour and above appts. at home, and only on 2 set days.
The only days that I don't usually work is when mother nature comes once a month. Other than that my son birthday, Christmas, New Years and Mother's Day.