Katsmeow
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At the end of this month I am going to....semi-retire. I think. Maybe it will be retire.
As it gets closer, it becomes more real and it is strange to think about how different things will be a month from now.
There is so much going on. We bought our downsize house in March (I posted about that when I was thinking of buying...we ended up paying cash for it). We are still trying to get the old house on the market. If it hasn't been one thing it has been another to get everything done to get it listed. I thought we would list a month ago and things keep happening to postpone it. Thought we were almost ready then the pool had a problem and needed to have someone out to look at that. We were going to move our dogs to the new house but then DH got sick this weekend and so that got postponed. And so on.
Work is sort of interesting. Most people don't know I'm leaving (my immediate supervisor does). He wants me to stay on and work one day a week and I'm amenable to it (assuming I can work out some issues). I don't want to get deeply involved in any new projects (just had a major matter end that I was working on almost exclusively for the past several months). It feels strange to not have much to do and I am so used to worrying about if I am billing enough hours that I can't get into the mindset of realizing it doesn't really matter.
Today my DH was home sick (he plans to retire in the summer) and I offered to pick our son up from school (usually DH does it). He said he would do it since he was used to me not having time to do that kind of thing. He said he wasn't sure if I could get away from work to do it. I pointed out that there wasn't much that anyone could do to me.... (Originally I had planned to leave at end of March and agreed to stay through April with an understanding that my time would be flexible).
Feels strange to think that in 3 1/2 weeks my entire schedule will be different. The other day I worked at home while some people were doing work at my house and I went to the store during normal workday hours. I was astonighed at how easy it was to find parking and do shopping. Then I realized I could do that all the time in a few weeks.
As it gets closer, it becomes more real and it is strange to think about how different things will be a month from now.
There is so much going on. We bought our downsize house in March (I posted about that when I was thinking of buying...we ended up paying cash for it). We are still trying to get the old house on the market. If it hasn't been one thing it has been another to get everything done to get it listed. I thought we would list a month ago and things keep happening to postpone it. Thought we were almost ready then the pool had a problem and needed to have someone out to look at that. We were going to move our dogs to the new house but then DH got sick this weekend and so that got postponed. And so on.
Work is sort of interesting. Most people don't know I'm leaving (my immediate supervisor does). He wants me to stay on and work one day a week and I'm amenable to it (assuming I can work out some issues). I don't want to get deeply involved in any new projects (just had a major matter end that I was working on almost exclusively for the past several months). It feels strange to not have much to do and I am so used to worrying about if I am billing enough hours that I can't get into the mindset of realizing it doesn't really matter.
Today my DH was home sick (he plans to retire in the summer) and I offered to pick our son up from school (usually DH does it). He said he would do it since he was used to me not having time to do that kind of thing. He said he wasn't sure if I could get away from work to do it. I pointed out that there wasn't much that anyone could do to me.... (Originally I had planned to leave at end of March and agreed to stay through April with an understanding that my time would be flexible).
Feels strange to think that in 3 1/2 weeks my entire schedule will be different. The other day I worked at home while some people were doing work at my house and I went to the store during normal workday hours. I was astonighed at how easy it was to find parking and do shopping. Then I realized I could do that all the time in a few weeks.