Phew, time to do some posting. I left work and had lunch with DW at Noon then we did a bunch more packing. TVs, Computers, dismantled and chucked old computer desk. then we took a run out to Cox Comms to return the cable boxes, came home and took a walk to the coffee shop. Back home, did some packing then DW gave me permission to sit down.
I've just had a small glimpse at what great work she has been doing all week.
Your new Avatar looks like a young Paul McCartney !
I may have had the McCartney "look" but missed out on everything else, although, like Paul, I can't read music. (saw him interviewed by Parkinson a few years back and he still hasn't bothered to learn how to read music - his grade teacher once wrote on his report card something along the lines that Paul needed to give up messing about with music and concentrate on educating himself)
I thought something similar. Definitely that time in space.
I think you have already come up with this but: One of my friends that retired just before I did and moved, was able to handle the left over forms by mail. Instead of traveling back and forth. Hope you can work that out too.
I'm into my 4th or 5th week of retirement. I have to admit I have days when I wonder if I did the right thing. But a trick I have learned to use is just think about the worst parts of my old job and it immediately flashes past and I know I did the right thing.
Then my big retirement smile comes back quickly !!!
Steve
The HR lady said today they could handle things by mail
She also showed me the figures that they are working on - consolidating 2 pensions into one - and it is much more than I expected if I was understanding it correctly
If so, I certainly won't have ANY regrets about retiring.
Oh, Alan, if you find yourself bored in retirement, you could write your memoirs--I loved the story of your first day of school!
A dear friend and her husband moved to a new state the week her husband retired. I know that psychologically that is stress upon stress (as you noted), but for them it has worked out splendidly--they started new routines immediately without that sense of looking around the former house and thinking about how they'd be at work right then.
Best of luck!!!!
Well, thank you.
Occasionally (
very occasionally) I can string together a few coherent sentences that read quite well.
Congratulations! Today is likely to be the strangest feeling day of your life (followed by tomorrow, when panic sets in...)
Deep breaths...
Still feeling very strange, and have a headache, so took some tablets. Thought about SG's suggestion to do some yoga but we've packed the yoga gear plus the DVD's. Just excuses really
We moved to Florida the day after my husband retired . We beat the moving van there so we spent a few nights in a hotel just relaxing . That was a great way to decompress . So when you get to Texas chill out for a few days or at least go out for dinner or order in .
Great idea, we may well do just that. In fact tomorrow, after the van picks up we are going out with some friends in the afternoon to eat, then spending a night in a hotel (Drury Inn Suites) that boasts free Happy Hour drinks and a hot breakfast. We'll take our time driving over next day and not be too bothered when the furniture arrives.
My guess is that Alan is a free man by this time.
Probably a little stressed but free.
He has so much going on I wonder if he'll have time to check-in with us?
Steve
PS. He's about my age.
I can't help but wonder if
like me that hair in the avatar has turned a little different color and if he needs a beanie/skull cap to cover that spot in the back
like I do?
One of my aunts told me over the weekend that my bare spot was a solar panel for my pacemaker
Let me assure you that there is no bald spot on my head - there is almost no hair at all. These days I look more like Patrick Stewart than Paul McCartney
I tell folks that my head is a solar panel for my virility
I used one of the old jokes on a lady at work today. (she has become a very good friend as we've worked a lot together this last 2 years). There were several of us stood around the coffee pot and I said to her "What screws like a tiger and winks?" "I don't know" she asks. So, of course, I winked at her