A Future View??

This week has been interesting – after the luggage arrived home on Tuesday that is! – it's been a view of what retirement might be like. Not having to get up in the morning – not having much of anything that has to be done. (There's plenty to do but I can't seem to get the ambition to actually do any of it – I am planning to at least LOOK at the mess in the living room!!)


I'm not sure I can do this every day – I mean really – West Wing reruns only capture me for so long – so I guess I'd be compelled to look for something outside the house to do – WORK! I don't want full-time and I don't want to continue working part-time at MPOW. If I stay there I might as well be paid my full salary!

I don't remember ever thinking about being old enough to retire – let alone getting old enough to retire! But here I am.


PS I applied to refinance the house – it's all done online – very strange – no one to talk to! We'll have to see how it goes.

Working after the Holiday . . .

Actually for being closed almost 3 days (we closed at noon on the 24th and reopened this morning) we weren't faced with as large a bookdrop backlog as expected.  Our fantastic ILS people changed the due dates so that things that would normally have been due on the 24th or today are due on the 29th and 30th - that might have been part of the reason for the light load - but whatever the reason we had everything checked in and sorted for deliveries in a little over 1/2 hour!  Amazing!

We were busy with people who were suffering computer withdrawal after 3 days - and some people who were just having a really bad day themselves and trying to foist their ill-will off on us - to no avail!  Two hours of IM reference netted NO questions - but it did allow me to update my calendar for January and get the schedule set up for the new year.

It's going to be different next year (next week) since my boss of 8 years is retiring and a new one will be starting in March.  Goodbyes are never easy especially after 8 years and a new building - but I know we'll be ok - and we wish only the very best for our retiring boss - and hope that she enjoys every minute of her well-deserved retirement!