😞I've decided to retire. I'm really going to miss having a birds-eye view (from my office window) of sights like this water hazard on the golf course where the ducks and geese hang out.
😊I'm not going to miss sitting at the computer all day.
😞I'm going to miss my paycheck.
😊I'm not going to miss the early bedtime.
😞I'm going to miss my boss.
😊I'm not going to miss being on hold for extended periods of every day.
My last vacation was what got us thinking about it. Two days into our Autumn vacation I tripped in Pennsylvania and did a face plant onto a concrete driveway. It left me with ten stitches in my forehead and a broken arm. It happened to be my 65th birthday, and I spent it in an ambulance and an emergency room. We then had a lovely trip straight back home to see a local specialist. (I kid; I have almost no memory of the trip home thanks to the pain killers.)
Life is too short. We want to travel a bit more. Carey wants to see more live baseball. I want to complete more quilts.
So my job has been posted. It's a long process, so it will still be a little while. I think I'm looking forward to it. Then I think maybe I'm not.
I'm doing it, but it won't be a complete break (unlike my arm...har har). I will be transitioning to part-time on an on-call basis. I will still fill in occassionally when my replacement needs time off.
I'm kind of at the point where I just want the waiting to be over, now that the decision has been made.
Maybe I will get back to blogging regularly again.
