Retirement Cake
I have a song going round in my head. It has been there since I drove back from work for the final time tonight. It’s not quite the right words, but it’s close enough.
Today I did many things for the last time. However, tomorrow I will start doing many things for the first time, so it all balances out.
And, of course, with the main event of tomorrow being a blood test, I will be doing many things that I’ve done dozens of times before. In fact, it is probably not going to make a lot of difference at all. Blood test tomorrow followed by having the rest of the day to myself is a standard Wednesday anyway.
Thursday is a hospital appointment followed by an empty day. Then Friday is free, but under our new hours I only worked half a day anyway. As I say, not a lot of difference.
I’m sure I can cope with retirement. However, first I have to get through two weeks without Julia, as she is currently in London and tomorrow will be flying to Canada for two weeks. We started our married life with me going to a conference a couple of days after the wedding, and both of us have spent various nights away at events or in hospital, so it’s not that we cannot exist separately, it’s just that it feels a bit odd.
Meanwhile, to remind myself of the benefits of retirement, I will spend a few moments of the phone calls we received today – about half were useful – people making appointments, ordering stuff or asking prices. The rest were rare coins. This included a man who told me he was ringing from the toilet and having a break from work. There’s a first. And, with it being my last day at work, it’s also, I hope, a last.
One of the things that you may find from my experience is that because you take life more slowly, days will pass more quickly and summer will disappear before you have time to notice it. My advice is keep as busy as you possibly can. Don’t imagine that you have time to spare now.
No, it’s something that I realised a few years ago. If I put things off I may never get round to them now. 🙂
I agree with Tootlepedal, those days comes and go so quickly now. As Kate Wolf said in one of her songs, “days like flowers bloom and fade and do not come again.”
That is well put. I must steal the idea for a poem. 🙂
The song is “These Times We’re Living In”
Got there eventually – thank you. You Tube seems to be much more complicated these days. 🙂
Congrats!
🙂 Now I just need to live long enough to enjoy it!
Now the future begins
Today started like most Wednesdays, because it has always been a day off for me. 🙂