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I'm really getting into this retirement chapter of my life. Tomorrow (Saturday) I'm ushering at the Philharmonic show, Sunday it's the ballet and Monday it's the Jeff Beck concert. Of course I won't usher at every show but 2 or 3 times a week won't hurt.
That sounds like a lot of fun njmike! I hope you enjoy yourself. I'm assuming these are evening/night time concerts? Maybe after I retire I'll actually be able to stay up after 9 or 10 at night. Since I now get up at 5:30 a.m., I'm pretty much dead by 9 o'clock. And weekends aren't much different, because I'm so used to that schedule.
That sounds like a lot of fun njmike! I hope you enjoy yourself. I'm assuming these are evening/night time concerts? Maybe after I retire I'll actually be able to stay up after 9 or 10 at night. Since I now get up at 5:30 a.m., I'm pretty much dead by 9 o'clock. And weekends aren't much different, because I'm so used to that schedule.
Janet, Sounds like the schedule I used to have.
The concerts vary in starting time. Most are at night but there are afternoon performances also. The concerts also vary from night to night so that something is always going on during the week.
I hate to sound whiney, but I've got 2 more weeks of work and the closer it gets, the harder it gets. Over the last few years I haven't exactly felt like bouncing out of bed to go to work in the morning, but now it is sheer torture! I literally have to drag myself in there each day, and I seem to just watch the clock slowly tick the minutes away. I feel like I'm living Groundhog Day - reliving the same day over and over again and never getting any closer to the end. Arghhhh!
I hate to sound whiney, but I've got 2 more weeks of work and the closer it gets, the harder it gets. Over the last few years I haven't exactly felt like bouncing out of bed to go to work in the morning, but now it is sheer torture! I literally have to drag myself in there each day, and I seem to just watch the clock slowly tick the minutes away. I feel like I'm living Groundhog Day - reliving the same day over and over again and never getting any closer to the end. Arghhhh!
Janet, This sounds very familiar. I was the same way the last month of work. I hated getting up, I hated going to work, I hated work, I couldn't wait until it was time to leave, etc. I even tried going part time for the last 2 weeks of work but that didn't help any. What you're feeling is normal.
Janet,
I feel your pain too. It seems the days are endless. I talk to myself in the middle of class-get me out of this place!
13 days for you! And 68 for me(till the end of the school year). I think when it's over I'll look back and think how fast the school year went by.
What's the first thing you'll do on your first day of retirement?
Janet,
I feel your pain too. It seems the days are endless. I talk to myself in the middle of class-get me out of this place!
13 days for you! And 68 for me(till the end of the school year). I think when it's over I'll look back and think how fast the school year went by.
What's the first thing you'll do on your first day of retirement?
Gosh, I don't know! My last work day is a Friday, so I don't know if it will really hit me right away. I'm used to being off on the weekends. Maybe by Sunday, when I realize I don't have to do laundry, or otherwise get ready for Monday morning. I won't have to worry about getting to bed early enough so I can get up at 5:30 a.m. And I won't have that nagging, depressing feeling that seems to build as the hours pass, realizing I have to go to work in the morning. Then, I can sleep in on Monday (although I suspect it will take some time to get used to staying up late and sleeping in; when I take vacations I find it difficult to sleep past 6:30 or 7:00 a.m.). And realizing I have the rest of my life without having a schedule to stick to, or deadlines to make, or being buried in paperwork, or having to answer phone messages or emails...Heaven!!
What about you? Do you have your first day of freedom planned out?
Tonight was my first night volunteering at the Cultural Center. This just might be a new career. I won't have to get paid, all I have to do is sign up to usher at any show I want and I get to see the show FREE. Can't beat that.
Someone, jokingly, asked if we had to wear tutus so when I found the picture I couldn't resist posting the pic to get back at the person.
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