Retirement 101 ~

18 Tuesday Oct 2011

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It’s about three months into my retirement. Here’s what I’ve been finding out:

More ~ as I notice & remember the essentials of retirement – HA !

01/08 – 6 – Nowadays, I’m having trouble not getting up and going to work, though at the same time, I don’t want to go to work, yet I know I’m becoming more and more lazy, and I’m not liking that about myself, but, I do feel I should be doing something with my life, however, I don’t want to get up early and shower, get dressed to go to work everyday, then again, those thoughts, maybe because I’m older, zip right thought my mind now, and I forget these catch-22 ponderings for a week or so, until I remember them again; whenever that happens, like today, now.   You know what I mean?

5 – Everyone who visited over the Christmas/New Year’s holiday’s, asked me what I was doing with my life and/or what I was planning to do with my life, now that I’m retired.   Then they told me what I should be doing !

4 – I’ve recently had an urge or two to eat from a paper plate. 

3 – I suddenly realized that I’m going to have to budget more for TP/tee-pee/toilet paper; I’m home more ~ not using the company wipe!

2 - For some unexplainable reason, I’m slowing down when approaching an intersection. When I was much younger, (a few weeks ago), we always knew to stay away from the driver who was an “old guy with a hat.” Especially those scally / race driver  / newsboy / flat / Uncle Pat’s golf hat hats !

1 – You have to be prepared to mail all your retirement paperwork at least a half-dozen times and six ways to Sunday. I’ve certified, returned receipted, scanned, emailed, and faxed this stuff repeatedly. So, today I got a letter asking for something I scanned two weeks ago. Ugh!

Your’s ’till, Kate

Addicted !

28 Wednesday Sep 2011

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OMG Addicted !

OMG – I’m writing and posting directly to this blog from my IPad2.

OMG – I am so freakin’ addicted to it, this is dream come through.

OMG – I never thought I would want this thing, must less have it become physically semi-attached, but, like, TV from the 50′s and 60′s, I still seek out Lucy and Ethel and a trip to Mayberry for a little R&R is always comforting.

OMG – once I got my hands on this, deciding to get it was a no-brainer. I’d been looking at electronic readers for a while, on the fence about actually purchasing one, but still curious. So I walked into a ginormous electronics store, asked for help, and after 2 hours of intense conversation comparing tablets, notebooks, readers, and laptops, the second my consultant, Nicki, put this little bit o’ heaven in my hands, rainbows, fireworks, and snow white doves filled the air !

OMG – So far I have over 300 app’s, with 295 of them being the free lite versions. Even this app was free. Lite’s are plenty enough for me and with so many of them, the choices and then refocusing keeps my endorphin’s zipping along.

OMG – I almost forgot, as a reader I download books directly from my local library – how cool is that? It’s free and the books disappear after 21 days, so there’s never a late fee.

That’s it – yours ’til, Kate

I took the PACKAGE !

05 Monday Sep 2011

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When I saw the announcement, that the company was offering an early retirement package, I said, Thank You God !  Out loud ~ sincerely,  like  OMG, I’m saved - meaning it like you mean it when you get an unexpected tax refund check  EARLY.

Now I only want my greatest worry to be, how to prevent bedsores, rocking chair sores, and bar stool sores. I’m thinking of buying a donut pillow.

I don’t know how long “now” will last, but I’m going to try to do “nothing all day long, then rest afterwards” for at least 30 days.

Yours ‘til, Kate

 

 

Wave After Wave

25 Saturday Jun 2011

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So, I set up my router to give myself Wi-Fi at home and lo and behold, within a half-hour, I do it and it works!

It was almost anti-climatic ~ I’d bought the router 2 months ago, but waited until I was up to the challenge to install it.

I know by now that no matter what it says on the box, on the CD, or on any of the accompanying paperwork, it usually takes me twice as long to install any piece of  hardware or software.  Maybe 10x as long.

I’ve never been able to pin point exactly why, but I’ve narrowed it down: I can’t read, I have no comprehension skills, and/or I have no patience.  It’s all I, I, I, me, me, me – except for some S.O.B. kid on the end of the support line, who apparently has the patience of a saint, since they can walk you through hell with their melodic tones of calm self-assurance for hours and hours!

Anyway, this week, I was up for it, and flush with success, I was patting myself on the back for days.

Until, I started thinking about it.

How does it work?  Throughout the house ?  On the front porch ?   On the back steps ?

I turn on my laptop and there’s the arc’s of the icon indicating I’m in.

But in what ?

The Wi-Fi waves?   Waves of electricity ?  Along with the micro-waves ?  The  cell phone waves ?   And the portable house phone waves ?  What else emits waves ?

If I walk through the waves, will I disconnect it ?  Myself?

Maybe there’s some truth to that “I see your aura” stuff?

Yours ’till, Kate

Knocking to Get Out

19 Saturday Mar 2011

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I’m so busy at work – that this is the TRUTH!

I’d been sitting  in front of my computer answering emails, returning phone calls, making and scheduling appointments, figuring out spreadsheets, and on and on and on.

I even had my door closed  so I could hide out – I mean concentrate.

Every now and then, I’d roll my shoulders, then reach for the sky for a good stretch, but when my eyes started to smart, I realized I had been working a solid two hours.

I rolled my chair back,  hoisted myself up, listened to my knees creek, and stretching again, I walked to the door, and knocked.

Knocked?  Yes – knocked on my door, on the inside, inside my office. Got it?

I yanked my fist  back as though I had touched the fiery furnace, and stood there a moment, inside my office, inches away from the door and suffered a little moment of terror – OMG –Alzheimer’s.

Just as quickly, I turned the doorknob, and walked out into the reception area, only to hear the receptionist say, “Did you knock?”

OMG – she heard me.

I felt the heat  of the flush rush up my face, but managed to croak out, “You heard me?”

“Yeah –  it sounded like someone knocking to come it, but there’s no one here. Were you knocking to come out?”

Crap  – she was serious.

“You were,” Jeanie continued, “you were knocking to come out – asking permission to come out of your office. Or for me to let you in here?”

With that, she exploded into laughter and a second or two later, so did I.

All day long, we teased and told everyone about my knocking-to-get-out episode. 

Luckily, everyone else had similar anecdotes involving glasses, keys, groceries, books, even kids, but by the end of the day, we decided that knocking to get out  might be the best / worst tale of them all.

Do you  have one that tops it – or one you’d like to share ? 

Maybe you could  make one up just to make me feel better – please.

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