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Thursday, June 2, 2011

I'm free, I'm free!

Hello everybody, I'm back and I'm free as a bird!  My retirement date finally caught up with me, and I'm glad to see it.

Cabinets cleared out ...
check!

Ped file drawers emptied...
check!

Counter tops cleaned spic and span (as a courtesy!)...
check!

The last of my junk bagged up to bring home...
check and double check!

 I had my final separation clearance interview at 9:00 a.m. this morning with Security, turned in my badge and emergency evacuation kit.  Signed a paper swearing to a lot of stuff I won't do, yadda yadda yadda.

Oh my, it feels so great to be RETIRED!  Today I've started on a road that I've never gone down before -even the air smells different!  But you know, at the same time it really hasn't hit me yet that I'm retired, maybe it will next week!  I keep expecting something to wake me up, LOL. 

My coworkers gave me a nice retirement party yesterday, I didn't have my camera but someone will send me her pictures and I'll share them.

So, what was the first thing I did as a retired lady??  I went to the car wash!

here's somebody getting the deluxe wash; I got the quickie!

This is just after my suds were rinsed off; I think the flag was a great touch...

and their super-duper hot air dryers blowing off the water.

Hey, ya gotta do what ya gotta do!

Sew forth and sew on til later...

14 comments:

  1. The first few days of my retirement I would think to myself, at this particular time of the day I would be doing ******* if I was still working, and then I would just smile!

    Enjoy every minute! Soon you will be so busy at "stuff" you will wonder how you had time to work!

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  2. Congratulations on your retirement!!! Enjoy! Soon I'm sure your will have so many projects going your will wonder where the time goes.

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  3. I'm jealous! I'm jealous! Not really, congrats to you! I can't imagine the freedom you are feeling. And I can't wait to see all the yummy sewing you will now be able to do!

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  4. Congratulations on your retirement -- quilt till you drop:)

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  5. Congratulations Linda! Enjoy it for all of us still punching the time clock!

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  6. Welcome to a wonderful way of life.

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  7. I gave myself the first year of retirement free from any schedule. I even stopped teaching quilting that year. It was great. The next year I eased back into obligations and schedules. Now, like everyone else that is retired, I don't know how I found time to work! Enjoy yourself a lot!!!!

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  8. Congratulations on your retirement!

    LaDonna

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  9. Happy Retirement!!!! You are going to enjoy it.

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  10. Come to the QU quilt show tomorrow at Dulles Expo Center, Chantilly, VA. Penny and I plan on being there when it opens. As to retirement, I never kept a calendar when I was working. Now that I am not working I do. My husband is looking forward to retirement and his statement about it is "I have plans to have no plans."
    Congratulations!!

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  11. Congratulations on your retirement!

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