So your encouragement is perfectly timed! Thank you Shainzona & Marge!

(There’s a new Just4Today posted….)

I love being retired! I never seemed to have time to do the things that “I” wanted to do. I used to run around like the proverbial chicken and didn’t get much done. Now I take my time, do what’s important to “me” and am far less stressed.

Wasn’t that way at first because I had a job that I loved. I was a Secretary/Receptionist at a Non-Profit and couldn’t wait to get up and go to work every morning. Then they shuffled me off to the back room to let someone “Young & Perky” have the front desk, then cut my hours and basically just had me data processing for everyone in the building. I told them thanks but no thanks and left. I think that may also have been part of why I ate compulsively. Being rejected hurts.

But I got over it and am now happily retired and one of my pet projects is making hats and head scarves for patients at our local hospital. (I made and sold hats, handbags, totes, and fabric shopping bags on ebay for years. I was Hatbatty in case anyone ever saw my products there. Now I make things for friends and family, the hospital and I make and give away fabric shopping bags to complete strangers I meet on the bus. If it saves a tree or helps the environment I feel I’ve done a good thing. And the look on the faces of those I give the bags too is priceless. As they say on the teevee

Enjoy!

We’ve had surprise visits from family and the day has flown by.

FM, I’m thinking of you often as I get closer to retirement (2 WEEKS!) — I look to you for guidance in my new life.

It appears I slept just about the entire day away. I can see I’ll be up all night tonight.

J4T I’ll try and get down 2 liters of water and I’ll get the kitchen cleaned. It’s funny how to much sleep can make you as tired as to little sleep.

Hope everyone has had a good day.