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Good Afternoon, FS Warriors! It seems that every time I sat down to write in my journal over the last few days, I got distracted. Of course, I've been busy gathering information and planning my retirement. I've had a pretty good idea what my income would be, if I did retire; the biggest challenge is retiring with a lump sum, and not donating the majority of it to the IRS. And of course, because of my age, I'm not entitled to the same retirement healthcare plan as most people, but if I take Medicare Part A and B, then my company offers some kind of supplemental reimbursement arrangement, but they haven't shared with me, what that would cost me. And since I'm retired military, and have that medical insurance, is it going to be cost effective to even consider a supplemental insurance plan. Yikes, I don't want to get bogged down with thinking about this stuff!
The Pastor's surprise birthday dinner went surprisingly well. I couldn't believe that everyone who committed to coming, actually showed up. A very good showing! He was surprised, and we all had a good time, and a good dinner. Then one of the ladies brought him (and everyone else) a huge birthday cake on Sunday morning. Of course, I just had to have a piece, to be polite - of course.
Now that I have made the decision to retire, I can't wait, but I know it's in everyone's best interest to stick it out at work for the rest of the year. Now, If they told me to go home sooner, I'd be all right with that as well. I just want to make sure I stick to some kind of routine. I won't be getting up at 3 or 4 anymore after that, but I'm thinking 5 or 6 would be a good time to get up for coffee, maybe run or swim a few miles, and then get to work on the endless projects I have around the homestead. You know, just the fact that I won't have to face two hours of driving on wintry icy roads this winter, makes me feel like that, in itself, is a vacation.
Well, we took the great grandkids to the Corporate Fun Day, Saturday. Pony rides, a balloon artist, carnival ride, bouncey slides and houses, candle making, petting zoo, face painting, etc. They loved it. I was exhausted. I walked around a circle for 45 minutes while the kids dipped the wick, making candles. It never got bigger than a birthday cake candle, because they never got the idea, that holding it in the wax melted what they had already gained. They were pretty proud of it though. They got to go up into a little apartment, filled with smoke (fake), and "stopped, dropped and rolled" and got a firemen's hat. They fed the camel, pigs, goats, lambs forever! Haha; those animals probably volunteer for this outing. We went on the pumpkin carnival ride, which has a big wheel in the center, that you can spin your cab around. They took great delight in spinning that thing as fast as they could, for as long as they could. I haven't let on yet, that they were in serious danger of seeing their grandpa hurl. Completed the journey with a short stop at the Dairy Queen drive-thru. Come on, there had to be something in it for me also! :D I was hot and dehydrated. Got a root beer float.
So, anyway, that's what is going on in my world. Not too exciting, but the less drama, the better. Toodles!
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