#338 – Good Morning, April 1, 2017

Hello Everyone,

Today is the first day of my RETIREMENT – April Fool!  No really, yesterday was my last day working at Moorings Park.  There was a beautiful party for me and it seemed that everyone came.  The Residents even dressed up in their “very best” outfits.  I guess they don’t get much chance to do that, so it was an “occasion”.  It was really great.  I took a week and a half to train Julie.  I didn’t get everything covered, but I’m sure she will get through it.  I told her today I was going to write her an email for Monday morning.  I forgot to tell her about the batching in VISION for the month end.

This is how I started my day today on FB:

Day One of Retirement

Day One of Retirement

I still don’t know how I feel about this.  It is a little weird and I’m not clear on how I’ll afford this.  But John Beane said I can do it, so I guess I can.  I can’t do extravagant trips, but I can do the little ones I have planned at this point.  It was cool though – yesterday I got a bonus check for $1200.  I guess when you retire you get $100 a year.  At least I made it 12 years and the check was for that amount so that is what I’m guessing.  I was not expecting that.  I just cashed it and will use it up rather than going to the ATM for the next few weeks.  I bought 3 scratch off tickets and won $2.  So I’m going to cash that in and buy 2 more.  Maybe I’ll win some money this way?

Also, the “girls” threw me a party on Thursday.  That was a total surprise.  They were bringing in all kinds of food and a cake and everything.  Marie Monsanto was the organizer and even brought everything in on her day off.  I think she collected money from everyone and it was really amazing.  I brought cake home that she packed up for me.  I ate it all.  I wrote them a thank you note with this picture on it.  I am wearing the decorations around my neck:

My pre retirement party

My pre retirement party

I have to go to my 8AM meeting now.  I’ll continue with this later.  Remind me to send Julie an email later also!  Off to Food Angels now.  Will come back!

I received the best gift from my partners at OT.  Here it is:

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So now I have a reminder of my time at OT.  I think it is cute with the “secretary” at the desk.  It looks a little like the way I sat at my desk.  Still not sure why my last name is all in caps, but what the heck!

Now today is Sunday, April 2nd.  I’m not going to go to church, instead I’m going to the Morning Reflections monthly breakfast.  I’ve been wanting to be part of this for a while and now I can.  It will mean missing the first Sunday of the month.  We’ll see how it goes.  PS:  I won the 50/50 raffle today!  It was $60.  WOW!  That’s one way to pay for retirement.  Polly was the speaker and although I’ve heard her story over and over again, she really does a super job!  I love her!  We are really “Buds”!

I need to get going again.  Thanks for visiting.

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