Good Morning World,
So it’s been a week since Steve died. I’m still feeling sad about that even though I know he didn’t have a long suffering rehab and huge medical bills and that brings me solace, I still realize how much I miss him. He used to send me morning text messages always with an encouraging word or two. I discovered a new app yesterday that he already knew about. It’s called “WhatsApp”.
I was visiting with Heather at Hazel’s Cup and she was talking about it. I had heard about it from Lily at work. It seems that it is used by many on their “smart phones” throughout the world. When you download it, you can see who has the app on their phone from your contacts. Lily said she uses it all of the time to contact her family. She was even able to get through to Chile after the earthquake a while back when other means were not available. I saw that my brother Jon has it. He even told me about the microphone application and you can “dictate” text messages with your own voice. What a world we live in! I’m surprised Steve never told me about that app!
Today after church I’m going to work on the programs for scheduling for work. I’m so frustrated with the way we have to do the schedule that I’m at the end of my rope. Fortunately or unfortunately, I’m at the age where I can retire if I need to and at times I think that is what I should do. I’m beginning to obsess about it. I’m waiting for my cousin Dick to come down for the winter and I’m going to talk to him about it. For some reason, I feel he can give me some good advice. I know that John Beane could tell me too, but I don’t want to go that route yet. So I think it will be important to have another part time job lined up before I “jump ship”. Moorings Park has been really good to me and I love that place, I’m just totally frustrated with this one component of the job. There are other things too, but mostly I like who I work with and will feel like I’m “ditching” them. I know that there are a number of us who are close to “retirement”. Lily (she is 1 year older than I am, but makes a nice salary and she supports her brother in Chile and has daughters to support also – it isn’t going to be easy for her to retire). Darlene Wolf – a nurse who really should retire as she is frustrated everyday and it shows. Mary Anderson – a nurse who is just a few months younger than me. Patti Whitaker – she has been with Lily the longest. Her job continues to change and this scheduling thing is getting to her also and she does “on call” over the weekend periodically and that is frustrating for her also. She thinks I should do it periodically but I have avoided it thus far and I don’t want to do it either. Getting paid 1 hour per day for 4 days is NOT worth it! Then there is Millie – she is not 60 yet, but she had high blood pressure and a history of heart disease in her family. Her brother just died of a heart attack. She took last week off, but she still has family “stuff” to wrap up in Jamaica about her brother’s death. It isn’t easy for her either.
We’re going to Immokalee tonight to attend Steve’s meeting “Language of the Heart”. I wasn’t going to go, but then I reconsidered. I’ve asked to hitch a ride with Heather and Ralph. I made up this flyer for the meeting.
LOTH
The flyer is bigger than this, I could only “snip” this much of the flyer though. It was a new meeting that Steve started last March. When he told me about it I remember warning him that it may be difficult to “keep going”, but he was really hurt that I would say that. I just said that it was what had happened to my meeting that I started in the old church. There were many times when I was the only one that “showed” up. He told me that it had happened for him too. Last Sunday he called me just before the meeting started to tell me that he was going to go to Ft. Lauderdale to the Area for his group, and he was so pleased that 6 people had shown up! But my meeting went away when we sold the church. Good things happened at that meeting though. It was where I met Haven (my one sponsee) and Ric. So that was good!
So yesterday look what I got in the mail……..
Medicare Card
So far, I’m pretty impressed with the SS Administration. I’m doing things “on line” and things are working in a “timely” fashion. This encourages me and pushes me toward retirement too. Plus yesterday I spoke with Faye at the BB Meeting and she told me she “quit” her teaching job last Friday. Said she “couldn’t take it any more”. I was “788888888888888888888888888888888886 (Domino just walked across the keyboard!) “shocked” to hear that, but now it kinda “motivates” me. So as this obsession continues to build, keep coming back to see how it ends up!
Thanks for visiting. Time to get going to The Current! Go with the Flow!
