Monday Meanderings

      I'm still gearing up to do my first post retirement blog entry. It feels weird that tomorrow will be the last day I will be employed. Well, technically I'm hired by the company that the school district uses for substitute teachers, but on call, and at my discretion. I got an urgent request last Friday to take a middle school language arts class. I would have but already had a full morning booked to train new Data System person on two critical actions. 

     My son has to help me load the sit-stand desk topper and my office chair to take back. I'm going to miss that chair. Six years ago, we were all measured and had guidance on setting it to our needs. Very ergonomically correct for how it best supports posture and access to the computer and keyboard. Eighteen months into Covid when our building lease was ending and property was being tossed or stored, we were allowed to bring our office stuff to home offices. Both the sit-stand unit and chair were a pain to move and will be a pain to bring back. Likely the desk unit will languish in some storage facility until eventually purged. The chair is needed as more go back in the office half time or more. 

     Pup made me happy yesterday and this morning by urging me to get him out and not having to coax him. No accident and he was aware ahead of time he needed to go. Both mornings when I was first up and starting coffee, he was sound asleep and snoring or I'd have tried. The cool but bright morning have him some energy and he ran through the yard like a playful puppy. Of course, then he came back in and soundly slept again. But, we noticed his eye is getting a lot of matter, and looks less like it could be an infection. He also is due for shots and a shave ( which we stretch out as long as possible since he needs sedating) so getting all scheduled this morning, but the eye might not wait. I'm waiting on a scheduled appointment now. 

There's a dog under that rug. 

     Last weekend to end Match, I had intentional down time. This weekend I was all over. On Friday, I went to the brewery for live music from a group of guys that went to school the year behind me. As that was my sister's year, I knew a lot of people, but sat with my friend C and husband at the bar. The band wasn't half bad despite nearing 60. Saturday I went to The Guthrie with  my older daughter to see Agatha Christie's, The Mousetrap. This had been my birthday gift from November, timed for what would have been post retirement. Yesterday my younger daughter met my son and I at the $3 a bag book sale at the library (I looked, wasn't going to get anything, but still ended up with more than I planned)  Then daughter and I checked out gardening options. I have more ideas. She had to leave before real supper, but I made her tomato soup and a quesadilla, sending her home with the remaining soup in the carton, and a quesadilla that she can use for lunch today. I also roasted chicken then made chicken wild rice soup that my son and I ate later and  to have over the week.

     I got to say, I was exhausted by Sunday night having worked Friday, then out of the house and in the Cities, then a packed Sunday afternoon. I really have become a close to home kind of person, with the occasional outing across the bridge.