Hello everyone! I hope you are planning for wonderful sunRISES every day!
As you know by now, my time left at my job is definitely winding down. 7 more weeks to go! This is getting real, and I am SO excited!
At my work, we hopefully are homing in on hiring someone, so that is good and hopefully that will all take shape very soon. I am working hard on things that need to be wrapped up before I leave. I have communicated my retirement to a few customers who specifically need to know because of my relationship with them. I have started to box up some personal stuff and take it home…and I have started to recycle some old files that won’t be needed (and truth be told, I should have gotten rid of a while back…but I am a piler, and filing/paper clean up is not first on my priority list! Sigh…! Something I hope to do better once I am home!). My packing up has made my co-workers nervous and sad, however, so I don’t want to do too much that is totally obvious till it is almost time! They are all very sweet through this process with me, so I am very blessed by that!
Now THAT is all getting DEFINITELY real! LOL!
One other thing that is getting real is fully realizing that soon, I won’t be seeing/interacting with the people I work with every day anymore. I am realizing that is the part I will miss…because I truly consider some of those folks to be my friends, and we have all personally grown through working together. I will try to stay in touch with some of them, most definitely, but I know that the reality, in most instances, is that those contacts will become fewer and fewer as we all move on with our lives in each of our new “normals.”
This realization makes me a bit sad, and I know that is going to be what causes my last month or so to be more teary than it has been up to now. But, as we have talked about before, all of life changes have both positive and negative effects; but the positive ones I fully expect to be the greater side of that equation, since all of life is what WE make it, through the blessings of the Lord…so, onward toward my newest upcoming sunRISE!
Talk to you again soon!
Mary