The More Things Change...

It's been a while since I last posted, and it's time to try again.  This time there's a better chance that I can keep it up because I just retired from my wonderful, crazy-making, demanding job after 15 years!

That's 15 years working for this company, and a total of 55 years working - yeah, it was time. And it's been hard.  I first told my boss I would be retiring by mid-March, then end of June, then August 5, then September 5, and finally October 6.  Difficult for me to stick to a date - there's always something going on at the office, and I loved my team and the work that we did.

So what do I expect to post about now?  In no particular order:

• Knitting
• Piecing quilts
• Reupholstering furniture
• Resuscitating my sour dough starter and making bread
• Learning Italian
• Gardening
• Genealogy
• Unpacking the final boxes from our move
• General sewing
• Needlework (needlepoint, crewel, embroidery)
• Touring New Hampshire
• Getting a Ham Radio License
• Reading more books
• Learning to weave - I have 2 looms, so it's time!
• Finishing the living and dining room, also tv viewing area

I'm sure there are other things too.  Short term things, like getting my office rearranged and turned into an exercise studio/office and organizing my sewing room better.  Cooking more - and more meatless meals - is high on my list.  Getting out to meet people; Covid made it very hard to meet people right after we moved here and making friends has been slow.  

I've been nervous about not working and hoping that all that free time doesn't turn into time spent on the computer.  That would be just like work!