It's payday Friday so everyone is in a pretty good mood. I'd be in a better mood if I didn't have to make mortgage, car and insurance payments all at once, but that's life as an adult, isn't it.
It's rainy and cool but not yet cold here, so is just fine. I haven't been having fires--mostly because the stove is misbehaving and needs a cleaner stovepipe (I have an appointment next month for that). House is cool but not bad and the dogs tend to lie on top of me in the evening on the couch so that sure keeps me warm.
I just had a long meeting with my colleagues about what will happen to the work I do here, who will do what and what won't be done. It's still amazing to me that I'm leaving. I'm excited and really looking forward to retirement but it's unbelievable that I will no longer be an employee of CEFLS after Dec. 19. Mostly I feel that can't come soon enough but then I have my moments of "What will I be if I'm not a librarian?" Pretty much in the mornings, getting ready for work I know that I'm totally ready to stay home. How do I feel when I get to work? Mostly I look forward to have a desk that's cleared off and having found someone else to do my job.
Tonight I'm going to hear a live band, which I probably haven't done since going to concerts many years ago. More than 10 years, I think, I think the last one I went to was a Jackson Browne concert in Burlington with my friends when they were newly pregnant with their now-11 year old son. Yikes. What have I been doing for entertainment? Anyway, in this band is the son of friends, who is coming from Brooklyn to play at a venue here. A small venue in Upper Jay. We'll go out for dinner first, and it occurs to me that the friends will want to stay until the bitter end of the performance, way past my bedtime no doubt. Well, I said I'd go and I am looking forward to being with the friends. I'm sure the band is good so that will be nice. I have no idea what kind of music they play.
It's been a quiet week for me. I had a consultant visit on Tuesday, to the AuSable Forks library and that went well. There's a new director, a retired school librarian I've known for more than 20 years so that made it nice. I like going into that library because it's full of Rogers Company things. We talked about what library I'll "join" when I retire. It probably won't be that one...for a number of reasons. I've already had offers to volunteer at 3 libraries and that makes me feel well-liked and appreciated. Will I do that? maybe, maybe.
Dogs are fine. I didn't walk them as much this week as I wanted to because I got home late a few times. We walk to the mailbox and they run, run, run, especially Treasure. Tess has that old dog run but Treasure has a fluid, maxed-out running style. She's beautiful.
No big plans for the weekend. I need to buy a new rug for the kitchen so may come back to town tomorrow. or not. Do I get bored on weekends? Sometimes, but there is always something to do at home. I have yet to empty the fridge at camp so hope to get that taken care of this weekend. I'll need to do that before going to the dump. Not much else going on.
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