Checking In

I think about posting in here.  I do. 

I also think about a lot of other things.  One thing I'm thinking on a lot these days is do I retire? or do I not.  There's pros, both ways.  I do enjoy spending money and as long as I work, I figure I have a little more powerful vote on whether I spend money or not.  After I retire, I'll be drawing social security which will be less than my take-home pay.  I mean, I won't have to apply for food assistance but I might have to cut back a little.  Himself and I might have to discuss budgets and bills and restraint.  oh no! 

One pro . . . I usually enjoy working.  There are days when they bury us in applications or I have 5 Medically Needy w/3 months retro applications and I wonder why the H I haven't quit already.  There are other days when I'm sitting there, spinning out applications, everyone answers their phone, the kinks are out, the pistons are all hitting and I'm crusing in a cadilac convertible . . . and I think I'll just keep working 'til I'm 72 : )  I'm a having fun.  really.  I am NOT kidding. 

Then, I think . . .  I could be outside.  I was an outdoor girl from the first I can remember.  I was a tomboy.  I loved being bare legged and barefoot and running in the grass and digging in the dirt and playing ball and roller skating and shooting hoops. 

I could be outside digging in the dirt.  roller blading : ) 

I could be canning tomatos and making pickles.  I could be baking bread again.  I could get me some laying chickens and eat my own home grown eggs! 

I could get out my sewing machine and whip up a quilt or two.

I could be at every sporting, music, school event of each and every grandchild.  I could.  I would! 

I could take piano lessons. 

I could volunteer at the schools.

I could work at a coffee shop, the library, the lawn care company. 

I could!

I could work anywhere.  and would! 

One thing I'm thinking on a lot these days is do I retire? or do I not. 

There's pros, both ways.

Feel free to vote.