Retirement

After a lot of thought and being pissed off just one more time I have decided to retire from Ada County 911 Communications Center. I have worked there for the last 24 and a half years and it is time to hang up my headset. I have dispatched Fire/EMS the entire time I have been there and handled my share of ugly calls. O, I have helped birth several babies but lately it is the deaths that I'm remembering. Also I have been loosing  my sense of humor more and more. I do believe that this is one of those jobs that you can be at one day too many. More and more I have to stop myself  from telling people to just grow up and start acting like adults. So I have reached my Monty Python moment and am ready for "something completely different". 

I know that I have to continue working but I want a job that has no stress and no life or death decisions that have to be made immediately. I also need a job that has health benefits. I'm covered under Carol's policy with City of Boise but I would really like to have one of my own just in case. Being an over weight, high blood pressure Type 2 diabetic I really need to have a policy that covers me till I'm 65 and hopefully MediCare kicks in. It is a little scary to have to start looking for a job at my age and after working for as long as I have for one employer. 

I'm not sure yet just when my last day of work will be but it will be sometime in June as I have about 6 weeks of vacation that I will take. My actual retirement day is 1 August 2008. I plan on taking some time off and to just try and relax. I'm not sure how long I will be able to do that. We have really let the yard and house get away from us. So I have a "honey do" list that is book length. I also plan on taking pictures and walking the dogs. Actually the dogs are demanding that I walk them and the longer the better. I would also like to do some woodworking just for the craft of it. I have always wanted to learn how to build some simple furniture items. I would also like to have a garden again. We have a 1/2 acre lot so I have lots of room for that and hopefully the time I need.