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quoththeravynJust like that.
The folks at the Continuing Care Retirement Center where I'm going strongly recommended hiring a Senior Move Manager to help with downsizing, selecting, packing, talking to all the contractors, etc. etc. etc. I'm not sure what I owe them, but it's worth every penny. The crew of four arrived about 9 this morning, with plans to come back tomorrow if needed, but they were done by 2pm. It was good I took off work (what are they going to do, fire me? I'm retiring on Friday), because they had lots of detailed questions.
But nearly all my stuff is in boxes now. We sorted out what my ex wants after she moves in, and it's staying. Monday the actual truck comes. They'll box up the electronics, load up and be gone. They gave themselves two weeks and a bit to deliver; presumably they have to find more stuff to fill up the interstate truck. I'll be driving away a couple days later, sauntering vaguely westward (ho?).
So, like, woh.
Pretty much everything in my life is changing since the beginning of March. We finally put the divorce through, after living apart for 8.5 years... incompatible kinds of queer. While we were there with our attorneys in the courthouse, we went ahead and signed the real estate papers. And now I'm retiring (Friday! Wow!), moving, driving across the country. Making new friends, starting new projects, doing all new stuff.
I'm hoping I can learn to spend several hours a day working on novels. I pushed the first one across Amazon a year ago February, and the few hundred folks who've read it seem to like it. I probably should have plugged it at my retirement party. It's called "Necessary Lies" and it's set just a few years back when same sex couples could be married in one state and not related at all in the next state over. A situation ripe for the telling of stories that cisgendered hetpeople need to hear. The sequel slash other tale set in the same universe is... in need of more conflict. Soooo now that it's been written all the way through, and I know much more about who the characters are, I can put in at least hints that all is not well in paradise. If you're interested, let me know and I can hook you up with a copy. It even has my actual name on it and everything.
Catch you all on the flipside...
The folks at the Continuing Care Retirement Center where I'm going strongly recommended hiring a Senior Move Manager to help with downsizing, selecting, packing, talking to all the contractors, etc. etc. etc. I'm not sure what I owe them, but it's worth every penny. The crew of four arrived about 9 this morning, with plans to come back tomorrow if needed, but they were done by 2pm. It was good I took off work (what are they going to do, fire me? I'm retiring on Friday), because they had lots of detailed questions.
But nearly all my stuff is in boxes now. We sorted out what my ex wants after she moves in, and it's staying. Monday the actual truck comes. They'll box up the electronics, load up and be gone. They gave themselves two weeks and a bit to deliver; presumably they have to find more stuff to fill up the interstate truck. I'll be driving away a couple days later, sauntering vaguely westward (ho?).
So, like, woh.
Pretty much everything in my life is changing since the beginning of March. We finally put the divorce through, after living apart for 8.5 years... incompatible kinds of queer. While we were there with our attorneys in the courthouse, we went ahead and signed the real estate papers. And now I'm retiring (Friday! Wow!), moving, driving across the country. Making new friends, starting new projects, doing all new stuff.
I'm hoping I can learn to spend several hours a day working on novels. I pushed the first one across Amazon a year ago February, and the few hundred folks who've read it seem to like it. I probably should have plugged it at my retirement party. It's called "Necessary Lies" and it's set just a few years back when same sex couples could be married in one state and not related at all in the next state over. A situation ripe for the telling of stories that cisgendered hetpeople need to hear. The sequel slash other tale set in the same universe is... in need of more conflict. Soooo now that it's been written all the way through, and I know much more about who the characters are, I can put in at least hints that all is not well in paradise. If you're interested, let me know and I can hook you up with a copy. It even has my actual name on it and everything.
Catch you all on the flipside...