Retirement...Yeah Right

Tomorrow morning bright and early (6:45 am) I have to be to my dh's work to teach a workshop to his crew dealing with hazardous material.  Once a teacher always a teacher, evidently.   Well, it is only for one day so I guess I can live with that. LOL  I had to make rewards and study up on some vocabulary, and study an outline, make booklets for the crew, gather up pencils,   hmmmmmm...  did I leave anything out,  it has been a while since I've done this!  The last time was my own art workshop in September.  I am deciding whether to try that again in January or February.  I want to hold workshops, but I have also really dived into this retirement freedom mode and am loving it.

Monday Morning NOTs

I guess I haven't had much going on around here, my happy home.  I think I am starting to settle in to a routine, and that concerns me.  Routines are for the "working class".  I am retired!  I do NOT have to get up at a certain time.  I do NOT have to perform activities based on someone else's timetable.  I do NOT have to eat on an assigned lunch schedule.  I do NOT have to dress.  So, today, Monday, I am NOT doing anything except just exactly what I want to do when I want to do it!  I did finally empty the dishwasher this morning, since the clean dishes in it were washed, I think last Thursday, LOL.  Now, whatever comes next is strictly MY call!.  Yaaa Hooo.  (I think I better listen to my biological clock and go do something NOW.)

Free Woman and Happy Artist!

Well, it is official! I am retired. Only 15 more days to work and I will be a free woman and happy artist. I have a full schedule already. Camping with family for Memorial weekend, then a road trip with family starting on June 6, and then an art retreat starting on June 25th. I think there will probably be a camp out for 4th of July too. Then I want to do a couple of one or two day road trips if I can get a roady partner lined up. Then there is the July 24th camping and who knows what other week ends of camping. Hows that for easing out of the work environment? It doesn't sound like I will have much time to be artsy but that will come when everyone settles back into life after school starts. I also have an idea to make a giant maze around the acreage somewhere...quite a ambitious project so I may not get to it too soon. And I have to do some painting ON and IN the house...it is screaming at me to do something to make it feel and look better! And cooking! It has been so very long since I have had the time or energy to cook...I am actually looking forward to that! And sewing...just some artsy efforts there. Is there such a thing as free/intuitive sewing? I am hoping one of the workshops at the art retreat will get me going with this. I thought I would also do some gardening, but since I have all these trips planned, I don't think so, as keeping it watered when we are gone is a problem. Then, when it cools down in the fall, I have to learn how to do some digital art on the computer!
Whew! Hope my energy holds up for all of this wishful thinking ideas. And, I probably have more things I want to do, but can't think of everything in one sitting. LOL