Day 33 - out of order

33 Days!  24 Work days!  Wow!  I really can’t believe it is coming so fast. 

Work has become difficult.  As one of my team members put it today – I have senioritis.  (I’m amazed that the Word spell checker actually likes that word - Ha)  Anyway, it’s difficult for me to concentrate on my work.  I am trying and getting things done, but certainly not at my usual level. I’m somewhat annoyed about it – with myself of course - but can’t seem to get my head around it.  The announcement finally went out to the company today.  I’ve received quite a few emails and been stopped in the hall a few times already with congratulations. 

I’m beginning to see how I’m really going to miss these people and the regular interaction.  I am going to have to find lots of ways to be social that I do not currently have in my life.  I will need to talk a lot more than just with my husband, weekly evenings with my best friend and weekly phone calls to my mom.  Otherwise I’ll start driving my husband and the store clerks crazy.  I can see it now.  I go to the local Whole Foods to buy some cage free and organic eggs and as I’m checking out, I start telling the cashier all about my week, the jeep trip we took, the art I’m currently working on, how beautiful my walk was this morning, how I found the perfect smoothie combination…  See what I mean?  Not good.  They’ll all be talking about me in the break room and asking to go on break when they see me coming into the store.

Anyone have any good suggestions on how to make friends for a person who has never spent any time cultivating friends and – yes – at the ripe age of somewhere close to 60 has no idea how?  Really!