It's a Lovely Day Today (points for naming the Irving Berlin musical)

All week I've been cleaning, chucking and packing during the day and dog-sitting at night(and working on sem paperwork).
It took a week, but I'm starting to acknowledge that a) it is summer and b) i'm not employed!

It's been mentally and spiritually cleansing to unburden myself of clutter and excess items. It's all like a physical manifestation of my life, as it's been the last couple years and as it is now.

Today I broke early from cleaning to go to the shore (the humidity broke and it was gorgeous!).....to a park I used to go to every year for my dad's work picnic. Those picnics were fond, fond memories of summers. It's a great park, a former estate. Beautiful gardens surround the mansion (they were kinda run down for years). There's nothing like a summer sea breeze. I brought a picnic dinner to enjoy. It was lovely. I did, however, have to relocate my meal at one point because of the advances of a skunk with a bad paw. Then I walked the perimeter down to the water, and then strolled through the gardens. I found a bench under a tree facing the water to sit and read some assigned reading as the sun set and ferries/boats went east or west.

Just lovely.

BUM

Hey, remember the brand B.U.M. Equipment? I had a great sweatshirt....wonder whatever happened to that.

Anyhoo, I am now a bum! Work is done. I ended it on a game day. I'm going to miss players and coaches. I'll miss a couple of coworkers. I've been at this job for 6 seasons....that's the longest I've been at anything since elementary school. So while I'm glad to be out of there. While I'm glad to have time now to take care of the business of moving, etc. I am slightly sentimental. Go fig!

Even though there was a lot of the normal office BS...it was an interesting experience. It was also like being a part of history because of the nature of the sport. Should provide lots of material to draw upon in the future!

I'm clearly not good at goodbyes. I was asked a few times to speak...you know.."Speech Speech!" but I had nothing. Nothing funny,nothing touching. Here's where my psych eval. was accurate, I am somewhat emotionally guarded at times. Perhaps if I was rested I could've left with a good bit of funny.

I took today to sleep in, and then eat lunch, then take a nap, then eat dinner, then lounge.... :)

Tomorrow I'll get to the work of moving. Good Will is going to see my face a lot this week!