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Sweet Dreams catch up

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I’ve been catching up on my Sweet Dreams blocks and I’m really pleased with how they are looking. 

With block 4 I decided to change the direction of the blocks with the three stripes and turn them so that they all lead the eye to the centre block.

Block 5 is a nice light coloured block, a place to rest the eyes. It reminds me of butterflies in the garden.

And block 6 is one of my favourite so far with the little four patches and fussy cutting the bunnies.

In ‘preparing for retirement’ news I removed my workplace apps from my phone yesterday and deleted my work message off my private phone. For the first time in years it now just has a regular personal ‘leave a message’ on it.  I turned off the phone forwarding from work to my private phone,  that made it feel real!  
“Retirement: Say goodbye to tension & hello to your pension!”

Merry Christmas!

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 Its a lovely Christmas morning here. The sun is shining, the sky is blue and theres a nice cool breeze. Heres hoping it doesn’t warm up too much as the day goes on.

Yesterday I finished up the management role that I’ve been doing this year. I’m relieved that its done and dusted. It’s just been one of the busiest, stressful work roles I’ve had. I slept like a baby last night. 

I went into the office a few days this week and cleaned out all my cupboards & filing cabinets, bought home all my own stuff from my office and took the pictures down from the walls. Lots of happy memories going through everything! 

 I did a lot of shredding and sorting of paper files. I have one pile of about 30 files that I need to go through and about a weeks worth of data entry to do and then I am completely up to date, ready to walk out the door for good in 90 days. 

I wanted to get it done in case we had to work from home again due to Omricon and its good thing that I did as we are now working from home until February. But now I am just there to finish up and handover. My mind is already in retirement mode!

We will be having a quiet Christmas today and we’ll catch up with family via zoom. We always have a traditional roast dinner at lunch time which I’m looking forward to. 

 I have two weeks of holidays now and will be back to blogging more regularly again. Thanks for visiting my blog and for your encouragement & comments over this last year.  Wishing you all a safe and happy Christmas and a peaceful holiday season.

“What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.” Agnes Pahro. 

98 Days – 14 weeks to go.

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How amazing to see my retirement countdown showing only 98 days to go today!  At the moment I’m technically on leave for a week but in reality I’m still working & attending meetings. Only one more week to go,  then holidays and then I can hand back a lot of this work and start slowing down a bit.

A few things have happened since my last post. I had my birthday and was given some beautiful quilting fabrics – (I’ll get back to posting some pics soon), we decorated our Christmas tree on the weekend, & the Christmas shopping is done. I’ve signed up for a quilting BOM next year and been poring over my sewing magazines marking projects I’d like to make.

We were going to have Christmas with family but now that Omicron is on the rise and cases in our town are on the rise we’re going to have Christmas at home again.  We can’t get our booster shots until the end of January and we had AstraZeneca so apparently our immunity is pretty low right now.

DH had alerts that he’s been in contact this last week even though we rarely go anywhere, but two weeks ago we had huge sporting event here with thousands of visitors and it was then declared a Covid exposure site.  Fortunately we are now all at home, either on leave or working from home so we’ll just stay in until we get the booster dose.

Well thats just a quick little update for now. Hoping to get back to more regular blogging soon.