Transition

It's cold outside, it's cold inside and I am sitting here typing about and thinking about jumping back into the whole work thing tomorrow morning. I have been off work since before Christmas Eve. I have enjoyed not going into the office, I have enjoyed hanging round the house with Dianne and my granddaughter. I have enjoyed the days of presents and the feasting and the neighbor drop ins and drop offs, I have enjoyed the surprise calls I make of get from folk I never hear from except during the Christmas holidays. I really enjoy watching the tapes or DVDs we have that we never watch except for holidays, we even red Boxed ( I would have liked to have done more but enjoyed the movies we did do. I also really enjoyed getting gift cards and “on line” certifcates to bookstores and Amazon.com. I have ordered and those volumes will be here shortly and the gift cards allowed me to get my immediate fix of holiday, first quarter reading. But as this Sunday expires I am ready to get back into the mix.

Really almost ten days away is almost too much time—I feel I need to get back and see what kind of calls I have waiting. I did look at my emails and I do not see any bombs there ready to explode. No emails from my boss which says “see me”. I have remembered to grind baggy of coffee, a quart sized baggy because it seemed to me I was almost out of coffee a couple of weeks ago. Ten days is almost too long to go without the office gossip—I need to be back in the swing and to find out what is going on in my office but in other state and private non-profits offices round the State. I hope my plants made it—our office s not the best for plant support-we'll see. There was at least one snow storm while I have been gone and that storm was the the tail end of last week, weekends and holidays means there has be little to no snow removal. Dianne has agreed to drive me to the bus station for the next couple of days until people remove snow or thaw takes place. I should be OK once I get on the train and I think downtown sidewalks and streets round my office will be clear. I have not yet got a new bus pass, a pass for January. If I have time after we get to the train station tomorrow morning I can buy a Transfer from one of the drivers and be OK. I probably will not be challenged tomorrow but if I do I want to be ready. Of course not having a pass means I will have to bolt for the downtown bus service center and purchase my January pass.

So, I anticipate a busy tomorrow: make coffee return calls,mail Mac's letter, purchase pass and eas into the new year. Happy New Year I hope your transition is smooth.