People often ask me, "Do you like retirement?" I have to say I love it. I love that I can wake up in the morning with no idea what I will be doing and then come to the end of my day finding it full and fulfilling.
This morning I did an interview on our local Christian radio station at 8 am and then hit Target on the way home. Their Halloween items went to 90% off this morning and I scored nice socks for .20 a pair, T-shirts and boxer shorts for .59 each and some fun flashlights and stuffed animals.
After returning home I went on an errand with my husband and then got a message that four more large cartons--the remainder of our order of baseball hats--were delivered to our church. After last Friday's delivery of 48 cartons this one was tiny, but I still needed to deal with it. The problem was--I'd already made an appointment to get my hair cut on the other side of town and meet someone to give them a supply of OCC boxes at the same time.
So....my husband and I passed some fun time together putting caps on another 1000 water bottles and he graciously loaded the cartons into my car. My trusty cohort Pam and I made plans to meet at the storage container at 3:30 pm, after my appointment.
A few hours later Pam and I stood in front of the container wrestling boxes of hats. We opened them and found we could save a bunch of space by combining the boxes. We were able to consolidate four cartons of boxes into two. This made me wonder how much space we could have saved by opening the other 68 cartons we've already stored and consolidating them?
I will never know.
We finished putting the lids on the rest of the water bottles and got the last of them stacked neatly in the container just as twilight clicked away. Thank goodness for that flashlight app on my cell phone. I am so relieved the lids are on all 149 cases of water bottles and Pam worked her storage magic so they are snug and tight (and I do mean tight--like rammed in there with a battering ram tight.) No wasted space there.
I cruised out of the parking lot just in time to drive to the next event--a youth packing party at Erie Christian Fellowship Church. Truthfully, I was tired and not excited about going. But that changed in a hurry when I saw their well-prepared tables lined with wonderful items.
I had such a great time watching the kids pack 144 boxes to bless a dozen dozen children. It's going to take some strong rubber bands to get those boxes truly closed.
These days are really full but what joy to see the year's work finally coming together.
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