Can I retire now?

Today I got a notepad in the mail from some friends. It says, "Can I retire now?" Can I?

Where's George Clooney when you need him?

So I go into work today to find an invitation to a retirement planning seminar that the Teacher Retirement System is holding. Maybe the retirement gods are trying to tell me something. I guess I'll go check it out and see what they have to say. It can't hurt. I might learn something, and I can't be anymore up in the air (without George Clooney unfortunately) than I am now!

I took the day off from work today to celebrate my birthday, which was yesterday. I am an expert at filling up a day without getting much accomplished. However, since my main goal for today, besides eating french toast at Central Market, was simply to not go to work, I accomplished what I set out to do, and enjoyed it very much. I put off all of the other little tasks I had planned for today, deciding it really was not a day I was supposed to spend time performing tasks. There weren't any movies I really wanted to see, so I read and ate two pieces of cake instead. Yummmmmm