Wow, I guess I'm unemployed for the next couple of weeks!!!  It's so weird that I don't have any chores to do or early morning alarms to set for tomorrow morning. All I have to do is make sure I move my car by 8am for street sweeping tomorrow morning.

My last day at work was hectic! I came in at my regular time hoping to be able to get work done before my replacement came in an hour and a half later at 6:30am. Unfortunately, when I got there, I found streamers, balloons and signs making it impossible to get to my desk. I was told that I could not take them down, unless I wanted to die. I decided to try and clean out my replacements desk (she isn't going to be using mine), but that took longer than I'd hoped. Plus she arrived early! Then the day long food crammed party started. I haven't seen that much food in a long time! Plus the people! So many people!!!  I was touched that so many came by to wish me well, but I felt bad because just about everyone said that she has "big shoes to fill". She doesn't need to hear that on her first day! I told her not to listen and that she would be fine. I finally had to send her home so I could get some work done!! I'd hoped to be further along than I was!

Mid-morning was the time I had to go down and see Human Resources.  I took the high road in my exit interview and I hope I was able to wrap that part up with a little bit of grace. It's funny, they were surprised that I planned on staying the entire day getting work done. You'd think that after all these years that they would know me well enough to realize I'm not going to leave a load of work for the new person to handle. At least not on purpose.

I got most everything done in the end. Sadly, our IT dept was super-efficient and turned off my phone access early. I saw I had four voicemail messages, but hadn't been able to listen to them yet. By the time I got a chance, all gone and deleted. Plus, I couldn't look at the call history to let the people know I wasn't able to listen their messages.

I left later than my normal time, but that's ok. Saying my last goodbyes was hard. I was exhausted by the time I was hauling the last of my stuff to the car. Luckily, Sam was with me to help carry things! We made good time home and were up at EC early. Delicious margaritas and good food!  A perfect way to end my last day at work.

I can't wait for this new chapter to start. It's scary and uncertain, but at least it's a change.