Introducing the 10 Year Plan
Three weeks ago after a kind of toxic confrontation from a co-worker (I did not bite because I refuse to be on the Jerry Springer Show), I decided to make a 10 year plan. For retirement. I do not have confidence that I will have enough money in 10 years to be able to retire...because of all of the same reasons all of us are worried about it.
I totally believe that I will still need to work past retirement age. I will have had my fill of corporate America in 10 years...not that anyone will want a 65 year old woman working for them...and I really do not want to be the greeter at Wal-Mart. Do you need a cart today? So, I need a plan. I do not mind working, but I will need something I can do at home, setting my own schedule.
Following is my initial 10 year plan.
- when I am ready to retire, I am going to sell this house and buy a small cottage by a lake and a tree, and make it stinking cottagey cute. It is going to have screen doors that will swing shut and a fireplace for the winter, and I am going to track sand inside and work whatever hours I want, and say no to all toxic people.
- I am going to plant a vegetable garden.
- I am going to have a sleek little wind turbine for electricity.
- I am going to build patio furniture out of palettes, or whatever crazy thing people are doing on Pinterest in 2023.
- And I am going to support myself doing design work and writing, and maybe selling some jewelry at the local tourist boutique. The thought of sitting and working by a sunny window (or the fireplace) in my lake cottage makes me very happy. I think about it every day now.
- I will drive my stinking cute canned ham trailer, with my Jeep, down to see The Human Pin Ball in the winters.
- And I am going to praise Jesus for taking care of me and blessing me for a life of working my heinie off
That is actually more like the 10th year plan, isn't it? Now I need plans to work on for the first nine years that will get me to that place. Stay tuned.......
Anyone else planning for retirement? Or in it already? Do you have anything to share?
Going to need my Vitamin C for the 10 year plan!
Update on Bleach Doodles
Consistently, one of my most popular posts is Bleach Doodles. In that post I said that if you leave the bleach on the shirt until it is dry, the lines will be nice and white.
Now, many washings later, I find that the places I left the bleach on to dry, the bleach has eaten through the fabric.
Holes, yes, but, doesn't this have possibilities? You could do delicate cut out designs. It warrants trying.
Use your Vitamin C!
Mailbox Refurb
Some years ago, my brother in law volunteered to put up my new mailbox. We discussed how to attach it to the post and cement the post into the ground. And I left on a business trip. When I got home, he had nailed it to the side of the porch railing. Yeah. Classy.
Worse, I left it there until it was falling off, all bent out of shape. and rusting.
Deciding to finally fix it, I pulled it off, straightened out the wonk, sanded off the rust, and sprayed it with with a primer. After that I sprayed it green. I used a big Spouncer (flat round sponge on a stick) and printed white dots all over it.
I had considered buying a new mailbox, but I really didn't have to. It looks great, for only the cost of a can of green paint, since I had all of the rest of the stuff I needed.
Use your Vitamin C!
Surprise Blessings
Turns out, it was not only painless, but there was a surprise blessing I had not thought about. Traffic has not been able to drive down the street for two months. It has been delightfully quiet, and I am now wishing for them to take a little longer to finish up. There has been a bit of noise, not much...and dirt has filtered in the windows all summer, and this has been the view out my side window the whole time, but sleeping at night without the crazy high school kids squealing tires and blaring music has been like a vacation.
Loving my Vitamin Ahhhhhhhh!
Prayer Flags
Prayer flags have been kind of on my mind for awhile, so when I facilitated a summer Bible study at my house, I thought it would be a good addition.
I cut out fabric and batting triangles with my pinking shears and stitched them together with ribbon loops.They are two sided, so I can have two sets of prayer flags if I turn them around.
When my classmates arrived, the flags were hanging in the living room where we would have class. Anybody who wanted to write a prayer, did that on a white fabric triangle and pinned it to the line of flags.
We prayed scripture and thoughts that were meaningful from our study. We even had a prayer written from a verse of the song Swing Low Sweet Chariot. I never really looked at the words to that song. Some of them had great meaning to us.
Everyone will get to take home their prayer flags. If you are interested in the history of prayer flags or would like to see other kinds of flags people make, try this website. You can also search facebook for prayer flags and you will find some pages.
Use your Vitamin C and your favorite technique!
Wreath Instructions
In August, I posted about this wreath when I made it. Jo-Ann's Store posted this link to the instructions this morning. Take a look!
Nice to see the fruit of making a holiday wreath in August.
Take your Vitamin C!
The Color of the Year
Oh yeah, Pantone has redeemed itself from the 2012 orange year by giving us Emerald for 2013. I am almost as happy as 2010 turquoise. Greens have always been my fav colors. Come on, how can you not love emerald green?
I am so hip that I just bought an emerald green metallic tea mug without even knowing it was the color of the year.
So, now, we start thinking in green! Use your Vitamin G!
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