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The impending empty nest has me so sad.
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 629233" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Thank you, guys.</p><p></p><p>I was actually all ready to go empty nest with a happy heart...until I got a job. I was so busy and had met so many interesting people and was doing what I liked to do when I liked to do them. I was busier than when I had a job and well ready to let go of my kids. I was honestly having a blast. And at the same time I was helping both people and my beloved animal creatures.</p><p></p><p>Then I got a job and I had to quit everything I loved to do because of my job's hours. And when I have my two days off during the week, I'm not in the mood to get up early and volunteer. Every other week I have to work weekends so I feel like have no time off at all. Those two free days off go fast! I did try to keep up a little volunteering on one of my days off, but it wasn't the same. I'm an earlybird who wakes up at five and is ready to go to sleep at nine and I guess I'll have to try to find things to do in the evening and see if I do it when the time comes...lol.</p><p></p><p>I know a lot of people love to knit and crochet, but I'm not very good at either and my chosen activities involve other people. I'm hardly a quitter though. I was very careful when I thought up things to do before I had this job and I will eventually look around for night activities and find some. I guess it would help if I enjoyed going out to bars or sports bars to drink, but I don't drink and don't enjoy being in bars, even now that they are smoke free, so that is out.</p><p></p><p>Hubby is not a joiner, but he also does not get angry at all when I join activities without him. I am thinking of bowling, which I sock at, but that doesn't stop me from having a good time at it. Everyone likes the person who has a BIG handicap...lol. I can join my old singing group again. I stopped going because it's at night, but, hey, night is all I have now. I can try to find things I never thought of. For ages I've been trying to find a group of people who are likeminded to me and believe in spirituality and Buddhist leanings and reincarnation and life after this life. They have groups like this in the college town not too far from me, but I'm not sure they aren't all in the afternoon. I will look.</p><p></p><p>Thank you for the kick in the backside <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 629233, member: 1550"] Thank you, guys. I was actually all ready to go empty nest with a happy heart...until I got a job. I was so busy and had met so many interesting people and was doing what I liked to do when I liked to do them. I was busier than when I had a job and well ready to let go of my kids. I was honestly having a blast. And at the same time I was helping both people and my beloved animal creatures. Then I got a job and I had to quit everything I loved to do because of my job's hours. And when I have my two days off during the week, I'm not in the mood to get up early and volunteer. Every other week I have to work weekends so I feel like have no time off at all. Those two free days off go fast! I did try to keep up a little volunteering on one of my days off, but it wasn't the same. I'm an earlybird who wakes up at five and is ready to go to sleep at nine and I guess I'll have to try to find things to do in the evening and see if I do it when the time comes...lol. I know a lot of people love to knit and crochet, but I'm not very good at either and my chosen activities involve other people. I'm hardly a quitter though. I was very careful when I thought up things to do before I had this job and I will eventually look around for night activities and find some. I guess it would help if I enjoyed going out to bars or sports bars to drink, but I don't drink and don't enjoy being in bars, even now that they are smoke free, so that is out. Hubby is not a joiner, but he also does not get angry at all when I join activities without him. I am thinking of bowling, which I sock at, but that doesn't stop me from having a good time at it. Everyone likes the person who has a BIG handicap...lol. I can join my old singing group again. I stopped going because it's at night, but, hey, night is all I have now. I can try to find things I never thought of. For ages I've been trying to find a group of people who are likeminded to me and believe in spirituality and Buddhist leanings and reincarnation and life after this life. They have groups like this in the college town not too far from me, but I'm not sure they aren't all in the afternoon. I will look. Thank you for the kick in the backside :) [/QUOTE]
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