Retirement - Day One

Today marks the beginning of the rest of my life. In the last 10 days I have had my last day of work at my old job, shot 2 weddings, weathered a hurricane, driven 7 hours round trip to a baby shower in one day, assisted in a baby possum rescue operation, visited with our nieces and nephew, had a few days on Cape Cod for some R&R and purchased a juicer. And today is my first day working from home. With 6 wedding shoots, a trip to Detroit and 3 freelance casting jobs on the books for September, "retirement" (as my mom likes to call it) isn't looking too different from my old life - at least on paper. But it FEELS a lot different so far. And that makes all the difference.

And last night I painted my nails purple in celebration. And despite the fact that they would admittedly look better if I'd had a third grader do them, retirement is officially WAY fun so far.



Oh - interested in that animal rescue story I mentioned? Quite the adventure at Cape Cod this week when my brother arrived for the weekend, went to use the restroom in the small cottage that doesn't always get used and discovered a wet baby possum staring up at him from the toilet. Partial footage of the rescue mission below. Also, there are starting to be an excess of weird animals stories on this blog. I'm wondering if I should just bite the bullet and re-title this site - "Unexpected Nature!"