Making Progress

As the end point gets closer and closer, we have been working steadily on reaching some goals.  One has to do with our storage unit as I've mentioned a few times.  We have come to the conclusion, we will need a storage unit of some kind as far into the future as we can see.  The question is, how big and where should it be?  We are burning up way too much money with our present 10x20 unit so yesterday we hit it hard and decided we can get down to a 10x7.5 and maybe a 10x5.  And it will save us 50%!  We thought for awhile it might make sense to have it in Texas near our daughter, but we can't think of anything we'll need out of there at the last moment, and we will be passing through Atlanta at least yearly so we decided to keep the unit here.  We are getting rid of, giving away, donating, and selling most everything we can.  We are moving all the spare parts for the motorhome we have accumulated over the years into the motorhome, so no one needs to go into the storage unit when we need something.  I'm not taking any credit here, Jan has been doing 95% of all the work with questionable input from me.  We are waiting on some good warm weather to tear apart the basement in the motorhome so we can rearrange, reorganize, and get rid of things we haven't used or thought about in the last year or so.  We have to take care of all this by mid-March, as we don't think we will be back in the Atlanta area before the end of November.

I am waffling back and forth at work.  We picked the end of Feb to retire, than after our meeting with our finance person, decided to bite the bullet til the end of March, BUT another option has popped up.  My airline occasionally offers a program when they are overmanned for a short term, they allow you to volunteer to take a month off, with no pay of course, but will pay your medical insurance.  And they are offering leaves in March!  Seems nuts that this is a hard decision, but it's causing quite a bit of turmoil in my mind.  Jan just tells me whatever I want is fine with her, that's awful nice, but no help right now.  Have to make up my mind by Feb 1st, so the time is running out.  Funny that the closer I get the harder it is to continue!  We'll let you know.