I'm down to 12 working days until I retire. I've been at this particular job for 21 years, and of course a few jobs before that. I wonder how it will feel not to have "work" as the baseline for my scheduling... because even when your children are your life (like that ever stops), and their care, school, activities and sports are filling your time, there is always "work" because it makes everything else possible. Now, there are no children's activities, and no work. How totally joyful can that total freedom be?? I can't wait to find out.