PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields
SHIVER ME TIMBERS
Drifting and dreaming, neither completely asleep nor fully awake, softly, gently, wafting upward towards consciousness, like a child’s toy balloon. No blaring alarms, no beeping cellphones, shall I awaken? What must I do today??
After half a century of faithful service to often unfaithful employers, I serve no man. Master of my own fate, except for She Who Must Be Obeyed, Captain of my own ship, I chart my own course. I eat when I am hungry, and sleep when I am tired. I hear the siren call to compose another blog post. Avast and ahoy my fellow Friday Fictioneers.
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Archon's Den 
Prophetic. It’s like looking in the mirror. Every word. Minus the part about commenting on Archon’s rumble in the middle of the night.
However, I confess to being the lessor word person. 🙂
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Gee, thanx! I knew you were gonna say that, because it’s prophetic. 😉 😀
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I haven’t been able to get my retired husband to acknowledge my She Who Must be Obeyed status yet. But I’m working on it. ….
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Keep working if you like. It might be too late. You can’t teach an old (sea) dog new tricks. Arf, arf! 😉
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There’s nothing like that feeling of being able to wake up when your body tells you to, instead of an alarm clock. The joys of retirement. I enjoyed the drifting along feeling in this.
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It’s a delicious experience, isn’t it? 😀
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Such a fun title and a stream of consciousness that is too pleasant to be anything other than non-fiction. Thanks for the respite of a chronicle of a happy retiree.
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For some folks, work is their life. 😳 For the rest of us, employment is like beating your head against a wall. It feels so good when you stop. 😉 🙂
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AMEN!
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18 more months for me, I can’t wait. Great take.
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I hope it feels good when it finally happens. It certainly did for me. 😀 😀
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I retired shortly after I was 72. I was afraid I’d be bored.
Nope. Not even a little. I love getting up whenever I decide to get up after 72 years of getting up on other people’s schedules 🙂 I’m not usually a late sleeper, but if I want to, I will!
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Ahhh … the glory of no more time schedules.
Good one …
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