Anyway, are you bored yet? I am. So damn tired tonight and wish I could sleep. Since I can't I need to do something other than trying to type. I am at about 60 typing mistakes per minutes.
Saturday, September 07, 2013
Trying to Post Everyday
It is very hard to come up with anything post-worthy when you work 12-hour night shift but today I have 2!
My husband retired today after 37 years at the post office! It, like so many jobs has become stressful and difficult. I won't go into the work environment but I for one am so glad that the stress of his job will no longer be a factor. Now he is going to be home. Every. Single. Day. Oh, goody. No, I really am happy. I have to work for another 25 years before I can retire. Oh, goody.
And the second bit of news is the 1921 census just came out. The census brings a thrill to all genelogists and historians. I was excited until I realized it was that searches are only by Province and district and sub-district. So unless you already know exactly where your family was you have to wait for the searchable census comes out. Or you can search through 8 million names. That is fun, too. Actually, I have very good ideas where my family was in 1921 but still can't find much. You have to scroll through hundreds or thousands of pages like the one above (click on it and see what I mean) and hope you can actually read the hand writing of the census taker. Anyway, this is gold to genelogists as this is the census a lot of us have been waiting for. (That is a lie, we love every census that comes out! We wait, not too patiently for this.) And I love it when a old year passes because it means I have access to new birth, death and marriage records!
Anyway, are you bored yet? I am. So damn tired tonight and wish I could sleep. Since I can't I need to do something other than trying to type. I am at about 60 typing mistakes per minutes.
Anyway, are you bored yet? I am. So damn tired tonight and wish I could sleep. Since I can't I need to do something other than trying to type. I am at about 60 typing mistakes per minutes.
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As a woman AND a mother you will never be able to retire. (Sorry about that.)
ReplyDeleteWow. 37 years at the same job - he needs a medal espcially if he has been coping with a stressful enviroment too. So now he will be home to look after the house and you and all.....
ReplyDeleteThat census looks exciting stuff but you need loads of patience to do all that. As I did a little bit when I was 21 and then never continued, I must not have much of that! I am too distracted by shiny objects.
My family's and my best wishes for your hubby (and you) at his retirement.
ReplyDelete1921 - - - my family was in India. I think my dad was born that year. It is hard to make sure because calenders were in Hindi and Urdu then, and they are not exactly thirty days for a month!
18 more years before I can retire. If I make it that far, lol.
ReplyDeleteMy cousin found the registry from when my Great Grand Parents came through Ellis Island, whoever wrote down my grandparent's names got my grandmother's name wrong, we wondered if it was because of the language barrier since they came from Italy.
Congratulations to your husband on his retirement. Another milestone in life. I hope he's happy about it. It's a big change in life.
ReplyDeleteRetired? Oh my. I don't even want to picture my husband retiring.
ReplyDeleteI will have to check out that census stuff. I haven't been chasing the genealogy dream of late. I love it though!
The thought of my partner being home every single day scares me shitless. :D
ReplyDeleteCongrats to your hubz on his retirement. It's a good time to retire from the Post Office. I'm sure that big downsizing in services and personnel is on its way.
ReplyDeleteThat is great news...he gets to retire. I dont know how you type so sleepy, at all
ReplyDeleteI am so happy for your husband's retirement. Because it really must be a stressful place to work. Like Newman told Seinfeld:
ReplyDelete"The mail never stops! It just keeps coming and coming and coming, there's never a let-up! It's relentless! Every day it piles up more and more and more! And you gotta get it out! But the more you get it out the more it keeps coming in! And then the bar code reader breaks, and it's Publisher's Clearing House day...!"
I love your idiotic sense of humour. What would it be like to live with you?
ReplyDeleteJust as well you still have 25 yrs to retirement, nobody could cope with you uninterruptedly.
(I love you, really)
We women are doomed. But we do it so well.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to your husband!
Congrats to your husband! Now give him a long list of chores and see how long it takes him to dig out.
ReplyDeleteI would love to pore over stuff like that. I did it on Ancestry.com years ago, but I didn't find enough.
Retirement sounds so serious somehow.
ReplyDeleteThat's a long while with one company.
ReplyDeleteI hope your husband enjoys his retirement. He'll probably wander around in a daze for a few months before he realizes it's actually happening. Hopefully, the removal of the stress factor from his life will make life easier for you.
ReplyDeleteI love pouring over census reports. I've had very good luck with some of my research, so that only encourages me to do more. My husband can't understand why I do it because I don't have any kids, and nobody to leave my findings to. Besides, he's adopted, so what does he care?! I just like doing it to make some sense of the stories I heard all of my life about Uncle Joe, and Aunt Bessie, and Cousin Dooflop, and etc. I actually find it kind of relaxing.
I know where you're coming from. I've stopped posting so often. But I guess that's because we're quite busy in this household at the moment.
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