State of the Heather
Mar. 19th, 2025 09:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hrjI keep pledging to post here more often, focusing on things that don't fit as well into my author blog. It just feels so hard to make time, but mostly it's my perennial problem of having trouble focusing on more than one social media venue at a time.
Retirement planning continues. I've gone back to taking Fridays off and using them for pre-retirement tasks, since I have some Personal Days that I won't get reimbursed for if I don't use them up. Last Friday I powered through most of the checklist items for things my employer has outsourced to Fidelity. There's an in-person appointment this Friday to hammer out the details for my 401K.
There has been slight movement on the Social Security front: Medicare asked me to get a form filled out by my employer saying I've had healthcare coverage for the last two years. So I guess that means that my application has actually been reviewed to some extent. Still no word on the Social Security itself. I think next week's task will be to see if I can get an in-person appointment to see if there's anything holding it up and maybe get an estimate (given that I was supposed to have started getting payments this month...).
Work is pretty much going to keep me running full speed until the last day, but I'm officially off the list for being assigned "major" investigations, since I can't guarantee that I'd get them finished before I leave.
Maybe next post I'll start getting caught up again on Things I Have Read.
Retirement planning continues. I've gone back to taking Fridays off and using them for pre-retirement tasks, since I have some Personal Days that I won't get reimbursed for if I don't use them up. Last Friday I powered through most of the checklist items for things my employer has outsourced to Fidelity. There's an in-person appointment this Friday to hammer out the details for my 401K.
There has been slight movement on the Social Security front: Medicare asked me to get a form filled out by my employer saying I've had healthcare coverage for the last two years. So I guess that means that my application has actually been reviewed to some extent. Still no word on the Social Security itself. I think next week's task will be to see if I can get an in-person appointment to see if there's anything holding it up and maybe get an estimate (given that I was supposed to have started getting payments this month...).
Work is pretty much going to keep me running full speed until the last day, but I'm officially off the list for being assigned "major" investigations, since I can't guarantee that I'd get them finished before I leave.
Maybe next post I'll start getting caught up again on Things I Have Read.
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Date: 2025-03-20 04:54 pm (UTC)I'm excited to hear what you do once you make it to that retirement date.