It has been quite an active week, but I am glad that I can slow down and focus on Christmas as I decorate my tree. Retiring from Psychotherapy is more exhausting than retiring from the military. I went to my last peer meeting yesterday to say good bye. Someone mentioned that no one has retired yet (I am another first?). I was invited to stay with my Association and am thinking about it, but things change when you retire as do priorities. As for the college, I did get a call after emails flowed back and forth. I now know that there are two ways to stop working, one is to compile the not be active paper work which is what I thought and did the paperwork for. That is where we are listed as Registered Psychotherapist - not active. However, with the phone call I realized it meant still paying for registration and taking courses but not seeing clients. No, that is not how I define retirement. The other option is resigning. That means quiting and if I want to return to start from scratch. I don't think so. I recommended that there be a third option of Retirement, and became specific of what that means. So, I compiled the paperwork for resigning and behold there was a slot for retirement as one of the reasons with a request for an explaination. I did not fill that out. I couldn't seem to move to the next portion and thought it was a computer clitch but what I did not fill out was my pronouns. Unless, I filled it in I could not move to the next phase and so I chose she/her. I have heard so many complaints from people about pronouns because people claim it is no one's business and I guess they are right. What I am typing out is I am a woman who likes men. I think this is equivalent to one being Mrs/Miss which caused Ms to originate. People who hate all this, play along because they don't want to stand out as being opposed and therefore bring eyes to them, especially at Conferences where one has to stand up and declare themselves. I don't really care about all that but when I am trying to retire and I can't move forward until I indicate that I am a heterosexual woman, born a woman and attracted to men, then I shall just click it. So, now hopefully, everything is done, or is it? Another thing is - I am all over the internet as a psychotherapist. So, now every day for a bit of time, I contact all these sites to let them know that I am retiring and please remove me. That too takes time. So, that is all for now. I am tempted to attend another meeting today but this time it is with the Sisters of Crime. I will finally be able to focus on my writing books which has taken a back seat. Meet my favourite neighbour. I always have special treats just for her. What do you think?
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