I proclaim this "The Summer of George"

When I was coming home last night from celebrating my last day (again!) I felt this dread about going home. Out with my friends I was celebrating, at home I was just unemployed. I know it was a dumb feeling so I just went to bed.

This morning I woke up and you know what...I felt fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. I thought I would feel weird or bad or depressed. Not at all. I feel like I did about ten years ago after a relationship ended. He was a great guy, and we had a fine relationship but it wasn't going to go anywhere and I really felt finally that I needed to be on my own to get to the next phase of my life. So after we did finally break up I felt light, full of possibilities, and like then, I am reconnecting with a part of me I haven't felt in a while. I've always been happy but now I have been given permission to reinvent myself. I have no idea of what that will look like and today I'm not worrying about it. I got to thinking about Seinfeld and the Summer of George where George gets a severance package from the Yankees.

George: Severance package...The Yankees are giving me three months full pay
for doing nothing.

Jerry: They did it for three years. What's another few
months.

George: I'm really going to do something with these three months.

Jerry: Like what?

George: I'm gonna read a book. From beginning to end. In that order. ...I'm
gonna play...frisbee golf ...This is gonna be my time. Time to taste the fruits
and let the juices drip down my chin. I proclaim this: The Summer of George!

And so it begins...I already read books front to back and am actually decent at frisbee golf but for the next few days, I am going to just enjoy this. On my own terms.