When does the countdown begin?

So another week has passed. One week closer to my last day. One more job application failure. That's 7 so far that have resulted in nothing but a "sorry, but no go" response. Six were internal, the last one was an external one. The crazy thing is, the external company gave me an actual Email and said some nice things about me (perhaps it was a form letter, but it still read nice). My own company doesn't have the decency to call or even Email. They just update the status of my internal application to read, "No longer being considered". Nice, huh? I think that's what technology has done to our society. A company can't even write a decent kiss off letter. Oh well.

So my question is, how soon does one start to count the days before one is dismissed from one's 31+ year career at ones current place of employ? Does one wait until the days are less than 30? I guess that would be today (since D-Day is 12/18). Or does one politely wait until there is less than one week? Perhaps it makes more sense to wait until there are a reasonably countable number of hours remaining? And, it's been a great debate in the office as to does one include weekends/holidays and/or vacation days in ones count down, or are those excluded. It's questions like these that keep me up at night (or wake me at 4:30 AM on a perfectly good Saturday for sleeping in).

I guess I won't count down. Not yet anyway. I just keep saying I have a few weeks left. I am not relishing the idea of entering the unemployed ranks, but I am in some sick way looking forward to not having to get up at 5:30 AM, not having to pretend like I have something important to do or say, and not having to hear myself and my commrades complain bitterly about our situation all day. Yeah, that's right - I complain about it all day. Well, not all day, but a good portion of the day. And where does that get me? It gets me all riled up and makes me wake up at 4:30 thinking about it some more.

Ugh! It's the weekend and tomorrow I told my sister I'd meet her at her gym to get a freebie with her trainer. If I decide to have him train me (SIT!! LAY DOWN!! ROLL OVER!!) I would then have to join her gym and pay him. Still trying to figure out if that's something I really want to do or not. Hope it doesn't wake me up at 4:30 to think about it!

Have a good weekend and try not to count how many hours remain in it!!