Since my last post, not only I have retired but my spouse retired last week. He says he’s not really feeling any “different” this week than last. He was an elementary school teacher and always had the summers off. I’m feeling the impact. Usually summers were always my busy time with work so when he was off, I was traveling more and had larger projects to work on. He would run some errands for me and keep up on some of the household chores but we were very busy separately.
It’s one thing to create a blog but another thing to keep up with it when life is happening around you!
On his first day off we went out to lunch and then to Home Depot, a gathering place for retired people judging from the crowd I saw. Then we looked at each other—“now what?”
Of course we have many errands to do, many ignored household projects over the years that must be done and some vacations we’d like to take. We want to eat better, exercise more and slow down a little. But that can’t be all there is to retirement. Is it?
I’ve always been extremely goal oriented-is that something that has to be given up in retirement? Maybe just modified?
I’ve read too many blogs/Instagram posts about someone’s to do list and what they ate that day or endless fishing reports. Meaningful to them I am sure. But that is “just not me”!
So far, retirement has been a puzzle to me-a new puzzle that I have never put together before. So let’s see how this unfolds.