Three and a half weeks into retirement -- and loving it!
I have to admit my greatest fear was that I would have nothing to do and sit around bored all day. I am so grateful that that has (so far) not happened. Sometimes I even feel like those who say, "I don't know how I ever had time to work!"
One fun thing has been one big outing every week, either with a sister-in-law or friend. Fun to see new things, do new things, and just spend some one-on-one time.
There is also vacation planning, of course. We have now booked: five days on teh North Sea in November; two weeks in Florida in January; a week or so at the Outer Banks in February; another week there in AUgust (wth another week tacked on before or after to be spent somewhere....). Also toying with the idea of flying over again for Lucas' fall holidays, with a week at either Myrtle Beach State Park in South Carolina or North Bend State Park in West Virginia. (Beach or mountains, what a choice!), and then a week or so in DC area.
I have, of course, not entirely stopped working. I put in time for Cyclingnews on two different occasions, and did one of my usual triathlon translations. Plus I translated the wedding invitation and enclosures for a colleague of Lucas', which was fun. (No payment expected for that one, of course!)
Have bid on a few possibilites for the next cycling season, no idea whether any of them will happen. No sense in worrying about them, either.
Today will be an exciting day.... NOT! Laundry, ironing, clean the bathroom, grocery shopping, etc etc. Oh well, all things that need to be done, at any rate.
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