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 My blog was filled up. I'm too lazy to clean it out. So I started a new one. |
| I am newly retired. It's been one week, but the first week, my back was out and I could hardly move. I spent my time in pain, so I'm not counting it. Now I can get in and out of bed without screaming or using a cane. I can do some household tasks carefully. As long as I avoid sudden jerks or turns, I'm okay. You don't realize how much you use your back until you hurt it. Even reaching for the salt shaker makes your spine hurt. (I have two vertebrae rubbing together, pinching a disc right at my waist.) Yesterday, I did make it to church and a large committee meeting. At home, I only had to warm up the food I prepared the day before for company for a late lunch or early dinner. There were three children there, all misbehaving at some point. I managed much better than I did the week before, but had limitations. So retirement has started slowly, not as happily as I had planned. Today, the Sundance channel is running an Eastwood marathon starting at one. I've never been a fan, but I have been interested in westerns in the last few years. I'm afraid the movies running today are not timeless or westerns, but are very dated fluff pieces. I hope the chimpanzee movies are not included. I don't know if enough time has passed for shows from the 70's and 80's to be interesting. I never cared for Dirty Harry or shows like that. However, I'm going to try today. I'm going to watch the clothing styles, free swinging lifestyles which already seem outdated, and crazy hairstyles. We lived through those flashy shallow things, so it shouldn't be so hard to watch them now. To prepare for this and be guilt free, I have answered all my email, swept and mopped, and have dinner planned. I'm going to crochet while I watch. My break will be for fresh raw vegetables, no salty snacks.I will become a connoisseur of old movies, even bad ones. Hopefully, this is just a slow start to a new chapter in my life, and not indicative of how I will be living. |
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I marvel at the things I'll be able to tell my grandkids about someday. Life is accelerating - or maybe it just feels that way!
I completely sympathize with your desire to declutter. I have more stuff than you can shake a stick at that didn't actually belong to just my wife or myself throughout the house.
