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Cooking has taken a back seat here in my household too. I don't spend time making elaborate sauce this and that. No sousvide here and there, just very basic cooking served with fresh salad at lunch and steamed vegetable at dinner time. But my husband seems to like it. We do eat fancy food when we travel, I guess that's how we make up for our lack of cooking.
Dh and I have both noticed that we want a lot less food. On days when we go out for lunch, we usually skip a big dinner. Fine with me.
I actually cook MORE now that I am retired. Now that I'm not coming home every day drained from work, I have more time and energy to cook - and to try new things.
It isn't than I've become lazier, I always tended to be lazy, but now that I'm not working, I don't feel guilty about it anymore, and I no longer try to hide the fact that I'm lazy. My husband hasn't retired yet, and he's shocked that I occasionally sleep late. I tell him, "I'm retired, I do what I want."
OMG yes, plus the energy level isn't the same. No, neither or us nap in the afternoon and we both have activities, including volunteer work we are involved in, but my spend more time on my ass than doing anything else. I don't always even get the bed made in the morning and that would never have been me even 10 years ago.
On top of scheduled activities, there are also life unexpected events. In the last two months, I could hardly have the time to relax. I tried to watch few movies in the evening and found myself falling asleep after the first 10-15 minutes. In the last two months, we had to deal with the illness of our beloved dog (we had to put her to sleep), the loss of my trusty car (totaled by a deer encounter), ordeal of ordering a new car (the one we ordered was damaged in a train derailment but the distributor did not notify the dealer for 3 weeks), our heating oil order was delivered to the wrong address, the basement dehumidifier malfunctioned on top of the well pipe water leak, we discovered carpenter ants damages in the wood tool shed (after having the roof replaced) and today we had to clean up the shed's attic (full of unknown stuffs) after discovering that it has been used as a mink's residence.
So I have been on my feet everyday from 4:30am (when I get up to get ready for my daily row at 5:30am) to 10:30pm (when I often crash on the couch while trying to get some relaxation time by watching a movie or reading a book -................................
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Golly gee, what a series of misfortunes! I am so sorry about them. And not a one reasonably foreseeable in advance! Better at least (I think) to have had to face them retire rather than face them while still working.
OMG yes, plus the energy level isn't the same. No, neither or us nap in the afternoon and we both have activities, including volunteer work we are involved in, but my spend more time on my ass than doing anything else. I don't always even get the bed made in the morning and that would never have been me even 10 years ago.
Haha. Hello? Are you sure you're not me?
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