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Today? I am trying to give a loveseat away. It is a good and comfortable loveseat but used and would benefit from a slipcover (about $30-$50 at Amazon). It is too good to take to the dump. I'm getting a larger couch and need to remove the loveseat to make room. I have had six people say they want it but none have made the effort to come and get it. A few have asked directions but don't show up. Meanwhile I have to tell others that it is being claimed...only to not have it claimed. If I could carry it out to the street -- 150 feet -- maybe it would be picked up, maybe not. The new couch is delivered tomorrow.
So that is what bothers me today.
I'm in the process of trying to figure out when to finally retire and what I want to do with my time once I retire. My concern is that I will retire without any goals and will end up waking up in the morning with no idea what to do. That will be the death of me. I do not want to fritter my days away running to Walmart for vitamins or over to Acme for 1/4 lb of cheese or being hijacked into doing a lot of things that I don't want to do simply because I have nothing else to do. I'm not the kind of person who is happy sitting around the house playing Sudoku or going out to eat or to movies. I want to do things that are meaningful to me and will enrich my life, things that I haven't had a chance to do such as improving my skill in a foreign language. This is something I'm thinking about now.
I volunteer for a few different things…… court advocate for foster kids, dog foster parent for rescue groups, walk leader for my hiking group, social committee chair for a group….. and each has administrative responsibilities. So it makes me a bit frazzled when someone is waiting for a report or action from me and I am actually needing a haircut or needing to attend to personal stuff such as getting my car serviced or take some time off with DH.
Yesterday I got a kind of annoying prompt about scanning & sending in tons of paperwork when I was really busy trying to file personal income taxes.
Coming to terms with a scaled-down, more restrictive new "season" of life as we age, is the most bothersome aspect of life right now. Being contented with "less".
It's a struggle to reframe a whole life from what it used to be, down to today's reality. What does life look like now? How can we find satisfaction in a more restricted life?
Example: how do I live at the beach with a sun sensitivity? Rhetorical question but still a dilemma.
I'm in the process of trying to figure out when to finally retire and what I want to do with my time once I retire. My concern is that I will retire without any goals and will end up waking up in the morning with no idea what to do. That will be the death of me. I do not want to fritter my days away running to Walmart for vitamins or over to Acme for 1/4 lb of cheese or being hijacked into doing a lot of things that I don't want to do simply because I have nothing else to do. I'm not the kind of person who is happy sitting around the house playing Sudoku or going out to eat or to movies. I want to do things that are meaningful to me and will enrich my life, things that I haven't had a chance to do such as improving my skill in a foreign language. This is something I'm thinking about now.
One of my cats today reminded me of what I need to do. She was in a throw bunched up against the window, all comfy, watching the cardinals flying in the back cactus garden.
When I get that region cleaned up, I must not change that. When I get the video tapes stored in a proper location, I must take those window spaces and put in window boxes so the cats can lounge, look out the big windows at strange creatures, so I can be there reading my books against the beauty of nature, there with a huge mug of coffee or tea.
I don't think I will be hijacked into too many things because I live so far away from it all; "they" would have to come to get me........but "they" know that with 6 cats, I am rather grounded from going anywhere.
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Originally Posted by Sand&Salt
Coming to terms with a scaled-down, more restrictive new "season" of life as we age, is the most bothersome aspect of life right now. Being contented with "less".
It's a struggle to reframe a whole life from what it used to be, down to today's reality. What does life look like now? How can we find satisfaction in a more restricted life?
Example: how do I live at the beach with a sun sensitivity? Rhetorical question but still a dilemma.
Let Edward Hopper be your guide. That is, knowing how he used shadows and light to display locations, I've used that, when it is shining in through the bedroom windows, to imagine that I was at the beach, such as from this work: https://arthive.com/edwardhopper/wor...oms_by_the_sea
I'm in the process of trying to figure out when to finally retire and what I want to do with my time once I retire. My concern is that I will retire without any goals and will end up waking up in the morning with no idea what to do. That will be the death of me. I do not want to fritter my days away running to Walmart for vitamins or over to Acme for 1/4 lb of cheese or being hijacked into doing a lot of things that I don't want to do simply because I have nothing else to do. I'm not the kind of person who is happy sitting around the house playing Sudoku or going out to eat or to movies. I want to do things that are meaningful to me and will enrich my life, things that I haven't had a chance to do such as improving my skill in a foreign language. This is something I'm thinking about now.
I'm in the process of trying to figure out when to finally retire and what I want to do with my time once I retire. My concern is that I will retire without any goals and will end up waking up in the morning with no idea what to do. That will be the death of me. I do not want to fritter my days away running to Walmart for vitamins or over to Acme for 1/4 lb of cheese or being hijacked into doing a lot of things that I don't want to do simply because I have nothing else to do. I'm not the kind of person who is happy sitting around the house playing Sudoku or going out to eat or to movies. I want to do things that are meaningful to me and will enrich my life, things that I haven't had a chance to do such as improving my skill in a foreign language. This is something I'm thinking about now.
Maybe try going back to school? I did that after I retired and loved it.
Only quit when all my military college benefits ran out.
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Solly says — Be nice!
