This is day 244 of my retirement! I have moments when I want to find something more to do and other days, like yesterday after completing the substitute teaching paperwork, when I am perfectly happy with life just the way it is. It takes practice to relax into each day and enjoy life as it is. A part of me realizes this is what we worked for in our life - the opportunity to retire and be healthy to enjoy retirement life. Another part of me thinks it is a waste of my resources (work habits, skill set) to not be in the workforce even on a part-time basis.
Did my daily cul-de-sac walk alone this morning and then challenged myself
to take at least one hundred steps up the street - it is a steep slope up so
figured I could always roll down the hill if I were too tired. I did exactly one
hundred steps and then came back. No rolling required. This is not the only walk
I do during the day. Each day I try to add one hundred steps to the goal of the
day before. Today the goal is 4600 steps. I have consistently exceeded my daily
goal this week; however, I am trying to stay realistic about what my body is
capable of accomplishing without injury.
The rest of the day I took care of financial matters, finished Season 1 of
Bad Sisters (Apple TV), and started reading a new book. I also tidied up a bit.
Fortunately, Joe and I both clean up after ourselves so it is never a big chore
to keep our flat clean.
Eleven more days until we leave for our road trip to Bend, Oregon and
Woodland, California. I am excited, I have been concerned that I would not be
ready (emotionally) to travel again so soon. The allure of seeing friends makes
it feel doable.
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