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Old 08-08-2019, 05:10 PM   #41
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Oh, I finally started eating breakfast. Never had the time before! Breakfast with DW and great coffee is one of my many favorite things in retirement.
+1! One weekend day a week, we cook pancakes, waffles, popovers, Dutch babies, or something similar...with eggs/omlettes, orange juice and coffee, and fruit. We have a leisurely breakfast on the lanai, and enjoy watching the white terns, red-vented bubuls, egrets, minas, finches, and other birds flying around. I'm looking forward to starting out more days each week this way!
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Old 08-08-2019, 05:11 PM   #42
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I was pretty ambitious to get everything done. Lol Then I realized I didn't had to get it all done on day one.

I learned to find my way but I did stay busy because that is my nature.
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Old 08-08-2019, 05:57 PM   #43
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March 29 was my last day-
Spent ten days in Texas, saw a lot came home, went to Big Bear for a week then to Chicago for a week. Started walking at least five miles a day and have had no problem keeping busy since then.
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Old 08-08-2019, 06:09 PM   #44
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glad you managed to escape from Chicago!
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Old 08-08-2019, 06:17 PM   #45
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I needed something to wash my brain cells of the office funk.

So, I clean, repaired, and stained my deck.

I did have to spend a good deal of time making sure I get my health insurance correct. Had to fill some forms, collect some faxes, etc.
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Old 08-08-2019, 09:50 PM   #46
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I was waiting for my renter to move out of my condo so found a cheap place to stay for a month and a half in the meantime in Bocas del Toro, Panama, and took Spanish classes to keep me busy while I was there. Then went on my first cruise ever, as my retirement present, then came home and moved in... Once here, well, still figuring out what to do! Found a gym I like. and volunteered for a short while.
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Old 08-09-2019, 03:42 PM   #47
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+1! One weekend day a week, we cook pancakes, waffles, popovers, Dutch babies, or something similar...with eggs/omlettes, orange juice and coffee, and fruit. We have a leisurely breakfast on the lanai, and enjoy watching the white terns, red-vented bubuls, egrets, minas, finches, and other birds flying around. I'm looking forward to starting out more days each week this way!

Wow! I'm getting hungry!

Our breakfast is pretty simple, but still a real treat. We eat our big meal in the middle of the afternoon. When the weather is decent, we will prep. fish on the grill and eat outside, both breakfast and dinner. We too enjoy the flowers and birds, esp. hummingbirds, on our back patio. This is our nomal at home day. We've become very good cooks since we can do a healthier, tastier, and cheaper job at home.

Didn't cook much later in my w*rking career. All the eating out was bad for my health. Life's much better now!
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Old 08-09-2019, 03:51 PM   #48
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Went on a great trip. Details in first post here: http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...ml#post2280377
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Old 08-09-2019, 05:48 PM   #49
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These sound like great scuba diving destinations...did you dive there?
We are not divers but we did enjoy snorkeling in Bonaire and Curacao.
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Went to Italy for a month. It was a great way to separate from a 36+year career that was rewarding, but FULL time. That was two years ago, still traveling much of the time and loving it. Next up, Indonesia,, snorkeling and bird watching, chasing National Geographic moments with my equally nature geeky husband.
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Old 08-23-2019, 04:41 PM   #51
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Old 08-23-2019, 04:46 PM   #52
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Played a lot of golf and go fishing.
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We are not divers but we did enjoy snorkeling in Bonaire and Curacao.
I love Curacao.
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I posted previously about hiking and camping with grandkids. Still in my first month, just scheduled a 3 week trip to Thailand .
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Golf. The first day of retirement went out and won the local city tournament....then kept golfing. It is a good walk....
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Old 08-23-2019, 07:50 PM   #57
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Lost my alarm clock and slept in. Every...single...day!!
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Old 08-23-2019, 08:19 PM   #58
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I unplugged the alarm clock and stowed it somewhere - I have no idea where it is now . Then I went through all my clothes and donated several dozen suits, slacks, and blouses to an organization that provides clothes to women to wear to interviews, etc. Then I re-did my closet: installed lots of shelves for folded clothes and reduced the space for hung-up clothes, since I now live in t-shirts, sweatshirts, shorts, and athletic pants. Then I backslid and took on too many consultings jobs (all remote so the wardrobe was okay, but I felt like I was w*rking again). Took me almost 2 years to extricate myself from the consulting.

Now I spend every morning gloriously reading and drinking tea on the porch, then hiking in the woods or lifting weights, then rediscovering my love for creating botanical art and/or cooking and/or teaching myself Japanese woodworking techniques and/or making spreadsheets to track financial stuff and/or visiting new breweries with friends and/or helping my parents out in their new independent living patio home. It’s a wonderful life!
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I slept. A lot! I was pretty burnt out. Honestly my first two months or so of retirement were pretty stressful. Converting my retirement accounts to IRAs. I found more taxing than I had imagined to actually implement my plan when it became a reality instead of a hypothetical.
I did find find the energy to declutter my house and rid of most of my work clothes, clean and organize the garage etc.. Spent more time with family.
I’m feeling good now. I started going back to the gym. I’m eating much healthier. I started taking golf lessons again and I’m getting the house ready to sell so I can move into a kind of house I’ve always dreamed of having. Nothing fancy but nice.
I would never consider going back to work doing what I did but there is a volunteer opportunity I may pursue.
I’m very fortunate. Life is good.
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Just chill?
Start with good habits off the bat?
Make sure you have a routine?
We had already made plans to travel. We visited and lived in New Mexico for two months.
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