Retirement: Day #1

[Marco]

Well I slept in this morning......yup. Got up at 6:11 am. That's a 41 minute bonus on the first freaking day! Who knows, I may even stay in bed 'till 7:00 am before the week is out!

~Marco

 

[euro]

.... with a little effort, you’ll be able to push that to 8:30 or 9 in no time! Congrats!

 

[VanWinkle]

Congrats Marco!!!

 

[ExFlyBoy5]

You get ONE DEMERIT for knowing what time it is. You need only worry about what DAY it is...you know, for the trash.

Congrats!!!

 

[REWahoo]

Every retiree needs a Dayclock:

 

[ExFlyBoy5]

Every retiree needs a Dayclock:

Yep. Got one in my office. DW got it for my retirement.

 

[Marco]

Yep. Got one in my office. DW got it for my retirement.

My office was retired too. It is now "The study".



~Marco

 

[38Chevy454]

Good start, I assume you no longer use an alarm clock. That is the best part, sleep until you wake up without alarm.

 

[cathy63]

Welcome to the club! I hope you enjoy your first day of retirement and I wish you many more.

 

[finnski1]

Congrats. Here's to many more "sleep ins".

 

[street]

Beautiful!
I'm still on the 5am schedule after 4.5 years. I can't wait to get up to start each day with my freedom and to all things I enjoy doing. Since I retired I haven't slept past 7am. Lol Too many things to do.

I wish you many more sleep in mornings!

 

[pacergal]

Congratulations. Marko! Welcome to retirement

 

[O2Bfree]

Who knows, I may even stay in bed 'till 7:00 am before the week is out!

Who says retirees are at risk for having no sense of purpose?

Enjoy!

 

[tmitchell]

Nice!

 

[Timeisprecious]

Welcome to the retirement club! I know you'll love it. Would love to hear how you're doing from time to time. Enjoy!

 

[ls99]

Well done. Now for the difficult to adjust to task: Whaddaya gonna do allday?

 

[Dtail]

Good job. After waking up at 4:30am in my career, I now get up around 6/6:30am. Good enough.
It's not just sleeping later, but the wonderful feeling of I own this day.

 

[Bamaman]

I always know the time. But I never know what the date is most of the time, and sometimes have to think for a minute to figure out what day of the week it is. I cannot read those tiny numbers on my watch face.

Don't feel guilty about sleeping late. My best sleep is going back to bed around 7:00 to 9:00 am. And I'm often bound to take a nap 4:00-5:00 pm too.

Congratulations for sticking it out to retirement.

 

[NewEnglander]

Today was also my retirement day 1! I did the same as you Marco, about 40-45 minutes extra morning sleep time. No worrying about getting up on time , no rolling over to hit the alarm and dreading getting out of bed. My DW and I had a nice leisurely breakfast then went for a hike through the woods to the beach. A beautiful winter walk along the almost deserted beach.
Then we were to Home Depot to get a few things for a small project. So nice to shop when the store was almost empty. We started a conversation with a guy in the store and we just chatted for 1/2 hour, why not, we didn't have anywhere else to go. Retirement is incredible, we are so relaxed, I even drove the speed limit on the way home!

 

[Dreamer]

Congrats to both of you. Enjoy your retirement your way.

 

[Koolau]

Yeah!! Marco is in the club.

 

[CindyBlue]

Well I slept in this morning......yup. Got up at 6:11 am. That's a 41 minute bonus on the first freaking day! Who knows, I may even stay in bed 'till 7:00 am before the week is out!

~Marco

Congratulations! And don't worry about still getting up early - because that extra hour is your own time now!

 

[CindyBlue]

Today was also my retirement day 1! I did the same as you Marco, about 40-45 minutes extra morning sleep time. No worrying about getting up on time , no rolling over to hit the alarm and dreading getting out of bed. My DW and I had a nice leisurely breakfast then went for a hike through the woods to the beach. A beautiful winter walk along the almost deserted beach.
Then we were to Home Depot to get a few things for a small project. So nice to shop when the store was almost empty. We started a conversation with a guy in the store and we just chatted for 1/2 hour, why not, we didn't have anywhere else to go. Retirement is incredible, we are so relaxed, I even drove the speed limit on the way home!

I so agree with you! Isn't it lovely to have time to just stop and chat with someone and not be in a hurry to get to somewhere you just have to be?? Hooray for you!

 

[CincyDave]

Congratulations Marco. Well done.

 

[sengsational]

Don't expect to be good at being retired right away; it took me years to properly fall back asleep after waking up after "sufficient" (7 hours) of sleep. Now I can go 8 or 9 with ease, but it took practice!