Coming up on 2 years of retirement and everything looks peachy. Got the taxes done and I have a good handle on my cash flow and know what that's all about.
The first year was all about consolidating investments and looking for my next wife. First wife died 5 years ago and about 4 years after that I thought I was ready for "dating"
So after consolidating 401K's and IRA's and diversifying equities and investing in municipal bonds for even more stability I calculated my net worth. that was about 20 months ago. Today a real estate agent stopped by to invite me to his "open house" just down the street. It's the same model house I own so I looked up the price and drug out the binder and did the net worth calculation and found that it was the same as the first time I did it. Cool.
I claimed on my deceased wife's social security account at 60 and it is just a small amount as she did not make as much dough as I. But it was more dough than I thought it was. It covers my health insurance, all the utilities, garbage & sewer, my premium TV, internet and home phone, my cell service and even the property taxes. More coolness.
After 2 "internet dating girlfriends" didn't work out so well I cancelled the subscriptions and just thought I'd cool it for a while. And then met this nice woman at the dog park. You know the old tale, you meet the best people when you're not looking for them. We will have been going for a year end of this month and are planning marriage in another year.
Life is good. Cash flow is good, net worth is good and it looks like I won't be living alone for the rest of my life either. Sweet -