I’m quickly finding that The Golden Years of Retirement are not at all the way I thought they would be during my working years.
I used to visualize having lots of time in which I could do all the things I didn’t have time to do while I was working. To be perfectly honest, I was somewhat worried that I would be bored with not enough to do.
What a laugh! Now all I want to do is find out why the days are so much shorter than they used to be. Yesterday started out as usual — Betsy and I had breakfast and then we did our morning devotions. I did some work out in the yard until noon, when we had our main meal of the day. After the meal I worked on some of the many pictures I still have to organize and put into albums. I then worked outside some more.
After our evening meal I worked on some Christmas records that I’m converting to CDs. (I’ve been working on those conversions for about four years and I hope I can finish within a year.) Before I knew it, the weather was on TV and it was time to go to bed.
So where has all the time gone? I know I’m not that much older and slower. Someone must have cut out several hours from the day!
Tags: Retirement, Time
Senior Moments 
January 28, 2009 at 12:22 am |
Well, it is nice to read that another “senior citizen” is also active with hobbies.
I was retired in june 2004 after working 37 ½ years for our naltional air company Finniir. After that I was searching what to do in my life. Well, answer came later: Photographing, home pages and blogs. Also making videos and enjoying car driving when making “photograph tours”.
I started my photograph tours by taking photos from churches in my country. At this moment I have more 340 photos from churches (inside / outside). When driving around in my country I noticed that there are plenty of interesting things to see and to photograph. I never knew my country so good when I was working for air line, because foreign countries are interesting to visit. But now I know “something” about my own country.
Now I am waiting that my wife will be retired also. Sugh, still two and half years to wait.
You have nice garden photos, I like them. My wife has “green thump” and we a small garden here.
Regards Carrizo.
February 11, 2011 at 10:42 pm |
I blogged about time going by too fast in retirement! It’s crazy.