Day 2 - Not sure about this whole retirement thing

So I woke up this morning and realized that I did in fact quit my job and that it wasn't just a dream. While I think that Monday morning will be much more poignant, this morning had its own slightly distressing feeling. The list from my wife hung like a dark cloud on my retirement. I thought that Kacey may continue to do all the things that she normally does during the day with Maddie and I would be allowed to just relax and enjoy my retirement. I was sorely mistaken as I realized that I had a long list of chores that I had been able to neglect while I was gainfully employed. How I longed for a full time job again!

While day 2 was not exactly what I had come to expect, it was not without event. We had a landscaper come over to quote out our backyard in order to fix the small scale demolition that the pool brought. She was a hippie that finished some pot with her husband in the car prior to discussing our landscape design. She giggled a lot and invite herself to some of our chips. I always wondered where their creativity came from.

The first 2 days have been somewhat ordinary due to the fact that even if I was still employed, I would still get the weekends off. I guess I could have slacked on the chores if I had to go back to work tomorrow, but other than that, life was pretty normal.

I am going to try to do more retiree oriented events come tomorrow. I go to the mall early in the morning for a little mall walking or maybe just some backgammon at the library. I was thinking about carrying uselessly long conversations with everyone I meet and tell them my whole lifestory complete with pictures. Then I realized that my father-in-law does that already and while he is old, he is not retired yet.

I just want everyone to know that you have my commitment to attempt to live a true retired life. I may even walk a few rounds of golf with some seniors at 5am. Then again, I am going to sleep in until 11am and maybe even shower every day. I always wondered what age it became acceptable not to shower every day.

Well, I can't wait to wake up tomorrow. My first week day retirement waking. Good night.