Retirement Day 1 feels amazingly like a regular day off.  Yesterday I worked all day – an internment of ashes, sitting with a man whose wife died suddenly, visiting in the hospital, visiting a woman on hospice care.  In the evening Tom and I went to the men’s softball game and watched the men get thoroughly trounced.  I talked to the pastor who is following me and told him “good luck!”

Done.  Finished.  That’s a wrap.  Several people yesterday asked if Tom and I were heading out now that I was done.  Unfortunately Tom still has to work through the end of July, so we will stay in the immediate area for now.  Today he is up at NASA and I have had the RV to myself.  Let’s see how I am doing on my list of things to do today:

Clean the RV  (I can clean it myself in 1/2 hour – I love living here!)

Scan in cards people sent for retirement

Scan in journal entries from 2006 (I’m getting there – just a slow scanner)

Take out the trash

Finish writing thank you notes

Balance checkbook

Take a walk

Write blog post

Use the stove (my second attempt at cooking on the gas range was frying an egg.  Turned out fine)

Read a book

Grocery shopping with Tom  (have to wait until he gets home)

Figure out how to defrost refrigerator

Okay – looks like I’m doing pretty good on that list.

Today I am taking it easy.  I have a long list of bigger projects, but figured I would start with the small, doable-in-one-day projects so that I could relax and still feel like I accomplished something. If I figure out how to defrost the refrigerator (not the freezer) then I can spend the time until Tom gets home reading a book.  Sounds good to me.  I don’t have to do everything in one day – or even one week.  I’m retired!