A Blurry Week of Relaxation and Tissues

Happy New Year everyone! Well, it hasn’t been the most perfect first week of retirement, but aside from the flu it was, lol. It’s been a dream to hibernate in the house during the winter months and not have to get out unless I wanted to. I didn’t even think of the fact that I’d not left the house in a week, until this morning. It never ever occurred to me. It’s just been a blurry but fast week of rest, tissues, reading, planning, playing, tissues, watching, talking to dogs, putting up things from Christmas, cooking breakfasts, fixing hot tea and yes, more tissues. I changed from one set of PJ’s to the others most days.

Ya gotta love AI. I asked it to draw this pic. As smart as AI is, doesn’t it realize that dogs only have two ears? lol. That should be easy. Otherwise it did a great job. I have to tell AI I’m in my 40’s though instead of 61. It thinks 61 year olds look like 90 something and makes me have more wrinkles and look all drawn up.

We are putting Christmas up today. Well at least I’ve collected it all and put it in the living room. George bought the boxes up. I stopped as I want to do some editing and begin getting the next video uploading to YouTube.

Tomorrow I’ll go help Mom. George has agreed to go with me. Thank goodness.

Sometimes it is hard to believe that Christmas and New Year have passed. At times I keep thinking still, “after Christmas, we can do this” or “after New Year we can do this”. Then I remember, “oh it’s already here”, or “come and gone”. Since we were sick for New Years Eve and still sick today, it doesn’t feel like it’s really New Year. I think my focus has just been on dealing with this flu and cold and whatever I was reading, planning, or doing, at the time. So it snuck up.

I’m not having ANY problems filling the time. I’ve been able to fill it deeply. Having time in your day reminds me of a big table of horizontal space. It may not have much in it at the start, but by the end of the day it is full, with more and more things piling in upon it. I can clear a space here in the house and it no time it is filled with something new. Same as the time of our day. But at least it is of things we want and choose to do most of the time.

We have people reaching out to go meet, we have our own plans set also, Mom wants this, that, and the other, and the days and calendar will soon be full of projects, people, places, and fun, and we’ll miss these winter weeks of not moving fast. And we’ll wonder where they went. But we can pull back any time we need and choose to.

I’m loving that George and I are both ONE with our time but yet SEPARATE. We each have our own spaces but then we often convene back in at certain times of the day for a meal, hot tea, a reading spell, etc. It’s nice.

Ok, over and out. I just wanted to pop in with some thoughts. 😉