Retirement and Blessings.

Ha ha ha 3rd blog as my brain is still rattling with thoughts.

Do you know that the most popular question asked for the last 1 year is. 'So how is retired life? What are you doing to occupied yourself?Boring ah?'

To all that cares, I need to tell you all that it is GOOD, GOOD GOOD except for the pocket.I am fully enjoying it, Having a time of my life doing what I love best at my own rate. I enjoyed planning and cooking for the family. I look forward to every Tuesday when I get to sit in the library and read read read.I love the books and I am reading from trash and award winning stories, to philosophy to travels and mythology, health, cooking, crafts and endless other interests that I am picking up. I bought my sewing machine and I am planning to do the handicrafts once I decide to spend on the lessons and the materials. ( Do you know that one little ball of wool cost RM48 and quilt lessons ask for hundreds of dollars not including the materials?)

I enjoy planning the food to prepare for E every weekend and 'plotting' the kind of dishes Au need to learn before boarding the plane to Glasgow next year.

Reading the newspaper is updating myself with the upfront news. Reading the advertisements opens my eyes to the shopping bargains. For gossips and the other type of news, the internet is endless.I now know how people can spend hours on the net. It just goes on and on and the endless info one can obtain from it.

I find myself happier and I smile more to the people I meet especially grouchy salesgirls and moody clerks. And do you know that it brings wonderfull results because they start to smile back.Isn't it wonderful?

I sleep well at night with no nightmares and fearful thoughts of disaster at the school front.I do not hear spiteful vengeful remarks that upsets me even when it does not involve me. Personally, I prefer people to think positively because I think we pass this way but once. Why don't we make the best of it instead of picking the worst?

I am yet to spent more time with friend s and ex students that have been calling and waiting to go out for tea and a chat. I am so blessed. I need to spend more time too with my siblings.

Well all things come with a 'but' at the end. Retiring makes me a bit more cautious with my spending. I begin to ponder a bit longer before I spend. I begin to want to plan my finances. To me it is not bad. For the first time we are conscious of what is happening in the financial world and how it is affecting us. I do not depend solely on financial advisers but start to think for ourselves.( I find the facts and make Daddy think. heh heh heh) Economics is another interest I hope to pick up.

As I mentioned before, I pay more attention to my health and take positive steps to improve it. Basically that means more time to take care of myself and the family.

In other words the lost of income do affects me but the benefits of retiring far covers it. Except for the slight pinch of guilt of making daddy the only bread earner, I am happy. Not forgetting the pension that is life long. I thank God for His Blessings.