Keeping Busy After Retiring

@IreneVincent I love being retired to. It is fun. Wake up when you want and eat when you want. Go somewhere when you want.

Yes, all this FREE time is getting boring to me. I was so used to being on the go and on the phone or traveling. I LOVE being retired though. Believe me!

@IreneVincent There are so many options to fill your time once you start thinking about it.

Yes, now that I know how to get a book published FREE, I've decided to publish another novel I've been working on and a book of poetry and a book with all my myLot articles. I've been actually using myLot to write a lot of 'memoirs" so its just a matter of publishing them now. The same with my poems. I have enough to fill a book, so I'm going to publish them. Right now, I'm waiting for the friend who helped my publish my first novel to get back from Europe, which will be a few weeks from now, the middle of October. I write poetry of all sorts. I just put up a couple posts this week on myLot with some of my short poems that were part of a writing class I used to take. I have a lot of those, so I will have not problem making a book out of them. You should write a book. They say if you write just one chapter per week, you can have a book in less than a year. It's just a matter of setting aside some time to work on it steadily. I use Microsoft Word, so that I can write whatever comes into my head on any particular day and then the next day, I can reread it, and make changes and corrections. Just think of a story you might dream of writing and expand on the idea. You don't even have to know how it ends, you just spin the tale week by week. The Post Card exchange is something that some mylotters do. You give me your address on a Private Message and I give you mine. Then, we send each other a PICTURE post card from where we live. You live in Michigan and I live in Virginia. Then, what some people are doing, including me, is making an album with all the postcards. I already had a good head start, because I have done a lot of traveling and one thing I always got as a CHEAP souvenir was post cards from wherever I happen to travel. I've been to 25 different countries and over 40 U.S. states, including Alaska and Hawaii. It's a new hobby for me with the myLot friends. I just sent out 9 postcards last week to several different countries and states. I've already gotten a couple who have returned the favor and I'm looking for more to come. Some from Europe take up to 5 weeks to get here. It was so much fun today though, to go to the Post Office and find two post cards.

Yes, For a while after I retired, I would get up in the morning and say: "What do I have on the agenda for today?" Then, I would say "Nothing, absolutely nothing." But, then I got bored, so I started finding some things to do. I just can't sit and be idle all day.

@IreneVincent Our characters would change after the retirement.

My mother taught herself to crochet and my granddaughter taught herself how to knit. I do some embroidery. But, I think I can learn how to do one or the other or maybe both.