How do you see retirement??

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Most employed people work Monday through Friday and on the weekend either get caught up on chores around their home, maybe go out on a date, a dinner and a movie, some people even have sex on weekends!! I am retired and let me tell you about my coming week! Monday I have to drive out to Sunrise—a 30-45 minute trip depending on traffic—to get an echo-cardiogram which may take forever and then that rip back home! Tuesday have to eat out and go to Miami—and hour + trip on I-95—to see Betty Buckley in “Hello Dolly” at the Adrienne Arsht Center and then the trip back to Fort Lauderdale . Wednesday it is having Jambalaya at the Quarterdeck followed by going to see an excellent production of “The King and I” at the Broward Performing Arts Center and then coming home to write and post the review! Thursday, it being Thanksgiving I have to go to the Isle Casino in Pompano, stand on line for the Thanksgiving Buffet, eat for hours and then play the nickel slots for an hour or so and hope to win enough money to pay for the buffet dinner. On Friday, like any/every Friday, so the world won’t end, I have to go to a movie and then out for a bite to eat before I go to dinner. Oh yes, this is that once a year I have to get the kitchen floor swept, washed and then covered with Restore-A-Floor. Finally after 50 hours on the retirement job the weekend comes. Now Saturday and/or Sunday I may have a date and/or sex or exhausted from working all week I may just catch up on reading the book “The American People Volume 1” by Larry Kramer or make some headway in the stack of magazines I have. Then there are the chores like getting the laundry ready to bring into the cleaners, writing the grocery list, catching up on emails, the Internet, snail mail and more. This being retired is harder than working a job. With the latter I had to do certain things within certain hours and I had more hours to do what I had to do. Being retired there are always different things happening, what has to be done can be delayed and 24 hours a day aren’t enough. Hey when you are retired you have to schedule nap times! Do they still have want ads in newspapers? Do they still have newspapers? See how little you know when you are retired and don’t have to keep up with things? (All photos given permission by Broadway Across America for me to use--a few more hours of my retired time!)