10 days into retirement
It has been 10 days since I have formally retired from my full-time job as psychologist with Alberta Health Services. Retirement, people tell me, is this nice time in human life when you can finally read more and write more, if you so wish. Yet, though starting this blog has been on my mind for a while, I am still scrambling to find time to do it. My days are still filled with "busyness." There are things to be taken care of related to retirement - paper work with pension plan authorities, deciding if to buy a health care plan, etc. Then there are things to do about my house, or cars - projects that have been postponed until retirement, etc. I start everyday with a list of things to do, and this list doesn't seem to get shorter as the days progress. And I don't even mention my wife's list of things for me to do! :-) I don't really feel leisury. I start my days around 5:15 or 5:30 in the morning. Or, should I say, it is my dog, Ged ... who starts my d...