Retirement Practice
I recently visited New Orleans on a long, warm February weekend, partly to escape 15-degree weather in Maryland, where I live, and partly to visit family. New Orleans is my hometown and most of my family still lives there. Being the planner that I am, I added an extra vacation day. There is never enough time to get all of my personal crap done on weekends, so a Wednesday at home seemed like a good idea. Another reason for a work-free Wednesday is what I call "retirement practice". Although I’ll always work, I do hope to retire from full time work in a few years and I think, being a planner, it makes sense to visualize what the work-free days would be like. Today is that Wednesday. I’m not the kind of person who wants to sit around and watch tv all day in retirement. I don’t want to spend every day chasing the neighborhood bar happy hours, sitting on the patio watching the cars drive by or sun bathing at my apartment pool. Ok, I DO want to do those things, but not eve