Saturday Morning

What a grand day! I think winter is here to stay. I shoveled off the deck and the driveway and managed to get the gate unstuck so I could drive over to the post office to get my mail. Speaking of mail, again I am receiving other people's mail. I wonder if they are receiving mine? Just a glitch in the system I assume ... not technical one but the human kind, if you get my drift.

In the next few months I plan on changing this blog and looking to introduce some other topics of interest. Perhaps I may change it all together and move on to another blog. This blog has been about my move into retirement. Since I am not yet retired I am still gainfully employed and currently on leave from my job. It's a pre-retirement of sorts, or at least that's what it feels like to me. You know something I think I can get use to this pace and lifestyle. My dogs certainly enjoy having me around all the time. However, I will be returning back to work soon.

Have you ever thought about what it would be like to actually be retired from the work force? People have asked me what I plan to do when I am retired. Why do I have to be doing anything? Isn't that what retirement is all about ...doing nothing? I beg to differ. Retirement is all about entering a new chapter in your life and having the opportunity to do things you have always wanted to do but did not have ample time. I don't think retirement is all that it's cracked up to be after all you still have the same responsibilities of looking after yourself and if you have pets, which as you know I do, them too. The only difference being you are not getting up in the morning to go in to work. This I consider a big bonus to getting up during my retirement days. I can organize my day however I wish and fulfill the necessities and then do nothing! LOL

I don't think I will ever do nothing as I do not see retirement as a doing nothing phase especially if I don't plan on dropping in my coffin before my time due to being bored. I have never been bored in my career nor my personal life so why should that change now. It's all up to me and how I look at life and what I plan on doing with it.

I am going to write more about this topic but for now I am going to have breakfast and tend to my domestic responsibilites which will always be with me.

Cheers,

Jaime

Sunday Afternoon

I just lost a whole page of what I wrote an will have to start again. Don't you just hate when that happens. Oh well, modern technology does have its mysterious quirks.

What I had written before was about spending a lazy afternoon with my dogs and thinking about full timing as a retirement option. In my previous post I mentioned some of my research that I have done and learned to date. Some people on the forums suggest visiting the factories that build motorhomes. I think that's a great idea. The factory which is closest to me which I am aware of is in Winkler Manitoba. They manufacture Tripee e RV's and are not too far from where I live. http://www.tripleerv.com/. This is something that I can likely due next Spring or early summer apparently the factory conducts tours of their facilities. In the meantime I will continue my reasearch both online and visit the local dealers. Apparently there is an upcoming show that one of the dealers will host in February 2008. I have already maked my calendar as I plan to attend.

I also think it's important to have a Plan B, just incase full timing has to be put on hold for whatever reason. In that case I can always resort back to my inittal plan of moving to the country and living in a much smaller place than I own now. I am keeping my eye on that market too as you never know what may be down the road. Plans do not always work out the way that we want them to. but then again that is life isn't it?