Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Hurricane warning here: right now it looks like landfall will be in our town or just south. A childhood friend is in a mobile home in the town south of us but she is going to her brother's home close by. What weird weather this fall here. We should be fine except we might lose power but we have prepared for that. I do hope our Beach Club doesn't sustain much damage. Now we need to find some good movies to watch!

Peps, great news on retirement timing. DD, I wish you could do it sooner. I can't believe they are back to treating people with COVID via the old rules. I always felt that people came into the office too sick to perform and/or spreading infectious diseases to avoid using sick days.

Nothing else to talk about as it will be boring here for a couple of days. Have a windy Wednesday!

Up before the crack to meet the closet guy this morning. They send a second person out after the first to make sure the measurements were correct before they make them. Cute kid!

Next is my women's group meeting and then hair this afternoon. As a lazy retired person, I hate having three obligations in one day! Two is pushing it.

It's a cold 46 and drizzly here right now. I don't think we're supposed to get much rain from this system.

I met with the pool guy yesterday. Seems pretty easy to work.

Food good, but I forgot to weigh this morning. Off to my next destination!

I hear you on having multiple commitments. Sometimes one needs an entire day off after a day of 3 or more!

Me too!!

So glad the election commercials will be gone! We didn't have too many, but some were so over the top!

Eating disorder work is really difficult right now, which could be part of the reason for my lack of enthusiasm for posting regularly. However, weight is stable and I have not gone off the deep end!

Very much the same old, same old here.

I realize that I have a very different attitude toward retirement finance than many people. Perhaps it is because I am a male living on a teacher's salary in the USA. I've never had a great deal of expendable income and have always made due and have had good fortune with real estate timing. Yesterday I mentioned to my brother about retiring and he went off on a tangent about 2-3% this and that and pension issues, etc.... It was more than my brain wanted to deal with. I think because he is "self pensioned" and he loves finance he wants to share the "wealth". Me, I just want to know I can pay my bills and have a little extra. Very different approach, I guess.

Dog shows this weekend...

In a way, it was a good thing I had to retire when I did. I wasn't happy with my job anymore and hated the commute even though I didn't have to do it every day. But I would have had too much angst when trying to weigh financial issues to retire before full retirement age if I hadn't had to leave at 62 to take care of deceased DH. In the end, I would be fine financially even if I hadn't remarried. That seems to be the case for many of my friends who didn't think they could afford to retire but had to leave early for personal reasons. It all worked out.

Greetings all

Quick check in before I am off to my busy schedule (not). I didn't feel well yesterday. Went off to scrabble without my cheese sticks and as a result ate nothing until 1pm. Then I gobbled down a bagel and creme cheese and that did not sit well. Upset gut. Plus I just ached all over as I often do after scrabble. We sit in these hard kitchen chairs for 3 hours and that really does me in. We should do calisthetics between games. Even took some advil which I rarely do. Dinner was haphazard and snacky (autocorrect put snarky) which did not help my gut. But a good sleep plus a sunny day helped and I feel good today. Off to the studio and grocery shopping which I failed to do yesterday.

Yay Peps and DD planning retirements. I say work the numbers and go for it. I took my social security at age 62 and am glad I did. It would have taken me 10 years to make up the difference if I had waited. Now I must plot how I take my retirement 401k plan out. I worry about young people today who may not have the opportunity to work 30 years and have retirement savings or SSI. A pox on the politicians who want to mess with it.

Speaking of which I am glad election night is over. Not feeling well made it even less fun. Counting goes on but thats ok. Thats the idea. But the ads are over and like DD I look forward to adds for laxatives and cell phones. But not Christmas. Not yet.

Liz be safe. Hope the damage is minimal. I so pity those people who lost so much in the last one.

CC best on the closet and pool. What fun.

Time to get out of the house. Maybe to search for the perfect pot roast.

Diane S

So happy to be home in bed, already wearing my jammies at 4:30 in the afternoon. 66 degrees here, and biblical rains. Thank heavens it's warm, because this would have been a mega ton of snow! Weather whiplash on the way, it will still be warm tomorrow, then Friday, dropping to 28 degrees. What the heck?

Ah, retirement. I'm very happy DH retired at 62. Not having him working nights and weekends is a game changer. The amount of money we will bring in during retirement would likely frighten some of our friends. But we are used to being frugal and don't mind used cars and thrifted furniture so that we can afford a trip to NYC. To each his own, everyone knows what their own spending threshold is. I'm going to hang on until 2025 for 2 reasons: health insurance (DH will qualify for medicare, so we'll only have to buy into the district coverage for me) and if I wait that one extra year, my pension increases almost $1,000 a month. That's a lot over the amount of years I still hope to live. :)

Today's outing was a bone density scan. Here's hoping they looked thick.

DH comes home tomorrow. I'm glad. We're not apart very often. DD is recovering well.

I see it's a hurricane now, Liz! Be safe!

Yes Liz, glad you made your preparations. Sure hope all is good news in your community once the storm passes through.