Here I am 3 weeks into retirement and still getting used to the idea that every day is a Saturday.  It is Monday and I’m at Mom’s in Mississippi because when you don’t have to go to work, why not take a 500 mile trip to spend a week with your Mom?  So we loaded up the truck and came over last Friday.

This morning I slept until 9:30 AM because last night we went to the coast, Gulfport Mississippi, to a casino.  It is an hour drive to the coast and I gave the slot machines the $200 I brought with me.  We left the casino around 12:30ish and got home around 1:30 in the morning.  I’m retired but I don’t have to go to work.  Usually on a Sunday night I would have my work anxiety kick in.  You know the one where you realize the weekend is over and you start thinking about all the tasks you need to complete during the coming work week and all the “special people” you will have to deal with.  You know the ones.  No work anxiety last night.  Anxiety now revolves around what to do with my retirement time.  If you are not doing something or planning to do something you get that feeling of wasting time.  I need to relax and enjoy.

So, I sit here in my Mom’s TV watching room asking myself, what ARE you going to do today?  Let’s run down the list of things I can do here at Mom’s in Mississippi.

1. Go to T-Bones record store and buy some albums – COMPLETED, bought a few albums
2. Go to the casino on the coast and lose money – COMPLETED, lost $200 in the slots
3. Walk around the track up at the elementary school for exercise – One day COMPLETED
4. Visit Ollie’s discount store and buy inexpensive books and junk – COMPLETED, bought some books
5. Visit Books–a-Million and buy book or magazine – Still to do
6. Visit Zoo – too cold and raining
7. Go see a movie – possible but we stopped going to movies because we can’t sit through an hour TV show without having to go pee, much less a two hour movie
8. Practice guitar – I did bring it and I have played it
9. Learn the harmonica – I brought my kit but have not done anything with this
10. Greater a blog posting – working on it
11. Create a YouTube posting for channel – Not started and stressing about that, need to post today
12. Watch TV – been doing that, too much.
13. Read a book or magazine.  Doing that a lot.
14. Play City of Heroes.  An old game I played 20 years ago that has made a comeback.

Maybe I should get a couple of dice and roll and pick one of the numbers above.  That sounds like a good idea.  <dice roll>. A Five.  Looks like I will be going to Books-a Million today.  In addition #11 is a high priority to keep the YouTube channel rolling.  You haven’t visited my YouTube channel?  Get on over to Retirement Ain’t Easy right now.