It's Official

 10.15.2022

I made it through one year of retirement today! I'm so happy to still be alive to enjoy family (my jam) AND MY NEW RECLINER! That's right. After years of wanting one, my Bride picked out the perfect one. Plus it swivels. And glides. Not something I could justify buying myself. I think she finally gave in due to my damaged body. She's the gift that keeps on giving.

If you are lucky enough to have found your partner, you know my elation. Loving, caring, kind, sweet, compassionate, giving, remarkably attentive, driven, rarely complicit in illegal traffic rules. She's a keeper.

Retirement has been enhanced by having our kids & their kids live with us for a little bit while they save for a house. This family time has afforded me one of my greatest passions: perspective. Imperative to growth, and essential, extremely rewarding, and welcomed. Like when our son & his fiance' school me on things that "aren't that way anymore". I always pay thoughtful attention to them, as they're both SO very much smarter than me. It's the same with their daughters. The 14 year old tells me things before the news has a chance. Those kids are my daily prizes. The 4 year old offers common sense solutions that I've long since overlooked. I got it bad for all of them. So bad that when me & Sweet Baby have a chance to get time alone, we always consider including them. All four. While we're out or gone for a couple of days, they're all we talk about. If that's bsd, then keep it coming. I'll try to suffer through it.

As my parents aged, their kids & grandkids & great grandkids were everything to anything they planned or did. Didn't offer me near the perspective 15 years ago as it does now. Even after they retired, fixed incomes be damned, it wouldn't do to not shower the younger kids with gifts on special occasions.

I just hope to always focus on perspective. When its my time for me to move on, it's all the family moments that I'll want to be running through my mind. And this old fucker will die happy and with a smile. 

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