One of the downsides of retirement and having no set schedule is I am a night person. Going with my natural body rhythms means I stay up later and later each night and wake up later each morning. Now that isn't necessarily a bad thing except for when I want to do things with the rest of the world 
For example, last night I went to bed at midnight - deliberatly early so I would be able to get up by 8. However I've had a bad heat rash on my legs driving me crazy and not letting me sleep well so it was almost 9:30 when i actually got up. I was wanting to get up by around 8:30 because then I would be able to go to bed and to sleep tonight at midnight again. I need to get up at 8 tomorrow because my mom and I are going in town to shop. Oh well, I guess I will have to rely on the alarm.
What usually happens when I have a lot of unstructured time is I stay up till 2 - 3 in the morning reading and sleep till 10:00 - 11:00, but I'm hoping to keep a fairly normal schedule so would like to keep a 12 - 1 sleep time and get up 8 - 9 each morning. This is much better than work though when it was a 7 hour sleep cycle. Now I can have 8 or more hours depending on how I'm feeling.
I went to the grocery store yesterday morning. I'm trying to figure out what's a good time to go. I normally went on Sunday morning while working since it was the least busy. I had read where the fewest people grocery shopped on Tuesdays so thought I would try that. I guess no one else in this area read that. It was pretty busy with customers but no cashiers. By the time I was ready to check out there were 8 people ahead of me with overflowing carts. What a pain. So I'm going to try Friday or Monday to see if those days are better. I may end up going back to my pre-retirement time since it was always pretty light.
Finished reading the library book One Bite Stand by Nina Bangs. Paranormal. Cute.
Finished reading the library book The Joy of Not Working by Ernie J. Zelinski. This was very good - thought provoking.
I am a night person
August 6th, 2008 at 04:28 pm
August 6th, 2008 at 05:07 pm 1218042447
Sometimes the grocery stores are a little less crowded right before drive time, like 4:00. You might try that.
Have fun shopping!
August 6th, 2008 at 05:19 pm 1218043159
The trouble is, my dog is still an early riser. So I get up with him and then go back to bed when he is back inside and settled.
I think grocery stores are always less busy early in the morning, whatever the day.
August 6th, 2008 at 05:25 pm 1218043510
The only situation she has run into is one where one of her adult children now thinks she has the time to babysit some more. She said she actually feels irritated when her adult child does not pick up the grandchild on time.
I think that you should just do everything at your own pace right now. We get so used to schedules and the clock and our body just adapts to it. Give yourself some honeymoon time and enjoy the peacefulness of it all.
August 6th, 2008 at 08:00 pm 1218052828
Thanks for the book reviews. I have a list of "To Reads" from your recommendations!
I'm wanting to retire in the near future and was wondering--What are you doing about health insurance?
Happy reading and Happy Sleeping Late!!! : )
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