Laundry done

I was up this morning at 4:30. I know!!! What is that all about? I just woke up and slipped out of bed as not to wake my bride. I went down to the kitchen and made the coffee and sat down here at the computer to bang out this entry.
I know all of you that have been retired for so long know how it is to be where you are. Sherri and I being new at this are just elated at how great it is to be free from schedules. Getting up and spending two or three hours trying to figure out what you want to do and when it comes time to do it you changed your mind and do something else. Until you have been in this happy place it is hard to conceive the feeling of complete freedom. We still have to be responsible for certain things but having to follow a schedule...well that is a thing of the past.
I have so many things I would like to do today but then doing nothing sometimes gets in the way of doing those things. I have to work hard when it comes to doing nothing in order to get nothing done. I look at it this way if I do nothing today and don't get anything done then I can do nothing tomorrow. Sometimes I label days as do nothing days in order to categorize how I get nothing done. There is a right and wrong way to do nothing that assures you that you are not wasting time doing nothing. At the end of the do nothing day you don't want to feel bad about doing nothing.
Now that we are retired for real we have yet to feel bad about doing nothing and we feel good about that. There was a time in our lives that if we did nothing we felt like the day was wasted and we would never get that time back. Now we have lost that feeling and have replaced it with the attitude that if we get nothing done we have really done what we set out to do.
I did finish the laundry yesterday which took a surprisingly long time! The washers were fairly quick in getting the clothes clean but when it came to drying I did not think the dryers would ever stop running. I had to check to be sure the clothes were not on fire from time to time. When they finally dried I could hardly handle the clothes they were so hot! I have never been to a laundry that had dryers that were that hot and ran that long. I'll have to say this if the clothes did not get all that clean in the washer the heat of the dryers killed any bacteria that was left alive!
When I got home from the laundry Sherri had dumplings made. WOW were they good! I had to have seconds they were so yummy. I know what your are thinking I am going the wrong way on losing weight and you are correct. I will just have to walk longer...

Somewhere in Time