If there was ever any concern that I would be bored in retirement, stop worrying. I am having a blast, with no regrets, and no thoughts of “oh, maybe I’ll keep my work privileges and work a few days here and there”.
Nope. Just nope. I’m already running into the problem of too many fun things to do and not enough days in the week. And we’re in a pandemic in crappy weather, so I’m stuck at home, indoors. Once the weather gets nice and we’re all given the green light to get out in public, I may have to give up sleeping.
Of course I’ve been knitting. I’m trying to pare down my WIPs (works in progress, for the uninitiated). My ideal number of on-the-go projects is five or six: a sweater, a sock, a lace thing, a simple mindless shawl for knitting when I’m doing something else, and perhaps one or two small things (think hat or mittens). I’m getting there. I still have 3 complicated lace shawls in progress, but my goal is to get that down to ONE complex lace shawl at a time, in the hopes of actually finishing things.
The sweater project that I mentioned a few posts back has been started. After a lot of dithering around, I found a CustomFit sweater pattern by Amy Herzog that is just what I was looking for. It is her Dockside Cardigan. If you aren’t familiar with her patterns, she sells pattern templates that you can personalize with your measurements and gauge.
That’s a photo from the pattern page on Ravelry. Isn’t that pretty? Here is where I am now:
I think this will be perfect for this yarn.
I have bunches of other non-knitting projects in the works, but I’ll save that for later. Happy Monday!
I am so happy for you! That is a lovely sweater.
Love the sweater ! Love that you might have to give up sleeping!! That is the way retirement should be! So happy for you!! 🙌🙌👍
Retirement is wonderful. Speech language pathologist here and I haven’t looked back since retiring in 2016. Enjoy yourself. Life is short and you’ve worked hard. Masel tov!
I’ve been saying for 5+ years that retirement is the best job I ever had. Still saying it. Enjoy!
Congratulations on your retirement. It has been 2 years since I retired and I’m still not willing to go back into the workforce even a little. As a boon to my laziness, I have managed to lose 35 pounds of stress weight. But I still haven’t been able to get a handle on my WiPs or my greater than life expectancy stash. I hope that in 22 months you are still enjoying yourself as much as I am.
I retired early, at age 61, from nursing 3 years ago, after 38.5 years of working it full time. I also had a medical needs son, who I figure doubled my career, so I figure about 76 years of nursing. I knew I was “tired,” but the depth of that tiredness was even more than I realized. I really feel it took me 18-24 months to finally feel like I had something to give again. I am still intrigued that as driven and in love as I was with my career, I absolutely have not had 1 single day of wishing I could go back to work. That thought almost makes me cry. My license is on inactive status and will probably retire next renewal cycle, and I always say retirement is the BEST thing that ever happened to me! Busy, fulfilled, enjoying and settling into a gentler time….life is good, and definitely has its seasons.
Yay! Glad to hear that you’re enjoying it so much!
So happy to know how much you’re enjoying your retirement!! I often say to my husband that this ‘gift of time’ is the BEST gift anyone could ever have.