You would think that after couple of years of purging, I would be about finished. But I am not. Now that we have everything (except what is in the hotel) moved in, we will do another sweep to get rid of extras, stuff that is too crowded and stuff we can see we won't need/use.
This past weekend I cleared out a large set of dishes my MIL gave me. I explained to her now that we have just smaller retirement house, we don't have the room. I ventured that I might see if one of nephew fiances (when they get engaged) want them, or see if neice wants it...to keep the dishes in the family. MIL seemed fine with it. I sure do hope she understands. She can see with her eyes how full we are. So, she gave her blessing anyway. And I was happy niece seemed thrilled. I took pictures and texted her. Then I packed up large microwave and toaster oven boxes and brought them back from retirement house. The old microwave (we just hate it) I will try to give away without bringing back to the city. LOL.
Anyway, my cabinets are less crowded. The timing is good because I am getting other stuff on kitchen worked out, so it is perfect. DH and I have 7 more weeks in this extended stay hotel. We are happy, because the person in the room above ours stomps around a lot, making a lot of noise. Usu starting about 10pm. Well, last night they stomped around starting at about 6pm and continued all through the entire night, DH said. I did not hear because I fell into deep sleep. Did not feel well yesterday. It was not my tummy - it was my hands and feet soreness and achey, throat sore, glands...I sure hope I am not getting sick again. DH said it is going around his work. I blame the hotel, not the most clean place exactly. It is not bad, but I am just amazed how people treat the property, not picking up after their dogs, trash overflowing the dumpster, floors dirty, weeds in the yard, cigarette butts, etc. Gross. We hope the upstairs people were up all night packing. It would be consistent with a young college aged youth waiting till last minute to be up early this am to catch shuttle to the airport.
DH and his colleagues are interviewing people for his replacement. I thinks they found the right person, but they have 2 more people to interview this am. He will not be late today getting home, so I might some errands after work. I need to go to the grocery and I have been promising my grandmother I would shop summer clearance sales for her to get couple new tops. Last night I had so many things to do and did none. I have to get a workout and errands done after work today.
Guess I better get to work. Happy (rainy) Tuesday!
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Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Thursday, August 2, 2018
Planning
When I though of how nice it was going to be go sell our City House, I thought it would be such a relief, that would carry us through the 3 months at the extended stay. It carried me through one month. And as of tomorrow, we have exactly 8 weeks left. But, we have made it through 5 and a half weeks at the hotel. At least we have had no more fire alarms! At least, that I know of. I almost hate leaving my dogs there while we are gone to work. They seem to be doing fine though. At least once a day, we take a pretty leisurely walk with them and they love all the sniffing.
Yesterday after work, we met with a retirement advisor. DH wanted to go to him, because he has experience working with people with government pensions. In my opinion, he is nice but a little rough around the edges and made a couple of errors that bothered me. He did spend time talking directly to me, which I appreciated. Some sales people just glance at me, like I am just the sweet little wife and then focus on talking to DH, which I don't appreciate. But, this guy is, after all - a salesman. And he is trying to sell us his service. I also appreciate that, I am not naïve. But he spent at least part of his presentation knocking the investment vehicle I was already in. I went home and reviewed my investments, and feel like he was partly correct and partly oversimplified. But, mainly when I am considering whether to use someone else, I just want to know what you offer, not bash where I am now. I think DH and I are on the same page. So, we are meeting with my guy next week.
The thing that I think most beneficial of all to DH, was having this 3rd party tell DH that we have done a good job (saving, no debts and paying off our house) and that we are in a fine position to retire. DH deferred all the praise to me - but I really am proud of DH. His diligent hard work, his income, his generosity with me, his trust in me and our work we have done together. More on this later, but we have only been together for 13 years. When I met DH, he was not in great shape financially. When we talked about marriage 11 year ago, I told him I had a few deal breakers. I told him what they were, and he readily agreed to use my approach to finances. And here we are 13 years later - in a position to retire. Not near the income we have now - but we can have a modest retirement and spend some time with each other and if we continue to hone our lifestyle, we can make this work. I will go into this more later, in another post. I gotta get to work today.
But, before I go...back to the hotel. It is really getting old, but I like the way DH and I can laugh about it and prop each other up, when we need it. This weekend, we are going to the lake (where I grew up) to see some friends of mine. They were here back in May when he buried his mother. He has been working on her lake house, painting and cleaning it out. I can't wait to see it. They admired my painting skills from Retirement Home. We are going to take the dogs and spend Sat evening. It will be fun. It will be great to get out of the hotel. It will be a 3 hour drive, instead of 4. haha
The weather is finally starting to be lower that the high 90's. I have been walking still and I did hot yoga last night without my friend, T. She pulled a muscle. We are going to walk tonight. That will be fun to catch up.
Have a wonderful Thursday!
Yesterday after work, we met with a retirement advisor. DH wanted to go to him, because he has experience working with people with government pensions. In my opinion, he is nice but a little rough around the edges and made a couple of errors that bothered me. He did spend time talking directly to me, which I appreciated. Some sales people just glance at me, like I am just the sweet little wife and then focus on talking to DH, which I don't appreciate. But, this guy is, after all - a salesman. And he is trying to sell us his service. I also appreciate that, I am not naïve. But he spent at least part of his presentation knocking the investment vehicle I was already in. I went home and reviewed my investments, and feel like he was partly correct and partly oversimplified. But, mainly when I am considering whether to use someone else, I just want to know what you offer, not bash where I am now. I think DH and I are on the same page. So, we are meeting with my guy next week.
The thing that I think most beneficial of all to DH, was having this 3rd party tell DH that we have done a good job (saving, no debts and paying off our house) and that we are in a fine position to retire. DH deferred all the praise to me - but I really am proud of DH. His diligent hard work, his income, his generosity with me, his trust in me and our work we have done together. More on this later, but we have only been together for 13 years. When I met DH, he was not in great shape financially. When we talked about marriage 11 year ago, I told him I had a few deal breakers. I told him what they were, and he readily agreed to use my approach to finances. And here we are 13 years later - in a position to retire. Not near the income we have now - but we can have a modest retirement and spend some time with each other and if we continue to hone our lifestyle, we can make this work. I will go into this more later, in another post. I gotta get to work today.
But, before I go...back to the hotel. It is really getting old, but I like the way DH and I can laugh about it and prop each other up, when we need it. This weekend, we are going to the lake (where I grew up) to see some friends of mine. They were here back in May when he buried his mother. He has been working on her lake house, painting and cleaning it out. I can't wait to see it. They admired my painting skills from Retirement Home. We are going to take the dogs and spend Sat evening. It will be fun. It will be great to get out of the hotel. It will be a 3 hour drive, instead of 4. haha
The weather is finally starting to be lower that the high 90's. I have been walking still and I did hot yoga last night without my friend, T. She pulled a muscle. We are going to walk tonight. That will be fun to catch up.
Have a wonderful Thursday!
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
More Heat
First, I just want to say my DH and I are so happy the soccer kids and their coach were rescued! So much bravery. I am humbled and grateful for soldiers and civil servants who take risks everyday to help other people.
I keep thinking that I should be adapting to life in the Extended Stay and be able to sleep, but in practice...not so much. Was up several times last night, mostly because of the limited space trying to sleep. I usu sleep really good after sweating so much in hot yoga. We are used to a queen. When we prepaid back in March for our hotel, we asked for a queen or double bed. They never explained no queen, only double beds - as in full size. But some rooms have 2 beds, which we would be ok with. We also asked for 1st floor for ease in walking the dogs and wifi.
We got none of these things! We are on the 4th floor next to fire escape stairs where doors are always slamming. We have a single full bed and the wifi is non existent. After getting moved in, we asked for a week about getting a queen bed moved into our room - no one ever got back to us - it seems no one there knows much of anything, they all refer to the "manager". So, when i finally spoke to the one manager, he said no queens exist. OK, what about a 2 bed room - well, they are all taken and no way to know when one is available till the people leave. Then, 2 days ago, they offered us a 2 bed room - but just on the 3rd floor. DH said he wanted to wait to move all our stuff when a 2 bed room is on 1st or maybe 2nd floor. Uggggghhhhh. I will just continue to enjoy the air cranked wayyyyyyy down and very cool room.
Supposed to be 98 and 99 through Monday. Tues high 80s. We are going to RH this weekend to relax and spread out, do some cleaning and laundry. We will enjoy taking our smaller car rather than our ginormous older SUV. We have taken the SUV every trip to RH for the past year and a half. It costs nearly $100 to fill it up with gas versus $40 for the car. So, that is nice. All we have left to move to RH (4hours away) is what we are currently using in hotel. So, that is a nice thought.
Stay cool and enjoy your Wednesday!
I keep thinking that I should be adapting to life in the Extended Stay and be able to sleep, but in practice...not so much. Was up several times last night, mostly because of the limited space trying to sleep. I usu sleep really good after sweating so much in hot yoga. We are used to a queen. When we prepaid back in March for our hotel, we asked for a queen or double bed. They never explained no queen, only double beds - as in full size. But some rooms have 2 beds, which we would be ok with. We also asked for 1st floor for ease in walking the dogs and wifi.
We got none of these things! We are on the 4th floor next to fire escape stairs where doors are always slamming. We have a single full bed and the wifi is non existent. After getting moved in, we asked for a week about getting a queen bed moved into our room - no one ever got back to us - it seems no one there knows much of anything, they all refer to the "manager". So, when i finally spoke to the one manager, he said no queens exist. OK, what about a 2 bed room - well, they are all taken and no way to know when one is available till the people leave. Then, 2 days ago, they offered us a 2 bed room - but just on the 3rd floor. DH said he wanted to wait to move all our stuff when a 2 bed room is on 1st or maybe 2nd floor. Uggggghhhhh. I will just continue to enjoy the air cranked wayyyyyyy down and very cool room.
Supposed to be 98 and 99 through Monday. Tues high 80s. We are going to RH this weekend to relax and spread out, do some cleaning and laundry. We will enjoy taking our smaller car rather than our ginormous older SUV. We have taken the SUV every trip to RH for the past year and a half. It costs nearly $100 to fill it up with gas versus $40 for the car. So, that is nice. All we have left to move to RH (4hours away) is what we are currently using in hotel. So, that is a nice thought.
Stay cool and enjoy your Wednesday!
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
More Move Planning
My husband and I have one more load of stuff to haul and find places to put it. Then we have a load of cleaning supplies, ladders, vacuum and plants. The plants will go to my MIL to be watered for 3 months. Then the last load to the extended stay hotel. We are tired. I am moving away from "what I did to prepare for my move" to "what I did to stop and smell the roses"...Saturday I drove my convertible and had lunch with my sister. Sunday, I sat and watched TV a couple hours in the afternoon and sat in our camp chairs out on our balcony to enjoy our view as much as we can since we only have 3 more weeks. It was too hot to walk until late 7:30. When I got home Sun from walking I made a smoothie, took a shower and asked DH if he wanted to sit on our deck in the cool 70+ degree weather. He said, we don't have anything to sit on. I reminded him of the camp chairs in the garage. When I got out of the shower, he had them ready. We just sat out there for 30 min. No phones. It was nice. We are trying to take it in. Our view is the favorite thing about our house. Monday I started a Max Lucado book. Tuesday will be yoga. I am going to mentally start the slow down because mentally is where the challenge for retirement will be for me. And physically, eventually. Let's worry about mental first. Deep breath...I got this.
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