Tag: retirement
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Isn’t It Funny How Our Priorities Change With Age?
The old man opened the vault last week. Last month was the first time he didn’t lose a ton of our money since he became an investor and it triggered un uncharacteristically generous response. Of course, I leapt at the opportunity to spend. Photo from Sophie Elvis on Unsplash.com I’m sure I must have mentioned…
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Middle Age Is About Making Important Choices
I knocked back some paid work last week. Not that we’re rolling in money and I can pick and choose the hours I want, but this time my choice was based on my health. I knew that working five days a week in three different fields would have undone all of the good I got…
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Menopausal Mood Swings And Not Turning Into “That” Couple
There are weeks when we reach for the bikini briefs from our underwear drawer each morning, and others when we choose the big girl panties. There are weeks when we stop at the second cookie, and others when we devour the packet. Life can be like that; a rollercoaster of emotions and ups and downs,…
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A Tree Change For Your Act 3?
I’d never heard of the expression “tree change” before some brave friends of our did exactly that and moved six hours north of Sydney to the foothills of a beautiful inland town called Bellingen. When you go for a dip and someone’s playing a f**king didgeridoo. Tree changes are a real thing and another retirement…
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Retirement: Sea Change Or No Change
It feels like we’ve been planning our retirement our whole lives, yet now as we inch closer to our target, the old man and I have realised that the dreams we shared in our early years together may have changed. I thought that my aspirations would centre around little more than long lunches at the…
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How The Conversation Changes With Middle Age
My pet peeve, aside from slow swimmers and water waders hogging up the fast lane at my local pool, is when I go to a dinner party and no-one asks me about my job… or indeed anything about me. This has happened throughout my adulthood, since the very first time I was invited to my…
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The Importance of Family Relationships: In Memory of Ken
It was a very sad day in our house the day we had to retire Ken. English: Barbie Portrait (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Ken had been with us for nearly five years and for the first four years he had done a fantastic job. Although his position in the family was beneath the Spoodle Princess in…
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I Bet Tiger Woods Doesn’t Need A Retirement Plan
We’re determined not to slum it in our retirement. When you marry an accountant, you save to the grave. And when one of those spanking new, schmick, over 55 apartments goes up in our neighbourhood, the old man and I start frothing at the mouth like rabid dogs. We’ve been saving for our retirement our whole life.…
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Midlife Mayhem – Am I A Hypochondriac Or Just Getting Old?
The subject matter of good dinner party chitchat has found a disturbing niche, now that we’ve hit our forties. Although ‘life was supposed to begin’ at this stage of our lives, we seem to be stuck at the ‘recognition of our own mortality’ roadblock far earlier than we anticipated. Whereas in my twenties we used…
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