Today my retirement
home readers were feeling a bit low. I
was less than perky, too.
Blame it on the
weather. Today is cold, damp and overcast,
a typical January day. That sunshine we
enjoyed earlier in the week? It was an
anomaly – that’s why we all responded with Palovian cheeriness and energy. Take the sunshine away and we droop.
My reaction to gloomy
weather almost borders on SAD, so it is a mystery to me why I originally
decided to retire last January. My boss
set me straight. “Are you crazy? You
leave your job, you go home, and what do you do? Shovel snow?
At least wait until spring, or better yet, summer."
She was absolutely
right. I’ve never been happy with my January
birthday, so you would think I would have known better than to wreck another
auspicious event by giving it a mid-winter start up.
Of course, if you live
in the southern hemisphere, or if your winter retirement is to be followed
immediately by two months in Arizona, go for it. Retire at the first of the
year. But if you want a cheerful start to your big life change event, June is a
good month. Wear a pretty dress to your
retirement party, and then to a summer wedding.
For a few months you can even fool yourself into thinking you are on
holidays.
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