Rethinking this retirement thing....

Right now we have only one custom home under construction (pre-sold, thank goodness), completion expected within a month.  Tuesday morning the wood floor finishing crew started the sanding / scraping / staining / polyurethaning process, and will finish by the middle of next week.  In the meantime no one else can be in there with them as too many people stir up dust, which settles on their still-wet floor and ruins the finish.  This means I have to stay away, too.  What I'm getting at is I have no where to go all day, and nothing to do.  This week has become a sort of retirement trial run.  I don't like it.


I was home Tuesday morning before lunch.  After about half an hour I was bored, so I went to the grocery store and bought the fixin's for banana pudding and came home and made that.  Then I saw that K had some sweet potatoes out, so I went ahead and baked them.  And I cooked some pasta, too.  Then I went out and started my running program.  Later I read for a while, then watched a Big Bang Theory marathon.  And then I was bored again.


Yesterday wasn't much better.  I washed and dried and put away a load of clothes, and even ironed 5 of K's business-style blouses.  (My jeans and T-shirts are all "wash and wear", regardless of what the label says.)  Then I was bored again, so I went to a local park / nature preserve and walked about 3 miles.  I saw one bird.  Apparently everything else was either taking a nap or was nocturnal, or discreetly sized me up as not worth attacking.  I stopped on my way back at Starbucks where I sipped a latte and read my Kindle....until I got bored.  


When I do retire for real I'm going to have to either get a part-time job or do some volunteer work.  I never thought of myself as being overly active, but I guess I am.  


Are you retired?  If so, how do you spend your time on an average day?  I'll need some pointers.


S

Crimping my style

When you take away "outside activities" due to the extreme heat, there really isn't that much to do here on a weekend.  We're really scratching our heads looking for things to do that don't cost a fortune.  Next weekend we're going back to the lake, but that's next weekend.  The pool water is too hot to get in and cool off, so that's a non-starter.  I can't even take the dog for a walk because the dog refuses to go outside.


We've walked around the mall for a while, walked around Ikea for a while, had a coffee and a read at Starbucks, gone to the bookstore, gone to REI and Sports Authority....  I saw a friend of mine at Ikea yesterday and he said he and his spousal unit were also there walking around for something to do indoors.


We're going back to Starbucks later this morning, and to Fuzzy's Taco Shop this evening, but other than that I've got nuthin'.  We're thinking about a movie, but nothing looks that appealing. A museum visit was mentioned, but....zzzzzzzzz.  The indoor gun range?  K doesn't have a membership, and it would cost a fortune to sign her up for what I know would be a one-time visit.  A sports bar?  To watch what?   Baseball or soccer?  Snoozer!  Football will be here in a month....if I can last that long.


Somebody help me out here.


S