I'm reading an hysterical book...
No! I Don't Want to Join a Book Club:
Diary of a Sixtieth Year
Diary of a Sixtieth Year
by Virginia Ironside
I got a quarter of the way through before I realized it was a work of fiction, not some old crone's real diary. Which pretty much makes me an old crone. My favorite part so far is that she is happy to be 60 and looks forward to being 70. Not because she wants to do anything in particular, but because exactly the opposite, she wants to do old things and take it easy. "Te-ek--eet-ee-ee-zy mon", her Jamaican neighbor says.
I've gotten so many questions lately about what I'm going to do now that I'm retired. "What are you going to do with the rest of your life?", my brother asked me at a funeral..."Well, not die right now that's my plan for today"' I wanted to say, but was shushed by a blue hair behind me.
No gym memberships, no bicycle treks across Mongolia, no freekin' Italian or Spanish classes okay!
Why do people expect that after working all your life that you should need or want to plan to do anything?
Jealousy I say!They want to see you muddling about and failing at something that takes up time just to make themselves feel better about having to continue to work...Epiphany!! So,...stop asking or my answer will be a resounding, "Nothing and who cares anyway?"
Why do people expect that after working all your life that you should need or want to plan to do anything?
Jealousy I say!They want to see you muddling about and failing at something that takes up time just to make themselves feel better about having to continue to work...Epiphany!! So,...stop asking or my answer will be a resounding, "Nothing and who cares anyway?"
TEEK-EEEN-ET EEEZY MON!
My plan and I'm stickin to it!
My plan and I'm stickin to it!
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