Happy Mother's Day to me and grrr cruise deals!

 Yay! Happy Mother's day to me! It's been what...3  full weeks since i retired? Nope...5! where has the time gone.

still love it. i regret nothing!

i wake up around 11a and fiddle around. my neighbor will cajole me into a leisurely walk around the neighborhood. sometimes we go to lunch or dinner.

i play around on the internet and then it's time to go to sleep.

also, i eat a lot of sweets and snacks.

then get heartburn.

cough at night.

try to do better the next day. and then don't.

also...kind of deciding that summer camp is going to be like my fat camp. i just want to do a bit of a reset.  hoping to spend no extra money and eat no extra sugar. i know for things like this (ie, work), the best way to get through it is just to be as structured and disciplined as possible. so that's going to be my approach.

so since my cruise...i've been looking up other cruise deals...and well haven't really found anything... i've become fascinated with those people who essentially live on a cruise... and apparently there are casino deals...where you keep getting offers. looks like i might have missed the metaphorical boat on getting a casino deal as i did no gambling while on the ship.

but honestly, i doubt i would have been up for doing anything that resembled work on my first cruise, so it's okay.

see...look at that... progress. old me would have cried and lamented at the possibility.

also... this youtuber brought up a great point... she showed a retirement withdrawal calculator...and it had a slot for how much you want to have leftover after you retired...and i as a default put at 62 i wanted 500k...so with that..i can withdraw something like 60 or 80k/year... cuz i am planning on social security...

so that was a cool perspective.. there's no reason to skimp now to still end up with all this money when i die... so yeah...i see myself ramping up my spending as the years go on...

anyway...still trying to figure out how to hack all these deals...i just can't seem to get approved for these credit cards with the same velocity as these online folks..

that is all...life is still amazing.. i don't know if you remember...but when i was once making my spreadsheet of places i wanted to live...i wanted something similar to my childhood...where i live across the street from a baseball field...and last night i was watching a ball game from my neighbor's balcony... i realized i was living my dream!! how cool is that!