In my working days

Just
to give you an idea about what I mean when I say you will be working
more when you retire than you did when working and will always be short
of time let me give you some of the things I want to, need to,
accomplish this week--and I am organized! 
In no particular order:

Go
to Miami to see "In The Heights" Tuesday evening and go to see "Wicked"
Wednesday evening. I have to write reviews for both for corinescorner.com

Go
to movie on Friday and write review. Let me just say, whether or not
you like/read my reviews, I just don't toss them off. I spend time
working on them, checking facts with the theatre reviews, getting
pictures to post with them, posting them on several web pages each
having different requirements, emailing them--all time consuming.

Gather, take in and pick up laundry/cleaning, plus change sheets, towels, etc.

I
am writing a series, on spec for a 'zine web site, on favorite movies,
which will probably be about 8-10 parts--I want to post them on my
blog(s), get reactions, make changes where I have to, go googling and binging to get pictures, do what I hate to do--rewriting!--which will take me about a week to 10 days. I did post Part 1 but that has to be redone.

Go
food shopping--hey, someone has to do it! And there is going to the
Dollar Tree every Thursday because people depend on me to get them
things---oh, okay, because I like to shop there!

Between
this past Friday and today I spent 3 hours convincing the office that I
did not deserve a reduction in rent of $89!!! Yes, they made a mistake
in calculations and though I did think of not saying anything I knew
they would eventually find it, say next year, and then tell me I owe
them X amount of dollars in back rent which I wouldn't have! Someone
suggested I just take $89 a month and put it in a savings account--when I
stopped laughing a few hours later--me? A savings account? Put money
aside? LOL-- another one
said maybe I would die before they found the mistake and I would be that
much ahead but, as John knows, I am not going to die--that's another
blog!

Talking about
blogging, I have to spend time each day posting a blog as that is my
diary of my life which I have blogged about before. I 'hunt and peck' on
the keyboard so writing a blog, like this one, takes up a lot of time
and I feel I have forgotten something if I don't post a blog. Now I am
not talking about C & P, which I very seldom do on my daily blog,
but what I feel I want to keep a record of so when 'they' start writing
biographies of me (hush!) there won't be lies.

Now
remember I have to have time to sleep, eat, read the paper, go to the
breezeway for the 'meeting of the mindless' and let's not forget sex--I
am old but not THAT old--plus enjoy the sun, plant flowers and water
them and the other plants, take my meds,
go out to eat, answer 40-50 e-mails a day--I use to send out about half
that amount in snail mail--someone is going to take the time to write
me I feel I owe them an answer. Also a lot of time is taken up in
reading blogs I subscribe to, make comments, go to my favorite web pages
such as the NYTimes Arts section--that may end soon as they are going to start charging on lime customers--plus there is talkinbroadway.com/allthatchat and Jane Fonda's blog site not to forget buying, and checking if I won, the lottery!

As
I mentioned yesterday I made appointments with all my doctors and,
trust me, that will take up ALL my Mondays and Tuesdays in June!

I still have a bunch of things to do that I haven't mentioned but by now I assume you are getting the idea--

I am telling you--keep working--don't retire!!

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Just
wanted to mention this--as you know I love the Dollar Tree and this is
one of the reasons. These are just some of the watches I have bought and
I have a ball co-ordinating them with my flip-flops --hey, some people
are amused easily!--and I bought some of them over a year ago and they
are still running!!!
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"Friendship consists

in forgetting

what one gives,

and remembering

what one receives."

Alexandre Dumas, 1803-1870 French Novelist