My Retiree Self Indulgencies

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Lon

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Before I retired I doubt that anyone would have called me Self Indulgent. I am going shortly for my one hour full body massage which I indulge in every 10 days. I will have a nice lite meal of broiled salmon and salad with two or three glasses of good wine (another self indulgence). What the hell, I deserve it I tell my self.
Do you have or do any thing that some might consider to be self indulgent?
 

Although I did this before I retired it is one little piece of pampering I won't give up, every fortnight I have a manicure and a pedicure. I like having pretty nails and it's my one really 'girly' thing.
 

My whole life is now one of self indulgence.

It is now 8.00am. I shall get up when I feel like it, or perhaps not at all. I may shave, I may not. I shall have whatever I fancy for lunch, which may be a full litre of ice cream, but might well be four courses in the best local restaurant.

After lunch I may go out, on the other hand I may snooze in the chair, or I might just go out and find a "working girl".

Tonight, if I feel like it, I may watch television until 2.00am or later.

Then there's the whole of tomorrow, as yet a blank canvas.

School days the happiest days of you life? Don't you believe it!
 
Self-indulgent? Moi? Yes. I am the most self-indulgent when we travel, and since that will be 4+ months total during the next 12 months, that's a lot of indulging. I love the word decadent! Most of my indulging involves eating things I shouldn't, or having alcohol with lunch instead of waiting for dinner. The result of this - see the weight loss thread here. :rolleyes:

When husband and I go into Glasgow for shopping or cinema or whatever, we like to have a beer with lunch and discreetly snicker at all the people who have to rush back to work after their lunch. Still find it funny how people here have a beer with lunch and then go back to work. ;) I never would have done that in the US, in fact, could have been fired for doing so when I worked at a state university.

Sometimes I have to remind myself I'll never have to look for a job again, go to a job interview again, or go to work again, or have to get up early to go to work. I feel too young to be retired.
 
After a long journey thru life I am now a full-fledged hedonist. Thus, I indulge in whatever I want on a daily basis--make mine a double!
 
I try to get up by 10am cst. Play golf weather permitting and then start my cocktails before dinner which I usually only eat once a day and usually too much. Retired when I was 51 so I am too damn self-indulgent, which I regret most of the time.
 
It is 1 am CST. I have been pondering, since I heard the weather forecast about 10, that I may call a couple of friends and we drive to Pensacola for a few days Monday. It is suppose to be in the 70s and not raining all the time. Stay tuned to find out if it happens.
 

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