Plans for 2012?

Gers

As an over-50s person I aim to come to terms with being over 50! As I charge my way towards my 60s it must be soon that I start to feel my age, or even accept my age.

My aims are simple and few:
* Keep on enjoying my work - I love my work, I love my colleagues (mostly, even if they are half my age) and love the challenges it gives me.

* Go back to walking every day. I used to walk to work (previous job) and it was almost 3 miles there and 3 miles back each day. Now I don't. I need to make sure that I do a daily walk and have discovered that my favourite NT site do Health Walks twice a week so will join in when I can.

* Go back to eating only low carbs. I loved this way of eating and have slightly slipped over the past month. Leaving out the carbs makes me feel energtic and well.

Travel plans for the year are well organised already :j and include both holidays and work travel abroad. Apart from the odd weekend jaunt I will otherwise be mostly staying put.

margaretclare

kittie wrote: »

I tend to live for the moment really but am also making a few tentative plans.
1 I aim to cut carbs out of my diet as much as possible and especially to re-think my cereal breakfast.
2 I want to actually put money into my savings account this year as it has been one constant withdrawal since we moved in july2010 and I cannot but cannot constantly drain it. I am not aiming for any big spends this year so I should manage to partly re-build it
3 I will be taking my bicycle out for longer rides, not just to the allotment and back, we could do with exploring the beautiful county in which we now live

congratulations Margaretclare. I know that you are part of a very happy couple

Thank you for the kind wishes. Kittie, DH and I have cut down severely on carbs since the end of July. We no longer eat potatoes - well, he does occasionally if we eat out - we haven't had a potato in the house since end July. I don't eat breakfast cereals any more, need to start the day with some protein. Most breakfast cereals are loaded with sugar, and sugar - I don't need it. We are lucky in that we still have a local baker who bakes fresh every night so we don't buy mass-produced bread from the supermarket which contains additives, preservatives, things to extend 'shelf life'. There's no shelf life with our local baker - if you don't get there in time he's sold out and that's it! Also we have a local butcher who keeps very busy. Most of his meat is sourced within a 50-mile radius and it's non-halal!

I save regularly in a stocks-and-shares ISA. Who knows what we may need in time to come. I can't foresee any big 'spends' in the coming year - we had the front all tidied up a year or two back, driveway relaid with concrete, front paving slabs re-laid, outside painting done last year, trees done last autumn - it all looks nice and tidy now. I was told many years ago that if you let the place start to look neglected, front garden overgrown etc, it is a dead give-away to any passing opportunist burglar or con-artist because it shouts 'here lives someone who can't keep the place up as it needs keeping, someone who's elderly or disabled and ripe for being robbed'.

retiredalso

'here lives someone who can't keep the place up as it needs keeping, someone who's elderly or disabled and ripe for being robbed'

Could it also not make the thief think

I'm not going in there, there will be nothing worth stealing.

Newly_retired

DH has now booked a 5 day break in his diary, so now we need to decide where to go in June. ( That's all the time he can spare !!)

jennifernil

We are off to Norway for 2 weeks at the start of February. Not the best time to go, but we have 70th and 50th birthday parties to attend.

Then in late March we are off again in our caravan for 3 months, ferry booked to give us 2 months (probably) in Italy and Austria, followed by a month in England/Wales.

We are hoping that will be followed by our daughter's graduation in July, and a visit from OH's sister, which just might result in another caravan trip!

We usually have a 3-4 week trip in September too, but haven't thought that far yet.

In between all that I would like to do a lot of de-cluttering and tidying, but I have been saying that for the last 4 years!

Newly_retired

Just met up with some former colleagues today and am envious as they all go for far more holidays than I do. DH thinks one short break and a 2 week holiday is the maximum. Whilst we have them oney and good enough health I want to travel more.

seven-day-weekend

I've just been offered a job!

It's only a couple of hours a week getting the paperwork for a small business in a suitable state for the accountant, but it's a start!

My husband and I are also awaiting an interview date for the House/Petsitting.

Not bad after being retired for nearly eight years!

margaretclare

retiredalso wrote: »

Could it also not make the thief think

I'm not going in there, there will be nothing worth stealing.

Not according to some of the stories which appear with monotonous regularity in our local paper. You read of individuals turning up at the door and saying to the householder: 'You need your roof done, guv/missus, tiles are slipping'. Or, you need your trees cut back, your drive re-done, various things like that. There have been instances of said individuals driving householder to the nearest ATM to get cash out to pay in advance, a very high price, work either not done or done very badly/left half undone. Don't agree to any work to be done on the doorstep, don't pay up-front, don't allow anyone in unless you know who they are, ask for ID and so on.

Ilona

Newly_retired wrote: »

Just met up with some former colleagues today and am envious as they all go for far more holidays than I do. DH thinks one short break and a 2 week holiday is the maximum. Whilst we have them oney and good enough health I want to travel more.

Well travel more then, don't let anyone hold you back. I am single and go away at least once a month, sometimes twice. I am in control of my own destiny, no one else is.

Book a trip on your own and let DH stew at home.
Ilona

seven-day-weekend

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

It appears that our move back to the UK was the right one for all sorts of reasons, So my plan for 2012 is to live my new life to the best of my ability.

This will include (hopefully) House/Pet stting, visitig long-lost friends, continuing to be a good friend to the 'regulars', doing voluntary work for the church and CAP and losing the stone I have put on.

The house/petsitting agency are now taking up references :T:beer: