Ok, I'm not really retired, but I've been practicing playing a retired person in my life for the last week. I must say, I enjoy it very much! I have spent time with friends, establishing new friendships over coffee, baking pies with my community to pass out to our neighbors, going to see a new friend in a play, volunteering in the city, etc. If it weren't for the fact that I AM NOT living off a trust fund and actually need cash to survive, I'd say I have the perfect life. Heck, I think I have the perfect life apart from being independently wealthy!
Today, I went to my friends new apartment in Queens to help them paint. Of course, I had the free time. So I take the G (the train closest to my house) to the Q 101 (a bus, which I'm just now starting to venture out using buses.) I find the right bus, you DON'T want to get on the wrong one, but unfortunately, it was going the wrong way! (Which I discover as the bus goes over a bridge with an unknown ?east river? body of water underneath.) It's not too bad though, only one stop into Manhattan and then back to Queens.
I think the bus driver is lonely. We talked, okay mostly he talked and I listened--something I've been practicing, better listening skills--the whole trip. He was also my driver on the way back to Brooklyn! After my 30 minute or so bus trip, I'm feeling like I now know how hard it is to be a driver.
I should also mention that my friends both work afternoons, which means they could only paint in the early morning, so I tried to arrive at 8 (which except for the wayward bus trip I would have made it on time!) actually arrived closer to 9, and had a fun morning catching up and painting. Imagine that to be somewhere at 8am is really hard when you stay up late and like to sleep in when you're in fake retirement, but I digress. (I hope my roommates don't read this blog since the only participation I had in the painting of our downstairs was to choose the living room paint color!) Here's some pics! Painting around a refrigerator is not too easy!
I guess I can add 3 pictures! I'm getting very computer savy!
2 comments:
At least you realized after one stop that you were going the wrong way. During our last day of our last October trip, Adeana & I realized we were going the wrong way but she thought that if we stayed on, it would turn around! That only added one hour to our trip...
Your pictures are blurry and tiny. Do you know how to make them bigger? You can drag them larger once you insert them.
My camera took some blurry pics. Don't know why, probably the operator's fault. I like them the small size, there's an option when posting to choose size, but I'll have to play around with the dragging. Really I'm impressed I've done as much as I have!
(Funny about staying on the bus. I've learned as soon as you suspect something, ask someone-preferably the driver!)
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