The 'Retire at 35' RANT

     The more I am at home, the more I think about retirement. Who invented work??  I think some idiot out there decided one day that work was needed to make money.  What happened to the days of trading to acquire things that one wants?  I, for one, hate the concept of WORK.  What is the point of it?  My father worked for years and years and when he was ready to retire he was only able to enjoy 2 years of his retirement.  This is why I think it would be better to be FREE of the indentured slave mentality of work.  I, for one, don't want to work.  I only do it because I feel I have to because society expects me to.  I think it would be better to say I am retired.  I had a great life abroad and now I am retired.  

   So..this is it PEOPLE. I am 35 and RETIRED!  Ok...mom, it is for 7 months but I WANT THIS FREEDOM TO LAST FOREVER! To be FREE of CRAZY BOSSES and CRAZY CO-WORKERS! I say all you 35 year olds out there COME and JOIN ME IN EARLY RETIREMENT!  Ok...I guess I shouldn't get too enamored by my slogan but I am!  Can you imagine retiring at 35?  You are now old enough to do anything you want-cheat at all the online scrabble games you want,  play all the sports you want at an age when you want/need your body to look great, seriously think about eating healthy, and if you're single, you can meet tons of people at this stage of life.  You never have the time for this when you WORK!

   I seriously think that WORK is there to get in the way of all this. In fact, I am convinced of it!  WORK=STRESS and STRESS=UNHEALTHY LIFESTYLE CHOICES.  And there you go...reasons to retire at 35!  Those are my 2 cents worth!

What I do at home....

So...being at home these past 2 weeks have been very very relaxing.  I don't even want to go anywhere.  In fact, I am so lazy that I activated my mom's cell phone while at home, bought clothes online, and paid bills online. I, also, watch TV and movies online.  This is crazy, I don't have to go anywhere to do anything. Being at home has been so great-other than for the interviews, I only left the house once!  This is truly the laziest time of my life. So when I get the chance I will possibly move one step off my mom's couch but, for now, my bum is quite comfortable. However, these days I've been thinking this is a bit problematic. Technology may have made my life easier but it has reduced me to an immovable object and I've noticed that I have a flabby tummy!  It was growing like this before I got back but now...I am becoming quite horrified by how much of it has grown flabby!  I thought my bum was problematic but this is hitting another note altogether.  So, tomorrow I hit the gym!  I am hoping the almighty gym will be my savior and, frankly, bring me back the flat tummy that I once had...ah..the dream!    

Baby I'm Back!

So..I am back in Canada at home.  I've been home for 2 weeks and have succeeded in accomplishing nothing.  It's been wonderful.  There have been 2 annoying things that happened during these past 2 weeks.  I've had the honour of going to 2 interviews.  These interviews were not for jobs but for university entrance to Teachers College but they felt like job interviews.  The first interview was in Oshawa and the second one was one week later in Toronto.  They both marred my vacation and were on Saturdays for heavens sake!  Don't they know that I am on vacation!!  And who does interviews on Saturdays!!  For Heavens Sake!  Anyway, they are over now. I'll find out results in April and when I know, you will know and we can all have a good cry together because if the interviews mean anything, studying will be super hard IF I get in!  I am so scared about that i.e Not knowing if I get in and having to study!
Anyway, what was really great was that for one of those interviews I had the opportunity to spend some time with friends in Toronto, which was really great!  We saw a play called Assassins. It was funny but what was truly funny was when a friend and I played online scrabble and I won!  Of course he didn't know at the time that I was totally CHEATING.  For heavens sakes, the game is online!  OF COURSE I am going to CHEAT!  Well...his brother told him what I had done...and now he has a bone to pick with me...Uh Oh...Thank goodness his brother told him after I left.  Oooops! Sorry!! I can be rather cheeky at times!