February ramblings

February is a weird month.

It's usually awful weather and everyone anticipates it being over to see the first signs of spring.

Both my brothers and my father had a birthday in February so we always had some type of celebration going on it seemed. Ironically, my best friend, my husband and my brother all have the same birthday. Another couple we are friends with have their anniversary that same day. It has always struck me odd how with 365 days in a year, that many people I know share the actual birthdays. I know there are a lot of people in the world, but I don't know that many people. I have four friends who share the same birthday with my late mother. That just seems odd to me.

A friend of mine in Illinois retired this week. He wasn't quite ready to retire, but circumstances as they were, he felt that it was the right time. He told me that his wife (also retired) was fine with it as long as he got up every morning and left to go somewhere at 8:00 a.m.

Retiring is certainly an adjustment and when there are two in the house it is even more so. I don't adjust well to cerain things and just when I think I have the "adjustment period" of my husband's retiring over six months ago down, I realize I don't. Maybe it is a constant "adjustment period". The biggest thing I have noticed is that my husband has always been a very negative person. I guess it didn't bother me as much when we were both working because we didn't see that much of each other. But now, having to live with it 24 hours a day is wearing pretty thin on me. I don't get it -- way too much energy is expended on being negative and for what reason? I get to the point of not even wanting to talk with him because there is always something negative to come from it. Life's just too short and as my son once said "gotta live it one day at a time".