The days go faster and faster as you get older. We have fewer ah ha moments and memorable milestones that stop us in our tracks so everything becomes relative and each day slips by in a blur.
I put my head down, but up and work 5 days a week 8:30 to 5:00 and weekends are packed with cleaning, gardening and food shopping. The same cycle over and over. I watch as most of the people my age, that I know are retired or retiring, spending time with grand children or travelling the world. My evenings are basic, we make dinner and watch tv most of the time. But I’m getting ready to change it up and did a little bit of that earlier this week.
I spent an evening working on that memoir of mine that has been gestating for birth since I started it in 2021. I have written so much and now I just need to pull all of the chapters together and fill in the gaps. It’s a big job…so many words! The hardest part is digging up the memories…all of them, good and bad. I want to be authentic in my story telling so it all has to be out there.
The girls and I had a dinner, wine and karaoke night in front of the fire here at the house and that was some of the most fun I’ve had in a very long time. Paul snuggled in on the couch and happily listened.
I plan to be more intentional with my time, joining activities and gathering a support group outside my core family. It’s important, socialising keeps us young and we tend to lose that as we age. Having more time doing new things will open more opportunities for those moments that slow time down. I love people and I’ve always been a transient person so I have not had the luxury of building friendships or hanging with groups on a lasting basis and I am determined to have that at my fingertips before I die.
I need more…I talk to friends and family 8,600 miles away and have the occasional chat with a local friend in my driveway home from work and have been so fortunate to have a couple of lunches with a new friend that I absolutely adore and click with and I look forward to more of those.
Most of the team I work with are young enough to be my children and I love them to pieces but hanging out with them is not an option…they already have parents (lol).
I plan to join the gym. Not to get skinny but to be fed emotionally and physically. To feel the energy of healthy people around me and to socialise. We will see how I progress over the rest of 2026 So watch this space.

Jeri's Brain Dump 