The First Week

Greetings to whoever reads this, if anyone,
Well, I have almost completed my first week of retirement. It is an adjustment to a slower pace of things. However, it has been a great adjustment so far. The lack of stress has had an incredible effect on how I feel both physically and mentally. I tell people that the best way I can describe how I feel mentally is to say how much "lighter" I feel. The bathroom scale doesn't seem to agree, but I do just feel lighter all over.
Last night I slept the best I have slept in a long. long time. My sciatic nerve usually disrupts my sleep after only a few hours, but last night it never bothered me. In fact for the first time in months I was able to roll over onto either my left and right sides with no pain from the sciatic nerve. Usually as soon as I roll onto one side or the other the pain shoots down my left leg and I have no choice but to get up and walk around for a while until it feels better.
And when I did get up this morning my feet felt better than they have felt in months. Most (but not all) of the numbness i n my feet had subsided and I felt like I could walk like a normal person. Perhaps the workouts at the rehab gym are beginning to have some effects.
I have a meeting with the Deacon at Holy Spirit at the church at 8:30 this morning to become familiar with how they do their liturgy and the he and I will go out for some coffee and just become better acquainted. I know him, but not very well. Then I have a lunch set with Dick George and Dick Walsh at the Rock Bottom Brewery. I wont have any brew but the food there is very good and I am looking forward to seeing both of them. Then I will hit the rehab gym this afternoon.
Since I had such a good time at the casino last weekend and came home a winner to the tune of $19.50 I can afford to go back if I want to. We shall see.
One of the things I want to accomplish this weekend is to set up a food plan for my meals for the coming week. I plan meals on a day to day basis and I wind up throwing away a lot of what I buy because it goes bad before I have another recipe that uses the same stuff. I am learning what most every woman already knows, that there is more to cooking than just following the recipes. It takes a lot of planning or you wind up wasting a lot of food and money.
I am not sure how to go about this, but I may go to the book store and see if there isn't something there that can give me some guidance. I need a "Cooking for Dummies" book or perhaps "Cooking 101". I need something that talks about how to plan meals for a week at a time.
Well, adios y'all for now.
Glenn+