Blogging Virgin

Well, with little knowledge of the methodology, and only a little idea of what I'm going to attempt here, I hereby plunge into the pool of blogging, if not into the deep end, certainly into the shallow end without a noodle to keep me afloat.

My vague idea is to write about my life as a kind of 'in between'. I am retired (jubilada) with a plan to go to Mexico, where my husband and I have, in a move uncharacteristic of me, rather recklessly purchased a home. The idea is that we'll live at Lake Chapala when he retires, in three and a half years.

Once I got through the enormous panic of realizing I'd plunked a huge chunk of my life savings into buying my first home at the age of 56, I'm now really excited about the house, and keen to begin living there. I'm in a really strange place, though, in that, If I weren't married, I could be there now. All is in place, except us, and we can't move down there until Rob's working career ends in '011. And that is strange, because the whole idea of my retirement being dependent upon someone else's is a new one to me. Rob and I only married 4 years ago, and I have never been married before. I love being married; I love linking my life with his. I just feel a bit in limbo as I've reached the 'jubilada' milestone, but can't celebrate it quite as I'd like until he gets there with me.

Anyway, the decision to move to Mexico has raised a number of other issues: learning the Spanish language, deciding how best to deal with the house while we wait, visiting Lake Chapala when we can, deciding how best to organize our lives in Canada after we make the move to Mexico (current plans are to spend six months in each country each year), dealing with money issues, figuring out where our pet cat comes into the picture, inviting guests to our new home, etc. My loose plans for this blog are to deal with these issues over the next two years or so, and then deal with the actual details of the moving process and our acclimatization to Mexico. I'm hoping that will be enough material to keep both me and my imaginary readers interested.

So, to anyone who might come across these admittedly haphazard posts, welcome! Mi blog es su blog.

Jubilada