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the sisterhood

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It has been a year since I retired/retreaded/revised myself.  At first it was so weird to be out and about in the middle of a weekday afternoon.   I felt like I was playing hooky. What if someone saw me from work?  But wait, I wasn't working.  It didn't matter who saw me.  And it seemed as if I was invisible - maybe because I slunk around like I was committing a crime, shoulders hunched over, making my frame even shorter than my 5 feet 1 1/2 inches.   No wonder my shoulders ached. So used to being productive and having to rush, I got up every morning and felt guilty if I read the paper.  Maybe I should throw in a load of laundry, vacuum or scrub the kitchen floor.   Or start writing a novel? Put all my pictures in albums?  Run?  Do yoga?  Lift weights?  Watch a movie?  I always thought it would be cool to watch a movie in the middle of the day....so far I haven't done it yet but I feel it happening soon. Slowly over the past year I have relaxed a little - my shoulders s