Showered, groomed, and dressed

Although my wife and I never worked together, we always left for work at about the same time, showered, groomed and dressed.

Lately, since being retired, I’ve been sleeping-in until about 7 am during the weekdays.

By that time, my wife is already about half-way through her pre-work routine-usually in the hair curler and finishing make-up phase.

When she heads off for work at about 730 am, I’m typically drinking coffee, un-showered, un-groomed, and wearing my sleep garments (usually a wrinkled, baggy T-shirt, and gym shorts).

She has always said variations of, “Love you babe, have a great day, you look really nice,” before we went our separate ways, and I still say variations of the same to her.

But, “you look really nice,” is no longer applicable for me in the morning and I completely understand.

However, I always make an effort for when she arrives home.

Fortunately, she gives me a heads up text message when leaving work for her 30-minute commute home.

It allows me to get re-showered, re-groomed, and re-dressed due to having spent the day doing yard-work, working out, golfing, playing pickleball, reading, blogging, running errands, etc., often looking the same as I did when drinking my morning coffee.