Well Tina I have a favourite Beatles song from way back when can you tell what the title is
- I was going to say is it "A Hard Day's Night" Norm - Well that might describe the marriage but
- Hey hey - No I was thinking about "A Day In The Life" - Oh yes - That's a great topic for a video Tina
- It is - But before we get to that - We are Tina and Norm and we talk all things retirement, lifestyle
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A Day In The Life - And the reason we are doing this is because we have had quite a lot of viewers
actually say to us what do we do in a day so we thought we would talk you through it - So it's quite
simple Tina I get up I sit in my chair and that's it I don't do anything - No that's not true Norm - Is
that the end of the video (laugh) - No in actual fact Norm is the early riser he get's up at around
5:30 ish in the morning and he will creep away and go into the office and he will do video editing or
photos or pictures whatever is needed for YouTube or for stock - That's right Tina is a
hard task master she boots me out of bed I enjoy that because it's quite I get a lot of work done
I'm able to concentrate on video editing and photo editing and I quite enjoy that so then around well
I know when it's 6:30 am because I start to smell coffee wafting through from the kitchen
- Oh yes it's a good sort of mini alarm clock isn't it - I don't even have to look at my watch any
more I can hear it gurgling in the distance - So coffee goes off on the coffeemaker at 6:30 - My
job at quarter to 7 to 7 O'clock is to get her highness here a cup of tea in bed - Oh
what the perfect way to start the day - I love to do it and so we I wake her up with the tea in bed
I don't throw it at her no we put a light on and then we start having our
first discussion of the day we at that point we do look at our YouTube channel - We do - Just to
make sure there are no naughty comments on there that need deleting - We always like to see like if
where the subscribers numbers are and how many views we have had on the videos we have put up
we just generally have a quick chat about it don't we - We do - And after we have done that we
will then move through into the kitchen where we will have breakfast between around 7:30 to
8:00 am - Yes and normally that's we tend to like eggs as we have told you in a video, it seems a
long long time ago we go to an egg farm that's just in the countryside not to far from here
and we get fresh eggs from the farmer and they are absolutely fantastic - They are great aren't they - We
will have eggs for breakfast of some description and once again we will listen to the news
on our Amazon device - Yes - We can't say her name because she will start talking - We really
enjoy listening or putting that on just talking about the news that's going on - Current affairs
keep up to date so we are - Mentally it keeps us stimulated and aware of what's going on doesn't it
that's kind of nice to do that - And after breakfast I will sit in a nice comfortable chair and I
like to do some of these brain games either word puzzles or Sudoku - Yes you like those don't you I
just feel as though your brain needs to be kept active and exercise as much as your muscles do
so I do that everyday and then we - Yes generally while your doing that I'll do like comments and
that on the YouTube channel won't I - Tina is the chief commentator replier on our YouTube channel
I help her out with comments but Tina does an awful lot of the comments so you know who to blame
if you don't like the comments (laughing), - And then we might have maybe a mid morning
coffee or after that we - Well Tina's favourite is either a hot cross bun or a currant bun from
our Baker friend out in the countryside - With coffee - So she would have that everyday at 10:30
toasted with butter and coffee - We have tried to cut that down a bit for sort of weight and things
haven't we - The inches are starting to pack on - And then we will try and go for a walk if we can we
will go for about an hour or so it has been really cold lately so we have to adapt to the weather
and if it's really really cold sometimes we will just walk up and down the floors go up and down
the stairs in the apartment building and it's a great way of exercising sometimes I go swimming
but the pools been closed hopefully it's going to be opening soon so then I'm going swimming
too - It's had a leak which has defied fixing for a long time so it looks like it might be coming
back online Tina would swim everyday and then with the stock market open I have a watch list that I
have put together I have two actually the Globe and Mail newspaper has a watch list that you are
able to set up and also Yahoo Finance does I've just switched to Yahoo Finance because
it allows you to input your stocks into there as a portfolio and it shows the running amount
by the second as the market is trading it's very addictive to sit there and - It's actually very
interesting isn't it because as we are buying new stocks and your putting them on there then you can
instantly hopefully that we are making money as opposed to loosing it but you see the graph go
up and it is quite exciting isn't it - We think it's important to be aware if you are investing
directly in the stock market because the one thing we have done is to leave a fair amount of cash in
a high interest bank account and if we see a pull back then we will invest if it's a type of stock
that we are interested in we just recently did that with The Bank Of Nova Scotia and CIBC bank
and bought them at a nice discount they dropped in a day and they have gone back up - Yes it's great
we are doing really well on those aren't we - We are indeed - We spend quite a bit of time or you spend a
lot more time than I do on that - And then normally Tina there's that magic hour of the day comes
around - Oh that one! hey you've missed lunchtime Norm - Oh I'm on a diet - So generally we will then
have lunch then we might lots of different things in the afternoon we might go grocery shopping we
might just go for a drive just for the hell of it to get out of the apartment because as you realize
this day is generally different because we are at home with the pandemic isn't it - At this time
of year that we are making this video we would normally be somewhere sunny either Portugal or
the U.S. or destinations yet to be explored but we can't do that at the moment - No so we are adapting
to around here aren't we - We are we're adapting to having a boring day - Oh actually sometimes
Norm will say in the morning this is just like Groundhog Day because he feels it's the same
day day in day out and it kind of is isn't it but it will get better and that takes us to that
well earned great time of the day which happens at 4 O'clock doesn't it Norm - Yep
Happy Hour - Yeah! so we have been doing virtual happy hours with friends and I must admit
this has been working really well hasn't it - We use FaceTime but just to save all our modesty we just
do it as audio message FaceTime - Our friends can be in their pyjamas if they want to be
- We normally chat for an hour and a half - To two hours easily don't we - We will have a beverage
or two and chat about news what's going on about mutual friends - Yes but the beauty is that then
you can actually start to prepare your meal your dinner While your talking chatting having your happy hour
we might be chatting for an hour and a half and then in the last half hour we will start
to prepare dinner which is great - And there are two ways we eat dinner we will sit at our table
and once again continue chatting we have a lot to talk about with our YouTube channel - There is no
shortage is there - With our stock photography business and with places we have identified that we would
like to travel so we will chat about that or the other way is we just stick the good old telly on
and we sit on the couch with our dinner and watch a movie or a show
- And we have been finding some really good shows on our new T.V. haven't we and some great movies so
that's been working really well - It's been very enjoyable - And that's kinda what we do in the
evening now we will also check then our YouTube channel before we go to bed see whats happening
there get updated with comments and things - And normally we are in bed by 10 O'clock and have
a really sound sleep and then it's Groundhog Day again - And then Norm gets up at 5:30 in the morning
now we are hoping this will change slightly as we progress to being able to go to the trailer
in May - We do we are looking forward to that - Which will be great but basically that's kinda what we
do we are just ordinary people day in the life of isn't it - And what you find in retirement is you
wonder how you'll spend the days but those minutes just find a way of filling up all on their own
and you will be swept along with it so that's our A Day In The Life and thanks for watching
- And we hope that everybody is staying safe - And keeping well - Until the next time - Bye bye, Bye bye