TBD on Ning
you wanna think it ain't over ..
well with 62 about a month away and retirement it finally hits you that wow .. i'm gonna be officially retired .. to be fair i've been kinda half retired for the last decade just messin around in my shop buildin guitars and i'll still build some but probably not on the level i was .. lookin back i never thought i'd hit this place .. i think mickey mantle said it pretty good when he got older when he said if i thought i was gonna live so long i woulda took better care of myself .. and while i'll admit i had an adventerous youth , makin love in a telephone booth , and i even spent a couple of nights in jail , but now i got a nice little spread that i call the billybob redneck resort , and every month a check commin in the mail .. eeeeeeee.. how did i get here ?? you always think of retirement as pretty much the little bit of time you have left before you kick the bucket.. the old cliches , sell the house , move to florida because thats the law ... somehow i wanna think i still have somethin left in my tank .. don't get me wrong tho.. i'm not anti retirement .. i'm just not crazy about gettin old .. and all the things that come with it .. css, chs , cds, but today i had this image that flashed thru my mind from grumpy old men of jack lemmon after he nailed ann margret .. and it gave me hope .. yeah i know its just a movie and hollywood's job is to manipulate us but ya know , sometimes i wanna be manipulated .. so tell me true this can still happen can't it ??
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Permalink Reply by ProblemAgain on
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is there some bell that rings when you pass the mark and suddenly you're old? i fricking don't think so. i've known lots of young old people and also lots of old young people. your brain doesn't stop, and all your parts still work just as well the next day as they did before that forest fire they call candles on the birthday cake. course you might have a little more fiber in the cake and all that but that's good sense right? and you still get those cards from someone you used to know..
..see? life is good!
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what the heck? seems loading images is wierd .
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Permalink Reply by Wayne Goodwin on
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Wish I had one of them , may have a bit too much lipstick . Wow fa sure ...
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Permalink Reply by crestofwaves on
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I love retirement. When I think of my life as a working mother, (and I loved it as well because I wouldn't have done it if I didn't love cause my ex made a lot of money--I could have stayed home) I think of how exhausted I was some days. My time is my own now, and I LOVE it. I'm lucky because I still get called in to work a few days a month to keep my hands wet, but all the other time is mine to do just whatever I damn please.
Sometimes I think my producing days are over. Then I think, "So what?" I produced enough. Time to graze in the grass and not feel guilty and stop doing things for people that they can perfectly well do for themselves.
And if you can still get it up why can't this still happen? And if you cant get it up, take a pill. They work; I know and thank God they were invented.
But even if it never happens again, well, for me, I know what I've done and I know what I've felt and I can smile thinking about it.
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For the most part . When I got hurt the first time it was a God send ( if I can use that word ) . I was on a road to total shut down body wise . That gave me a chance to disability . Waiting was sort of a nightmare . Took 6 months . Was so relived when that first check came . Finally I could pay my bills . I have lived ok on the money I get each month . Staying away from high rent sure has helped .
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I am still astonished every month when I get TWO checks in the mail--Pension ( not much cause I only taught in public school for thirteen years--the rest of my career I did for Jesus, but it'll do) and Social Security. They really remember to send it--and just in time, too. When the checking account get low, very low, voila: another check comes!
I've been running around since Saturday, so today I'm doing not much of anything. Tomorrow, it's the Big Apple! Love it.
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