RSKY
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- Oct 5, 2003
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Well I let my one year retirement anniversary slip past without noticing it. Just a little too busy. For those of you debating on retiring or not let me give you a rundown of this past week.
We were about twenty miles away from home Wednesday when we got a phone call that we had free tickets to the first round NCAA tourney game which our alma mater was playing in. This was four hours away in Louisville. Somebody couldn't go and we got the call at 5:00. Took off for home and was there at 5:25, packed and out the door at 5:48. Yes my wife packed in 23 minutes. Got hold of a friend on the way up and bummed a night at her house. Went to the game the next day and made the four hour drive home that afternoon.
Point I am trying to get across is that we both now have overnight bags packed and ready to go. All we do is throw some jeans and clean underwear in a suitcase and hit the road. Have done this several times, spur of the moment, and love it. We may have to skrimp and save next week but we don't let that stop us.
If you are financially able RETIRE. You have worked all your life, now enjoy what time remains for you.
Oh yeah, the friend in Louisville needs flooring put down so my wife and I have volunteered to go back in a month or so and help her pull up carpet and put down laminate flooring in her entire house. Got to finish two projects we are working on at our house, cut some trees at another house, put paneling in a garage for an aunt, till up a couple gardens for somebody else. Well you get the picture. We are retired but busy and enjoying life.
It is what you make of it.
RSKY
We were about twenty miles away from home Wednesday when we got a phone call that we had free tickets to the first round NCAA tourney game which our alma mater was playing in. This was four hours away in Louisville. Somebody couldn't go and we got the call at 5:00. Took off for home and was there at 5:25, packed and out the door at 5:48. Yes my wife packed in 23 minutes. Got hold of a friend on the way up and bummed a night at her house. Went to the game the next day and made the four hour drive home that afternoon.
Point I am trying to get across is that we both now have overnight bags packed and ready to go. All we do is throw some jeans and clean underwear in a suitcase and hit the road. Have done this several times, spur of the moment, and love it. We may have to skrimp and save next week but we don't let that stop us.
If you are financially able RETIRE. You have worked all your life, now enjoy what time remains for you.
Oh yeah, the friend in Louisville needs flooring put down so my wife and I have volunteered to go back in a month or so and help her pull up carpet and put down laminate flooring in her entire house. Got to finish two projects we are working on at our house, cut some trees at another house, put paneling in a garage for an aunt, till up a couple gardens for somebody else. Well you get the picture. We are retired but busy and enjoying life.
It is what you make of it.
RSKY