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rodie
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Well I am officially retired,I turned in my badge and was done about 10:15 this morning after my exit interview.Going to take a week off to go visit a step-sister and I'm going to do a craft project, making a gazing ball with colored stones on a  bowling ball,then I will start to declutter a house we have lived in for 32 years :shock: oh the stuff I have in drawers,closits and under the stairs! :thumbdown:
One good thing, I can take my time. I joined a club and was a good one for saying I was to tired when I got home from work to go, so now I am looking forward to starting swimming at least a couple of times a week.In the fall I would like to start to do meals on wheels again,I found that I loved that years ago when I did it.
Hope eveyone has a good weekend
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Rodie :)
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Wish I could join the retired club. need to wait till I am 70 that is 6 more years  Enjoy your time, you sure do deserve it  Hugs Karen
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Congratulations Rodie. I highly recommend retirement. I tell everyone that if I had known retirement was this much fun, I would have done it straight out of college and would have skipped the 30 years of working!!!  :D

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ENJOY!  I am still way too young, but someday....
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Rodie, Welcome to retirement.  My house is still cluttered and I've been retired a while. LOL.  I have missed your posts.  :thumbsup: JF
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Hey Rodie,

Congratulations!  That's fabulous!  I know you have a list of things that ought to be done but please remember to schedule some fun in there. K? 

Julie :rose:
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I feel so fortunate that I could have retired at age 55 (4 years ago) with 30 years Civil Service. But retirement means living on half of what you were making when working, and I can always thing of something else that will need to be replaced first. Oh well, maybe 2012???
Linda
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You are so right Linda, that's what keeps me going. When the money stops everything changes.      Wither
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Congrats Rodie~  I am looking forward to that day too in a few more years! Enjoy~!
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Rodie  Congrat's  I am going to pop your bubble.  You will find with retirement that there is less hour's in the day than when you worked.  I don't know why but it just happens.  I am busier now than before I retired.  But I do have fun being busy.  As for the de clutter  good luck it took a move to semi-declutter and I still have clothes full.  Good luck on retirement.
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One of our nurses who retired after 40 something years said she was busier too. Said everyone says, "Lets get Rosie to do it. She doersn't work" LOL :shocked:
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I remember my mom how busy she was, and I used to say that I am never going to retire because I'd never have any time to myself!  :laughing:  I'm not really retired, now that I'm caring for Mom, but I am no longer teaching.  It feels like a retirement.  At least for a time.
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