Riley: Oh, yeah. Sorry 'bout last time. Heard I missed out on some fun. Xander: Oh yeah, fun was had. Also frolic, merriment and near-death hijinks.

'Never Leave Me'


Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 19, 2017 6:31:02 am PST #19974 of 30002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I'll probably keep working as long as my eyesight holds out. Hopefully there will still be Social Security and Medicare when I get there. And an Education Publishing industry up til then.

Operation Trojan Flowery 19th Century Bird-Watching Diary is a go, with a foam compartment cut inside to hold the actual gift. Now I just need to glue the fake front diary pages to the spine and wrap it up.


Pix - Dec 19, 2017 7:02:56 am PST #19975 of 30002
The status is NOT quo.

Getting a 30-year mortgage in LA real estate at ages 42/46 means we will be retiring never. This is my 21st year teaching since I started so young. I don't know if I have another 30 years in me. Maybe 20. But I'll definitely have to get another job after that unless ND's business gets to a point that it could support us both.


msbelle - Dec 19, 2017 7:46:18 am PST #19976 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Man, I'd like to retire in 2031 or soon after. I need to look at numbers again and see if I am heading towards that reality. I really need to make headway on my debt in order to do that though.


askye - Dec 19, 2017 8:16:58 am PST #19977 of 30002
Thrive to spite them

I won't evee retire. I mean right now I work in retail getting paid less than mu Best Buy job.

I don't know my future and it's scary. It seems that retail is better for me emotoinally/mentally than the office jobs but I don't think I'm cut out to be a supervisor. When i worked in an office it was so hard to have anything leftover for life.

It's frustrating amd scary thinking about the future.


NoiseDesign - Dec 19, 2017 8:57:50 am PST #19978 of 30002
Our wings are not tired

Retire?

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHA

Ahem, uh yeah, I don't see that happening for me.


msbelle - Dec 19, 2017 8:58:48 am PST #19979 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Askye do you have benefits with your job?


Atropa - Dec 19, 2017 9:39:01 am PST #19980 of 30002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Preeety sure that retirement is not going to be an option for me, because Pete is a freelance artist.


Steph L. - Dec 19, 2017 9:44:56 am PST #19981 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Tim's brothers and SiLs (all in their early to mid-50s) are looking ahead to retirement, and Tim and I are both like "Well, I'll be working right up until the morning of my funeral, so."


Steph L. - Dec 19, 2017 9:47:33 am PST #19982 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

OTOH, my mother is incapable of slowing down, and was officially retired for about 2 nanoseconds. Then she got bored and got a part-time job that expanded into a 3/4-time and sometimes full-time job AND she took a year-long course to get certified to teach yoga and then opened a yoga studio in her basement AND teaches yoga at other locations. The woman is 71 years old and had major heart surgery 6 months ago. She is a dynamo.


Atropa - Dec 19, 2017 9:56:29 am PST #19983 of 30002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

My dad is *finally* retired, but it took moving in with his ladylove and selling the house he and my mom lived in. I was completely supportive of both of those things.