are you planning to lie, Smaug-like, on top of a pile of aging Buffistas?
Only if everyone committed to being soft and squishy.
Baby, I got this.
A year and a half ago, I could have eviscerated him with my thoughts. Now I can barely hurt his feelings. Things used to be so much simpler.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration
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.
Steph L. - May 02, 2024 12:48:12 pm PDT #67 of 4159
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Dana - May 02, 2024 12:49:04 pm PDT #68 of 4159
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
I managed not to listen to my husband's conversation with his parents about protests at college campuses, which is good, because now I don't have to wonder if his parents have ever given a shit about antisemitism before FOX started yelling.
Jessica - May 02, 2024 12:55:41 pm PDT #69 of 4159
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Only if everyone committed to being soft and squishy.
I've been training my whole life for this!
Steph L. - May 02, 2024 12:57:55 pm PDT #70 of 4159
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I've been training my whole life for this!
#TeamSquishy!
Atropa - May 02, 2024 1:31:32 pm PDT #71 of 4159
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Only if everyone committed to being soft and squishy.
That is so not a problem for me.
JenP - May 02, 2024 1:39:34 pm PDT #72 of 4159
genuinely can't imagine not working. The structure of a job is good for me.
I said very similar words to my husband over an early dinner at our pub-like place just now as I was recounting the retirement convo from the board. Like, I'm on a staycation this week, and I decided to play it be ear... not my best decision. I, too, benefit from structure. Thank goodness Shir is coming this weekend to shake me out of my sloth. For a visitor, I can plan and do! Just me? Eh.
My mom was a teacher, and she retired at, maybe 70, but really only because she just got fed up with students being ill-mannered and the administration being, well, an administration. Mentally and physically, she could have done 75 easy. And would have. I am hoping for the same, honestly.
A few of my friends are retiring early-ish. I'm surprisingly not feeling envious. Like, bully for them, and let.me.live vicariously through you and occasionally join you in your travels! Except.my camping friends. I will not join them. But I will happily ooh and ahh over their pictures.
JenP - May 02, 2024 1:40:06 pm PDT #73 of 4159
Oh, and, yeah, soft and squishy is my jam, fear not.
Steph L. - May 02, 2024 1:45:04 pm PDT #74 of 4159
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Oh, and, yeah, soft and squishy is my jam, fear not.
Aging Buffistas: committed to the soft and squishy lifestyle. (Although on that note, I'm off to lift weights. Any muscle I build just lurks beneath the softness and squishyness.)
JenP - May 02, 2024 1:46:45 pm PDT #75 of 4159
Though we be soft and squishy, we be strong.
javachik - May 02, 2024 2:47:06 pm PDT #76 of 4159
Our wings are not tired.
Now that it seems I am unlikely to make it to retirement age, I have the opposite issue. Social Security is just, "oh well, guess I'm paying for you guys." But my 401K has like 200K and I'm still contributing with every paycheck. I need to figure out ... how to figure out at what point I stop contributing and try to look into early withdrawals. That money would pay for a lot of travel since living into my 90s has been taken off the table.
Just wanted to say, epic, that I have been thinking about you a lot. I can't digest what you're having to, and it's incredibly sobering. I truly hope you get to travel as much as you possibly can! Go forth and see all the places and people that have been calling to you!