Until.

Until what?


Or more specifically; what happens on December 1, 2016?

I think he can retire.

Bingo.

Lucky bastard. ;) I'll never be able to retire. I've been working non-stop (only took 6 weeks off when I had Tori) since I was 16- which means I've been working for thirty years already. By the time I get to retirement age (which, according to SS is 70), I'll have put in 54 years of work. (Not that I am planning on getting SS, just that it's a retirement benchmark). I'll never live that long, so I am resigned to having mini-retirements. They take place at least once a year, and always at DL.

Which reminds me- my next mini-retirement is in less than two weeks- woot! Need it badly, too. Been nursing sick kittehs and working too much. Both Samwise and Boris were sick, but while Boris is on the mend poor Sammy is not doing good at all. His 'cold' has turned into, at the very least, a sinus infection. He has a date with the vet tomorrow, and is now in Tori's room with the humidifier on full blast. Poor baby. I've never heard him snore before, but he could give Eric a run for his money right now.:(

You might be kidding, but you should still shut up. Don't count dead chickens before they croak...

No one in my family does, CP. If I do manage to, great, but no big deal if I don't. I may not want to, if I'm still working! ;)

So...TV medical and crime dramas have really messed up with my sense of how long tests and diagnoses have taken. My uncle has been diagnosed with bladder cancer and I'm amazed at how long its been taking to learn/do things.

(This ignores the two years it seems to have taken for the doctors to realize that he wasn't just suffering a series of UTIs (for Kevy, that would be upper respiratory infections).)

ETA: And on the morbid wendybeth topic I also don't have any real expectation of living to 60. No male relative but one, going back four generations has done so. My dad died in his 40s, my mom's dad died in his 40s. The uncle just diagnosed with bladder cancer is 49.

That's not to say I'm planning my life on the assumption I'll die, I just don't really have any great expectation of being a long-lived person.

Yeah, yeah, yeah...


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