{"id":332,"date":"2007-06-28T08:01:22","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T12:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=332"},"modified":"2007-06-28T08:01:22","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T12:01:22","slug":"retired%e2%80%a6again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"Retired\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m 55 and I just retired for the second time yesterday.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <!--more--><\/span>You see, I \u00e2\u20ac\u0153officially\u00e2\u20ac\u009d finished my work as a school district employee after retiring late last July and went right back to work for another year.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span><\/span>With my three year grant ending at the end of July 2006, I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t certain what I would be doing this time last year, so I went ahead and retired\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6just to go right back to work for a fourth year with the grant.\u00c2\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span><font face=\"Times New Roman\">I know that sounds confusing, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s true.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>We had some unspent money and were able to use it to complete some important transitions for our school district.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Those of you who know me realize I will really never \u00e2\u20ac\u0153retire.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just too much to experience.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">I suspect many of you out there are the same.<\/font><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">I never would have thought I could retire at 55.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>I figured I would be working at least until my mid 60s.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>So, I have been blessed beyond imagination to have accomplished this and am very grateful for those who have been a part of that journey.<span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\">It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an humbling experience, to say the least\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6this retirement.<span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/font><\/font><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span><font face=\"Times New Roman\">So what will I do next, you ask?<\/font><\/span><\/font><\/font><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span> <\/span><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\">I decided to go help my sweetheart pack up and move since he is buying a condo in Charleston.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>That will be my first project as a retiree\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and it should be fun since he is such a fun loving kind of guy.<\/font><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Then, it is back to reality as I work as a contractor to evaluate and complete a final grant report that will be done mid August. After that, it is on to new adventures!<\/font><\/font><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>My wish for you today<\/strong> is that you embrace your life at whatever age you are and live it to the fullest.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>After all, some of us may never make it to retirement age, but we should always be striving to live life daily to its fullest possible extent.<span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span><font face=\"Times New Roman\">~ Joellen<\/font><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m 55 and I just retired for the second time yesterday.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,27,17,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-events","category-living-life-to-the-fullest","category-retiremetn","category-teenagers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}