<!--quoteo(post=380854:date=Aug 28 2009, 04&#58;12 PM:name=RNSANE)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (RNSANE &#064; Aug 28 2009, 04&#58;12 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&amp;pid=380854">&lt;strong&gt;QUOTE BELOW&lt;/strong&gt;</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Hi Everyone,<br /><br />Sorry I haven&#39;t checked in lately.  It&#39;s been good to see so many of you on Facebook where<br />I hang out more regularly.  No real news.  Life goes on, even after retirement.  I&#39;m struggling to<br />make ends meet - six months of unemployment are taking its toll.  I&#39;m looking for work, though,<br />honestly, after 21 years of going in to do sex abuse cases day and night, I don&#39;t relish doing<br />that any more if I can avoid it.  As 65 fast approaches, I hope to do legal consulting from home&#33;<br /><br />I&#39;m off to FL and the Monarch on Monday ( my 24th time on her and my 75th Royal Caribbean<br />cruise in a little over 14 years ).  My friend of 47 years is treating me as an early birthday gift.<br />She was out here for a week a month ago and I was amazed that she had only done one cruise<br />in her life.<br /><br />I will celebrate my Oct 3, 65th birthday in Rome, then will sail six days on the Navigator with<br />four friends.  We will spend three days in Barcelona at the end.  After that, no cruises are<br />booked and won&#39;t be until I find some sort of work.  I am using the rest of my frequent flyer<br />miles for three plus weeks in India, arriving there Nov 17th, staying all over the country with<br />Royal Caribbean crew friends.  After that, it will be two buck chuck wine and the ferry to Sausalito&#33;<br />Cross your fingers, I find work.<br /><br />Hope everyone is well.  Come over to Facebook sometime&#33;<br /><br />xxxooo&#33;&#33;&#33;<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br /><br /><b>Hiya carmen welcome aboard My friend glad to have you in the Cruise Crazies Family. <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/thumbup.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":thumbup:" border="0" alt="thumbup.gif" /> </b>