Posted by Susan Fischer on 6/11/11 12:23am
Msg #385885

Howdy all - This is my Official Announcement of Retirement:

As of July 9, 2011, I'm a re-tired Remote Closer, Signing Agent, Notary Signing Agent (NSA), for the lending/borrowing industry.

It's been a wonderful vocation that literally fell into my lap back in '03, and after miles of smiles, some potholes of every size and shape, great relationships in the Biz, and thousands of neighbors I never would have otherwise met, I'm so contented to hang up the proverbial shingle.

So I'm lightening the load, and have these tried and true tools of the trade for sale:

'Big Daddy'* Printer: HP 2430dtn dual-tray workhorse. 74,959 pp as of today around an hour ago. 256 MB DDR, Ram disk storage, 150 MB Capacity.

'Sam-I-ScanJet'* HP 8250w/large capacity Feeder.

'Brother Max'* IntelliFAX 2800 laser phone/fax.

(* = I've always named the tools of my trades, so please don't laugh.)

If interested, please send a Private Message for more info.

Have a great weekend, everyone. I so look forward to starting my next journeys in the months ahead, and finally going down some different roads; in service, rather than in business - and I'm so blessed to be a part of the NR commuity for so long.

Anyway, happy Friday! Bar's open, and everything's on the House.

Here's to the return of Morning Music!

Clink.

Reply by HisHughness on 6/11/11 12:36am
Msg #385886

Lemme guess: Social Security just kicked in

Whatever you do, have fun doing it. We'll miss you.

Reply by Susan Fischer on 6/11/11 12:43am
Msg #385887

El wrongo, but good guess; always do; and I'm not gone

yet.

I just plunked in a cyber quarter to play Dignity, B Dylan.

Imagine it. Or click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ_h5j-PISs

Reply by Carol Graff on 6/11/11 10:49pm
Msg #385976

Goodybe & God speed

Best of luck to you, Susan. May you find peace and happiness.

Reply by Glenn Strickler on 6/12/11 6:25pm
Msg #386020

Best wishes, there Susan

Before you get rid of all your equipment though, if you are going to volunteer and work with various groups on different projects, you may want to assess the situation. You may wish you had some of that equipment back. ....

Reply by Susan Fischer on 6/12/11 8:37pm
Msg #386029

Good point, Glenn, and I'm planning for that - just not

for such high volume work. Downsizing is always so hard, I know I have all of this stuff for perfectly good reasons - and I just know it's going to come in handy as shirt on a pocket some day...

Anyway, thanks.

Reply by Susan Fischer on 6/12/11 8:41pm
Msg #386030

Thank you Carol, all the best to you too. n/m

Reply by 101livescan on 6/11/11 12:57am
Msg #385888

u all - This is my Official Announcement of Retirement:

I'm envious as hell. Enjoy your journey, Susan. Myself, I'm quiet a ways out from retirement, but trying to get a lot of traveling in between monthend madness. Feel like as well as things are rolling along steadily I may as well take advantage of it.

If you get to my neck of the woods, you must come to see the vineyard operation and hang out for a spell.

Clink! We'll miss you very much. All the best! (my mom is just down the road in Florence, look her up. Right now she's in CA visiting her beautiful children...)

Reply by Susan Fischer on 6/11/11 3:04am
Msg #385890

How fun - push-pins on the map; so many good people

to hiway and meet. No take off-date, circumstances must have their time to play out. But not having to answer a call from a number I don't know? May sound funny, but - priceless.

You're on the map, and I'll only need 39' to park. Ok, 50', so I can back the smarie out of the garage - lordy, it's so hard to go slow...

I'm really hoping to make it during grape-stompting time - instant flash-back to Lucy and Ethyl - . When I get to town, I'll call and call from the store - and climb up to your mountaintop with lots of goodies.

Thanks for the reminder about your folks in Florence - that will be so cool. We'll send pics...

Clink!

Reply by Notarysigner on 6/11/11 8:06am
Msg #385897

You mean getting the IPhone wasn't for NSA work

after all? Smart girl! You never retire, you'll just have a new career, hmmmm "Motivational Driver" sounds like a good start. Good luck. I don't have a place for an RV but as a NSA if you call, I'll come to you. LOL

Reply by LindaD/NJ on 6/11/11 8:39am
Msg #385899

Enjoy Susan!

I think a writer! Enjoyed reading your posts through the years. Please! Don't be a stranger. Let us know what you are up to.

Reply by Susan Fischer on 6/11/11 9:58am
Msg #385913

Thanks, LindaD. I really appreciate your kind words, and

I'll be around for a while yet...

Reply by HARRY_PA on 6/11/11 9:07am
Msg #385903

Good luck and God bless n/m

Reply by Susan Fischer on 6/11/11 9:59am
Msg #385914

Thank you very much, Harry - and right back at you! n/m

Reply by trnsa_IL on 6/11/11 9:14am
Msg #385907

Congratulations!!! Closing my eyes tight and wishing,

praying that someday I will be able to pick up a novel written by the famed author, Susan Fischer, and devour it like a hungry soul searching for nourishment. You have made reading your posts a treat!!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

Good Luck and God Speed!
Tonya

Reply by Susan Fischer on 6/11/11 10:11am
Msg #385916

<big grin> Aw, Tonya, I'll take all the help I can get. Who

knows, ay?

It's feels so good to have such warmth and support, we just don't know what's around that next corner.

Taking it slowly, that shedding of stuff, the down-sizing a lifetime, the deciding what to keep and what to let go...

Reply by jba/fl on 6/11/11 10:33am
Msg #385917

Paring down - that alone is a good goal in these last years.

I'm still finding things I no longer need or that steal my time in maintenance.

Enjoy whatever you do. I truly wish you only the best.

Reply by Sylvia_FL on 6/11/11 10:07am
Msg #385915

Enjoy your retirement. I know I am enjoying mine and Bruce's

Reply by Bob_Chicago on 6/11/11 10:50am
Msg #385918

Best of luck, Susie and enjoy. I will probably keep doing

this until I drop dead in about 25 year, walking up to a 3rd floor condo for a signing.
They say, "only the good die young" so I'm good for a long time yet.
Been fun being a NOTROT and other board buddy with you over the years.
Some JP folks may need a new villian. Hope Hugh is up to the task.
Toodles, and enjoy a long and fruitful retirement.

Reply by kathy/ca on 6/11/11 11:07am
Msg #385920

Susan, for you the time has come, it is just around the

corner for me too. Time for a change, life is short and there are so many other possibilities in life which I want to take advantage of. I bet that is some of the way you are feeling now too. Best of luck to you!!! Keep in touch on NotRot! kathy/ca

Reply by Susan Fischer on 6/11/11 11:25am
Msg #385923

I hear you, Kathy. It's exciting, scary, and I'm finding

perplexing and inviting and almost overwhelming with possibilities.

I'm exhausted just typing about it. Must be a nap for that...hehehee.

Decisions, decisions, decisions. Hey! I thought things were supposed to get ~easier~. Ha!
Who knew I was so attached to those old socks...

Reply by Susan Fischer on 6/11/11 11:20am
Msg #385921

Fruit! Yes, I vow to eat more fruit... Always enjoyed your

'company' too, Bob, over these many looong years.

I have complete faith in HisHughness, another favorite old coot, and trust you'll continue to add to offer your pearls of jam, I mean, wisdom and funny.

Shouldn't there be a 'Stairs' surcharge for the high risk they pose?

Reply by Moneyman/TX on 6/11/11 11:46am
Msg #385925

Re: This is my Official Announcement of Retirement:

Congratulations Susie!

I must admit that the view from your "office" that you have often described is what most of us picture some of our views would be in retirement. I've been jealous from the first time I read about your morning/sunset views. Wishing you nothing but the best and many wonderful new views along your new journey.

Many of us say "Someday I'll be able to retire". You have now reached that mark and start another journey with many exciting adventures ahead. All your planning and preparations have paid off for you!

In honor of your announcement, here is a poem that I have kept on my desk for years. You have taken your "Someday I'll" and made it a reality. Congratulations again!

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"Someday I'll"
by Denis Waitley

There is an island fantasy
A "someday I'll" we'll never see ...
Where we all retire at forty-one
Playing backgammon in the island sun

Most unhappy people look to tomorrow
To erase this day's hardship and sorrow
They put happiness on "lay away"
And struggle through a blue today ...

Life's most important revelation
Is that the journey means more than the destination ...
The fear of results is procrastination
The joy of today is celebration

You can save, you can slave, trudging mile after mile
But you'll never set foot on your "Someday I'll"
When you've paid all your dues and put in your time
Out of nowhere comes another Mt. Everest to climb

From this day forward make it your vow
Take "Someday I'll" and make it your Now!
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Reply by Susan Fischer on 6/11/11 3:47pm
Msg #385948

Very sweet, thank you for that. n/m

Reply by BrendaTx on 6/11/11 12:06pm
Msg #385928

Best of luck, Susan and happy trails to you until we

meet again!

I think you'll be around (here) for awhile, though.

Congrats and enjoy!

Reply by Stamper_WI on 6/11/11 12:24pm
Msg #385933

Susan

You live in one of the best areas of the country to have some leisure. A well kept secret as far as I am concerned. Wishing you a lot of joy, new exciting things and most of all, peaceful days.

Reply by Linda Juenger on 6/11/11 12:54pm
Msg #385936

Best of luck to you. Enjoyed your writings.

I too will look for that book that you write. Please come back here and tell us when its published.

Reply by Susan Fischer on 6/11/11 3:53pm
Msg #385952

Oh, Linda J, you kidder you. Wouldn't that be something?

Anyhoo, I'm not gone yet, it will be a process of circumstantial unfoldings.

But, getting closer!

Reply by Susan Fischer on 6/11/11 3:50pm
Msg #385949

Oh, yes, for a while yet - everything takes so much time,

no matter what I try to do...

One step at a time, and closing up shop is a biggie.

Thanks, Brenda.

Reply by doofus on 6/11/11 4:24pm
Msg #385955

Re: Oh, yes, for a while yet - everything takes so much time,

susan, it has been a pleasure jousting with you. It can never be said that you did not believe in your postings. Have a good and long life

Reply by Susan Fischer on 6/11/11 5:55pm
Msg #385961

<laughter> Thanks. It's been a wild ride, hasn't it? n/m

Reply by Shoshana/AZ on 6/11/11 4:34pm
Msg #385956

Susan, that is so wonderful! I wish you the best of everything and above all - a long, happy and healthy life! Some of us don't know if we can ever retire!

Reply by Susan Fischer on 6/11/11 5:50pm
Msg #385960

Thank you, Shoshana. It's not going to be a leap into the

lap of luxury - more like a tip-toe through the aisles of the five and dime.

All the best to you too, dear girl.

Reply by CF on 6/12/11 7:53am
Msg #385982

Best wishes....enjoy!!! n/m

Reply by MW/VA on 6/12/11 12:54pm
Msg #386007

Congrats, Susan. I know you've posted that you were getting

financially prepared. I'll have that drink with you. ..clink...
Best wishes on a happy & healthy retirement. I'm envious that you're able to leave this biz. The road is very rocky right now.

Reply by Susan Fischer on 6/12/11 1:13pm
Msg #386009

Clink right back, Marilynn. I've been so fortunate in this

life, all things being equal, and couldn't imagine trying to make it in today's NotaryLand clime.

Thanks for your many kindnesses, and your fabulous contributions here, and sending back my best wishes for you and yours.

Clink!