Hello. My name is Maria and I am 40 years old but my students tell me I look 35 years old so that I don't give them any homework.
Anyway, come March 2009, and it cannot come soon enough, I shall retire myself from a successful career of being FILTH - Failed in London, Tried Honshu' and intend to sail my cement boat into the port side of a grp boat called Vivid, the boat belonging to the Maltese skank, Kak, who recently shagged my boyfriend,

and after I've done that well, I think a little sojourn in the South Pacific might go down swell.

Like I said, I will consider myself retired at the age of 40 years and 11 months old.
Now I don't have much. I own my boat. I have two flats fully-paid for; one in Turkey and one in South Africa. Enough income comes in from renting out the SA one to cover levies etc.
I have 20k in sterling.
30k US once this slow year is over.
I will live off that and then when the money runs out will sell a flat. If I manage to live longer than my mother and grandmother did - both died in their early 40's[eek]

- and I get to the point where I have no money left, both flats have been sold, and I get sick[I have no health insurance or pension], I will just off myself or commit a crime in a country that has good prison food.
So that's how I'm managing to retire at such a young age having never been an executive of a multi-national corporation or a thrice-over divorcee.

Can't wait for the adventure to begin.