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My husband was laid off about a year ago and fast forward, he is quickly becoming known as the most optimistic job seeker in the US. A local celebrity of sorts, not here at home of course, here he is just that dufus who won't make the bed... But I digress. Life is actually good, really good except that all of our hard work/savings/equity of the last 16 years is evaporating, our future plans have been totally skewed, not to mention the daily issues like we have no money for tennis lessons, piano lessons and well of course doctor visits. It's kind of fun really, whenever one of us has a serious illness we make calls around to the various nursing friends we have and ask advice "can an adult do every 3 hours with motrin/tylenol like a child if the adult has a 103 fever? "Oh, she is at the scouts meeting, well is she on the cell because I'm in an ice bath here and...ok I will call back." Thank God we have more than one friend in nursing!

Buying food has become exciting, we have switched from Publix, luxury supermarket to the stars to the "other" place. The locals stare at us and smile and then they move over so I can grab my tomatoes. Nice folks, really. Makes me feel silly for not shopping there sooner. My husband has become a beacon of light to the hopeless that are the unemployed masses, doesn't change the fact that I still have to sit on my hands during the interviews and shut up and not complain that I looked like "cousin it" on Network News but hey its exposure right?

I dont know where all this is going, all I can say is that if I hear my 3 year old ask one more time why daddy's still home "on vacation" I'm going to scream. Are we optimistic? Hell yes? Why? Because this is America and it can't go on forever, and even if it did, life is so short, I'd rather be spitting beer out of my nose than crying in it. We have been taught that financial meltdown is a sign of personal failure but this is NO ONES fault (well no one I know anyway, so screw it).

Some day we really are going to look back and laugh and say "OMG! that sucked!, and remember that time in the dollar store, when I elbowed that yaya to get the chicken on sale for $1.68? good times man. This is the stuff life is made of. The way I see it, the banks are screwed into being patient, there is unemployment and it's like we are all getting a day off of school, so lets head to the beach! Seriously, chin up people we can do this thing. Hunter Thompson said "when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro". I have definitely TURNED PRO people, I am on the phone right now planning my corporate sponsorship for weirdness ;)