I’ve really had enough with visiting my news pages in the morning and seeing “CRISIS” everywhere and attached to every headline. Tied with the economy, my poor job outlook situation, and the stress of planning a wedding, trying to lose weight (which, by the way, the easiness of that is very closely tied to my stress level), and Ian’s job search…well, I wouldn’t be all that surprised if life expectancy for this generation might go down a little (for the first time…in a long time, at any rate). I don’t want to die of a heart attack by 30 or 35, but with how crappy everything seems to be going…
Not that I’m going to give up. I can’t. I have to hold out hope. After all, the call I received today saying that I didn’t get a job did have some positive elements in it, laced with a nice taste of bitter: Principal: “Frankly, I’m surprised that you don’t have a job yet.”
Me too. I have been the runner-up about five times now.
But at any rate, I need to start watching my wallet more carefully, and maybe it would do me some good to learn some more self-reliance for the upcoming years. So, in the name of self-sufficiency, I am going to set my goal for tomorrow: I am going to learn how to sew a button. (I think I learned this in 7th grade home ec, but I have not done anything like it in a while). I have a few buttons that have fallen off my winter coat and it’s beginning to get chilly. I will learn how to fix it myself. And I will do it.
Yay self-sufficiency!
