No news is…no news
December 1st, 2003 by Liss
August 22nd was a long time ago, and I wish that I could say that the end is in sight—it’s been a difficult fall around here. There have been some encouraging possibilities, but so far, nothing that’s panned out. We’ve both been trying to stay positive - it still hasn’t been all that long, especially as compared to some of the year-long horror stories we’ve heard about. The unemployment that J’s getting isn’t nearly enough (No one could actually survive on the amount he gets, and he’s getting the maximum, but let’s not go there…), but if I’m careful with the budget, we’ll be fine.
In the Not So Fine department, I’m probably not dealing all that well with the holiday season this year; I really thought that I was - we were - beyond the years of scrimping and scraping, trying to pull together enough money to have a decently filled-out holiday. I keep looking around - in the figurative sense at least - and thinking that this is not the life I had planned, not the life I signed up for.