I’ve been watching with quite a bit of concern the attempts to fix the financial mess our country is finding itself in.  I was not happy with the bail out bill package, but I felt that it needed to be passed to keep our economy from collapsing completely.  So I was very discouraged to hear that it had not passed.  This scares me; I’m concerned that people are going to be losing their jobs and their homes.  I hope that they come up with a workable solution to fix this mess!

Goodness knows I’m getting tired of hearing “the sky is falling” messages from people about how using cell phones is bad for you.  For years people have been trying to link cell phone usage with brain cancer, and now they are trying to link it with decreased fertility in men?  Good grief!  Get over it already!  If there is decreased fertility in men, where exactly are they holding their cell phones?

I called my best friend today to wish her a happy birthday.  She said that I was the first one to wish her a happy birthday (other than family) and was glad to hear from me.  I asked her how her day had been, and she said that she had to work today.  She said her feelings were hurt because last week one of her co-workers had a birthday and the co-workers threw a party for her, but no one at work acknowledged her birthday today at all.  I felt really badly about that because she is a really good person and does not deserve to have her feelings hurt like that.

Apparently there have been rumors going around that North Korea’s extremist leader, Kim Jong is ill, and may have suffered a serious stroke.  I’m not one to wish anyone harm, but considering how extremist he is and how he feels that the United States is “the enemy” I really can’t say that I’m sorry to hear that he may be suffering ill health.  I can only hope that if he IS ill and/or dies, that he is replaced by someone a little bit less extreme!

I understand that the DOW fell 340 points yesterday, largely due to the news of rising unemployment and loss of retail sales.  I don’t usually pay a lot of attention to the stock market – I bought some stock a long time ago and just put it away, hoping to maybe make a little bit of money on it “in the long run.”  I’ve always been told to buy stock when the market is down, so this would be a good time to buy – if I had money to invest!

But money is too tight right now to put anything into investments, it is hard just paying the bills.  The economy of the US is in trouble though, and I think it is going to get worse before it gets better.