Screw the News

So, I said I would do it - so here I am. I said I would keep up with my blog and I'm GOING TO DO IT!!! The catch is, is that I have to start writing about what's REALLY going on.

A LOT has actually been going on the Restless Household that I haven't yet had the opportunity to write about and kinda didn't feel like it since it's SUCH a big deal and I didn't know if I wanted to actually "go public" with. But the fact of the matter is, is that so many people these days are going through the exact same thing or worse.

My husband's company went out of business a week and half ago. He got completely side swiped and to top it off, our health insurance also got canceled without the opportunity to continue it through COBRA. So yes, we are uninsured as I am writing this. AND, I have pre-existing conditions that will not get covered by individual health insurance. It's so scary. But actually, after my major meltdown last week when I found out about the loss of health insurance, I have been amazingly "at peace" with everything. I went though all the motions I think, and finally realized that it is out of my control and we haven't done anything wrong. So, there is nothing we can do and the situation WILL get better. Everything WILL work out.

We are looking into other options for health insurance and am sure something will come about.

Restless Hubs has a few job leads and it's only been a week.

But, the thing that aggravates the situation is that as I try to maintain this positive attitude and outlook, is the friggin' news. "The economy this", "the economy that",,"the economy" SUCKS RIGHT NOW AND WE KNOW IT DOES FOLKS!!! Enough already and lets move on!!!

I feel the nation, the world, is OBSESSED with it and I - am - so - over - it!!!

It's the same thing with the gas prices. Seriously. I got so sick of hearing about the gas prices and a few months later, we're paying $1.76 per/gallon!

THIS is why at the ripe age of 14, the 1st time I took interest in the news, I heard it, and decided that it wasn't for me. That's it. It may sound ignorant, but it is still - just not for me. There's little, if anything, except for voting (and I did and he won!), that I can do to help these big nationwide, worldwide issues when I can't even keep up with the dishes in the sink! Unless I had the amount of money Brad and Angelina had in their bank accounts, there's not a whole lot I can do for anyone else - besides recycling, donating what we can here and there - let alone the nation's economic situation. All that listening to the "economic situation" pounded into our heads does for my poor Restless Hubs (who by the way has been tormented by this subject for MONTHS), and me is make us feel hopeless, scared... and more restless.

So please news people, can you find something else to talk about besides how to celebrate Christmas on a budget, or how many people were laid off at GM?! Or how we may be entering the 2nd Great Depression??!

Can we just move on and instill some hope in people and not the negativity you are bringing into our homes as we're all already struggling with our own circumstances?

Anyway, I've taken the news away from Restless Hubs and told him I think it'd be best if he stayed away from it. We have to deal with our own situation without the discouragement the news is feeding us. I KNOW everything WILL work out for us. But it's gonna happen with or without the current economical situation. Of course it has an effect on us, but it always has and it always will and there's not a damn thing we can do about it!