Oh the real world...

It's days like these where I wish I could rewind my life and go back to elementary school. Back where being an adult seemed cool and problems were small.

I have just spent the past hour or so talking to my best friend, E. Sad to say she is one of the unemployed people making up the rapidly growing statistics you hear about on the news. She got laid off a couple of months ago from a job she loved. It sucks. Now is not the time to be looking for a job. I just wish there was more I could do to help her but all I can do is be there when she needs to vent. I invited her to come up this weekend just to get away for everything so hopefully she will.

We are also dealing with car drama. Last year when K was living at home his best friend's dad gave him this old car he had gotten for free. It looked like a short limo and had red velour seats but it was pretty reliable. I called it Big Gray. Recently it has been needing more maintenance and I have been trying to convince him to stop putting money into it, however he said he wanted to drive it into the ground. Well that happened this past weekend, while he was in New Jersey. So he borrowed his grandpa's extra car to get home and is going to have Big Gray fixed so he can bring it down here and trade in for a new car. We knew this would happen sooner or later but it still is a pain...we need to find him something reasonably priced and that won't give him trouble. He has a lot on his plate with working and putting himself through school he needs to not have to worry about a car, even if it means taking on a car payment and thus making a tight money situation even tighter.

It's hard being in the real world.