Message #11661

[ekg]

I'm doing better now than I have been in the last couple years. It's not great, but it's enough that I'm actually thinking of planning a small vacation this summer. It's enough that me and the kid went to dinner at a fancy restaurant, ordered 2 appetizers and dessert and I didn't 'sweat' spending the money..  It's been years since we'd been able to do that.

Last night a talking head said "The unemployment rate didn't go down this month, but people are feeling better and that's whats important" 

I couldn't agree more.

Today, I am going for a 90 min massage. I had another one 2 weeks ago and plan on having another 2 weeks from now.. I haven't been to my guy in 3 years. I am also getting my 1st pedicure next Saturday. whoo hoo.. It's not that I'm rolling in the dough, but things are better than they have been in a long long while... and I'm not the only one feeling that way. A friend of my daughters moved in with us last night from Alabama, he moved back because when he visited last weekend he saw 50 placed hiring...from 7/11 in Melbourne to a hotel on Cocoa Beach.. He moved to Alabama 2 years ago because there wasn't a single job here to get.. That's changed.

IDK.. I know the GOP scream doom and gloom.. but even the high gas prices aren't stopping people from feeling "It might just be ok" for the 1st time in a LONG time.. If they could only get over their blinding hatred of Obama, and actually help people feel better about where we're at right now instead of where they wished we were.. who knows how fast we could recover this bitch. Confidence across the board, from left to right is what this country needs, but that side refuses to give any confidence for fear that it might just make things better for this country.. and when the stated goal is making Obama a 'one-term' potus, doom and gloom is all they will give since 'feeling better' defeats their purpose..

and that... IMO.. is beyond insane