WHAT MONTH IS IT?

Happy New!

Happy spring. Happy Easter. Happy better weather. Happy baseball. Just Happy!

We made it through another dark cold wet winter. The sun is out. The dandelions are out. And evidently certain things in Jesse James pants are out.

I always take to heart that this is the season for rebirth. The time to put some pavement under your shoes and get moving. This is easy for me. Unemployed is still the box I check on any survey that comes my way. But with so many Happy's maybe something new will stop hiding from me on my casual job searches. Maybe that company that loves the big old boys with the speed of a manatee and the sharpness of toy knife will open it's door to me. Extend it's large corporate arms and say welcome. And if and when that day comes I will surely shed a tear. For a job is a sign of not being a lazy bum. A job is a sign of responsibilities. And a job is a sign of a certain loss of freedom.

I've come to the conclusion that true freedom and money are not very good friends. No, they seem to travel on different streets. One is the street of control. The other is the road less traveled. Which is also the one with less landscaping. Less new cars. Less new kitchen gadgets. And less keeping an accurate measure of time.

Well I guess I won't be the first stuck putting little widgets in large boxes. I guess I won't be the first to drag my grumpy ass home at the end of my shift to suck down beer and bitch about the traffic. But I'm sure a pocket full of minimum wage dollars will help me forget all that. I'm sure joy will spread over my face with every cart I pass out at Wal-Mart. I'm sure there is no better way to spend a day.

How sad. When we are working all many of us can think of is getting out of our job. When we are unemployed all many of us can think of is getting back into a crappie job.

But it's the season of new and I won't think that way. No I will have only shiny positive thoughts. For example my new retirement plan may kick in. I've been investing in it twice a week. I know that soon the numbers will match up. I know that soon I will be thanking the state and asking for one lump payment. Then I can sit back and do absolutely nothing with my day. Hey wait a minute.