Amazemerize

That day is looming on me. April 15th has never been one of my favorite days anyway and now with all the extra pressure of getting my taxes done on time is driving me to drink. I will lock myself in the office with a coffee pot and all of our receipts and I will not come out until I am done with the taxes. Add in the fact that I do not even like coffee and you can see what a mess I am in this year last year I had to file an extension I do not want to do that this year, so off to the office I go.

As I sit here dead broke I wonder what happened to all of the money we had put away to retire with, I know that when the price of gasoline shot up it cost us more to do business and we still have not recovered from that at all. Let us hope the new year brings a better economy and a better life to all of us struggling to make ends meet in this world.

As Christmas Day gets closer and closer I am very worried that we will not have enough money to have as good a holiday as we are used to. We are used to eating a huge dinner and having nice gifts and this year it is going to be a little leaner than we are used to. The high price of gasoline and higher expenses this fall have made us close to bankrupt. I do not want to get any closer let us hope that 2009 gets off to a good start for us and we get back on the right track.

The arrival of December makes it another month when I ran out of money before the month was over. I hope this downturn in the economy does not last much longer, I have went through almost all of the money we had saved, our 401K is about gone and I need a new truck for work. It does not sound very healthy around here these days does it? I know the price of gasoline going down will help some but the big ticket items I need to buy including a new truck for work will just have to wait for better times and more money I guess.

We got to talking about fun jobs that we used to have and that got me to thinking about the summer I worked for Servi-Tech. We went around plot planting seeds for different kinds of wheat and tended the plots all summer and fall and cut the wheat the next spring to test the yeild on the different varieties of wheat in different parts of the country. It was a lot of fun we got to travel around work out side a perfect job for a college age guy with no girlfriend, I made good money got to travel and had fun. Maybe the best summer job I ever had.