The Market

Hooray for the stock market today, up 11% *twitching, cringing and biting nails*! What is that all about? For weeks now we have watched in horror as the crazy financial firestorm wiped out everyone's life savings and then we bounce over 900 points in one day! Are some of these funds being pumped in finally hitting the mark? I really doubt confidence has been restored yet, and we know the mortgage "ball out", sorry "bail out" hasn't had time to be thrown into action, so what then?

Hopefully it will stick and we won't see it dive again tomorrow. I heard the plan for guaranteeing loans between banks was the key for today's recovery. Whatever the reason, it is completely disturbing that our economy is so fragile! And more disturbing that many saw it coming but didn't do anything about it! I was so overwhelmed and in such a daze by last friday, almost traumatized, like I wanted to grab the man next to me in the grocery store and yell, "How can you just stand there man, don't you know our whole world is coming to an end!!". Then of course sain Cami smacked me upside the head and I bought the milk and escorted myself out!

Ok but really, doesn't all of this shit scare the crap out of you? I mean our grandmothers tell us horror stories of the depression, but for a moment picture our country today in that state. The current violence and population differences between then and now are astronomical.

If anything good comes of this for me it is awareness or my previous lack there of. I've always thought I should have food/water storage in case the 'big earthquake' hits, but now I see that disaster could come in so many forms. Either way, I'm on it! And no more of this hiding from the news, negative or not, awareness is better than the bliss of ignorance. Bliss can blindside even the strong! "Damn those happy thoughts (shaking my fist, with my best homer simpson voice) !" Ok friends I'm off to dream of little dow graphs on an upward trend. Peace, Cami