I don't know about you but it feels really tense right now.  It is that feeling of "waiting for the other shoe to drop" or "when it rains it pours".  That kind of feeling that goes away when enough good things happen in a row to help you forget all of the bad things that just happened.  You know what I mean?

Our family has been through the wringer these past weeks.  My husband's younger brother died suddenly of a heart attack.  That certainly threw everyone out of kilter but the circumstances are complicated due to the fact that my brother-in-law was in the middle of a pretty nasty divorce.  He died leaving one child in middle school and two in high school.  Due to the acrimony of the divorce, it was not a funeral that promoted an amazing life lived but accusation and blame.  Such a shame and certainly compounded the grief.

Then, a week later, my son fell off of the jungle gym at school and broke his leg.  A "toddler fracture" they called it, as they wrapped his leg from foot to thigh in a pastel blue cast.  Of course, all of this happened while my husband was on a very important business trip.  Can you believe that it took more than 36 hours to get an appointment to cast my son's leg after we identified it was broken?



However, our family is mending and healing and certainly our troubles are minor compared to so many others.  But, doesn't it just "feel" like we are all "waiting to exhale"?

It just feels to me that things will continue to get more complicated, negative and problematic in the short term before things feel better.  The economy is obviously (and finally) reacting to the "all you can eat" real estate finance buffet that was extended to consumers over the past few years.  And, we have this weird election going on.  Florida and Michigan clearly knowing they were breaking rules and whining that they now can't play.  McCain in Iraq giving poor speeches, Hillary and her migraine inducing shrill voice yelling at me that she is going to make things better and Obama feeling pressured to say bad things about the man that married him because he had a "black rant".

Come on, think about it.  Do you really, really want a panderer to be the next President?  How many friends do you have, whom you love and trust, but disagree with them on certain subjects or even a single argument?  Seriously, does every politician need to distance themselves from everyone who may have a strong opinion because it may offend someone?  What have we come to?

I blame - yes, BLAME - the media.  You put crap up there and then tell me how to think about it.  Well, F-You Bill O'Reilly and Lou Dobbs and Chris Matthews and all of the rest of you looking for or fabricating sensational political stories that are only (if at all) partly correct.  Seriously, my life is full of enough drama as it is, the news media need not compound it.

I am ready for the answers to the nominee for the Democratic Party - and I do hope it is Obama.

I am ready for gas prices to come down.

I am ready to hear the real plan to curb inflation and minimize the recession we are now facing.

I am ready to feel less frenzied and defensive.

I am waiting to exhale.




Until next time, be well!

Erin
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