Money really does fall from trees, sometimes...

This past week I started to freak out when I thought about the little time I have left with unemployment benefits. Back in June I thought for sure I'd have a job within a few weeks. Here we are almost FOUR MONTHS later, and holy shit...no job! I admit though, the longer you are away from office assholes the more you never want to go back to that again.

So this week money has been on my mind. I've started looking around my house at little things, like a lamp, or a vase, or even pieces of furniture and seeing dollar signs dance in my head. Will I get that desperate that I will end up sitting on the floor in my living room because I sold everything I own?? Maybe.

So on to the amusing yet almost embarrassing thing I must share. See, back on a glorious fall day in 2003, when I had a small apartment and didn't know how I'd afford my next quarter tank of gas, I was walking to my car after a day at my shitty job and the most amazing thing happened! I saw a dollar bill in the grass. It was mildly windy and it was floating around so I went over to pick it up only to find it was a ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR BILL!!! Holy shit I thought...I looked around as if I was stealing or something and that maybe someone was about to pop out and knock me out for it, but no one was around. I quickly shoved it in my pocket and drove straight to the grocery store and FINALLY was going to have food in my house and NOT the ramen noddles I'd been having for dinner 8784509 time that year!

So my point is this....I was on a long walk the other day in the park. The hellish heat has finally gone back to hell where it belongs and I felt the need for a nice long walk. While I was walking I remembered that day and suddenly felt the universe was telling me to look around for more! I began to stare at the grass around me, almost willing that money to be there again, I mean seriously, once you see a hundred dollar bill in the grass you will never forget that sight and you can't help but look around in hopes it could happen again. The odds are slim but on this particular day last week, I walked around so long that I just knew one of those trees above was about to send money straight down to my feet once again. I even spoke aloud softly to myself "Come on money...I know there are more of you floating around somewhere, I NEED YOU, PLEASE come to me!"

Okay so that was silly I know but at the moment I thought maybe someone would have mercy on me and some rich person may drop a hundred or two the way I drop stupid pennies without knowing or caring.

No money found. I won't give up hope though. That day when I found that money I was able to get food and a FULL tank of gas and it was as if someone above knew I needed that more than the rich person that probably dropped it.

Here's hoping that one of these days, a sweet little tree will decide to help me out once again. I will even start recycling, promise.

JJ