Changes

Earlier this year my family started to make plans for moving out of Vegas.  We want a farm with our own food and animals.  We've had a lovely valley in a nearby state that we've been researching and keeping up with jobs and housing in the area.  Everything was looking good, but first we had to save money for the move.  The beginning of June we finally had enough money saved up.  My husband worked one last big show at the soul-sucking mega-casino.  And just in time, the customers went from being rude to down right creepy weird.  There started to be incidents involving people forgeting to wear clothes.  The corperate ladder was filling up more and more with politics that involved selling your soul, and taking out a second mortgage on it as well.  My husband's job was so overwhelming and stressfull, he couldn't find time to even job hunt before he quit/ retired. 

It seemed as soon as my husband quit his job, the job market and everything else froze up as the debt talks started to become the center of the national spotlight.  We've been taking it one day at a time and up until this week were still dreaming of a farm.  But Obama gave us Changes that are making us seriously reconsider our options.  There have been news of farms being raided for selling raw milk and there's some laws being set in motion affecting the use of tractors on farms.  I don't even know if the Amish can survive the attacks they're bringing on farms.  So now we're having to re-examine our goals.  And thank God, we got our 401k out just before the markets started their deep plunge.  We're sitting okay for now financially, but I don't know where our country is heading or our part in it.  Let the adventure begin.