SUCKS!

Well it finally happened. I lost my job. Freakin' sucks! I guess I should say that at least I got to work until January, or there are more people out there that are worse off than I am, but ya know what, it just plain sucks! I am now one of the millions of people who are unemployed. What makes this worse it that there isn't anyone hiring. I filed for unemployment, and part of the process is that I HAVE to register with CalJobs, okay no problem, let me see what jobs does the county/state have available....oh, I see there's a total of five jobs available, and all of them are for police officers. WTF! Let me tell ya, unemployment payments are about half of what I was normally making, so not only am I unemployed, but joyousness,we might lose our house too because my income just took dive in to the sh*ter. Woohoo life is great (sarcasm).

SNOW!

So, there are many things I don't like about living in the mountains, most of those things would have to be the critters that live up there with us. I could live happily ever after if I never had to see or kill another scorpion, or rattlesnake. But, one of the great things about living up in the mountains is you actually get snow in the winter. This is huge to me. We have a crazy steep driveway so if we get enough snow we are stuck and can't get out, ah so sad, too bad we can't go to work/school. We got snow on Christmas this year. Normally it's sunny and warm on Christmas, but this year we got snow. So the day after Christmas we bundle up the kids and drive about 15 miles up the road and get out and play. We live about 25 miles from the park entrance to Yosemite, so getting up into the mountains and playing isn't that big of a deal for us. We bundled up the kids and off we went. I think Matt and I had much more fun than the kids did. They don't understand that curling up into the fetal position isn't the best defence against snowballs. They haven't learned how to fight back and throw balls back yet. I give them one more year and then Matt and I might be in trouble.