The first day: God creates the Earth and saith, "It is good."
Second day: God creates trees, plants and pretty flowers and saith, "It is good."
Third day: God creates the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and creepy-crawly things and saith, "It is good."
Fourth day: God creates Man and saith, "It is good, but it is not good that Man should be alone." Therefore God creates Woman and saith, "It is good."
Fifth day: God creates the house, that Man and Woman can get away from the plants, the trees, the birds, the beasts, and the creepy-crawly things. He sees that the house has four bedrooms, three baths, a two-car garage, closet space of every kind and a refrigerator with that ice cube thingy in the door and saith: "It is good."
Sixth day: Woman asks God, "Is it good for our walls to be bare?" And God lays drop cloths, tapes around windows and trim, primes, paints, paints a second coat, and touches up all the little mistakes He made along the way and saith: "Forget this! I'm taking tomorrow off!"
Three years ago my company closed three of its stores. In the process, I was laid off. It was reassuring when people would come up to me and say, "I'm sorry you're leaving. We're gonna miss you." Luckily for me, a place was eventually found for me in my current position.
It's happened again. My location is closing now as well. The reactions I'm getting from people now are decidedly different: "Oh no! YOU'RE LOSING YOUR JOB! What are you going to do?" It's like you just told someone you have cancer or something. Of course, times are tough, but don't bring me down, people! It's not the end of the world (and if it were, why would I care if I had a job?). You know what concerns me? Whether or not I'm going to get home in time for the Psych premier on Wednesday.
P.S. In case you know someone who knows someone: I have an A.A.S. in Software Application & Programming, I graduated with a 3.9 GPA, and I make killer brownies.
