Hmm. How nice it would be to write a blog celebrating a new year of hope and excitement, but that's not the case for me this New Year's. The factory I work at which is a pretty shitty job to begin with and not at all what I went to college and got a degree to do decided to lay us off for two weeks during Christmas & New Year. Merry Fucking Christmas, right? Here's two weeks off without pay during the time of year you need it the most. But that's okay. I'll manage. I'll figure something out. I always do. It's just two weeks. Two weeks stuck in the house with nothing to do and no money to go anywhere (I literately have no gas money). So I sit at my wife's computer every morning looking for a better job, listening to her Grandparents complain about us still living (out of one bedroom... a one-year-old, two adults, and just about everything we own... in ONE SMALL GUEST BEDROOM) in their house and how bad we are at being parents. All while my wife sleeps away. But before you go bagging on her, I chose to let her sleep in and get up w/ Brandon myself because I am supposed to be the provider, the man, and I'm not providing anything. The least I can do is provide her w/ a little extra sleep and spend a little time with my son every morning. And she deserves it. Our son will never feel unloved or go a day without with her as his mother. And she has her shit together a lot better than I do. Her daddy is fixing her car, her Grandparents are putting tags and insurance on it, she's going back to school the 15th of this month and my step mom is going to watch our son for us so we don't have to deal w/ finding and paying a good babysitter. She has so much to look forward to in 2009. So far all I have to look forward to is trying to clean and organize our cluttered room so I can get to the 2-litre Pepsis @ the bottom of our closet that are there because we have to keep our groceries in our room if we don't want them to be consumed by everyone else. And to really make matters worse, my job called a couple of days before New Year's and informed me they are extending the layoff another two weeks and maybe more. I was supposed to finally get insurance for my family through work after working there more than a year and they lay us off for 4 weeks and then proceed to tell us if we go back at the end of the 4 weeks they are going to double up on the deductions from our check for the two weeks of insuance we can't use because we don't get our insurance cards until we go back to work because they are going to drop the insurance altogether if the lay-off extends past the 4th week. So not only will I not get the insurance I worked over a year to get, I'll be out of a job all-together. And it doesn't stop there. I tried to sell a laptop I had on the Net and got ripped off. I'll spare you the embarrasing details, but I will say I'll never see that laptop again nor the $500 I was supposed to be paid for it. And that's still not all. A few weeks ago, a deer hit my car damaging the front left side pretty bad. While I'm upset about all the cosmetic damage what I'm really worried about is the dangerousness of only having one headlight (the other is busted into a million pieces). I don't have insurance on the car, if I can't find work soon, I won't be able to make the payments on the it. My tags are out of date and I can barely get in and out of the car cause the driver side door and fender is so damaged. So right now I'm laid off looking for a better job, live in my wife's Grandparent's house with my wife, son and I all crammed into one small guest bedroom with just about eveything we own (even some of our groceries) crammed in there with us, I'm broke, my car's broke and I have no idea what I'm going to do about the bills I have coming up or where I'm going to find a job that pays $12 or more an hour before my family gets even farther into debt. Happy Fucking New Year!