Putting on the Ritz when the Economy is on the Fritz

Are you fancy?  Is this economy putting a damper on your bling?  Well you are not alone.  We are all making sacrifices today.

It is Friday and I am tired and feeling silly.  Work this week was demanding, while I was preparing for Halloween on Friday and Sari’s 9th birthday on Saturday.  Wednesday Drew informed me that he was playing Joe Biden in a skit for the entire school on Friday and mock election on Monday and needed help writing his speeches.  Okay.  We can make time for that.  Thursday he informed me that he needed a suit to wear to school on Friday.  I had houses to show and shopping to do but okay I would somehow find a suit to go with the white hair spray already requested to create his Biden ‘do for the play.

Meanwhile, the GM-Chrysler talks are getting more doom, gloomy, and real, so the worry of Hubby getting the ax from Chrysler soon is poisoning the focus of everything I have to do. So Halloween is over, birthday was fun, I have a house to show this afternoon and at this moment I am wondering about what kind of sacrifices people are making across the country.  Without Hubby’s income we would have to sell our house before we become another foreclosure statistic.  I heard about a big company a couple of weeks ago that said they were tightening their belts by enforcing that all their executives had to fly coach from now on.  Hm.  For some folks the worsening economy will mean no eating out, stricter grocery shopping lists, and a less elaborate Christmas.  For others, they may have to downsize and sell their Rolexes and replace them with replica watches to make it through the hard times.  Others will have to get second or even third jobs.  Still others are not affected at all as they sit high up on their hill, in their multi million dollar mansions, pointing fingers and making lists of whose jobs to cut so that the “company” can continue to “turn a profit”.

I sure didn’t see any sacrifices being made from the Bush Family when they splashed their daughter’s wedding all over the media.  I found that to be in poor taste while others said it was supposed to help our morale.  It didn’t work that way for me, how about you?

Ellen Degenerous helps my morale every day and she doesn’t do it by flashing material.  When she talks about the economy and people suffering, it is obvious she means it.  It is her goal to make us smile for an hour and give us a break from all the worry.  So in my own melancholy today I turned to YouTube for some Ellen fixes.  What I found that brought me some peace of mind was this clip of Barack Obama on David Letterman that I had not seen.  It’s a good interview, digging into politics a bit, while maintaining the spirit of the show.  Watch it if you haven’t seen it.  And if you are still among the few who actually think that Senator Obama called Sarah Palin a pig (lipstick on the pig), you must push play!