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Scarlett O'Hara where are you????

Ok so I am sitting one evening on my back porch fretting as

I do so often about the state of my finances. 

I must stop reading the newspaper articles about the recent  foreclosure crisis.  I wonder how far off  I am from foreclosure on my home in my dream

neighborhood.  I really do live in a

Mayberry type neighborhood.  Then the

next thought is maybe welfare and food stamps are next.  Yikes!!! 

How does a person with MBA and years of experience in the corporate

world get to this place? 

When suddenly I hear my deceased mother and grandmother both

say at the same time “Over my dead body will any daughter /granddaughter of

mine lose her home and go on welfare and food stamps.” OK so I am thinking a

bit ironic since they are both dead but the point is still not lost on me.  I reply “But Mom, Grandma times are hard

things have changed since you were here last.” 

“Ha” they both say “we survived the depression and you will survive this.”

OK at this point I realize I have had two glasses of wine

and probably should go to bed.  Mom and

Grandma both agree with me.  It is at

that point they tell me “Good night we will see you in your dreams and kiss my

forehead.”  Then I imagine they go back

to a lively debate of some sort probably over why my brothers in NJ haven’t

called in awhile.

The next morning I wake up with my two children curled up next to me.  Sometime during the night they had gotten in

my bed.  I love those mornings feeling

their soft skin and warm cuddly bodies curled up next to me.  So it is at that point Scarlet O’Hara comes

to my mind and I feel a surge of her resolve and the moment she declares.  “God as my witness I will never eat turnips

again!”  Ok so that isn’t even close to

the actual lines in the movie.  But hey I haven’t had any coffee yet.  The real 

quote is  Vivien Leigh (Scarlett): As God is my witness, as God is my witness

they’re not going to lick me! I’m going to live through this and when it’s all

over, I’ll never be hungry again! No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie,

steal, cheat or kill! As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again!

Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’hara

(Gone with the Wind)

OK so maybe I won’t lie, steal,

cheat or kill but I am going to find a way out of this mess. 

“God as my witness I am never going

to be this broke again.  I’m going to

live through this and when it’s all over, 

I am going to stop drinking wine.”