Down in the Dumps

I’ve been down in the dumps lately and no matter what I do, I can’t get over this depressed feeling. It feels like there’s just one thing after another dragging us down. Mostly it has to do with the fact that Brian lost his job 3 weeks ago. I’ve been trying to get a job so we can collect Brian’s unemployment, but the job search is going nowhere. I haven’t worked for 5 years, so no one wants me. I still have the capability to work, but no one will give me a chance. One of the jobs I applied for had received over 400 applications. There’s so much competition, I’m afraid nothing will ever come along. Brian is an architect, and there are no open architect positions in the state, so I’m not holding out much hope for us. We are living off food storage and not spending hardly any money, but money will run out in a month or two. Maybe this is to teach us how to live more frugally. The amount we used to spend every two weeks, in hindsight, seems like a fortune. Maybe we needed this wake-up call to stop being wasteful, get our food storage in order, and save, save, save. Even if Brian finds something, it’s likely that this could happen again someday. I hope we are all taking the prophets council to stock up and save money to prepare ourselves for hard times.