So instead of depressing myself first thing, I decided to find something else to watch as I got ready.
Unfortunately I didn't do much better. I landed on "The Waltons." In fact, it was the episode set around Pearl Harbor where Mary Ellen's husband is working at Pearl Harbor and after the attacks, she has no idea if he is dead or alive. The whole family is stressing out - Olivia is worried her boys may enlist, the sisters are concerned for something because they're always crying, Mary Ellen is of course worried about her husband and Cora Beth is stressing out for other mothers and telling everyone she's glad she doesn't have a son.
The episode ends with everyone listening to FDR's speech declaring war on Japan and Mary Ellen receiving a telegram that Curt is dead. AND THEN, Grandma Walton comes out with a letter Curt wrote his infant son before he left in case he didn't come back.
I was blubbering. It was five minutes until eight and I stood there blubbering like an idiot. I had to go wash my face and start over again.
Maybe I'll just stick to Playhouse Disney in the mornings. There's nothing depressing about Handy Manny.
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We're young though. Assuming we can keep our jobs through all this it just means more stocks per dollar. So when things pick up again you'll have that much more in your portfolio with plenty of time left before retirement.
The only thing that bugs me is that the same people who caused this mess (when anyone could see it coming from a mile away . . . are there really THAT many people around who can afford all these nice homes?) are the same people who are now trying to fix it.
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