LABOR DAY

Today is Labor Day in the U.S. Here in Costa Rica we like to celebrate not having JOBS! Just kidding we really work really hard and like to celebrate that with a good old fashioned cook out. O.K. maybe not exactly the old fashioned cook out. We improvise. Pasta salad of course, but with no olives, can't find any today. Potato salad, with the no skin potatoes they have here. And hubby is out foraging for Polish sausages. Sometimes we can find them sometimes we can't, may get lucky today.

I just wish well to all who have a livelihood at the moment, and pray for those who don't. There is nothing as discouraging as being jobless, unless it would be being homeless. We have experienced both and I think the homeless one was a little tough. Of course we had a home, it was in the campground, and at least we had a job.

When we were first married there was no job and none in sight for hubby. He would go out everyday pounding the pavement to no avail. After months of this he finally decided to go back into the military. It was a last resort and to this day we wished we would have waited just a few more months. After getting out of the military it was the same old smell. No jobs to be found. We had two kids and number three on the way and he was flipping burgers at the King. It sucked.

Along came the post office offering a whole $9.50 an hour! We thought we had died and gone to heaven, until he started working there that is. What he did not realize was that he sold his soul to work there! Good thing he is free of government employment, finally!

COLLEGE EXPENSES

Did you know it is very expensive to go to college these days? I have finally figured out that the very rich have no need for college, the poor get it paid for and us middle classers are just screwed.

Several of my sons are trying to find a way to pay for college. They all work and try very hard to survive and would like to have some kind of future job that would actually support a family. It is very difficult for them to do.

We have tried with them to explore all options of obtaining an education that would provide a good job for them. They have even checked with the military, and thank goodness found that would not work for them. They thought they would not have to shoot anyone and were not happy to find out they might have to.

At any rate I really don't see much improvement with the new presidency as far as helping everyone that desires it a college education. I think they needed to be minorities, oh well.