Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Dow closes up over 10K!

Some things do happen for the good. The Dow Jones at 10,015.86 up 144.80, and the NASDAQ 2,172.23 up 32.34! Are we back? Well, we are to our high of a year ago. Not really, when things were really great we were at 14000, still quite a ways to go, but to hear it told Wall Street seems to think that we are getting there for sure.
Bully for them!
We got out of the market back the last time it went south in 1987, and we lost big bucks on Black Monday it was, and that wasn’t even as bad as the Black Tuesday one, October 29th 1929 crash way back when, the big one!

So when the market did go way down this time, we fortunately didn’t lose anything since we didn’t have anything in it to lose. And in an odd way that was good.
We, not so wealthy people don’t’ feel the losses that the rich do, since we have become jaded in our poverty. But have learned from when we did have a bit, not rich but more than we have now; if you cannot afford to lose it (money) don’t play it, the market that is; that is why it is called playing the market friends; it is a wild and wooly game of chance, bulls or bears included in that game. True security is not living beyond your means and paying your own way as you go.

New Topic: Casey’s ashes were brought home today by Hubby who went down to pick them up; they were in a red simplistic gold latched box. The funeral home, which also does handle human remains, they sent us a condolence card, and a packet of Forget-me-not seeds within it. I have mixed emotions about all that. I have always stated that when I leave here that I want to also be cremated, and that is why all of our loving pets have been. Now this might be odd to some who lovingly bury their pets in their yards and planted commemorative trees there too. But my fear is that some other creature might dig them up or we might move and others may just use the space to add on to their new home or some other type of construction, you know what I mean. And with all the horror stories on the news lately of cemeteries being dug up or moved elsewhere it gives me the willies just thinking about it, being buried in the ground, got it?
I know most religions think it is desecrating the body, including my own faith, but it is my own desire to be neat, clean and reasonably done away with, and I truly believe it is kinder to all family and friends and the world too as truly being green as you can get in that finale, the end, fini, right?

I will bid you all a good night and to all take care, be safe and count those blessings of yours, and I will desperately, nah, when I get around to it…look for mine!

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