stocks and markets

Making it short and sweet today. Friday’s will be long…PS by the way. : )

Yesterday at work, I noticed on my MSN homepage there was BREAKING NEWS: DOW drops 22 points and plummets below 11,000…or something like that. Now, I know that should be important because #1, it’s the DOW and #2, it’s breaking news—however, it means nothing to me. My family never did the whole investing thing, so I’ve never bothered becoming familiar with it. I know others who have, and have had great success and others who have not. I think that’s why I don’t like it, it’s not dependable. I love adventure and taking risks, but not in that area. Sorry, this has gotten too serious. Anyways…

I turn around to my co-workers and read the statement off…and I get a similar reaction—blink, blink, blank stare—but I whisper, “I think that’s bad.” And they start laughing hysterically (sorry to those of you affected). Later that evening, I was telling my roomies about the exchange we had at work, and I said in passing, “yeah, I don’t really get into the whole stocks and markets thing.” Now, I don’t know if you’ve ever had this moment, but it’s the moment when you know you’ve said something out loud, but you know it’s not right, but you’re not sure why it’s not right. Any takers? No? Well, happens a lot in our household and we DO NOT let the other get away with it.

So naturally, my roomies don’t let it go, and for a solid 10-15 minutes, in their perfectly sounding air head voices go back and forth about, “oh my gosh, the stocks and markets! I love the stocks and markets. Mainly because I like to share. They do a lot of sharing at the stocks and markets. And oh my gosh, they laugh and laugh while I’m there, especially when I say stocks and markets…I think it’s because they really like me.”

Much to my chagrin, I have to grin and bear it. Don’t worry, one day very soon, probably today, I’ll get ‘em back.

“she’s a pretty girl”