In which Karma pulls the rug out from under me Part Deux.

So there I was in the middle of a huge store having  a total freak out moment. I don't even know what I bought from said store all I remember is the weekend seemed to go in slow motion. Then come Monday a meeting with the bigwigs  reviled all, that yes indeed the store would close by the end of the year. Really Karma before Christmas. It was like a nightmare. Let me stop a minute and explain working somewhere for 21 years , well if kind of defines you,  makes you feel as if this is who you are I was know as Big Redd to my co-workers who would I be now? Would I be able to find another Job I knew for certain that it would not be in a store maybe this was karma's way of say enough of this store business try something different for a change. But the other part of me the internal part was having  a total melt down, a total panic about how to put  food on the table and pay the bills. We have 3 kids what was I going to do. I had a daughter starting collage in the fall of 2006. I felt lost, confused , like  someone in shock. The last day I simple signed on the x saying I would be getting a said amount of severance pay and then walked out. I cried all the way home.
I made myself get up each day get dressed, do something , anything clean out a closet, a drawer. But since we only have 2 closets in this big old house what was I going to do after that.
Well my good friend J happened after that she came to me and said I need your help with a project we are having something at Church we need volunteers to help decorate or anything you can do. I liked the idea of doing something fun. So I jumped in wholeheartedly and I found this was right up my alley. Then about 6 months after the store closed the unemployment ran out , the severance package ran low now what Volunteering was great but I needed cold hard cash . I had applied for every job I could find with no  luck so what did I do next? .... Stay tuned to find out..Confused Orange Business Man With A Questionmark Over His Head Clipart Illustration by Leo Blanchette

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