Friday

[susandennis]

I sure enjoyed my sleeps last night.  In addition to wearing myself out, last night was the coolest night we've had in awhile and it was great sleeping weather.

My skin still feels amazing. I'm sure that will be over by 11 when I get into my regular pool today. But I have put skin cream into my swim bag and maybe if I stop and take the time to at least cream up my hands and face when I get out, I can preserve some of this.

Today's main plan is to finish up my pattern writing.  I've nearly finished and checked the words.  I still have some photos to take and add to the words and then get it all formatted and PDF'd.  Then I need to rebuild the web page and republish on Ravelry.  It's really quite a tedious process.  Easy to see why I've put it off for so long.

Happily, today it is gray again which will make the photos I take today look nice with the ones I took yesterday.  It's so much easier to use outdoor natural light than set up something inside.

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I have lost a lot of money in the past 2 days.  I'm currently living on the proceeds from my investments.  The value of my investments are shrinking fast this week.  On the upside, those who know say not to worry and... the rich people have lost way more money than I have.  So I'm just going to stick my head in the sand and be grateful for what I have not lost.

Last night I had two dreams.  In both of them I was working at jobs that I really liked and it was fun.  So there's always that.  Nice to have a fallback plan.

Comments

[timbear.livejournal.com]

Investments like that are a long term commitment. The markets will rise again and the money will flow again! We are in the same boat with our pension planning.

[susandennis]

I know, I know but still I really do like the green days way more than the red.

Investments

[(Anonymous)]

My understanding is that the seed of this germinated the other night when the party bank in China decided to dramatically raise the interests rates in overnight lending, which then filtered out immediately as higher rates in overall lending over there. And, since a fair amount of the world economy is dependent upon Chinese demand, the ripple effect is worldwide. However, China has been cooking the books on demand and pumping cash into their market artificially to cover up the fact that their numbers were failing (for normal markets this is just part of the business cycle, but the Chinese don't think the laws of the marketplace apply to them). So... the reason folks are telling you not to worry is because people who supposedly know what they are talking about have been watching China for a long while, waiting for them to man up and admit that they have a problem and then take the steps necessary to correct their market. So, now that they are doing so, it's a good thing, but only if they can straddle the line and do it without taking everyone down with them. Which is possible, but, hey, it's the Communist Party. Who knows what the hell they will do to save face. The bottom line is that this was not unexpected, although nobody knew it was coming this week. General consensus is that our markets are so dictated by emotional response to stimuli that we of course will bobble a bit with this sort of news, but we will stabilize shortly. If we don't like how it feels for us, we should take a look at Australia, which is going to be completely effed because their economy is much more heavily tied to Chinese demand than is ours. Not that this idea will make you feel any better...

Homely