that was MY fortune cookie!

My husband, Jim, was laid off from his job 2 weeks ago.  He was depressed.  He was upset. For some reason, I was not, and I told him - look at this as a vacation (he hadn't had one in a while).  And just think!  You won't have to make that 120 mile round trip every day! There's something better out there for you.

He still wasn't convinced this was a good thing.  BUT -

He put in an application at a place 20 minutes from home.  He waited and sweated bullets and fixed lights in the house (exclamation point!) and washed dishes and did laundry and made up the beds and walked George (whom he now calls Junior or boo boo), and he waited more and worried.  BUT -

Today he got The Phone Call.  "Jim, could you come on down?  We'd like to talk to you."  So in 15 minutes flat, he was there.  He starts work next Wednesday, with benefits he did not have before:  Insurance, 401K, paid holidays and paid vacation, sick days.

And so tonight, I took him out for Chinese to celebrate.  At the end of the meal, he opened up one of the fortune cookies on the tray and read it aloud.  "You have a sixth sense and keen insight."

I thought back to all that worrying he did and how I was so sure he would get the job and said - "I believe you got MY fortune cookie."

I don't think he believed me.

I'm really happy for him :-)