It's all Crashing Down

After weeks of combing through Chicago Craigslist and seeing that in order to get a personal bailout, I would have to do the unthinkable.

Massages, spanking and slapping for hire have been some of the offers out there.

What has brought me here, is the bleak reality of my financial situation and what is really going to happen to me in the next few months.

The uncertainity has left me with no options, except to write. Since prostitution clearly isn't an option.

I owe one thousand dollars in parking tickets, rent is due and and my car note is past due.

I also am on step one of a two step root canal. I don't have the $175 for it.

I have two payday loans out and my car note company has just high jacked my bank account, overdrafting it.

I luckily just found part time work for the weekend, convincing people to sign up for vacation time-shares and entering to win a car.

Last week it was starbucks cocoa samples at the zoo.

It just seems like my consistent valiant efforts to pay my bills isn't working.

There is no cents in the city.

There's none in my head and in my pocketbook.

And did I mention I have a full time job as a reporter? Aren't we supposed to be rich? And skinny? I am neither.

Today, the futile attempt from my car note company to debit $500 from my account, is making me think...it's all crashing down.

I have to do like all others, move back in with Mom, hide the car from the boot man, continue stealing toilet paper when possible.

Is there a higher paying job out there? Or is there really No Cents in the City?

Krys