All is well - or is it?

I have the kind of personality that tends towards the melancholic. When I'm happy, I'm happy, but when I'm not so happy, I tend to be a glass half empty sort of person. I quite like have a whinge, and I can be very grumpy.

So while i have a lot to be happy about at the moment, I'm also currently in a massive case of the grumps. I am waiting with baited to breath to here if I am going to get the job I currently do permanently, or if in a few weeks time I'll lose $200 a fortnight and someone else will come in and 'do my job' (only they wont, I'll still do everything I currently do, because they wont find someone who has the skills or wants to do it, I'll just be paid less).

So I'm stressing - my budget is pretty tight, and $200 a fortnight will see me hiding out in my flat never going out, with no spare cash. And when I stress, I grump. Add to this, the fact that I actually think that doing a job properly is a virtue and that competence should be rewarded and incompetence shoved out the door, working in the public sector can be somewhat disheartening, so I tend to rant and grump a bit about that too.

I suspect that this state of grump is starting to wear on the boy. He's very much a happy person - doesn't let things get to him... I think he sees the world in economic terms - so its not worth the energy to care, whereas I have a more social bent, and rage against injustice and ignorance...... It may be interesting to see how this pans out - but it could also be quite painful....