Sometimes the funniest among us are those with the hardest of problems.

This is her story:

I’m pretty good at being the class clown and making people laugh around here. I’m usually able to come up with something positive or an uplifting story when the editors call for lighthearted posts.

So when it feels like life is dark, I have a hard time letting it be known. Of course, when the pain of staying the same outweighs the fear of change, I’ll do something different. I’ll reach out on Twitter, and sometimes I’ll even post about it here with The Band.

It’s one of those times.

Sunshine works in construction, which means that there can be great seasonal fluctuations in our household income. This year, we went beyond a fluctuation; the work dried up around Thanksgiving, which means the income went away. Literally, we have had three checks come in since Thanksgiving. Three checks that have not been enough to cover our expenses, much less The Christmas. We tore through the company’s meager operating capital to survive the last couple of months.

I’m grateful that Sunshine has rubbed off on me. He firmly believes that the problems that money can solve are the good problems to have (if there is such a thing). See, we can always find a way to bring in more money; so if a problem can be solved by throwing money at it, it’s not a bad problem to have. It’s the problems that money can’t solve that we don’t want: health issues, heartbreaks, shit like that.