The money was gone.

I had purposefully not opened my quarterly financial statements for about 9 months cause I knew it wouldn't be pretty and I figured, if I didn't know exactly how bad it was, I could fantasize that maybe my financial adviser was a genius and had sheltered me from the pain. NOT. The money was gone.

After spending a couple of days wallowing in self pity and focusing on the fact that I was now on the Freedom 95 Program, I decided I needed a diversion. When I got home I said to the kids, let's have a family night and play a board game and I sent the little guy down stairs to pick whatever game he wanted to play. He brought up Monopoly. I asked him to set up the game and I left the room for a few minutes. As I came back into the room I called the rest of the family to come and play. As we gathered around the table I noticed there was one component of the game missing. The money was gone.