This is how 2009 will be...

Every so often my husband and I would go shopping in the Rockville area and see that more and more shops and stores are closed due to recession.

Last month the Gaithersburg Borders was closed, so is Sam Woo, a Korean restaurant on Rockville Pike, and a Shell gas station.

Bennigan's chain restaurants were all shut down for chapter 11.

Not mentioning Anne's Linen in our neighborhood and the jewelery shops are facing the difficult situation inevitably.

~ to be continued ~

We are in a world of excess. Never is enough. Now it is time to pay back...