michelle girard, she's in a bad mood with your number today >> she's never in a bad mood >> and jim o'sullivan, you're at 185 -- >> no, 150 >> is 18 5 c5 consensus? >> yes >> you're at 130 >> i am. this is coming off of -- >> >> 314 and 239 >> two months of strength, even with a 130, the first quarter average gain will be over 225,000. that's better than it was in the fourth quarter better than we saw all year. you know these numbers >> also the snowstorm that hit the northeast. >> we had gains in february that are probably not sustainable, on top of that weather, some of which hit during the survey week the numbers are noise. you have to take it with a grain of salt, look at the trend >> your three-month average is 20,000 above what it was >> but that's close -- that's almost 3 million jobs. >> in a full employment -- >> that's impressive >> last year the average was 182. it would be a lot higher than that even 180,000 is way above the underlying trend in the labor force. unemployment keeps going down. even though we get a below trend payrolls number today, other parts of the report -- just p