Thursday, February 28, 2008
Ahhhhhhhh!
Ok imagine that title being sung by angels, not as a scream by a frustrated person for once.
It's not 100% but it's 99% sure that I WON MY APPEAL!!!
So no, I will not be rolling in the dough, but I will not be out on the street soon.
Now if I can just get a job life will be even better!!
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Smile, Mon
So this past weekend I had to go buy cat fud. First thing in the morning. Bleh. I woke up early, showered and stumbled out the door to Kmart which has the cheapest cat fud around. Seriously cheaper, actually! I get the case of 24 Fancy Feasts, at the Food Lion it's $15, at Kmart it's $10! SO this is why I am compelled to go into this store. That, and it's very close by. Anyway, it was a dreary morning, I was still tired, and I was in Kmart- all crankifying things. I go to the pet aisle, and they had two cases; one nice one, and one case that taken apart that I had to reassemble.
I go to pay and see one lane open FILLED with men, several with fishing rods. There was nobody at the Customer Service desk. I go there to pay, as the woman was just standing there. I wander up balancing my purchase and she tells me that I need to go to a checkout line instead. (I wanted to say "Oh! I read this wrong, I thought checking customers out was a type of customer service, I see this is the customer DISservice line" but I didn't)
I balance my stuff as I wabble over to the long line of fisherman. 2 of them were trying to buy a license and the girl did not know how to ring that up. They were also buying many little lures and stuff. I gather that perhaps Saturday must have been the first day of season or something? Anyway, I finally pay and get to leave. By now I'm quasi cranky.
I get to the parking lot and across from me was a car with a bumper sticker that said "Smile, Mon!"
Now I chances are this had something to do with Jamaica, but I like to think that it was there for me. How many other people get to see their name on a bumper sticker telling them to smile?
So I did just that and guess what- it helped my mood vastly! :)
And hopefully I can hold on to this tomorrow... At 830am I have a hearing for unemployment. I was denied because they said I didn't have a good reason to quit. Apparently if I quit for medical reasons though that is a good enough reason, so hopefully they will see it that way tomorrow in the hearing. Maybe I'll keep up that pic during the hearing (it's by phone) to keep me thinking positively :)
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Crazy Test
A while back I had to take a crazy test, and believe it or not, I did pass. If this had been the test though I would have passed with flying colors!!
moar humorous pics
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Depression Blows
So pretty much all of January I spent wicked depressed. And as I've said before here, I've learned how to do depression up right!
I've gone through bouts of it throughout my life, but I always had to fake it through, keep on keeping on, not let it get the best of me.
But after last March when I was suddenly unemployed, I had the opportunity to do it up the way I always had dreamed of. I got to take to my bed. I always read about people doing this, and was always jealous of them. Ok, so they were fictional characters, but still. I dreamed of being able to do that, to not have responsibilities forcing me to get out of bed.
And since the settlement if I quit my job gave me that opportunity, I embraced depression with all that I had. So like I said, last March/April I did it up right. And then I started to get bored with bed and moved forward. I actually showered and left the house.
But then this fall things started sucking again. I put off getting a job to help out a friend, thinking I could afford to. I was wrong. First of all, I was under the misconception that once I wanted to start working again, I would. Simple as saying "ok, I'm ready!", right? Yeah, no. But when I was thinking that, I thought I would put off looking for a job because I did not want it to conflict with helping out my friend. Big mistake. HUGE.
I have a lot of anger both towards her and myself. And I just need to get over it. But that's another story.
Anyway, once I realized that I was free to start working, and oh hey, I need to, the bank account is not fat anymore, I applied to a few travel agencies, expecting to be working within a week, or maybe two because it was the holidays afterall...
It took an ENDLESS amount of time to even get the official okiedokie from the agencies. Of course my most recent employer would not give any more reference than just dates of employment and salary, and of course that wasn't enough and so now what. I spent about a month trying to track down people willing to say nice things about me. Well, people willing to say nice things, that the employers wanted to hear it from... After I finally did, and finally got the official okiedokie I thought I'd be working within a few days.
Yeah...no. A month has gone by and still I am not working.
So in those 2 months from the time I tried to start working and now, I did the full on depression thing again. Days without showering or getting out of bed. In fact, the only reason I'd leave the house was to go buy cat food.
The good news is that I still have the same tank of gas in my car that I filled up in December. And that I've done my part in a big way to conserve water due to our drought.
The bad news is that I am still pretty depressed and still unemployed.
Let's hope that a job will happen this week.
I need a win.