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morning eileen and OFF family!!

eileen i am so sorry about your job situation being ike that!!! has to be very stressful for you!!!! prayers that it works out for you!! besides you don't have to take the buy ouy if they offer it to you do you??

well this morning i went and had my blood test for MMPC for my 2 year check up....and i could not belive that they took are you ready for this??? 13 yes 13 vials of my blood this time!!!!!! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!! when i saw all those vials i imediately told her i could do 5 then i was on borrowed time for passing out...she then had me get in the lay down chair....hey i made it through with not one bead of sweat or any tingling!!!!!!! i am proud of myself!!!!!!! so now i wait to hear the results from MMPC. eileen and nancy i cancelled the appointment i had in october so i won't be meeting up with you as planned. will let you know when i will be there when i reschedule tho.

well last night the crap hit the fan big time here!!!!!!!!! seems diane is trying to get nicole a car so she can have transportaion to her new job....she called me and wanted to know how good my credit score was...i said right now its excellent why????? she then put the car salesman on to talk to me...he asked if it was ok to run my credit score...i said whoa!!! wait a minute here mister!!!! what is this all about with my credit score??? he then said i would be responsible for the car payment if she didn't make it...i said "NO WAY IN HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!" and i hung up!!! i then called rick and asked him if he knew what was going on with his mom and daughter...he said no what? i told him and he blew a gasket!!!!!!!! he said he told her last night (night before) under no cir****tance would he sign or would i sign for a car for nicole!!!!!!!!!!!! now jerry (step dad) gets called and she asks him if he would co-sign for this car...omg all holy hell broke out!!!! these people can't even pay their own dam bills and now she wants to get nicole a car???? this girl tried working a few months ago and that lasted 3 days!!!!!!! she hasn't even started this new job yet and omg a car already for her??????? no way!!!!!! like rick said she has to prove herself first!!!!! but then she can't even keep her support money away from her mother and can't even eat for a couple days so how can she pay for a dam car??????? then jerry comes up with why doesn't rick give her his car to drive??????? oh hell no!!!!!! i am not planning on driving rick around the rest of our life together because he needs a battery for his car then he can use his own car!!!!! it was a very tense night here let me tell you!!!! i just can't believe the gall this woman has to suggest that i sign for a car loan!!!!!! hell i have enough troubles of my own right now damit!!!!!!

sorry for all this ranting but i only have you all to talk to right now....ok i am done talking about it!!!

have to have my car at the repair shop at 1 today for the lower cost repair...still $173.00 for this!!!! then in a couple weeks i need to have the other repaired and that one will be close to $300.00!!!!!!! lord give me strength to make it through this cost!! then come november i need tohave car inspected and also need plates and my drivers license renewed!!! talk about cost!! dam!!!!!!!! itws all about money and i am sooooooooo getting broke fast!!!!! not sure if i can afford to move out of this crazy house just yet!!!! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

rick still doesn't know if he can take monday off so he can go back to michigan with me...he said his mom would go with me if he can't get it off...i said to him..."I WILL GO ALONE IF YOU CAN'T GO WITH ME!!!!"  i guess i just need time away from his family...i want rick with me so bad but i understand if he can't get off work. sighs...

well i better shut up before i start ranting again....i do apologize for this ranting...i know its getting old fast!!!!

have a good day!!!

hugs

No Judy, I wouldn't have to take the buyout if offered ... and right now, they're not offering anything, but the threat is there. Right now, the buyouts are offered to the ad production and the composing room (back shop) employees because they're consoldiating staff with two other papers in the chain (Kalamazoo and Muskegon). But ... one of the other papers in the Newhouse family (Newark, N.J.) recently offered all the employees on the paper buyouts and said if not enough people took them, they'd sell the paper. Scary, isn't it? And like I said, last year when they offered buyouts, it was to people 55 and over, with at least 10 years experience ... now they offering it to people in their 30s. It's a whole new world.

Times are really bad for newspapers -- ad revenues are down, circulation is down; young people don't read newspapers. Our readership is dying out. Young people get their news online or on TV, or they don't care about what's going on in the world. We are doing more and more posting of stuff on the Web site ... I'm forced to learn how to do that, and I guess it's important to learn that, but the tool we use it kinda crappy and it's hard to use. I know it's the wave of the future, but it's not the same as writing and editing like I'm used to doing. I need to rethink my life because I don't know how long I'll have a job in the traditional editing/writing field. And maybe I need to think about disability too.

I'm glad you were wise enough not to agree to cosign a loan for Nicole. My father cosigned a loan for his brother, the uncle we called "Uncle Bum" ... alcoholic, moocher, thief (he stole from my grandma and probably from my dad, too); anyway, Uncle Bum never paid on the loan and my dad got stuck.

thats good news atleast for now for you i guess...and yes you better try learning this new way to do the paper...maybe you could go back to reporting??

my older brother stuck my dad with car payments on a car that was no longer in running mode...infact it was parted out big time!!!!! i learned from that experience to NEVER co-sign anything for anyone!!!!

hugs

Uh, Judy?  Your husband sounds like jewel next to this circus.

Janet

Oh Eileen How scarey about the job situation. I am in a similar state. I work for a federal program and in years past we have had so much $$ left over at the end of the fiscal year  that it was quick every one spend fast. ( cause if you don't use all the money in your budget they cut that money the next year) The past couple of years we have been very low on money, last couple of months we haven't even had $$ for copy paper. One driver lost his job and this past week week the office manager left and they will be filling her position with a part timer. I think I am next on the totem pole if they are going to cut anyone,,gulp. In the meantime I have to take over some of the office managers duties. One is to make the office calender for next month. I have been going to the end of everyones post looking at their quotes, I admit it, I am a thief, I will steal a couple to use in the calender. Chuck leaves Saturday morning for a week in Nevada, I was so excited because Ihave so many projects in the works that I want to stay home and work on, but I am going to have to watch his @#^& dogs. Either drive 30 miles at least twice a day, and spend entire evenings at his house or keep them at my house where they cry and whine and refuse to potty out side, he had a fenced in yard I have to take them out on a leash. At night they whine so much I can't sleep. He checked into using a kennel but NOOooo that is too expensive, and he has used up all his friends.I totally ignored when he would talk about what to do with the dogs but he didn't get the hint, you wait when I tell him he will have to bring their kennels and such over here, he will get all huffy about being "put out" Tuff. I better get to work, blessings to you all

Good afternoon to all my little OFF family. I have missed you all so much this morning.

Things here are worse than they were if that is possible. It is going from bad to the pits of h3ll. That is all I can say right now. Please keep praying for me because I need them so very badly.

It is overcast here today. I guess it is suppose to rain but so far nothing. Just you watch~it will start to pour buckets when I leave to go and do the few errands that I have to do.

I am sitting here in my nightgown and it is 2:15 in the afternoon. The funny thing about it is I don't really care. I am having to make myself get up and shower to do my errands.

I got some chicken the other day and  I am going to make chicken noodle soup today with it. It is going to be my first try with that kind of soup. Wish me luck. I can't imagine it being to hard to do. lol I will let you know how it turns out. If you don't hear from my ever again you all will know that it turned out badly! lol

I guess I had better get going. I want to go through some of the other threads for the day and then I am going to check e-mails and get my shower. That shouldn't take to long. Love and hugs to all and prayers are going up for everyone. Special ones are going up for those in need of them. That includes you, dear Eileen. I will continue to pray for you and your whole situation. Remember I am here for you just as you are for me.

Brenda, know we are here for you too ... there are times I don't want to get out of my jammies either (like today). Here's a cyberhug back at ya; wish we lived a little closer and I'd get together and we'd could talk in person. You're not alone, so never feel that you are. If you need to get away, though, I'm only a couple hours north.

Thanks Eileen for the kind and thoughtfully loving words of encouragement. I wish we were closer too. I feel so blasted alone at times that I could just scream. I just cried and cried saying over again why can't Bill and Shawn just leave me alone. I feel like they are ganging up on me. I just hope that I don't sound paranoid. My mom did with the Alzheimers. That is all I would need right now.lol

Hello Eileen and everyone....

Seems like I am at the tail end of posts today.

Doesn't sound like Brenda is having any better day then I am. My thoughts are with you Brenda.

Eileen my prayers are with you. What a awful thing that will be if you lose your job. You are right.....it is hard to find employment after 50 years old. That is my job, finding jobs for people over 55 so I personally know the struggles.

I just haven't felt much like posting or anything else today. I have been going through the motions doing my job and nothing more. I am praying tomorrow is a better day. I am trying to stay positive.

You know I love and care about each and everyone of you. You are all in my prayers.

 connie d