571st entry ~ Payments finally came!
3:34 pm
Happy Monday and happy first day of Fall. I’m excited. I love fall. I love summer too, but this summer just seemed to suck. Between all the flooding here in the state in June to August being one of the driest on record, it wasn’t fun. Very weird weather pattern we’re in. But anyway, looking forward to fall.
Presently I am one of those several millions of American’s who is unemployed. I can’t seem to do anything to get a job right now. Oh believe me, there are plenty of jobs around here, in the Milwaukee area. Trouble is many of them are all in a clinic or hospital and those usually hire internally before they even take a look at the outside. Frustrates me because it appears there are good chances to get a job, but really there aren’t, especially if they are going to hire internally. Frustrating. My boyfriends sister works in one of these clinics and has good relations with her boss, so hopefully I can get my resume to her and can maybe get a shot at even an interview. Believe me, I’ve tried everything. Temp agencies are probably so overwhelmed right now with unemployed people it’s not even worth it for me to go through one. I did find a couple jobs online last week that I thought I’d be perfect for because I’ve got the skills and one of them required knowledge of software that I already knew, but who knows. It’s through a temp agency and I submitted my resume along with an application for those specific jobs and haven’t heard anything back, even them saying they got my resume. Nothin’
I’ve been unemployed since August 15th and it’s driving me crazy. This is the longest I’ve been unemployed and I hear the average right now is 17 weeks, so nothing too out of the ordinary I guess. I hate sitting around the house doing nothing. I just finally got my first unemployment payment today, the 22nd of September. They took their sweet ass time getting it to me that’s for sure. I’m being screwed out of some money anyway because they took the last 4 out of 5 quarters to figure out what you are qualified for and unfortunately most of 4th quarter I was still at the temp agency so I didn’t make as much as 5th quarter. It’s complicated but also very unfair.
So because of all the craziness of my life, I’ve hit a new low point. It’s tough to see a way through the low points in life sometimes. I’m sure it doesn’t help that I live so far away from my only friend and from my mother. Not really getting along with the boyfriend. Not like we’re fighting, just don’t want to be around him much. Prefer to be alone really. I spent a lot of my time now home with nothing to do. Sometimes clean, most of the time watch TV or look around on the internet. That’s partly why I started this diary back up. It gives me something to do, plus I hate hand writing in journals. Much faster at typing. I wanted to mess with the HTML on my last page layout, but the darn program I downloaded wouldn’t let me do certain things, and then when I finally pasted the codes to the template it was all messed up so I just deleted it! Haha I used to be good at that kind of thing, creating my own layout that actually worked. Guess too much time has passed for me to remember how to do that. I got a new computer and it doesn’t have FrontPage on it. I gotta say, for those of you who haven’t tried Windows Vista yet, it’s not too bad. I of course have all my settings now set to look like Windows XP, so it doesn’t bother me that much!!! The layout of Vista is screwy; whoever came up with the side panel should be shot. Haha
I believe last time I wrote I mentioned my parents are in the process of divorcing. It’s supposed to be official September 30th, oddly enough my fathers birthday. Some people were quite surprised by it, I for one was not. Helps that my father talked to me about his plans way before he talked to his wife. I guess I’m glad they waited until now to do this when my brother and I are grown up and not little kids. Little kids tend to not understand things; tend to blame themselves for what’s going on. I’m not really sure why this is going on, but I do know this was only wanted by one person; him. I do believe though that this will put a permanent divider into the family. My brother is currently living with him only because he has no where else to go, but also he’s in college right now so he really can’t afford to go anywhere else. As it is he’s already paying for his college where as with me, I went to a 4 year university for one year and it’s all being paid for right now. My college drama is another story for another time, or you can go back through and read my posts I wrote during the school year of 2006-2007. Great time.
We were supposed to have a guy come out from the complex today to look at our AC because it’s not draining properly (the lady at the front office yesterday seemed surprised that ACs are supposed to drain!) and I get the feeling he’s not going to come. It’s now 4 o’clock and I haven’t heard or seen anything. I’m sure I would’ve heard a loud knock on the door from the back room. So if he’s not coming around I’m going to start a load of laundry and clean the floors!! Yippie! Later.
Amanda