anjil's GOOD NEWS & other OT

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hi all my sweet CEDAngels!! i hope this finds you staying warm & cozy (i

know that's a lousy thing to say to some of you), but i'm praying it warms up

for

you.

yesterday i got the best news in the mail!! to catch some of you up....i was

let go from my job of 17 yrs on 10/17/03. i had quit in 11/02 to go on

disability, to that was challenging, altho i did finally get it. i continued to

work part-time (you can work p.t. & still receive your SSD as long as you don't

work TOO many hours). call your cpa or your local SS office cuz they'll know

the answer. anyway, when i applied for unemployment benefits, they denied me.

a young man interviewed me by telephone, asking questions like how many min.

can you sit, stand, etc. well, i was honest in my answers, which sometimes

makes us wonder if that's the right thing to do. but, that's just how i

am....i tell the truth. then, i appealed the decision & on 01/13/03, had a

hearing.

a man in a room with a table & chair of his own, along w/a conference table

& a bunch of chairs. the guy was very stern & when i offered good morning he

sort of grumbled. he said there's your chart & pointed to a chair in the

reception room. mom & i looked at each other w/a look on our faces like

" YIKES!! " .

there wasn't much in the folder, other than the contents of the telephone

interview & a form my sleezy boss filled out. " i asked ms. manning if she would

stay and work full time but she refused " . first of all, he never asked me

that, which i told the judge & if he HAD asked me, i would've said you know i

can only work PT. i think he thought he would get out of having to pay anything

into my unemployment funds if he told that big fat lie. the longer i'm away

from him, the happier i am & the more i realize what a complete turd he's

always been. if i told you some of the stuff he has done in the past & some of

the things HE'S done, you wouldn't believe me. but it's all behind me now.

between my $1129 SSD (i was 49 when i got it, w/EDS, FMS, TOS, OA, HA's &

migraines and DDD) & my $370/wk unemployment cks, i think i can relax now & not

worry

where my next bowl of ice cream is coming from! the cks are good for one yr,

same as the disability ones were. i feel so relaxed & fortunate. i sat in

my car (where i was reading my mail) & just was grateful to God for watching

over me. i had been looking for a job for weeks (for the first couple of

months, i was so depressed, i didn't do much of anything, to be honest). either

the

job paid hardly anything, or they wanted too many hours or they wanted me to

use my own car. so, fortunately, i don't have to worry about that for awhile.

one other weird part of this story is, my boss also fired the gal who was

the receptionist. now he DID ask her the question of would you be willing to

work FT & she said no. but she got her unemployment ck two wks later, on the

dot. how does that work? you'd think that would've stopped her from receiving

it? who knows. she wants me to write a letter of reference for her (she won't

ask our boss cuz the wkend she went back to return her key, she decided to

also take with her a brand new computer tower, a digital camera [w/out the

charger, doo doo brain] & some other stuff. so she doesn't have the balls to

ask

him for a ltr. last time she asked me for it, i said, but i don't have any

letterhead to write it on. she said that doesn't matter, just use your own name

&

address. but i don't feel right, saying anything positive about her. altho,

they say they can't be sure it was her, earlier that same wk, when our

computer tutor came to help her, she brought her favorite leather jacket & when

she

left, she forgot it. guess what....it wasn't there when she came back to get

it. isn't that a little weird?

i think i will just say i don't think it's appropriate for me to write the

ltr since i didn't work really closely w/her & wasn't really aware of her work

habits. that's a joke, all she did was talk on personal calls all day, the

kitchen would run out of everything cuz she was so lazy she didn't wanna get out

of her chair & she let my pretty garden die cuz she was too busy talking on

her cell phone to go out front in the patio to water the flowers. she really

was pitiful & i'm not surprised he let her go. but i'm not surprised he let me

go either cuz i couldn't concentrate anymore w/all the pain. i made too many

mistakes. i felt bad about it, but i couldn't help it. so, i'm sure he's

better off w/out me, too.

so, that's me happy news for today!! only my mom just called & took her car

in to go a new speedometer. she drove her car into the stall, RIGHT into the

stall & through the back wall & busted her radiator. it's funny this happened

right now. she's 81. she relies on her car very heavily. but she is a

horrible driver!! i always drive when we go anywhere. i was just talking to my

daughter & my sister about this very subject & look what happens. at least

she's ok. but this scares me. the other day i had to have a talk w/her about

playing her stereo too loud. she's so deaf these days, she wouldn't hear a

siren at all the way she blasts her music. she took it pretty well when i told

her that, but who knows if she's doing it or not.

thank you again, all my CEDAngels, for your support & understanding during my

little meltdown last yr. you're all SOOOO amazing. i can't tell you how

much you all mean to me. sometimes you're so low, you feel like you'll rub off

on everyone else if you stay around. i know that sounds really dumb, but

that's how i felt.

love & anjil hugs () : )

jil xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo