Savingdogs-Saving the chickens

[ksalvagno]

Sounds like some wonderful dogs.

We don't do much of anything for New Years either. This was the first in 10 years that we even went out. Another couple wanted to go out to dinner and a movie. So we went out to dinner and saw Voyage of the Dawn Treader. We were home by 9:30pm and in bed and asleep before midnight.

I made a resolution in my 20's to never make another New Year's resolution and I have kept that one.

Happy New Year!

 

[savingdogs]

Feeling a little lost today. Hubby has been on vacation and home with me pretty much since I got too sick to return to work. It is odd not going back especially when he does. I always center my life around my work friends and neglect people I don't see at work. It leaves me at loose ends as I join the ranks of the unemployed. I can't exactly call up my old chums to chat on the phone anymore either. And I'm shy about the neighbors....I can't hear....it is hard to get very far in a conversation with strangers. If people shout at me a couple times I can usually get a sentence. Did you see the deer looks much like Did you hear in lip reading. Gets old fast trying to chat, although sometimes my younger, outgoing son is helpful. Everyone knows him (you know, Trouble). Yikes!

Things ended rather badly with my work, not sure why. I won't go into details here, but I can't help but feel a stab of ....regret...I guess at the way things turned out whenever it comes to mind. My supervisor was an old friend and now is obviously not my friend at all, so that kind of makes a sad little hole in my heart.
It does help that I know I did my best. And I think Hubby accepts my limitations better now as he saw me really really try to keep working a normal job and fail despite doing everything I possibly could. This isn't a fun transition though. I filed for unemployment today.

I have to say the support and love I have recieved from all of you has been the best! You are a much more thoughtful and helpful group of people than anywhere! And I cannot even express how wonderful it is to be able to express complete thoughts.....I'm sorry if I ramble a lot, but I'm used to people not wanting to bother, it is so hard to communicate with me. But you also share my interests and goals and have helped Hubby and I get to where we need to be. It is important when you are getting old not to wander down the wrong path and all of you have helped teach this grown up city kids how to live country.

Where is the banjo emoticon when you need it?

 

[BarredBuff]

We DEFINITELY need a banjo emoticon..........

 

[Denim Deb]

SD, I hope w/the less stress that your MD improves. I'm hoping that next year at this time I won't be heading off to work, so then we could hang out all day on here and chat.

 

[Javamama]

I hope the sting of your job situation eases in the coming days. As OFG says, onward and upward! Just keep going and you'll find a new rhythm

I was just reading about Moxie. I had a rescue dog that had a blanket fetish. Well, he had alot of quirks, and I fixed most of them, but that blanket fetish drove me nuts. He went on to another family who - like in Moxie's case - thinks all his quirks are cute. Thank goodness because I couldn't stand him. Every single blanket in the house has holes in it and I am a little irritated every time I see his handiwork

 

[savingdogs]

I could work if I found exactly the right thing, but I'm disabled from my previous jobs. I will be officially looking but not optimistically as I should not drive regularly, I cannot hear hardly at all and I cannot have stress. Not too many open jobs that fit that bill. Gee, I can think of LOTs of careers that suits, can't you? So disability will eventually suit me best, but I have to prove that.

I'm kind of between a rock and a hard spot in our system, but I have known about that for a long time, that this was coming. There are so many fakers and cheaters to the system, when hardworking folks really need help, it is hard to convince them you are not a faker and a cheater.

Onward and upward is a good idea, Java, thanks for the boost. I guess I was just feeling glum last night. Thanks, BB, DD and Java.

 

[Javamama]

Something will come your way when it's the right time. For now you can hang here and have a little fun

 

[savingdogs]

Blooming where I'm planted should be MY motto this month, Java!

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

hey baby!

onward and upward! especially if you are hoping for an improved 2011, right?

and you are in a tough spot - really. and it IS hard to convince folks you arent a faker or a cheater. we hear a lot about this from our west coast friends and, there in the bubble, they just dont get that life OUTSIDE those 'hot' cities is a lot tougher. so i'm feelin' ya, sister.

but

if i were you i'd be running around the (empty? is everyone gone?) screaming whooooooooooo! whoooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!! with a bag of chocolate chips and a tub of ice cream.

and throwing darts at your non-friend/ex-supervisor

one of the very very hard truths i learned is that your work friends are just that - co-workers. in my life i've 'taken' very few people from one job to the next. so shake 'em off baby! shake shake shake!

in all seriousness, its heartbreaking to leave a job and there isnt a 'good way' to do it. its ok if you feel bad. and if you want to, go ahead and dramatically throw yourself down in a heap

just make sure you get up again.

especially since you need to start working on that "400 dogs" blog. i'm telling you - you'll have so many people talking to you online that you wont have time to look at anyone's lips.

here's huggin' ya, baby!

 

[lorihadams]

I know how it is. I don't have friends either. When I stopped working no one talked to me. I lived so far out in the country that no one would come visit me and I just had a new baby so I didn't travel a lot into town cause I was breastfeeding every 2-3 hours in the beginning.

I'm closer into town now after the move but still only have 2 girlfriends and I don't ever call them. I hate to talk on the phone, everytime I get on the phone my children see it as an opportunity to get into trouble or make me crazy.

With my health problems lately no one really understands. No one understands why we would want to go through all the trouble of raising animals when we could go to the store right up the street and buy meat/eggs/milk. No one understands why I homeschool my kids when I could ship them off to public school and have some time to myself or get a job to have more money to spend on sh*! I don't need/want.

Very few people get it. The one friend that does get it, smokes pot and takes an unbelievable amount of prescription drugs to get by cause of her health issues and I cannot go to her home cause of the drug stuff. I don't want my kids in an unsafe environment. She's offered to watch the kids for me so I can go do something by myself but I don't feel comfortable leaving my kids alone with her in her home.

It's hard. The one thing that is comforting is that my "cyber-friends" get and understand so at least I have that.

You are not alone,