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Old August 8th 03, 10:15 PM
Noreen's Knit*che
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Hi Group! Below please find a note from Gemini which she asked me to
post to the Group:

Hi Noreen!

Would you please share this email with the newsgroup... I miss all of
you very much!! *hugs*

I just came into the local library to check my email... we haven't
gotten the internet back yet.

Things *were* going well from the time we gave up the internet until
today. In fact, I am glad that I gave up the internet because it was
seriously beginning to take over Matthew's life without him actually
realizing that it was. He was so depressed about being unemployed and
not having any luck in finding work that he was compensating by
spending more and more time on-line talking to people on chat groups
all the time. Once I shut down the internet and he got over the shock
of it, he told me that he hadn't realized that he had been feeling
that badly about himself. ( So something good came out of leaving
my friends behind... I regained the closeness with my son, and helped
him to regain his own self-esteem again.

As I said.. everything *was* okay until today. I've been working hard
and long hours (lots of overtime too). Matthew managed to find a
job... although it is "the job from hell". He has to do very hard
labor (lumberjack type of work... cutting down trees, lifting heavy
logs and heavy railroad ties), and comes home filthy dirty and totally
exhausted. He sits on the couch and within five minutes he is passed
out, waking up long enough to eat and then falling back to sleep again
for the night. He gets up at 5 AM and has to bike to work (bought a
used one for him) across town to be there before 6 AM to start his
day. He gets one break and then his lunch break and gets home at
about 2:45 PM everyday. And.... they pay him a big $7.00 per hour.
/ Everyone I've mentioned this to says the same thing... that it
is slave labor!

We both went to drop off resumes yesterday at the Casino in Sarnia,
while we were out celebrating Matthew's birthday. I had bought
Wrestling tickets a couple of weeks ago for an early birthday present
for him, and last weekend also bought him a PS2 game as another early
birthday present. Sure glad I did that when I did, because the bottom
fell out today....... *again*. /

Yesterday morning I had to leave work two hours early because I wasn't
feeling well. Although I still wasn't feeling wonderful, I went out
with Matthew yesterday for his birthday. I laid down for a nap last
night before I was to head off to work, but when I woke up I was
feeling sick again. I called in to work that I couldn't make it....
and this morning I got a call from SOS Personell that Waterville (the
auto parts factory) had asked him to tell me that they had to lay me
off again and that there was no "call-back" date set... so it is
likely permanent. (

Yes, I am hoping to get a job somewhere else (and am actively
looking), but I hoped to actually have another job before leaving the
one I had. What makes it even worse is that they had hired on more
SOS people within this last week and there were rumors that they would
be hiring on from SOS people to Waterville permanently today.
Obviously I wasn't one of the ones they wanted to keep permanently.
(

Our Hydro bill is backed up so badly that I'm afraid they will cut us
off... afterall it is summer now so no one will freeze. The phone
bill is already threatening to be cut off... I put a little money
aside to give to them on Monday, so I hope that will help a bit.

I *just* bought a couple of things at the grocery store an hour before
I got the call about my lay-off. I will be reapplying for
unemployment next week, but there will be a wait for that to come
through. Poor Matthew has to carry the brunt of it all once again.

We will be bringing more resumes around within this upcoming week, but
until we actually get work we're stuck in this horrid situation once
again. I am beginning to feel that without bad luck we would have no
luck at all. *sigh*

I don't know if I can get to the newsgroup through the library. I
can't remember how to go through Google to do it. / I will check
my email here from time to time though. And I will give Noreen my
snail mail address at the end (not to go on the newsgroup for the
world to see of course), so if anyone wants to write me through snail
mail you can ask Noreen for my address.

Mirjam... I got the magazine from you yesterday. The things in it are
beautiful. I just wish I could read it... I'm afraid I can only
speak/read English. / Maybe I can figure something out from the
pictures.

I miss you all. *hugs*
Peace! Gemini in Ontario, Canada

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Old August 8th 03, 11:40 PM
Katherine Burgess
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Awww, Noreen! Thanks for sending us this. I'll be writing you off-list.
Please give Gemini our love.
Katherine

"Noreen's Knit*che" wrote in message
news:200388161542.432716@j9o2a1...
Hi Group! Below please find a note from Gemini which she asked me to
post to the Group:

Hi Noreen!

Would you please share this email with the newsgroup... I miss all of
you very much!! *hugs*

I just came into the local library to check my email... we haven't
gotten the internet back yet.

Things *were* going well from the time we gave up the internet until
today. In fact, I am glad that I gave up the internet because it was
seriously beginning to take over Matthew's life without him actually
realizing that it was. He was so depressed about being unemployed and
not having any luck in finding work that he was compensating by
spending more and more time on-line talking to people on chat groups
all the time. Once I shut down the internet and he got over the shock
of it, he told me that he hadn't realized that he had been feeling
that badly about himself. ( So something good came out of leaving
my friends behind... I regained the closeness with my son, and helped
him to regain his own self-esteem again.

As I said.. everything *was* okay until today. I've been working hard
and long hours (lots of overtime too). Matthew managed to find a
job... although it is "the job from hell". He has to do very hard
labor (lumberjack type of work... cutting down trees, lifting heavy
logs and heavy railroad ties), and comes home filthy dirty and totally
exhausted. He sits on the couch and within five minutes he is passed
out, waking up long enough to eat and then falling back to sleep again
for the night. He gets up at 5 AM and has to bike to work (bought a
used one for him) across town to be there before 6 AM to start his
day. He gets one break and then his lunch break and gets home at
about 2:45 PM everyday. And.... they pay him a big $7.00 per hour.
/ Everyone I've mentioned this to says the same thing... that it
is slave labor!

We both went to drop off resumes yesterday at the Casino in Sarnia,
while we were out celebrating Matthew's birthday. I had bought
Wrestling tickets a couple of weeks ago for an early birthday present
for him, and last weekend also bought him a PS2 game as another early
birthday present. Sure glad I did that when I did, because the bottom
fell out today....... *again*. /

Yesterday morning I had to leave work two hours early because I wasn't
feeling well. Although I still wasn't feeling wonderful, I went out
with Matthew yesterday for his birthday. I laid down for a nap last
night before I was to head off to work, but when I woke up I was
feeling sick again. I called in to work that I couldn't make it....
and this morning I got a call from SOS Personell that Waterville (the
auto parts factory) had asked him to tell me that they had to lay me
off again and that there was no "call-back" date set... so it is
likely permanent. (

Yes, I am hoping to get a job somewhere else (and am actively
looking), but I hoped to actually have another job before leaving the
one I had. What makes it even worse is that they had hired on more
SOS people within this last week and there were rumors that they would
be hiring on from SOS people to Waterville permanently today.
Obviously I wasn't one of the ones they wanted to keep permanently.
(

Our Hydro bill is backed up so badly that I'm afraid they will cut us
off... afterall it is summer now so no one will freeze. The phone
bill is already threatening to be cut off... I put a little money
aside to give to them on Monday, so I hope that will help a bit.

I *just* bought a couple of things at the grocery store an hour before
I got the call about my lay-off. I will be reapplying for
unemployment next week, but there will be a wait for that to come
through. Poor Matthew has to carry the brunt of it all once again.

We will be bringing more resumes around within this upcoming week, but
until we actually get work we're stuck in this horrid situation once
again. I am beginning to feel that without bad luck we would have no
luck at all. *sigh*

I don't know if I can get to the newsgroup through the library. I
can't remember how to go through Google to do it. / I will check
my email here from time to time though. And I will give Noreen my
snail mail address at the end (not to go on the newsgroup for the
world to see of course), so if anyone wants to write me through snail
mail you can ask Noreen for my address.

Mirjam... I got the magazine from you yesterday. The things in it are
beautiful. I just wish I could read it... I'm afraid I can only
speak/read English. / Maybe I can figure something out from the
pictures.

I miss you all. *hugs*
Peace! Gemini in Ontario, Canada

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Old August 9th 03, 12:36 AM
Noreen's Knit*che
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In article ,
says...
Awww, Noreen! Thanks for sending us this. I'll be writing you off-list.
Please give Gemini our love.
Katherine


Entirely welcome, Katherine. I had posted originally OT: Attn: Gemini,
if you are reading this, and then forwarded the post to her email as
well, just in case she couldn't get to the NG's... and the note was in my
emailbox today, so I copied and pasted it for the NG, just like she
asked.
Hugs,
Noreen
who WILL pass on messages to Gemini.


"Noreen's Knit*che" wrote in message
news:200388161542.432716@j9o2a1...
Hi Group! Below please find a note from Gemini which she asked me to
post to the Group:

Hi Noreen!

Would you please share this email with the newsgroup... I miss all of
you very much!! *hugs*

I just came into the local library to check my email... we haven't
gotten the internet back yet.

Things *were* going well from the time we gave up the internet until
today. In fact, I am glad that I gave up the internet because it was
seriously beginning to take over Matthew's life without him actually
realizing that it was. He was so depressed about being unemployed and
not having any luck in finding work that he was compensating by
spending more and more time on-line talking to people on chat groups
all the time. Once I shut down the internet and he got over the shock
of it, he told me that he hadn't realized that he had been feeling
that badly about himself. ( So something good came out of leaving
my friends behind... I regained the closeness with my son, and helped
him to regain his own self-esteem again.

As I said.. everything *was* okay until today. I've been working hard
and long hours (lots of overtime too). Matthew managed to find a
job... although it is "the job from hell". He has to do very hard
labor (lumberjack type of work... cutting down trees, lifting heavy
logs and heavy railroad ties), and comes home filthy dirty and totally
exhausted. He sits on the couch and within five minutes he is passed
out, waking up long enough to eat and then falling back to sleep again
for the night. He gets up at 5 AM and has to bike to work (bought a
used one for him) across town to be there before 6 AM to start his
day. He gets one break and then his lunch break and gets home at
about 2:45 PM everyday. And.... they pay him a big $7.00 per hour.
/ Everyone I've mentioned this to says the same thing... that it
is slave labor!

We both went to drop off resumes yesterday at the Casino in Sarnia,
while we were out celebrating Matthew's birthday. I had bought
Wrestling tickets a couple of weeks ago for an early birthday present
for him, and last weekend also bought him a PS2 game as another early
birthday present. Sure glad I did that when I did, because the bottom
fell out today....... *again*. /


--
Noreen's Knit*che
(Knitting, Crocheting, Tatting & BobbinLace are my NICHE in life...)
NATA #447
(my family tree is FULL of 'nuts')



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Old August 9th 03, 02:22 AM
cathb
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I see some things never change. Nuff said.


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Old August 9th 03, 03:25 AM
Els van Dam
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In article , "Katherine
Burgess" wrote:

Awww, Noreen! Thanks for sending us this. I'll be writing you off-list.
Please give Gemini our love.
Katherine


Thanks for posting this for us...I will write Gemini by snail mail.

Els

"Noreen's Knit*che" wrote in message
news:200388161542.432716@j9o2a1...
Hi Group! Below please find a note from Gemini which she asked me to
post to the Group:

Hi Noreen!

Would you please share this email with the newsgroup... I miss all of
you very much!! *hugs*

I just came into the local library to check my email... we haven't
gotten the internet back yet.

Things *were* going well from the time we gave up the internet until
today. In fact, I am glad that I gave up the internet because it was
seriously beginning to take over Matthew's life without him actually
realizing that it was. He was so depressed about being unemployed and
not having any luck in finding work that he was compensating by
spending more and more time on-line talking to people on chat groups
all the time. Once I shut down the internet and he got over the shock
of it, he told me that he hadn't realized that he had been feeling
that badly about himself. ( So something good came out of leaving
my friends behind... I regained the closeness with my son, and helped
him to regain his own self-esteem again.

As I said.. everything *was* okay until today. I've been working hard
and long hours (lots of overtime too). Matthew managed to find a
job... although it is "the job from hell". He has to do very hard
labor (lumberjack type of work... cutting down trees, lifting heavy
logs and heavy railroad ties), and comes home filthy dirty and totally
exhausted. He sits on the couch and within five minutes he is passed
out, waking up long enough to eat and then falling back to sleep again
for the night. He gets up at 5 AM and has to bike to work (bought a
used one for him) across town to be there before 6 AM to start his
day. He gets one break and then his lunch break and gets home at
about 2:45 PM everyday. And.... they pay him a big $7.00 per hour.
/ Everyone I've mentioned this to says the same thing... that it
is slave labor!

We both went to drop off resumes yesterday at the Casino in Sarnia,
while we were out celebrating Matthew's birthday. I had bought
Wrestling tickets a couple of weeks ago for an early birthday present
for him, and last weekend also bought him a PS2 game as another early
birthday present. Sure glad I did that when I did, because the bottom
fell out today....... *again*. /

Yesterday morning I had to leave work two hours early because I wasn't
feeling well. Although I still wasn't feeling wonderful, I went out
with Matthew yesterday for his birthday. I laid down for a nap last
night before I was to head off to work, but when I woke up I was
feeling sick again. I called in to work that I couldn't make it....
and this morning I got a call from SOS Personell that Waterville (the
auto parts factory) had asked him to tell me that they had to lay me
off again and that there was no "call-back" date set... so it is
likely permanent. (

Yes, I am hoping to get a job somewhere else (and am actively
looking), but I hoped to actually have another job before leaving the
one I had. What makes it even worse is that they had hired on more
SOS people within this last week and there were rumors that they would
be hiring on from SOS people to Waterville permanently today.
Obviously I wasn't one of the ones they wanted to keep permanently.
(

Our Hydro bill is backed up so badly that I'm afraid they will cut us
off... afterall it is summer now so no one will freeze. The phone
bill is already threatening to be cut off... I put a little money
aside to give to them on Monday, so I hope that will help a bit.

I *just* bought a couple of things at the grocery store an hour before
I got the call about my lay-off. I will be reapplying for
unemployment next week, but there will be a wait for that to come
through. Poor Matthew has to carry the brunt of it all once again.

We will be bringing more resumes around within this upcoming week, but
until we actually get work we're stuck in this horrid situation once
again. I am beginning to feel that without bad luck we would have no
luck at all. *sigh*

I don't know if I can get to the newsgroup through the library. I
can't remember how to go through Google to do it. / I will check
my email here from time to time though. And I will give Noreen my
snail mail address at the end (not to go on the newsgroup for the
world to see of course), so if anyone wants to write me through snail
mail you can ask Noreen for my address.

Mirjam... I got the magazine from you yesterday. The things in it are
beautiful. I just wish I could read it... I'm afraid I can only
speak/read English. / Maybe I can figure something out from the
pictures.

I miss you all. *hugs*
Peace! Gemini in Ontario, Canada

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Old August 10th 03, 07:58 PM
Janise Ross
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Noreen,
Thanks for sharing Gemini's note with us. I had been missing her posts
and hoped things had picked up for her and Matthew. We can all keep wishing
them our best.

Janise




 




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