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FROM: Gemini (a note to group via Noreen)
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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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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I see some things never change. Nuff said.
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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 ----------- -- delete doba to email me.....:=)) |
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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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