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 Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 6:33 am
sunsetsmile @Teh-Plague-----sorry about the drama. Ending friendships is never easy, but that's part of life. People come and go, and very few of them are friends for life. Sometimes there is a good surprise at the end of the bad times with ex-friends, though-----I have kept people in my prayers for years and seen them again years later, with minds clear and lives productive, and the friendships have been restored. Don't know your situation, but sometimes things work out very well in the end. Unemployment is a real problem for lots of people. My brother-in-law lost his job in January. He has been able to pick up a couple of temporary jobs, but is presently out of work again. He is 52, and lost a job that paid well that he had been working for many, many years. There's lots of that. Pre-med son in a good-sized college town can't find a part-time job, although he has experience in lots of different fields. There you go. Come on, deer season! All God's children gotta eat! Thanks for the website. I'm definitely checking that out! That website has so many things that I can use!!! Flannel-lined overalls for women, WOOHOO!!!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
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Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 9:47 pm
@sunset: I hate the fact that i'm semi-unemployed, I have to collect partial unemployment right now because my position was cut back from 40+ hours a week to 10-15 hours a week because of the massive slump right now. I've also been laid off twice in the last year. I'm 22 going on 23 and i've been with this company since i got out of highschool yet every time i apply for a job they tell me i don't have enough experience for the position. I've got letters of recommendation from my managers detailing all of my responsibilities and then all of the extra stuff i do on top of that and still no place will hire me.
As far as the friend situation its a long and complicated story but essentially it revolves around the fact that this girl and i used to be great friends until she decided it was more fun to play headgames and mess with me. Not a tale for this particular forum lol.
Glad you like the website i'm hoping to acquire a few things from there for myself for Christmas presents this year. I think i may order a pair of overalls myself honestly.
Oh and as for what i did today, i worked a measely 5 hour shift and then my friends picked my up because i had to drive their parents vehicle home because her parents got so drunk at the local bar they were kicked out and took a cab home and told their 20 year old daughter that if she didn't bring their car home for them and it got towed they'd kick her out...great parenting. I would very much like to move away from here now...i'll take 5 acre's in the middle of nowhere please and thank you.
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Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 2:06 pm
@Teh-Plague-----sounds like the company that you work for is hanging on by their fingernails. I hope they can hang on! My Grandaddy always told us not to put all of our eggs in one basket. I have the feeling that you have enough different skills to prosper no matter what is going on around you, it just won't be easy. I heard someone recently talking about people who start their own businesses, and he said that lots of them started dedicating their Saturdays to working for themselves. If they stuck with it and had a good product, made good business connections, they got to the place where they could cut themselves loose from their regular job and go fulltime with what they enjoyed doing. In fact, I know a woman who made dried and silk flower arrangements in her home for years, stockpiling inventory and working weddings, etc., out of her home. When our new church building was completed, and the old church went on the market, she bought it, and does a great business, although the town is very small. She worked at what she loved on her own time, and when the time was right for her to go "bigtime," she was ready. You know the old saying, "The harder you work, the luckier you get?" It's true.
Today I chauffeured, caught the silly goats who had escaped and put them back in the pasture, knitted some fingerless gloves after I smoothed out all the catbites on my bamboo needles, started a crocheted scarf, and am baking the little muffin-sized meatloaves, etc., for lunches. Still have mac'n'cheese, potatoes, and a couple of kinds of muffins to go for lunches this week. Businesses here already have Christmas and Hannukah stuff out, and there are sales and traffic to match. Hope everyone makes enough money to keep their doors open after the first of the year.
What happened to Thanksgiving?????
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You'll want more than 5 acres once you get to the country. And you'll want someone to go with you! It's just a great life. You need someone to share it with! I wish all my family and friends were here, too.
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Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 7:55 pm
Found what may be the best grown up set of knex/erector set ever! sort of http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/Collection of open source plans for building your own industrial machinery...A soil pulverizer to create fine dirt for making compressed earth bricks, which they have a machine for, plus a tractor, a skid loader type device, a sawmill, and various other build it yourself machines. @sunset: Indeed they are barely hanging on. But i am capable of doing computer technician work or general office jobs and such but i don't enjoy being cooped up. I prefer a manual labor type job or at least something that gets me moving around all day. Worse comes to worse i'll take an office job or a warehouse job that pays less but offers more hours. If things get worse than that...i can go to being a handy man doing general maintenance and repair work on houses or cars. If the economy gets worse than that...might have some serious trouble. Heck when i was 18 and working third shift for my current job i took a side job during the day digging out a partially complete basement with a pick axe and shovels with a buddy of mine. Seriously what did happen to Thanksgiving?? I know folks don't decorate half as much for Thanksgiving as they do for Christmas and Halloween but way to skip a holiday. 5 acre's might just be enough to get me to drop everything in the city and i'm crazy enough to live in a hastily built cabin while i can turn 5 acre's into a profitable if small enterprise. Though i have no idea how i would manage 5 acre's without even a small tiller or a riding mower or something. Edit: Oh yeah...dinner was made this evening. It was shepherds pie.
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Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 2:37 pm
Its Sunday and I burned my wallet for a lunch with friends. @.@ Olive Garden is probably more expensive than Red Lobster! Holy Moly. The person who told me OG was affordable...LIES! =_= they're food is not that great either...oh well.
Anyway, fall is upon us and the Thanksgiving break is coming soon. I've offered to help my brother rake leaves a chore both my brother and I enjoy for about 1/4 or 1/2 of the yard. Our property enjoys the shade of trees in the spring and summer, but come fall the trees really dump everything.
This year I'm thinking of convincing my folks to get the paper bags at the H.Depo, instead of using plastic bags. Considering the amount of leaves, my personal compose pile is not going to need that much.
Has anyone mowed their leaves? I was thinking about shredding the leaves with the mower either to fit more into the bags or just leave them on the lawn.
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Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 4:40 pm
@ta lu: we didn't mow our leaves but the kids that refuse to stay out of our yard no matter how many times we tell them and their parents that they need to not play here did a darn good job of stomping the leaves to dust. So we didn't pick em up this year.
Yesterday i picked up the rest of the things i needed to assemble my trashcan-smoker device. (i'm a redneck aren't i...oh well) today i cut my hair, grilled some steaks and some brats, bought some awesome cranberry muffins and i will now clean up the hair i left on the bathroom floor and then i will watch the walking dead on AMC.
Oh and i figured out i need to purchase 15-25 acre's of land...i should be able to raise several cow's and pigs each year on that, plus chickens, rabbits, a goat or two, and all of the grains and starch plants i could desire. That would of course leave me with several acres of wooded awesomeness for bonfires and such.
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Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 5:25 pm
I saw a woodpecker in the yard. razz
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Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 6:35 pm
Yanueh I saw a woodpecker in the yard. razz Cool! Was it loitering with its friends? Today we drove down to this Sunday flea market. It's such a visual and olfactory treat. (My boyfriend hates the smell.) I picked up two cute jars. One 128 oz wide mouth jar for makin' kombucha and a tiny little jar just because it's cute. The big jar was only $2 and the small jar was given to me for free by the gentleman, probably thinking I'm "special" due to me having a VINTAGE MY LITTLE PONY in a death grip. $1 for 1984 "Heartthrob". I love her so much. crying
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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 8:38 am
@ Pirhan----we lived in Ponyworld here for years! Maybe I should find them and wrap them up for Christmas!
@ Teh-Plague---I didn't mean that 5 acres isn't enough to live independently, just that your neighbors' fields hold a strange attraction once you're in the country.......there always seems to be something else to grow or raise or something. I think it's great fun to figure out how to do things without spending a ton of money buying something ready-to-go-out-of -the-box. Doesn't make you a "redneck," just inventive! That website is great! Reminds me of erector sets, but big enough to be useful.
It was a busy, busy weekend here, lots of running. Seems that the housepainting might have to wait for completion until spring. It was so windy all weekend that painting was totally out of the question! The big tubular windchimes in the trees have been chiming 24/7 for days now. Did the usual cooking ahead for a busy week, knitted and crocheted, talked to most of the out-of-town relatives to firm up Thanksgiving weekend plans. Good thing I was too busy to take a little trip----I spotted yaks for sale on craigslist about an hour from here! I have a "thing" for bison, so a bison in a fur coat is very intriguing to me! Surprisingly, my husband thought that yaks would be cool. Maybe there's hope for that city boy yet.
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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 8:40 pm
Teh_plague @sunset: I hate the fact that i'm semi-unemployed, I have to collect partial unemployment right now because my position was cut back from 40+ hours a week to 10-15 hours a week because of the massive slump right now. I've also been laid off twice in the last year. I'm 22 going on 23 and i've been with this company since i got out of highschool yet every time i apply for a job they tell me i don't have enough experience for the position. I've got letters of recommendation from my managers detailing all of my responsibilities and then all of the extra stuff i do on top of that and still no place will hire me.
How many hours do you have to make to still qualify for unemployment or semi-unemployment?
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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 8:45 pm
This weekend I visited my parents, so Mom and I made coffeecake. It was delicious. 4laugh
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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 10:44 am
sunsetsmile @ Pirhan----we lived in Ponyworld here for years! Maybe I should find them and wrap them up for Christmas! I had a lot of Ponies growing up. I had two with the twisty heads that had the tails that could be long or short. I also had the stable carrying case. Due to some unfortunate circumstances, I no longer have any of them. I've never seen an original since, though I hadn't really been looking, but I now want to get more. If you get yaks, you could make butter tea. :3 What do you knit/crochet? Not doing much today. Will probably sew up some more cat toys. Edit: Brought up Beast, the '56 electric machine I have. Gave him a whirl, sounds like sports car. House only shook a little. The stitches are so tight and small. Not like the treadle. :B Best part, I wasn't afraid of my fingers being eaten.
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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 11:16 am
Little Batwing Wow, sounds like you and I are in the same boat. I also only get 10 hours per week (I made almost 13 last week, and that never happens). Like you I also tried to apply to other jobs but didn't have enough experience. Luckily I like the people I work with, so I don't mind staying, but the trouble is that I'm not making enough money there.
How many hours do you have to make to still qualify for unemployment or semi-unemployment? I think it all depends on how many hours you used to get and how long you've been employed there. I honestly don't know what half the calculations are for figuring out unemployment or partial unemployment compensation. I do know that working 10 hours a week gets me a small paycheck plus a small unemployment check that combined are less than half of what my usual income is. Its hard to go straight outta highschool to making 13 bucks an hour working 40-50 hours a week to suddenly be making like one fifth of that. This week due to everyone with seniority getting vacation time in i'll work a whopping 31 hours. After that i have no idea what i'll get. Today i woke up before noon which is awesome. Crushed aluminum can's to take to the recycling place next weekend for some cash. Going to shrink wrap the windows because its gonna be cold soon and our heating bill goes through the roof during the winter because this place is not insulated well. Then its off to another day of work.
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 2:45 pm
pirhan sunsetsmile @ Pirhan----we lived in Ponyworld here for years! Maybe I should find them and wrap them up for Christmas! I had a lot of Ponies growing up. I had two with the twisty heads that had the tails that could be long or short. I also had the stable carrying case. Due to some unfortunate circumstances, I no longer have any of them. I've never seen an original since, though I hadn't really been looking, but I now want to get more. If you get yaks, you could make butter tea. :3 What do you knit/crochet? Not doing much today. Will probably sew up some more cat toys. Edit: Brought up Beast, the '56 electric machine I have. Gave him a whirl, sounds like sports car. House only shook a little. The stitches are so tight and small. Not like the treadle. :B Best part, I wasn't afraid of my fingers being eaten. I thought about butter tea, first thing. Then toasty socks! Then harnesses! I've been crocheting shawls since May. The first batch for Memorial Day, when all the girls in this part of the family would be together for the first time in ten years. Then, a batch for the cousins and their daughters. Now a pair for my husband's mother and aunt. I'm always making something knitted or crocheted, from afghans and sweaters to fingerless gloves, hats, scarves, bags, little "cozies" for the girls' drinks at the coffeeshop. I'm learning to knit socks from the toe up on youtube right now. I really need to get the sewing machines out! I know what you mean about shaking the house! Probably just needs a drop of oil or two, and an adjustment for stitch length. I'm so glad you're not afraid of losing your fingers!!!! Ponyworld made me remember all the stinking little Polly Pocket stuff. That hurts worse than Legos when you step on it! That's here, too....and the Legos, and the blocks, and the cars, and the Army guys with their tanks and planes, and the fairies that fly when you pull the string, the kid's musical instruments......kids love it here. My youngest daughter reminded me that I have another closet in her room today. I was giving her a hard time about all her laundry the other day, and she said, "It will all fit you, too, you should come try stuff on." I didn't really think her clothes would fit me, but they do! I'm getting her a padlock for her closet for Christmas! LOL I should be cooking for tomorrow, but I'm mostly just enjoying the overcast, blustery, warm day, complete with tornado watch until 10 P.M. Then it's supposed to get down into the teens, with windchills around zero. I figure the oven being on tomorrow will be a good thing, so I'm enjoying today, TODAY. I hope all of you do, too.
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:18 pm
If you do the yaks and the tea, you have to tell me how delicious it is. I finished two scarves in September and now starting on a shawl for my Oma. I hope to get it done before Christmas. ninja First time breaking out from the straight forward scarf, so it's interesting. I'll have to get some oil for my machine and pick up some more thread. I finished a spool making cat toys - pretty impressed. Bundled up near twenty cat n** toys and dropped them off for the rescue agency I adopted Evangeline from. :3 Just going to post some quick pictures before DINNER OMG I'M SO HUNGRY. Bones has this new habit of bringing out ALL his toys: Evangeline likes to help: I gutted all the non 'n** toys and put cat n** pouches in them. Evangeline is a tester: She also ensures I have a safe working environment:
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