and we frolicked about

So here's the deal. My mom worked at her job for 26 years before being laid off. She got 8 months notice but she fought moving across the country to the bitter end bc she liked where she lived. It's where he grew up. That town, however, is dying. It's going to be a ghost town and I think she's actually lucky to have gotten out when she did.

I have to add that at this job she was getting paid $10,000 less a year than someone just starting out bc she didnt have the "training". She learned it all through experience which all the training in the world couldn't help.

She moved to Alberta. Land of opportunity. :|

The jobs she's qualified for and applied for all have up to 100+ applicants. The jobs she's OVER qualified for won't give her a chance.

She finally got a job as a "personal assistant" to a realtor. A woman who has had 5 PAs in two years. My mom needed money SO BADLY but this person was so demeaning and condescending that my mom quit, hoping to find ANYTHING else.

No dice.

Finally, she enrolled in an upgrading program to teach her all the things she already knows but will now have a piece of paper to say that. The course is also supposed to have a 90%+ job placement rate. AND when she applied the people there said she was a shoe-in for funding from employment services.

Weeks passed. Months. Last week mom found out the meager employment benefits she was supposed to get after working since she was 18 wouldn't kick in until her course ends on December 22.

Today mom found out that she was denied funding from employment services. For having "too many assets". Know what that is?

The house in New Brunswick that's currently being rented for $300 a month but the insurance on it is $150 and she has to make minimum payment on the mortgage and sewer & whatever. The house that even if she COULD sell it (dying town, remember?) she would make only enough to pay it off.

So now she's applying for a student loan. She's got less than $500 left. period. She already took some money from her RRSPs to get by these past few months.

December we'll have a roof over our heads. We have food. I can swing us for a bit.

Christmas? What Christmas? I'm not upset, honestly, but what the fuck.

26 years of dedication to a company, even when the writing on the wall became blatantly obvious, to less than $500 and a pile of rejection notices.

Seriously, what the fuck?

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What's up with lj sending all these community ownership emails? Anyone? Bueller?

I'm sitting in a theatre waiting for a girl from work to show up and for "The Roommate" to start.

What are you doing?

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Lj's being a total cuntwaffle at the moment and I can't post comments or a post from firefox. What the fuck? Anyone else having massive issues?

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I noticed some people a while ago commenting about how dead lj was buy I chalked it up to the site being slow bc of the ontd switch over & stuff. But I've been noticing how quiet my flist has been of late as well. In fact, I've only had two updates in almost 2 hours.

But I've noticed myself posting less lately, too, and spending more time on Twitter or tumblr. Anyone else finding that?

I did quite a cull on my facebook, going from 72 people to 40. I deleted a lot of people from hs/college who I haven't talked to since before I moved. My life and theirs are in different places and, I don't know, it's just not that interesting to me. I'm also kind of toying with the idea of deleting my facebook since I haven't used it since February or something. Couple that with the increasingly alarming security issues wirht the site and it's not really something I want to be part of.

However, when I was deleting people I saw a friend of a friend who I hated through school and who I got stuck with as a roomie in 1st year for a couple weeks (the proctors in years after used our example as a training exercise!! Great! My legacy lives on!). Anyway. I checked out her page to see if hers was locked down a z whattya know, it wasn't. So I saw photos of the baby she had a few months ago and the man I presume is her fiancé. Who looks about 55. I found this highly amusing for many reasons that would take too long to get into but boils down to being somewhat appropriate but at the same time so fucking weird since I figured she'd never leave our town or her parents.

It also served as a reminder to lock that shit down on my own fb.

Getting more and more excited for NYC. Realized last night that ny based shows, like gossip girl might very well be filming when we get there and almost plotzed. JAZZED!!!

Anyway. Typing on the phone is annoying and I have to sleep.

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Testing out the iPhone lj app. God, I am having THE best time with this phone. I was a little hesitant to buy it at first but I don't regret it at all now!

Although getting used to the keyboard is still taking me a bit. Any suggestions on how to type easier without having fat finger syndrome?

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