Bah Hum Bug
Since I haven't been working I've been having these meetings with a counsellor down at the Unemployment office. Her name is Julie, and she's a really nice lady. I had a meeting with her today, I think I've had 4 now so far. I have to keep a Job Log and write down every place I apply to and then whether or not I did a follow up. Julie was pretty impressed with all the places I've applied to...however I have only heard back from one place and they were just informing me that they have recieved quite a few applications and will only be picking the top 10. So pretty much if I don't hear from them in the next week I never will.
Julie and I spoke a bit about me going back to school. She feels that if I don't have a job within the next month then we are going to start putting together a portfolio to send to the Goverment of Canada to see if I'm eligible to recieve money to go to school. So now I have to start looking at the Colleges around here and see what type of course they offer and I really have to sit down and figure out what I want to be. Julie said that if I'm approved that the government will pay 75% of my schooling which is really cool. However I'm wondering where I'm suppose to come up with the other 25% since I'm not working. I'm thinking they might make me collect OSAP or they pay it all and then make me pay them back 25%. Who knows I'll have to as Julie next week when I go see her.
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Next week Topher is on midnights. In some ways it's good in others it's horrible. Topher has trouble sleeping during the day so then when he doesn't get sleep he doesn't feel like going into work. He can't afford to miss much more time or else he'll be fired. However one plus side of him being on midnights is that I get to sleep in our king size bed all alone. Usually I end up just sleeping on the futon in the living room because I breath really heavy because of my asthma and it keeps Topher up. Since he's the one working I figure he can have the bedroom...if he were to sleep in the living room Eecheb would just bug him anways. One bad thing though about Topher being on midnights is that I'm be here at night alone. I mean normally I'm here until 11pm by myself but when I go to sleep Topher is here. Next week he won't be and it will be odd. I will have Eecheb around to keep my company, except for Tuesday night because he's going to be neutered.
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Yep my poor little baby has to go in and have his balls chopped off. I feel so bad for little Eecheb. He's such a happy cat yet has some health problems. His breathing lately seems to be odd...I told the vet about it and she pretty much shrugged it off pretty much saying I didn't know the difference between him purring or having trouble breathing. He went to the vet on Wednesday to have his hemorrhoid looked at...yes that's right Eecheb has a hemorrhoid. It seems to be finally getting better after 2 months of trying him on different meds. I started giving him 1 small can of wet food a day and it seems to be softening his poo enough so that it's not irritating the hemorrhoid and it's finally going down. I also switched his food to a special formula for cats with intestine problems. I just hope that after his surgery he heals up quick and that his hemorrhoid goes away for good.
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I downloaded and installed a Topsite List on my site today. At first it was really plain and ugly but I read and learned how to skin the Topsite program and now it looks pretty good. I skinned it so that it matches the Reverb skin on Funkee Monkee. I had to make new ranking buttons which look okay and I had to make a generic "Click here to Vote" button which looks like absolute crap. I really have to work on a better one tomorrow. I also made a new FM button which matches the Reverb and Topsite pretty well I think. I'm thinking of installing a Spell Checker on the board...I'm just hoping that it doesn't involve too much file editing.
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I have barely spoke to my sister all week. She went back home on Monday and since then I think I've spoken to her maybe 3 times on MSN. All 3 times I only got maybe 2 sentences in [Hey, How are you doing? Okay talk to you later, take care...I love you]. She was always saying that she had to go. I really thought that her moving down there would make her see things clearer and realize that her family is important. It has yet to happen though. She was down for 5 days and the only time I saw her in those 5 days was at her Commencement which I only saw her for like 5 minutes. Then again on Thanksgiving but that day I only saw her at the dinner table, because the rest of the day she was in the computer room with the door closed. The rest of her time at home she spent with her friends. I know that her friends mean a lot to her and I think that that's great however she needs to realize that friends won't always be there but family will and if she continues to shit on us time and time again we aren't going to be there when she really needs us.
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Julie and I spoke a bit about me going back to school. She feels that if I don't have a job within the next month then we are going to start putting together a portfolio to send to the Goverment of Canada to see if I'm eligible to recieve money to go to school. So now I have to start looking at the Colleges around here and see what type of course they offer and I really have to sit down and figure out what I want to be. Julie said that if I'm approved that the government will pay 75% of my schooling which is really cool. However I'm wondering where I'm suppose to come up with the other 25% since I'm not working. I'm thinking they might make me collect OSAP or they pay it all and then make me pay them back 25%. Who knows I'll have to as Julie next week when I go see her.
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Next week Topher is on midnights. In some ways it's good in others it's horrible. Topher has trouble sleeping during the day so then when he doesn't get sleep he doesn't feel like going into work. He can't afford to miss much more time or else he'll be fired. However one plus side of him being on midnights is that I get to sleep in our king size bed all alone. Usually I end up just sleeping on the futon in the living room because I breath really heavy because of my asthma and it keeps Topher up. Since he's the one working I figure he can have the bedroom...if he were to sleep in the living room Eecheb would just bug him anways. One bad thing though about Topher being on midnights is that I'm be here at night alone. I mean normally I'm here until 11pm by myself but when I go to sleep Topher is here. Next week he won't be and it will be odd. I will have Eecheb around to keep my company, except for Tuesday night because he's going to be neutered.
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Yep my poor little baby has to go in and have his balls chopped off. I feel so bad for little Eecheb. He's such a happy cat yet has some health problems. His breathing lately seems to be odd...I told the vet about it and she pretty much shrugged it off pretty much saying I didn't know the difference between him purring or having trouble breathing. He went to the vet on Wednesday to have his hemorrhoid looked at...yes that's right Eecheb has a hemorrhoid. It seems to be finally getting better after 2 months of trying him on different meds. I started giving him 1 small can of wet food a day and it seems to be softening his poo enough so that it's not irritating the hemorrhoid and it's finally going down. I also switched his food to a special formula for cats with intestine problems. I just hope that after his surgery he heals up quick and that his hemorrhoid goes away for good.
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I downloaded and installed a Topsite List on my site today. At first it was really plain and ugly but I read and learned how to skin the Topsite program and now it looks pretty good. I skinned it so that it matches the Reverb skin on Funkee Monkee. I had to make new ranking buttons which look okay and I had to make a generic "Click here to Vote" button which looks like absolute crap. I really have to work on a better one tomorrow. I also made a new FM button which matches the Reverb and Topsite pretty well I think. I'm thinking of installing a Spell Checker on the board...I'm just hoping that it doesn't involve too much file editing.
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I have barely spoke to my sister all week. She went back home on Monday and since then I think I've spoken to her maybe 3 times on MSN. All 3 times I only got maybe 2 sentences in [Hey, How are you doing? Okay talk to you later, take care...I love you]. She was always saying that she had to go. I really thought that her moving down there would make her see things clearer and realize that her family is important. It has yet to happen though. She was down for 5 days and the only time I saw her in those 5 days was at her Commencement which I only saw her for like 5 minutes. Then again on Thanksgiving but that day I only saw her at the dinner table, because the rest of the day she was in the computer room with the door closed. The rest of her time at home she spent with her friends. I know that her friends mean a lot to her and I think that that's great however she needs to realize that friends won't always be there but family will and if she continues to shit on us time and time again we aren't going to be there when she really needs us.
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