Well, maybe a little one. But the temps this weekend are going down a lot! We're talking really bad. So mama and me are staying cuddled up at home. At least I am. I hope she does this weekend.
We applied for two jobbies today. One is in the business mama was in for over 20 years. So she has a lot of experience. One is something new, an admissions coordinator at a local hospital. It is right next door to the bus stop she used when she went home from the school. Gee, in the last two days or so she has applied at two places around the same neighborhood as the old job.
Mama has to go downtown tomorrow and fight to get medical assistance again. Right now, she has none again, and she needs medications. We can't understand why someone can immigrate here and get housing, cars, clothing, food, insurance, and even jobs, and mama, who has been in this state for almost 30 years, can't get any help. Most of the very people she has to see tomorrow can't even speak our language very well. She has nothing against immigrants, her grandparents were. But they had to work hard for everything when they got here, and no one handed them anything. Mama has worked hard, but the immigrants get the assistance that she needs.
Oops, soap box again.
Mama is going to be gone most of the day tomorrow. But one of the nice things is she is going to give some of her blood again. They have been posting ads about being low at the local hospitals again. And even though we have no money to give away, she can still help others this way. The old place was on the street she used to work at. Remember, her old school bought that building, and the blood place moved across the river. But they do have a small location downtown, so she is going there since that's where she will be tomorrow anyway.
Stay warm,
love to my Sweetie,
brandi
January 31, 2007
January 30, 2007
Tuesday, and Brrr!
No phone calls today. And we are having a cold week in the twin cities! Mama found a jobbie to apply for today, but just one. *sigh*
With Stinky Goodness in the morning and snugglies with mama, I didn't have a bad day. But I think mama did. Even with my snugglies with her.
I think she has to go back to the doctor soon, and that is scarey cause her insurance is all screwed up again. And now we have no income, cause the unemployment is gone.
Yesterday one of the jobbies she applied for was with a place that deals with old beans, and it is a couple of blocks from where she worked, so she knows the area and everything. I think she would like to work where she can really help people, so it would be nice if they called her for an interview.
The place from Friday never called her back for an interview, and it was for a medical company, so she would have liked that, too.
I love the snugglies, but it would be okay here if mama wasn't here during the day. We have lots of blankies and stuff, and I could still snuggle at night with her if she had a jobbie. Then she would be happier and could stop worrying about stuff.
Love, headbumpies and, of course, a smooch for my Sugar Pie!
brandi
With Stinky Goodness in the morning and snugglies with mama, I didn't have a bad day. But I think mama did. Even with my snugglies with her.
I think she has to go back to the doctor soon, and that is scarey cause her insurance is all screwed up again. And now we have no income, cause the unemployment is gone.
Yesterday one of the jobbies she applied for was with a place that deals with old beans, and it is a couple of blocks from where she worked, so she knows the area and everything. I think she would like to work where she can really help people, so it would be nice if they called her for an interview.
The place from Friday never called her back for an interview, and it was for a medical company, so she would have liked that, too.
I love the snugglies, but it would be okay here if mama wasn't here during the day. We have lots of blankies and stuff, and I could still snuggle at night with her if she had a jobbie. Then she would be happier and could stop worrying about stuff.
Love, headbumpies and, of course, a smooch for my Sugar Pie!
brandi
January 29, 2007
Wondering
It is now said that the median income for Minneapolis is $140,909 annually. My mama has never even made $30,000. Which is why we do not live in a nice home, and why mama does not have a car, and when she did, she has never owned a new car. It is why my mama has not gone on a real vacation in many years. It is why we are mostly penniless right now. We went through everything the last time mama got laid off. The people who are making this income are the ones that are not hiring mama. And probably do not understand how someone would have to do without a car and doesn't have their own home and doesn't go on vacations. The people who do have all this stuff simply want more, so they don't pay their employees enough.
Well, off that soap box.
They also say that when you come to Minnesota, bring warm clothes. They got that right. Glad I have my furrs. Glad mama has warm socks for her cold feeties.
My sweetie and the Evil Cat came over to snuggle. They were both gentlemen. And my sweetie made a sign for me (*blush*) but nasty blogger would not let me comment on his blog.
Stay warm, everyone. We are off to catch up on other things.
Love to all,
brandi
Well, off that soap box.
They also say that when you come to Minnesota, bring warm clothes. They got that right. Glad I have my furrs. Glad mama has warm socks for her cold feeties.
My sweetie and the Evil Cat came over to snuggle. They were both gentlemen. And my sweetie made a sign for me (*blush*) but nasty blogger would not let me comment on his blog.
Stay warm, everyone. We are off to catch up on other things.
Love to all,
brandi
January 28, 2007
Sweet Sunday, but Verrry Coldd!
When mama gotted up it was -1 with a windchill of -15. She putted my t-shirt on me last night, and made me wear it till early this morning, then, since I was out of both the sleeves, she took it off me. Well, it was a little warmer with it, but I'd rather not.
It is now 2 above.
Mama found a couple of jobbies today that she applied for. She also had hot cereal for brekkies and made tea instead of coffee. I think this is a tea day.
Back to our computer dilemma. We have a Windows ME, and the speakers are programmed in. Unlike at her old jobbie, where you could use the speaker on the flatscreen or just plug in a couple of speakers in one of the ports (forgot the name. USB?). She gotted a couple of speakers from somebean and plugged them in and they didn't work. And she tried them at her old jobbie and they worked fine. Does she have to unprogram the old ones? Not that she knows how.
Anyway, for news: mama will be adding It's All Good, bwog of the genius cat, Moi, moi, moi (Audrey), Icon Baxter Bentley, and Jeter Harris's blog today. Welcome to our linkies!
Anyone who wants to come over and snuggle today, feel free. We have lots of blankies and afghans! And mama is making chicken for lunch. And maybe stew for dinner. Don't like stew, but love that gravy!
love, headbumpies and snuggles,
and a smoochie for my sweetie, Sugar Pie,
brandi
It is now 2 above.
Mama found a couple of jobbies today that she applied for. She also had hot cereal for brekkies and made tea instead of coffee. I think this is a tea day.
Back to our computer dilemma. We have a Windows ME, and the speakers are programmed in. Unlike at her old jobbie, where you could use the speaker on the flatscreen or just plug in a couple of speakers in one of the ports (forgot the name. USB?). She gotted a couple of speakers from somebean and plugged them in and they didn't work. And she tried them at her old jobbie and they worked fine. Does she have to unprogram the old ones? Not that she knows how.
Anyway, for news: mama will be adding It's All Good, bwog of the genius cat, Moi, moi, moi (Audrey), Icon Baxter Bentley, and Jeter Harris's blog today. Welcome to our linkies!
Anyone who wants to come over and snuggle today, feel free. We have lots of blankies and afghans! And mama is making chicken for lunch. And maybe stew for dinner. Don't like stew, but love that gravy!
love, headbumpies and snuggles,
and a smoochie for my sweetie, Sugar Pie,
brandi
p.s. Oh, now what! The cat blogosphere picture linkie is suddenly all screwed up. Somebody help? We added our linkies and DID NOT touch this part of our template. Help???
January 27, 2007
Second Post today! NOOS!
Wrote my first post early this morning, and have since added a ps and another ps, so now I am just going to do a new post. We are so excited. Smudge is soo happy with his grammy, and she loves him too. He is doing very well with her, medically, too.
We are so happy for him. His mama and daddy have been very worried and sad for him, and he leaves such a hole in their own family cause they have decided he is best with grammy, and they will only be able to visit. His daddy, in particular, is very sad without his Smudge. But sometimes there has to be sacrifices for loved ones.
So they went by a rescue place, and they found Baci. Not to replace Smudge. But just because when you are sad, opening up your heart and sharing with someone else is that much sweeter. So they will have a new little one in their home, but Smudge only in their hearts. Please welcome Baci. In Italian it means love and kisses.
That is how I came to mama's place. She was sad, and I needed a home, and now we are a family.
Love is such a thing to share! Please welcome Baci!
brandi
We are so happy for him. His mama and daddy have been very worried and sad for him, and he leaves such a hole in their own family cause they have decided he is best with grammy, and they will only be able to visit. His daddy, in particular, is very sad without his Smudge. But sometimes there has to be sacrifices for loved ones.
So they went by a rescue place, and they found Baci. Not to replace Smudge. But just because when you are sad, opening up your heart and sharing with someone else is that much sweeter. So they will have a new little one in their home, but Smudge only in their hearts. Please welcome Baci. In Italian it means love and kisses.
That is how I came to mama's place. She was sad, and I needed a home, and now we are a family.
Love is such a thing to share! Please welcome Baci!
brandi
Where Have We Been
Thursday we were going to the prayer vigil. Mama fell asleep at the computer (!) and managed to pop in at the very end. She is so sorry. And that computer chair of hers, while it is pretty comfy for me, is not good for her to sleep in.
On Friday the temp to hire place that interviewed her for a job in their own office and then decided to hire someone else called her and said that they had a temp to hire placement. Would she be willing to put an objective on her resume that slanted towards this job? Of course! The bean looked up the bus information and everything for her. She emailed the information to him. She waited all afternoon for a phone interview from this special place.... Well, all I can say is, hope they call Monday. Otherwise, it's another dump in the trashcan. The decision to call is left totally up to the company looking for the employee.
Then we have been having serious problems with our on line server. As much as we tried yesterday, it wouldn't let us blog. Not blogger. Our on line company. It kept freezing on us, taking hours more to jobbie hunt and mama just gave up. She did manage to update her cover letter on one site. But after several manual reboots, the computer was not fun anymore.
We know we have an old computer. We can't do any fancy upgrading of modems and the like. We have only lowly dialup. We can't use the newest version of the service cause it would blow our computer (tried the last version, and it did! We had to have lots of help after that, and we are not under warranty now). I think they are trying to make us upgrade, freezing after we try to leave every page, and freezing just because.
So that's the problem. Have not read anybody's blog in a couple of days because of it.
Maybe it's library time for mama or something. But the main library only allows 20 minutes on the computer. That is not enough to job hunt much less keep up with my friends.
A dilemma (as in an old Gilbert and Sullivan song, " a nice dilemma we have here that calls for all our wit") .
I am gonna read up on the "noos" if our stupid internet provider lets me. Finally. And if blogger behaves.
Love, headbumpies, purrs to everyone,
and especially to my sweetie, cause I have been missing him and thinking sweet thoughts to him,
brandi
On Friday the temp to hire place that interviewed her for a job in their own office and then decided to hire someone else called her and said that they had a temp to hire placement. Would she be willing to put an objective on her resume that slanted towards this job? Of course! The bean looked up the bus information and everything for her. She emailed the information to him. She waited all afternoon for a phone interview from this special place.... Well, all I can say is, hope they call Monday. Otherwise, it's another dump in the trashcan. The decision to call is left totally up to the company looking for the employee.
Then we have been having serious problems with our on line server. As much as we tried yesterday, it wouldn't let us blog. Not blogger. Our on line company. It kept freezing on us, taking hours more to jobbie hunt and mama just gave up. She did manage to update her cover letter on one site. But after several manual reboots, the computer was not fun anymore.
We know we have an old computer. We can't do any fancy upgrading of modems and the like. We have only lowly dialup. We can't use the newest version of the service cause it would blow our computer (tried the last version, and it did! We had to have lots of help after that, and we are not under warranty now). I think they are trying to make us upgrade, freezing after we try to leave every page, and freezing just because.
So that's the problem. Have not read anybody's blog in a couple of days because of it.
Maybe it's library time for mama or something. But the main library only allows 20 minutes on the computer. That is not enough to job hunt much less keep up with my friends.
A dilemma (as in an old Gilbert and Sullivan song, " a nice dilemma we have here that calls for all our wit") .
I am gonna read up on the "noos" if our stupid internet provider lets me. Finally. And if blogger behaves.
Love, headbumpies, purrs to everyone,
and especially to my sweetie, cause I have been missing him and thinking sweet thoughts to him,
brandi
p.s. We caught up on effurry blog! Wow! Mama will update stuff maybe later, but we did want to say hooray for Dolce's Story Chair once again!
p.p.s. When we gotted this computer it was lots of years ago. We have a ME I think, ME 98? 2000? We gotted it in 2001. We gotted it with monies mama's old company gave her (before the school). When she tolded the tech at her school about it, he patted her shoulder and said, "it's okay. You can always buy a new one." That is why my dream for my mama is a nice computer with a flat screen. She used to blog at lunchtime at her old jobbie cause she had high speed internet there, and a nice flat screen monitor with speakers in it, and a much smaller hard drive. The only think we really like is the mouse on this computer. It doesn't need a mouse pad, and it lights up red when you use it, and we think that's cool. Our speakers blew, and mama doesn't want to program the whole computer just for speakers, when the computer isn't worth it anyway, and she does not want to go through the horrors of reprogramming.
January 25, 2007
Dear Meowers, in response to your last comment,
Once upon a time mama called for computer help to a toll free number that came with her computer. It was still under warranty. The lady, who gave her an American name, was in a call center in India. Mama had some problems understanding her, but she followed her instructions, albeit (that's a word, mama?) hesitantly, and asking for a lot of repeats, and I don't understand, could you please simplifys. When mama's computer was totally dead and mama was even more upset than when she first called in, the lady hung up.
The company that mama worked for before the school sent their customer service calls to India. People were told to pick an American sounding name, and tell people, if asked, they were from the east coast call center (USA calls went into the switchboard there and were transferred to India, so technically they could say that). Genevieve, Oscar, what ever name they used, was not really their own. Just a "customer friendly" one.
Oh, the ending of our computer problems? Mama called back, and this time got someone in Georgia, with a good old Georgian accent, who basically walked mama through putting her computer together again. And, although it didn't probably make any difference, mama reported her first rep. She really got lucky getting the second one to help her out.
Even on line tech help will use generic names. I guess that way, if they do something wrong, they can't be traced. I think that is the real reason. And "Joe" may be used by many people.
Today mama tried ordering food on line again, and she knows she did not screw it up as much as they screwed it up for her....
Well, as my mama says, off the soap box.
love, headbumpies, purrs and scritchies,
brandi
Once upon a time mama called for computer help to a toll free number that came with her computer. It was still under warranty. The lady, who gave her an American name, was in a call center in India. Mama had some problems understanding her, but she followed her instructions, albeit (that's a word, mama?) hesitantly, and asking for a lot of repeats, and I don't understand, could you please simplifys. When mama's computer was totally dead and mama was even more upset than when she first called in, the lady hung up.
The company that mama worked for before the school sent their customer service calls to India. People were told to pick an American sounding name, and tell people, if asked, they were from the east coast call center (USA calls went into the switchboard there and were transferred to India, so technically they could say that). Genevieve, Oscar, what ever name they used, was not really their own. Just a "customer friendly" one.
Oh, the ending of our computer problems? Mama called back, and this time got someone in Georgia, with a good old Georgian accent, who basically walked mama through putting her computer together again. And, although it didn't probably make any difference, mama reported her first rep. She really got lucky getting the second one to help her out.
Even on line tech help will use generic names. I guess that way, if they do something wrong, they can't be traced. I think that is the real reason. And "Joe" may be used by many people.
Today mama tried ordering food on line again, and she knows she did not screw it up as much as they screwed it up for her....
Well, as my mama says, off the soap box.
love, headbumpies, purrs and scritchies,
brandi
January 24, 2007
Beans!
Mama called a company today to speak to a certain person there. When she called, the
receptionist on the phone spoke so fast that a) she couldn't even figure out if she called the right place and had to ask the person to please slow down, several times, b) was told the office was really busy, c) was told the person she asked to speak with was busy, d) was not put through to voice mail, e) was asked her name and phone number and then told the receptionist would email the person, f) was not told approximately how many minutes/hours/days/years it would take to get a reply when she asked. I don't know is not appropriate. He is busy for the rest of the day, or he is out sick, or he is on vacation till... is. Speaking as if you are on drugs is not appropriate. You obviously do not have a foreign accent of any kind, and you sound like you are 12 on helium and speed. Also, mama can email, too.
And beans will hire people like this and not my mama?????
My mama knows this person's email and emailed him herself. She did NOT mention the idiot receptionist. Maybe she should. If he ever gets back to her. (And they hired him???)
Love, headbumpies, and purrs,
and a snuggly kiss for my sweetie,
brandi
receptionist on the phone spoke so fast that a) she couldn't even figure out if she called the right place and had to ask the person to please slow down, several times, b) was told the office was really busy, c) was told the person she asked to speak with was busy, d) was not put through to voice mail, e) was asked her name and phone number and then told the receptionist would email the person, f) was not told approximately how many minutes/hours/days/years it would take to get a reply when she asked. I don't know is not appropriate. He is busy for the rest of the day, or he is out sick, or he is on vacation till... is. Speaking as if you are on drugs is not appropriate. You obviously do not have a foreign accent of any kind, and you sound like you are 12 on helium and speed. Also, mama can email, too.
And beans will hire people like this and not my mama?????
My mama knows this person's email and emailed him herself. She did NOT mention the idiot receptionist. Maybe she should. If he ever gets back to her. (And they hired him???)
Love, headbumpies, and purrs,
and a snuggly kiss for my sweetie,
brandi
January 23, 2007
'Allo, 'allo?
Well, we didn't apply for anything today. Nothing out there that mama was qualified for. A lot of them sound perfect, and then at the end throw in something really stupid that mama can't do. Must be able to lift 70 pounds? Must have knowledge of Mac? Must have car so you can run errands (what, so that they don't have to waste THEIR gas and their time picking up their drycleaning or taking their grandma to the airport???). Or else they say no benefits at the end, or that they are in a faraway suburb, or prospect must know the &*$#@ program, or you have to have a cell phone and be able to travel at a moment's notice (not with me. You can't shuffle me off to just anyone, and just who is going to pay the spa/kennel/sitter??).
This is getting ridiculous. Nasty beans!
Oh, yes. Mama sent a nice thank you to a place that interviewed her several months ago and turned her down, and when mama applied again, they sent her a nice letter saying they weren't going to interview her for the new different job. She complimented them on being so nice. She sent it off early this morning. She got a reply this afternoon. An automated one saying that person was out of the office due to an ill child and out all afternoon. Hmmm. Being older, employees never have to worry about that with mama. I have not been the vet kind of sick (knock on wood, mama says) for many years.
She also sent a couple of places she applied a nice how's it going. One (the nicer one) responded and said they would be setting up interviews next week.
*kitty sigh* She tries.
Love, headbumpies, purrs and of course,
a sweet 'allo to my sweet and wonderful Sugar Pie,
brandi
This is getting ridiculous. Nasty beans!
Oh, yes. Mama sent a nice thank you to a place that interviewed her several months ago and turned her down, and when mama applied again, they sent her a nice letter saying they weren't going to interview her for the new different job. She complimented them on being so nice. She sent it off early this morning. She got a reply this afternoon. An automated one saying that person was out of the office due to an ill child and out all afternoon. Hmmm. Being older, employees never have to worry about that with mama. I have not been the vet kind of sick (knock on wood, mama says) for many years.
She also sent a couple of places she applied a nice how's it going. One (the nicer one) responded and said they would be setting up interviews next week.
*kitty sigh* She tries.
Love, headbumpies, purrs and of course,
a sweet 'allo to my sweet and wonderful Sugar Pie,
brandi
January 22, 2007
Monday, Monday
Nice quiet day. Unfortunately for mama. But anyway, a few snowflakes, a lot of nappies, life is pretty okay for a nice kitty like me. We jobbie hunted. And I nappied through mama's lunch, so I have a feeling she had hamm or turkey or both and ate it all herself. Oh, well, plenty of kitty food for me.
That's it for today. Not a whole lot happening. Mama thought she would go downtown to do some stuff, but decided to be by the home phone in case anyone called for an interview.
Gee, I may even get to read some blogs!
Oh, and before I forget, mama so appreciated the money from the auction, so thank you all that contributed. She has been constantly amazed at the assistance we have been blessed with these last few months, even though we never asked for any. I told her kitties always try to take care of their own.
Take care, efurryone.
Headbumpies, purrs, lots of love, especially to my sweetie, Sugar Pie,
brandi
That's it for today. Not a whole lot happening. Mama thought she would go downtown to do some stuff, but decided to be by the home phone in case anyone called for an interview.
Gee, I may even get to read some blogs!
Oh, and before I forget, mama so appreciated the money from the auction, so thank you all that contributed. She has been constantly amazed at the assistance we have been blessed with these last few months, even though we never asked for any. I told her kitties always try to take care of their own.
Take care, efurryone.
Headbumpies, purrs, lots of love, especially to my sweetie, Sugar Pie,
brandi
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