arrrgghh. applications and other stuff rant

[RainDog]

just a moment to rant about having to fill out standard apps in addition to submitting a resume that provides exactly the same information. it's not even possible to create a template b/c every place has a different app. form.

argh #2. I just found out that I am expected to pay more than 800.00 + a month for medications that make it possible for me to function b/c of the major depression I have had to deal with for years. I do not have 800+ dollars a month for this. My ex's lawyer wanted me to sign an agreement not to sue for emotional abuse - long, long story, some of it has been told here, but let me assure you it wasn't garden variety crap - and I didn't sign the agreement, but I also have never considered suing. I wonder if my ex would like to chip in halfsies for my medication? - not that that's affordable for me either. I already know the answer.

Whenever I get these bad news moments, I have to cry for minute. then tell myself all will work out. I have to believe that all will work out because I have no other options.

argh #3 - When I found out part of my basement had flooded, I was using a wet-vac to get standing water off the floor. I couldn't get the top to latch for some reason. One of the wheels of the wet-vac came off and the top came off too, spilling nasty, dirty crappy water all over the floor. I promptly turned to the wall and slapped it a few times while yelling "FUCK" at the top of my lungs, put the top back on, vacuumed up the water and sat on a step and cried for a minute.

then I started again. I had already told my older son (the one w/ autism) that, when I said the basement was flooded -- that meant he helped, not shut and locked the door to his room. I called my younger son and told him to come home to help me. When he got home (after the spill) he asked me, "Have you cried yet?"

I told him that, yes, I had. He said, "Good," and then started to help put boxes of ruined books with the trash cans to toss out with the next trash pickup. In the meantime the lawn mower refused to work - got that fixed - and the dishwasher, for some reason... maybe b/c of the flooding - decided to overflow.

I have a low tolerance for frustration these days... these days being since Nov. 2000. Somehow the Bush selection figures into my frustration. Okay, back to filling out applications. I've sent out six apps this weekend and have six more in the works... after I finish the fricking redundant standard apps.

also - why, in this day and age, does any information-centered sort of employment NOT have an online application process?

okay, rant off. sort of.

post something funny. hopefully something that won't get the thread locked. plllleeeeaaasssee?

[flvegan]

1. I have nothing funny

But I do send you wishes of luck in your job search, and hopes that things...just get better for you.

[RainDog]

3. thanks for the kind thoughts

if I had 800/mo to toss around for my good health, I think I'd be better off hiring that personal trainer of my winning-the-lottery dreams.

that's another bad effect of these meds - I have gained weight, which is also depressing. esp. when you can't fit into your clothes. :/

just to be totally whiney - it just started raining again here. the county has already been declared a disaster area. I already have a creek overflowing in my back yard.

must. think. positive. thoughts.

[democracyindanger]

2. Lakers are down 2-0.

Well, I think it's funny.

[RainDog]

11. I watched nadal some yesterday, does that count?

I don't have a pro basketball team anymore. don't even know players much. oh, wait, I guess the Pacers have to be my team.

Lakers or Celts - I'd probably have to go with Lakers, even tho nearby homey country boy Larry Bird was a Celt.

[yellowdogintexas]

4. contact the manufacturer of your drug to see if the company has

a fund to assist persons like yourself. Check the website

talk to your health care provider about samples or other options
maybe a less expensive drug?

The application thing is in fact a true bummer. the Texas Work Force folks gave us a blank generic application that we can fill out and have in our portfolio when we get hit with a paper application at an interview so all our info is handy

I also find it ridiculous that you have to fill out all that stuff over and over again when you are giving them a resume. It is so redundant.

I HATE looking for work!

edited to add: I will try to find something funny and post separately

[yellowdogintexas]

5. found something funny hope you like it

[RainDog]

8. thanks for the info

I talked to the pharmacist where I transferred my scripts and she said the same thing, so I'll add that to the list to-do asap. my other option, if I don't get a job (that pays a living wage and w/ bennies) soon is to go on medicare. don't want to do that.

what I don't get is why the pharmas can charge so much when so many ppl use various meds and the costs that bizzes/insurance cos pay come back to all of us in the form of higher costs per any product. there comes a time when there are so many ppl who cannot afford meds (I think we're there, personally) that they cannot spend money on things the cos that provide the insurance make and then... a whole bunch of ppl are on medicare creating more taypayer expense.

I don't think health care should be a big for-profit biz. If it weren't, we wouldn't have all the viagra floating around, that's for sure. I mean, how much of that r&d on viagra could have been spent on something other than helping some Bob Dole get a woody over Britney?

[bertha katzenengel]

6. holy crap, you've been through the wringer too many times

:hug: maybe this thread will make you laugh

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x7809616

keep posting rants. they can help.

:pals:

[RainDog]

9. yes, crazy kats are good

another good thing. we had a pause in the rain and my son and I went out and staked the plum tree that was coming out of the ground by the roots b/c the soil is so soft from all the rain.

last fall I used one of those jobe tree spike fertilizers on my plum and peach trees and they're both going crazy with fruit. then I pruned off crossing branches and the tree looks a lot better.

also got behind a line of burning bushes and found the source of some vine that has covered the bushes - one of them was so covered it didn't even sprout leaves! a mild winter and a rainy summer was good for that vine... but not any more now that the pruning saw avenger has had at it!

Like zorro, but not at all.

thanks for the kind words. I think I just had to have a little scream today after I had my little cry about the cost of meds.

got to admit it's getting better!

I'm in a lot better place than so many near by who have lost their homes in this mess. It's always imp. to put your own stuff in perspective, even as we rant, right?

[TZ]

7. I'm sorry..I was actually thinking about you when the news was

talking about the flooding in your state...
Here's some oldies but goodies to make you laugh:
DuStrange at home:

random hot guy pic:

Naked carrots:

My favorite lolcat:

and my all time favorite temeah picture...it goes to 11...

Enjoy!

[RainDog]

10. goof

lol.

okay, I think I need to get back to typing or, hopefully, cutting and pasting the same info over and over and over and..

you know, it's been so many years since I was in high school - they don't even consider work done more than 10 y/ago as worthwhile to the work force now (in case you didn't know.. c'est vrai.) why do they care where I went to high school (much less the address) when I obviously could not get a ba or an ms w/o passing go when I was 18???

just because, that's why.

one way I ALWAYS have gotten into trouble is by thumbing my psychic nose at bureaucratic b.s. it's something I have to make a conscious effort not to do... and of course absolutely necessary to not do when you are trying to get someone to consider hiring you.