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[lauralh]

1) so i kind of drove out to bellevue for naught, but the recruiter seemed to like me ok. I'll hear monday.

2) my unemployment application got approved for $300/week (for 20 weeks). Which is about what I took home at my job-before-this. I'm kind of happy.

3) thanksgiving at ashlin519's was pretty boss. We got hella drunk on nothin' but wine (and beer but me and reg aren't so beery) and Reg started spouting awesome conspiracy theories of WW2 shit + Illuminatus! trilogy shit. I was hoping he was fucking around. Oh yeah the food and friends were great. We made new karaoke friends, I hope. PICS HERE.

4) we had to drive to Issaquah to pick up the SUV for skiing at midnight. I got to bed at 1am and the alarm was set for 6 (then rapidly set for 6:20). We got moving with Heather and Michael about 7:15, McD's at breakfast - my first meal there in probably 7 years. I do love their biscuits. Perfectly dry yet greasy enough.

5) Skiing at Stevens was kind of miserable. The snow was thick and visibility was low, the only non-crowded lift was the slooooow one, and Reg took a nasty spill head-first onto some ice. But we got there before ten and didn't leave till 3. I am a lot better than I was last year! I am happy with my progress, although of course I need to KEEP GETTING BETTER and work on fries not pizza. Also hockey stops.

6) As for myself I had some entertaining falls, once in a big snow drift (got stuck in another later) and a few standard hill ones, and then on my last run RIGHT BEFORE GETTING ON THE LIFT. But I was fine and got on, and then once we got to the top, Paul and Shannon wiped out on top of each other. It's all good.

7) I made some scratch hot cocoa on the stove and added amaretto to mine and Heather's when we returned. The traffic for once was not horrible on 2.

Comments

[kamakhai.livejournal.com]

5 MONTH VACATION!

[suxdonut.livejournal.com]

whoa unemployment im jealous! how long were you contracting for? i think i might dive for that brass ring hwen my contract ends in feb....

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

a little over a year, I'd been employed steadily since march 2004 which helped too

[suxdonut.livejournal.com]

oh yeah ive been employed steadily for like...years now. sigggh. i dont truss em to just end my contract tho, they'd think of some way to stick it to me, like hire me back on as the janitor.

[joblessmusician.livejournal.com]

Dang! $300 a week!? You can get money for being unemployed!? Why didn't I know about that? Let me know how it's done, so I can live it up when I lose my job! (Wow... $300 a week is so much money!!)!

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

it's a WA-state only deal, and you have to have been working 2 years. In NC when I got laid off unemployment was a lot less. You just have to lose your job in a way that isn't your fault. If it is a firing then the company has to approve your claim.