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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, July 04, 2010 - 7:34 am
Supposed to get up to 61 here today. I bought a fan yesterday just in case. Supposed to be 80 by the end of the week. That seems pretty radical, considering it has barely even been to 70 yet. Of course, with no a/c, we don't actually want it to get too hot here.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Sunday, July 04, 2010 - 9:42 am
and here where i live we STILL havent had our normal warm spring weather. The wind is so cold, it is cooler now then it was last october. it was so wet in June most of the Beans and Peas plants rotted and died in the garden.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, July 04, 2010 - 10:38 am
our air conditioning went out yesterday (God is really testing me! lol) Thank God it's the coolest July we have ever had! We could open the windows and the nice breeze lulled us to sleep. A few years ago electricity went out in July and it was so hot that we had to go stay in a hotel! ps I am learning that unemployment has been extended to 2 yrs! someone can get benefits for 2 yrs!! That is crzy to me, seems like the state would save more by not laying ppl off. From what I hear Bill could take home about 75% of his pay and not work. I dont know what incentive ppl have to find a job right away if they can have a 75% paid vacation for 2 yrs.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Sunday, July 04, 2010 - 11:11 am
Pamy so glad to hear about the 2 yrs of unemployment benefits. That should ease a lot of the panic and stress of the miserable situation.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, July 04, 2010 - 5:02 pm
Furnace came on this morning. It is freaking cold. I will probably sit and watch fireworks tonight on the front stoop wearing a down parka. Gloves and earmuffs for sure. I could watch it from inside the house, but I need to be out there to catch the stray dogs that are terrified and will get killed on our steep freaking hill with no sidewalks and frequent speeding traffic.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Sunday, July 04, 2010 - 5:13 pm
I always walk up to the fireworks but I just got a new puppy one week ago and I want to stay home with her in case she gets frightened.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Sunday, July 04, 2010 - 5:15 pm
The heat and humidity hit today...my gripe: the beach was also much busier! LOL We are so spoiled because the little beach we go to is 1) free and 2) hardly ever busy. I think there are 20 parking sports, tops. Today, by the time we left at 1:15 PM, cars were lined up on both sides of the road in - and it was down to 1 lane. Fortunately we got there by 11, so we had a couple of hours before the church crowd & tourists got out there.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Sunday, July 04, 2010 - 5:28 pm
I believe our fireworks are going to be stormed out. Thunder, lightening, heavy rain and a tornado warning to boot. Ruins my plan of climbing up on the roof at dark to watch 'em!
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Sunday, July 04, 2010 - 5:31 pm
Pamy, how much you get for unemployment depends on your state and how long you have worked. I know the folks I laid off are barely getting 50% of what they made, and they can't even pay their bills. One has been diligently looking for a job for over a year and can't find anything. The other has been looking for 6 months and nada. I also have two employees whose husbands were laid off, and they too are looking for jobs. Both of them are getting about 33% of what they made (there is an upper limit on unemployment as well). Both have been actively job seeking for over a year and have found nothing. I hear them go on job interviews 2 or 3 times a week, if they can get an interview at all, and still nothing. It's a very very tough time to find a job around here. I'm not sure the two years is accurate anyway, because the bill to continue extending unemployment benefits is locked up in Congress at the moment. In Colorado (and most states) standard unemployment is only 26 weeks. The law that extended benefits for 99 weeks expired on June 2. I'm glad Bill will get enough to make your lives easier while he finds something else!
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Sunday, July 04, 2010 - 5:35 pm
Pamy, we have been on unemployment for over a year. (My dh has) and it is scary out there right now. Without unemployment, we would be on the street. My dh has been looking every day. I am looking as well. It certainly is not as easy as you would think. I cannot tell you how many resumes, job fairs, linked in contacts, etc, etc, etc we have tried. And no interviews. We seem kind of screwed right now. DH is a copywriter, I am a graphic artist. Business are cutting back in those areas big time. We can't really afford for us to go back to school for a different degree. We've even gone to extent of applying at Home Depot, Starbucks, Jewel and other places, but have not be hired. I've been doing very limited freelance and working the 2010 Census, but that is about up. He is umping as much as he can. Where did we go wrong?? What are we doing wrong?? I could not tell you. We both have bachelor degrees. We both held good positions for many years. I decided to be a stay at home mom about 7 years ago, after holding many positions in my field for 15 years. Chris was gainfully employed from right out of college. After 9/11, the company he worked for folded, but he got another even better position within several months. Many of our contacts have lost their jobs too. Out of the last 4 places we each held a decent full time job, 3 have folded. So we each face much competition and have very few leads at the time. We would LOVE to refinance. But we can't do that right now. I can't even go to the dentist. Luckily the kids can. We are not in a good place at all. Some of us are trying like hell. We just keep praying that one of these days, one of our leads or one of our resumes will result in a job. Or better yet, two jobs. If I think about it too hard, I get really nervous. But since I cannot go to the doctor that I had been going to for years, (I can see a doc, but he does not speak english well and I don't even know what he says most of the time) I just try not to think too hard for fear a panic attack will set in. (Had those many years ago--which is ironic, cuz back then, my life was WAY more stress free than it is now!!) And I know this eats away at my DH. Each passing day, he gets more down and feels more like a loser. I see us losing this house, us moving to an apartment (if we could even get credit, since we may be facing foreclosure) and each of us working at McDonalds. Why the hell did we go to college? But if that will keep us insured and sheltered, then that is what we'll do.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Sunday, July 04, 2010 - 5:36 pm
Yes, Kar is right, we get appx 50% of what he made.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Sunday, July 04, 2010 - 5:58 pm
Well, heck, they are going to shoot off the fireworks even if it's pouring down rain. Go figure. Like anyone will be out watching them?? LOL
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Sunday, July 04, 2010 - 6:14 pm
LOL Kar! I'm thinking they are gonna go ahead with the fireworks here, too. With cloud cover that's pretty darned low, meaning we'll hear the booms but not see the sparkles! Kind of a waste of money, but I guess once they've set the fireworks up... I know I won't be able to see ANY of the fireworks I usually see from my balcony (I can usually see three different sets). So I'm gonna watch our local cover of the "Big Bay fireworks" on TV. At least if it's pouring rain you don't have to worry about fire hazard! 
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Sunday, July 04, 2010 - 6:15 pm
Oh yeah... today? Freaking miserably cold YET AGAIN! I gave up and headed far inland (about 30 miles) where... it was freaking LOVELY!!! Warm, maybe not quite 80 degrees, lovely breeze, blue blue sky with nary a cloud in sight. I head home, and 10 miles from home, it's completely socked in. Cloudy, gray, gloomy, cold. I got a bit of a sunburnt nose today. First sunburn in months! 
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, July 04, 2010 - 6:26 pm
Dogdoc, have you posted pup pics yet? Kar, my info is just from a friend that wks at the county, not sure if totally accurate. He said 75% when he could have meant 33%. Bill goes to a meeting this thurs to find out info relating to his layoff. Be just our luck that the bill to extend the length of time expired a month before Bill's layoff. lol I do count our blessing because even though this is a huge blow we still have medical without having to pay cobra due to Bill's 20 yr military career. I can add Bill to my dental and vision for under 100 mo, so thanks for opening my eyes to that blessing Honestly, just recently I told Bill I wanted him out of that job cuz they are wking him so hard due to understaffing. He has had 2-4 wkers comps claims this year. I pray for those left behind. Julie, since you have small kids you may qualify for help with food (WIC or foodstamps. my heart goes out to you, I pray that the next door opens for you very soon. xoxoxo
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Sunday, July 04, 2010 - 6:37 pm
Thanks Pamy. We are on state insurance, which works out decently for the kids (since their pediatrician rocks and will take state insurance if they were already a patient. Which, THANK YOU GOD, we do need as Ryan seems to have more issues. And now they say he is NOT aspergers. So lots of testing on that front alone, but I digress.) We still make too much for food stamps--which they would calculate things AFTER they figure in how much you pay for rent or mortgage. So once we lose unemployment, we would qualify for food stamps. But at that point, we lose the house. So looks like we get one or the other. Food OR shelter!! But I know there are many worse off than we are. We are squeaking by as it is. I am couponing like crazy. It is kind of a second job, but you can get many free or near free things if you know how to work the deals. Problem is, so much of the food is JUNK.) I do have a lot of free toothpaste, maxi pads, razors, saline, and shampoo. And ziploc bags and windex!! Thank you for the prayer about the open door. This feeling reminds me of when we were waiting to adopt. We kept thinking it would never happen. And then one day it did.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Sunday, July 04, 2010 - 6:51 pm
Pamy, Sirbill can apply online now: http://www.edd.ca.gov/unemployment/ It takes several weeks for it to process, so I wouldn't waste any time if I were you. Colorado has an online calculator to see how much you will get. I looked for one for Ca but didn't have any luck finding one. The unemployment extension bill may still pass in July, once a replacement has been appted for the late Senator Byrd. Otherwise, almost everyone I know on unemployment will have their payments cut off pretty quickly.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Sunday, July 04, 2010 - 6:52 pm
Costa, can't see much out there right now. Not too sure I want to climb on the roof with lightening so recently. And I can't see anything unless I do. Oh well. Guess I'll get to bed early! 
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, July 04, 2010 - 8:03 pm
Kar, very cool, ty so much! I gave him the link
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Landileigh
Member
07-29-2002
| Sunday, July 04, 2010 - 11:23 pm
you need to apply via online for EDD in California, ASAP. there is a two week waiting period before the first check. oh, and it's about 50% of what chuck made before he got laid off. I haven't worked since August of 2008, and can't even seem to get an interview at a McDonald's with my Masters. hell of a lot of good the education does me now.
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Monday, July 05, 2010 - 12:32 am
SirBill might want to ask questions or attend that Thurs meeting first, before applying Pamy. When my Sis in Phx Sam's Club closed mid-January this year, they were working folks a few more weeks to clear the place out plus paying severance (in her case those two things lasted until March). She needed to wait til all that was completed before applying. Otherwise, if she had immediately run out to apply, she would have started dipping into the 26week unemployment before necessary. Which would later come back to cut her off earlier @ the end. She is also getting 50%.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Monday, July 05, 2010 - 4:58 am
Pamy, definitely have Bill apply online. Like, immediately. The last time I got laid off (which was in 2001, and technically the company shut down), I went home and immediately applied online. California doesn't have to wait till your severance pay runs out (if you get 4 weeks of severance, you don't have to wait to begin collecting). They used to but that stopped a long time ago. And the percentage you collect depends on the salary you collected during the period they use (which could have been from the last quarter of last year -- I can't remember how it works out). There's also a maximum figure, so depending on your salary, you could take home considerably less than 50%. It all depends on salary. Kar, turns out the cloud cover lifted enough here, that I could see most of the fireworks. They did the "Big Bay Boom" where there were three barges in the bay, synchronized, and I could see most of all three (except for the lower stuff, since I wasn't actually there). It was kind of cool even with the cloud cover -- the ones I couldn't see just lit up the clouds in reds and greens.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, July 05, 2010 - 5:28 am
Thanks for all the good advice! He decided to wait til the meeting before applying since the meeting is tomorrow. He is not technically layed off til the 15th and still will have 2 paycks comming. Airconditoning repair comes today, thank God it stayed cool this weekend. It was nice sleeping with the windows open and the breeze blowing. I thought I was over my cold but its back worse today. At least I have the day off to rest. 
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Monday, July 05, 2010 - 7:04 am
Pamy, just keep in mind that it does take a few weeks to get that first unemployment check, so make sure you don't caught yourself short if you can help it. Costa, that sounds way cool, glad you got to see it. Our fireworks did end up being canceled. Apparently no one was left at the park to watch them after three drenching downpours (2 inches of rain last night!) in a row, and another on the way. We're having a 'do-over' tonight, so maybe I'll get to see them after all!
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Southern_grits
Member
10-08-2009
| Monday, July 05, 2010 - 8:05 am
I went to the pain doc today and he did some adjusting. He increased my Lyrica and I have to start traction at a physical therapy place. He said it will help a lot. Sounds good to me.
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