Status of Unemployment

Where is the hope?

http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2011/07/25/4-4-million-americans-unemployed-for-a-year-or-more/?icid=maing-grid7%7Caim%7Cdl8%7Csec3_lnk2%7C80933

Summer 2011

We have taken our house off the market and relieved that we are no longer dealing with the realtor or his company.   He actually offered to take it off the market a week before the contract expired.  He came yesterday and took the lock box and the signs off the lawn.   I can put my pictures back out, take down the indoor signs and start to feel like I live here again. 

The home care agency is keeping me busy with several clients and I am finding it to be interesting and rewarding.  My latest client is 102 years old, living in the independent living setup.  I see her first thing in the morning several times a week and I look forward to our visits.  Another client has a garden which I enjoy helping him with.   My clients also look forward to seeing me so it is mutually satisfying.

My husband is working at the library, although they have reduced his hours due to Federal cuts.

Our daughter got engaged on Father’s Day so we are looking forward to a wedding sometime in the not too distant future.

All in all, we are still in a holding pattern, but in a better place than we were at this time last year.  (My husband was in rehab with no income due to being denied temporary disability.)

That’s the latest from this 99er.

“Abundance is a state of mind within you.  If you just look at ‘lack’ the lack increases in life.”  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar