Life Update

No changes to speak of, different day same stuff.  I did manage to freak my brother out today.  He called me at home just to chat.  He got a disconnected recording.  He thought maybe he misdialed so he called back again and same recording.  DAMN he was just beside himself.  He said he looked at mom and said Jeremy disconnected his phone.  Then he thought maybe I should call him on his cell phone.  He did and presto he reached me.

Since I have been inundated with debt collection calls I just forwarded my home phone to my partners old phone number that is disconnected.  It appears as if the number has been disconnected.  However, debt collectors don’t take no for an answer so they keep calling and calling until eventually they hope you break down and answer the phone.

Tonight I did some research on-line and found all sorts of horror stories about the particular number that is calling me.  Everything from plain harassment, threats telling you that you will go to jail and even death threats.  I just don’t want to get into it with anyone so I’d rather not answer the phone.  They managed to wake me up at 8am this morning and that was so not cool.  That is when I forwarded my phone and turned the ringer off.  Eventually I got back to sleep but only got a couple hours before it was time to get up and go.

Come Monday I’m calling the phone company and hoping and praying they offer Call Screening.  If so that will shut this down cold.  You enter in up to 10 numbers you want blocked and when someone calls from that number they hear a recording saying that you will not accept their call.  Your phone never rings and you have no idea that they even called.  Nice.  However, it took forever and a day to get Caller ID so I doubt that this feature is available in my neck of the woods.  Still the call won’t cost me anything.  I know that eventually the calls will get out of control.

I really only want my phone to ring for legitimist business, mostly for a job offer.  Which is why tomorrow night I will have to take the forward off or I will risk missing the important calls.

Found out that my brother quit his job.  Well he didn’t really quit he just isn’t going back.  He said they will figure it out.  He’s got an offer to start a new job it will still be 2nd shift and it pays less money but he said it’s 6 12 hour days.  So the overtime will more than make up the difference.  As if that isn’t good enough he got word that his old job that he was let go from earlier this year, might be calling him back.  They asked him if he was interested in coming back.  What he really wants is for things to go back to normal or close to that as possible.  I think going back to the place that let him go could be setting himself up for failure.  I mean he might have to go through all of this all over again.  I told him the idea is to move forward and not go backwards.  That’s why when I leave a job for whatever reason, my policy is to never go back.

My hope is that next week I will get a call offering me a job and then I can begin to move forward with my life.  It’s nice not to worry about the credit card debt anymore but the pressure of finding a job is still very much on.  Since I don’t know what will happen when my current unemployment claim expires, I would rather be employed than to find out that I am out of benefits, which is what I think will happen.  Time will tell how this plays out.

I found out mom is getting worse.  For those of you that are new here, my mom was diagnosed with Paranoid Schizophrenia.  She has been in and out of the hospital.  The treatment today for mental illness is mostly medication.  However they have suggested Shock Treatments for her.  That is not something she wants.  While it sounds painful they actually knock you out and then administer the treatment, so it’s nothing like it was years ago.  There are many side effects to the treatment one of which is that you loose some of your memory.  She is skin and bones to me and just looks horrible.  She played with drugs when she was growing up and also got in with the wrong crowd.  Now it feels like her body is saying it’s payback time.  No one else in our family suffered from severe mental problems.  Depression however does run in the family.  So I said she is getting worse, she is full of anxiety but doesn’t know why.  My brother and her live together in our childhood home.  He can’t leave her alone for a second because she begs to come with him.  If he leaves without her she flips out.  I told him imagine if you start working 6 12 hour days, that will so not go over well.  However, it will force her into taking care of herself.  Right now he does everything but go to the bathroom and dress her.  I think he is way too nice and she is just taking advantage of him.  She is a very good actress and always could turn on the tears on a whim.  Shame she didn’t pursue a career in acting. 

My life is kind of a mess in more ways than one.  However, I have got to get back to work quickly.  Otherwise mother will start bugging me to cart her around and that isn’t something I really want to do nor can I afford it with the sky high prices of gasoline.  Damn it’s like everyone needs a pay raise just to be able to fill your tank. 

So how are things in your world?  If your new and have a blog let me know the address, I would be happy to exchange links with you.  Well it’s on to my regular reads and to surf the net a little bit.  Boring but a very good way to pass time, especially if I get engrossed in something.  Take care and I will talk with you peeps later.