GothicRavenGoddess

Kinda sad. I had a dream last night... the first time in many years that I had a dream that woke me up, and left me shaking while awake. I had a dream that my fuzzy kitty, Bones, was hit by a car... on purpose, in front of me... : I woke up, and he came into my room a little after. I was still shaking. All I could do was hold him.. which could have been detrimental to my health cuz he's not the cuddling kind of kitty lol It scared him silly cuz I was holding him so close to me.... : I was able to go back to sleep but the thought of losing him, even though he's not clingy (he's like my independent older son, even though he's the younger of the two... But he's my kid lol so I'm in a good mood, but there's a cloud of sad hanging over me, and I feel a little paranoid... He is, after all, an outdoor kitty.... :(

like that shower did little to wake me up. >.<

Starting at the bottom, and working my way up (hehehe that sounds naughty) Anyways... Soon to be brown shoes black socks (cuz I don't own brown socks and you won't be able to see said socks, even while I'm sitting, so it doesn't matter.) light tan slacks white, full bottom undies ("low cut" not granny LOL) tan bra brown tank top over the tank top: a tropical blue shirt with cream colored line drawings of flowers all over. I look like a 15 year old prep... (at least, the preppy girls from when I was 17 or so) Not a bad look for me. These colors look amazing, against my pale olive complexion. This look is sort of my "This is what I have, how do I make an outfit, that doesn't make me look like my normal, 100 year old gypsy woman, who tripped over a 20 year old goth, and rolled down hill with said 20 year old goth

annoyed: with my body worried: about alot (job, animals, ect.) scared to death: that I'll lose my kids. You can sit there and say that they are just cats and that you can find good homes for them, but for me, that's the equivalent of passing one's kids off to some stranger to take care of for a little while, until "life" gets better... just not an option for me. mad as hell: at one individual who shall remain nameless.. I'm not the only person her decision will affect, so my anger at her isn't selfish. Yes, the preservation of self has something to do with it, but its not just my animals that this will effect, its all of them that live in this house... and more of them are not mine, than are mine (only two are mine, four are their's). I guess the good in all this particular stuff is that CURRENTLY, nothing has happened yet. but "yet" is a lot closer than I'd like. I want it to be "eventually" distance, not "right around the bend" distance... "yet" is so close, I can taste it...

If was was stressing before, that was nothing compared to now... if she leaves him, what will me and my cats do???????No car, no job (for neither me or the male room mate)..... and Ryuu can't be an outdoor kitty, he'll freeze to death... And I know people say this, but I really mean it. They are more than just animals to me, they are my children...

Appalled

WOW... Once again, I was doing cult invites...[on VampireFreaks... yes, I have an account there, that's irrelevant... laugh at me later] and once again, I saw a main pic that I was appalled to see... Why the fuck is a 13 year old posing in her underwear?! Maybe at 16, because that's at least the age of consent, in most states.. but 13?!?! What the fuck is wrong with people today?! I mean seriously... I don't agree with a 16 year old doing it, but that's still better than a 13 year old. At 13, a girl shouldn't even know that posing like that would get a rise out of another individual. And to top it all off, she's got her damn finger hooked in the cup of her bra, hinting at the possibility of showing more?! and you don't even have to look at the picture very long to see what she's doing! W.T.F.!?

The Link The Article: Even when the U.S. labor market finally starts adding more workers than it loses, many of the unemployed will find that the types of jobs they once had simply don't exist anymore. The downturn that started in December 2007 delivered a body blow to U.S. workers. In two years, the economy shed 7.2 million jobs, pushing the jobless rate from 5% to 10%, according to the Labor Department. The severity of the recession is reshaping the labor market. Some lost jobs will come back. But some are gone forever, going the way of typewriter repairmen and streetcar operators. Many of the jobs created by the booms in the housing and credit markets, for example, have likely been permanently erased by the subsequent bust. "The tremendous amount of economic activity associated with housing, I can't see that coming back," says Harvard University economist Lawrence Katz. "That was a very unhealthy part of the economy." Unhealthy but a boon for men without a college education. One in three jobs, or six million total, have been lost in the manufacturing sector since 1997, the last year the sector posted job gains. The upsurge in construction jobs accompanying the housing boom provided these workers in manufacturing with an opportunity to earn decent wages. Now that door, too, has shut. With 1.6 million jobs lost over the last two years, the construction sector has accounted for more than a fifth of the jobs lost since the recession began. For more highly educated workers, finance may no longer offer as many high-paying jobs as it has in the past. Thomas Philippon, an economist at New York University's Stern School of Business, estimates that the financial sector's share of the economy was nearly 20% larger than it should have been. Since the start of the recession, the financial sector has lost 548,000 jobs, or 6.6% of its work force. Mr. Philippon's estimate suggests there will be further pressure on financial jobs. In other areas of the labor market, the recession accelerated job losses that were probably coming anyway. In November, there were 36% fewer people working in record shops than two years earlier, according to the Labor Department. There were 23% fewer people working at directory and mailing list publishers, and 46% fewer at photofinishing establishments. Those are jobs that, with the advent of mp3 recordings, Google and digital photography, were likely disappearing anyway. But as the recession hurt already ailing businesses, workers were forced into a sudden adjustment rather than the gradual one they would have otherwise faced. The recession also provided companies with an opportunity to cut jobs no longer as critical as they once were. That may be particularly true of the secretaries and mailroom clerks that advances in information technology have made less necessary. The ranks of people doing office and administrative work have fallen 10.1% since the recession began. "Those are the production jobs of the information age, and they're being to a substantial extent automated," says Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist David Autor. The permanent loss of many jobs may keep the labor market from fully recovering for a long time to come. Prior to the 1990s, jobs rebounded quickly once recessions ended. Payrolls fell by nearly three million in the deep downturn that extended from July 1981 to November 1982. But by the start of 1983, the economy was creating jobs again, and by the end of 1983, the U.S. job count had exceeded its old peak. That was because more of the job losses were essentially temporary, with manufacturers and the like letting workers go with the implicit expectation that they would be hiring them back once the worst was over. But since the early 1990s, jobs have been slower to recover from recession. After the 2001 downturn ended, job losses continued for nearly two years. It wasn't until 2005 that the job count returned to its prerecession high. Productivity-enhancing technology and competition from low-wage countries like China made more job losses permanent. And it took time for new jobs to be created and for workers to acquire the skills needed to do them. In the wake of a far deeper recession, creating new jobs and retraining workers to do them could take even longer. It is anyone's guess what those jobs will be. The Labor Department has done little more than extrapolate from recent trends. It expects growth in areas like health care, which has been one of the few bright spots. Given the exigencies of an aging population, that seems a fair bet. One could also make the case that the U.S. is shifting from a consumer nation to a nation of producers, and that will lead to a resurgence in technology and high-tech manufacturing jobs. But Harvard's Mr. Katz warns that past experience suggests such conjecture is likely fruitless. "One thing we've learned is that when we attempt to forecast jobs 10 or 15 years out, we don't even get the categories right," he says.

Thanks. My room mate

thanks.

I'm feeling alright. Tired. Yesterday, I quite litterally, spent in bed. Not sad or depressed. it was just one of those days where my bed was comfy, I had kitties surrounding me, and I didn't want to leave LOL only getting up to go potty. Truth be told, that's really the ONLY good thing about not having a job... lol I'm a little doubtful that the coffee shop thing will work. only because she's got a habit of not following through on projects... BUT she's stuck with it, thus far (several months, so far!) so my mind is starting to change. We've gone around and taken down names and numbers of places that are available. Just waiting to hear back from some of them... My wrist has begun to bother me again (the one I suspect I broke, back in August), but that's just the weather. Its snowing out. Its so pretty, but I've been tired of snow since the first weekend I saw it, when I moved here LOL Health wise, I have no idea what's wrong with me. I've been having issues (of the girl variety), since October. Not constant, but more "on" than "off". I don't feel light headed and its not doing anything that's scary. Its just annoying... I am sticking more to the diet I'm suppose to be eating. Once I get a job, I plan to get back on Metformine.... and maybe find a Doctor that will listen better, to my needs, instead of the bs of "I'm the doctor, I know better"... well, sometimes they don't know better... I've lived in this body for 24 years, now. I think I know my own body and know when something's gone wonky. I know there is an upside to everything.. Just gotta turn over enough rocks to find it lol

fixed. That would be my fault. I was going to add it at the end (like I did in the edit), but I forgot to. I apologize. And I agree with you 100%

Ok, folks. I know you all don't really like her that much (Hell, there are some days I want to kill her. lol) but we are starting a real business, with a real plan in motion... and well, she asked me to reach out and post this here. She really wants to work with someone from DGN. (She really does love you guys, believe it or not). But since she just can't seem to wrap the damn rules around her thick skull, she can't post here. I am one of the other other people who will be working at this place. So anyways... here's the post, from Craig's List. Here's the link. <---CLICKY Here's the actual ad: ----- If you are interested, send me a PM, and I'll give you her email address to get in touch with her. This is serious folks. This isn't a joke. ***Once I give you the email address, please, don't forget to include that information. *** Re-Edit: The ad on Craig's List says the Ypsi- area... "We are SERIOUSLY looking at one location in Ypsi, and several in western Wayne County and the Ann arbor area." - Steph

Is in love with Dylan Hunt.... lol

Secretly knows all the moves of The Backstreet Boys choreography... ----------------- don't tempt me....

Is actually a woman, who's been turned into a man...

Anyone?

Hi. Welcome to DGN.

This is sorta hard. On the one hand, explaining things could get a little "over their head" on the other, you don't wanna lie to em...

I know this has been covered before, but I can't find the thread. But what are the titles assigned to the number of posts you make? And what are the break downs?

Now I'm the only one lurking on DGN, except MSN/Bing lol stupid search bots... *sigh* I'm all alone.. Cher's post made me lol a little. I feel like I needs a ) ( ) ( ) ()____________________))_________)

Really? What's it on? *giggles*

blah blah blah lol Anywho. There are things I don't like about it... like how it doesn't shrink to fit.. but ah well. something minor. lol This is the one I have now. I put up all my toolbars so you could see more of it. I don't normally have all those up though lol (Yes, I am aware that I am lame with this one lol)

yeah, I like the themes. but sometimes there are bugs. I loved the bloody red layout. (it was black and red, of course lol) I like this ad-on better because you can change it any at any time and you don't have to restart firefox for it to take effect. lol and you can preview it before you decide you like it and LOL at Slogo's post

I can't believe he was the 10th one! I liked him.... aw well. :(