I BELIEVE I AM BEING HECKLED BY A HIGHER POWER
Lately things have been going well for us up until last week. Now I am starting to feel like a one-legged cat trying to bury a turd on a frozen pond.
It was brought to my father's attention that the man who owns the North side of the pasture that I share a fence line with plans to let a friend, whom is getting a divorce, put some horses in his side of the land. I am not upset about this. Since it is his pasture, he can do what he wants with it. What upset me, was that he wasn't going to tell anyone about it. I would have appreciated a phone call about it so I knew what was going on. I have heard that this other man has about 7 horses and a stallion. Nobody knows if all the horses are coming over or just a few of them. I have tried to buy the North side from him for years, but he doesn't want to sell. The last offer I got from him about the land was $6000, that is $1000 an acre, and to me it isn't worth that much. Farm land isn't even worth that much. I made the decision to just put up a new fence. It's something that I should have done about 5 years ago, when I knew I wasn't going to be able to purchase the land. I got the T-posts up and the wood posts in. I also got a decent corner up as well. Now all I have to do is wait for some of the water in the slough to recede and then I can put up the North West line, string the wire, and I will be done.
This Monday while I was in Leeds my car made a popping noise, almost like it back-fired. Then a lot of white smoke came out of the exhaust and the car would not go faster than about 3 miles an hour with the gas pedal pressed all the way to the floor. I was able to drive it to my parents house. My dad took a look at the car and said whatever happened was not good. He called the mechanic at the York Farmers Union and the mechanic guessed that it was the head gasket. When I talked to him today about it, he is now thinking it could be a rod went through the wall of a piston. Cenex Farmers Union is working on a lot of Spring vehicles for farmers right now, and I have been told that it's going to be a while before they can get my car in. I am going to wait and have Cenex do the work on my car. I could go out and find someone else to fix it, but I have credit at Cenex and I just paid my account off, so it's a clean account and the only charge on it will be the expense of fixing the car...which I know will be at least $1500 minimum. It will be a much larger amount if they have to put a new crate engine in it. So now I am driving my '77 farm truck that gets 10 miles to the gallon at best. Oh well, it's at least something and I'm not hoofing it.
I have sent out a lot of applications for work-at-home medical transcription. I have my Associates in transcription and it would be nice to use it. I applied to 7 different companies. Three of them have already emailed me back and said that even though my resume is really impressive, I do not have enough experience to work for them. Most companies that I have found want at least 3 to 5 years of experience. Regardless of how much experience they want, I have been applying to every company I've come across, and I will continue to do so until I find something. If anyone out there has a connection inside a medical transcription company, clinic, or hospital please put in a good word for me. My job with Verety ends on May 12th and I want to have another job by then. My biggest expenses right now are gas and daycare. Between those two, I spend roughly $800 a month. Driving to Devils Lake or Rugby for a minimum wage job is a bit out of the question. I would barely make enough to just pay those two bills, and I still have monthly utilities to pay.
I am trying to stay positive and upbeat with everything going on. Lord knows it's extremely hard to do so, and I have very weak moments when I don't know how I am going to manage everything. Thank you to the few good friends that I have for all the encouragement, support, and words you have given me to keep me going. You do not know how much I appreciate everything.
It was brought to my father's attention that the man who owns the North side of the pasture that I share a fence line with plans to let a friend, whom is getting a divorce, put some horses in his side of the land. I am not upset about this. Since it is his pasture, he can do what he wants with it. What upset me, was that he wasn't going to tell anyone about it. I would have appreciated a phone call about it so I knew what was going on. I have heard that this other man has about 7 horses and a stallion. Nobody knows if all the horses are coming over or just a few of them. I have tried to buy the North side from him for years, but he doesn't want to sell. The last offer I got from him about the land was $6000, that is $1000 an acre, and to me it isn't worth that much. Farm land isn't even worth that much. I made the decision to just put up a new fence. It's something that I should have done about 5 years ago, when I knew I wasn't going to be able to purchase the land. I got the T-posts up and the wood posts in. I also got a decent corner up as well. Now all I have to do is wait for some of the water in the slough to recede and then I can put up the North West line, string the wire, and I will be done.
This Monday while I was in Leeds my car made a popping noise, almost like it back-fired. Then a lot of white smoke came out of the exhaust and the car would not go faster than about 3 miles an hour with the gas pedal pressed all the way to the floor. I was able to drive it to my parents house. My dad took a look at the car and said whatever happened was not good. He called the mechanic at the York Farmers Union and the mechanic guessed that it was the head gasket. When I talked to him today about it, he is now thinking it could be a rod went through the wall of a piston. Cenex Farmers Union is working on a lot of Spring vehicles for farmers right now, and I have been told that it's going to be a while before they can get my car in. I am going to wait and have Cenex do the work on my car. I could go out and find someone else to fix it, but I have credit at Cenex and I just paid my account off, so it's a clean account and the only charge on it will be the expense of fixing the car...which I know will be at least $1500 minimum. It will be a much larger amount if they have to put a new crate engine in it. So now I am driving my '77 farm truck that gets 10 miles to the gallon at best. Oh well, it's at least something and I'm not hoofing it.
I have sent out a lot of applications for work-at-home medical transcription. I have my Associates in transcription and it would be nice to use it. I applied to 7 different companies. Three of them have already emailed me back and said that even though my resume is really impressive, I do not have enough experience to work for them. Most companies that I have found want at least 3 to 5 years of experience. Regardless of how much experience they want, I have been applying to every company I've come across, and I will continue to do so until I find something. If anyone out there has a connection inside a medical transcription company, clinic, or hospital please put in a good word for me. My job with Verety ends on May 12th and I want to have another job by then. My biggest expenses right now are gas and daycare. Between those two, I spend roughly $800 a month. Driving to Devils Lake or Rugby for a minimum wage job is a bit out of the question. I would barely make enough to just pay those two bills, and I still have monthly utilities to pay.
I am trying to stay positive and upbeat with everything going on. Lord knows it's extremely hard to do so, and I have very weak moments when I don't know how I am going to manage everything. Thank you to the few good friends that I have for all the encouragement, support, and words you have given me to keep me going. You do not know how much I appreciate everything.
posted by Janelle @ 7:07 PM
1 Comments:
At November 4, 2010 at 9:25 AM,
Unknown said…
The company my son and his wife worked for went belly up 4 years ago. Since then they both have been out of work (in their field) and having to accept crapy jobs to keep their family afloat.
I see that this was written 6 months ago. I hope things are going better for you now.
You haven't posted in a long time. You are an excellent writer and I believe it will help if you vent more.....besides your first paragraph was hilarious. I enjoyed the visual picture. I would like to see some more of your humorous side.
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