July 18, 2014
10:51 p.m.

I find that I am disappointed that my last post didn't generate more responses. I really feel strongly that people over the age of fifty have a harder time getting back into the workforce after losing a job, and I wish more people would join the conversation.

By the way, if you are reading my blog and you're a job seeker under fifty, I am still interested in your comments about your job hunt.

I just saw an ad that claimed that Colorado now has an unemployment rate under 5%. I don't think I believe that. I think a lot of people who had a choice to begin collecting Social Security decided it was time to do so after repeatedly not getting the jobs they were after. It wasn't my first choice, but Unemployment benefits don't last forever! I had to be able to make it from one day to the next somehow.

Maybe the number of people now collecting Unemployment has decreased, but that doesn't necessarily mean that employment in the state has increased. It just means that a lot of people gave up looking for jobs.

Or maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I am the problem, and everyone else is doing great.

Tell me so! Please comment!
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 On a more cheerful note, I have to say that I'm very excited about becoming a grandmother again come January. This will be number eight! I want to say I'm hoping for a girl to even up the numbers--it's presently three girls, four boys--but I think it's a boy. I don't know why.

My daughter has Crone's Disease, and she's been having a difficult time so far, but has made it to her second trimester now, so she has shared the news. I anticipate the possibility that I may need to go to her location somewhat earlier than January, so I may be spending Christmas out there this year. That will be nice--I have not had Christmas with my far-away daughters since their daughters were babies!

Knowing that I will at some point have to make a trip east, I am now quite ambivalent about my job search. I have been looking for a job all year, but if I get one now I won't have been with it long enough to request time off for the delivery of the new baby.

I would hate missing the delivery of the newest grandchild. I have missed only one delivery out of the last seven, and it was the same daughter. She delivered early and I didn't make it out until my grandson was a week old. I was sad.
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Well, I clearly have nothing much to say tonight except "Good night!"