Happy to Sad. . .

So back on January 5 I ordered some Kurt Halsey postcards.  Every day since then I've been checking my mailbox....but no postcards.  I finally gave up hope yesterday and figured that they were just lost in the mail or something and I would never get them.  Usually when you order stuff from Kurt you get it in like less than a week.  So today JC and I (he's work is closed on fridays now) got up and ran to the bank and the post office.  When we got back JC went to the mailbox to get the mail out and there it was... My postcards from Kurt Halsey.  But wait...is that Kurt's writing on the front of the envelope??? OH MYLANTA it is!!!!!! My name written by the one and only Kurt Halsey... I think I was more excited about that than the actual post cards at this point.  I couldn't believe it.  His writing is so amazing...and to have my name (and address) written in it...wow.  

Okay...so while I was in the middle of typing this entry...JC's phone rang..I answered it was his workplace.  He works for a place called Aisin Brake.  They make brakes for Toyota and Honda.  He was laid off for three weeks during the holidays and then when he got back after the holidays they have only been working four days a week.  Yesterday they were told next week they would work Monday and then on Tuesday would have a mandatory meeting for two hours about the "Future of the Company." 

So as I was sitting here typing the phone rang and it was some guy from Aisin.  JC was outside chopping wood with his chainsaw and I yelled at him and told him phone call.  I wish I never would have answered it.  It was Aisin telling him he was fired.  See...they had just told all of their employees that they care for them and that they (the employees) are the most important thing.  But..instead of laying people off and letting them keep their insurance, give them a severance pay, and possibly pay them unemployment..they decided to fire some of their employees.  No insurance, no severance pay, and maybe no unemployment.  Apparently they do care.  HA!  So as of January 30 we have no insurance.  If my employer would have just kept me like they should have I could have just put JC on my insurance and I'd still be making decent money to where we can get by.  Now we have go thru and possibly cancel our cell phones, tv, etc.  Great...I may or may not have interenet tomorrow.... It's been a yucky week and a half... First my kitty dies and now this...wtf??