Although I suspect I am elsewhere most of the time. But what to blog about really? Except for the one topic that i'm continually surrounded by> marriage and babies. I would never in my short life imagine that the divide btw single and married people really existed. But apparently it does and it's driving me crazy. Mainly bcs of a certain few people in Cali- and nothing whatever to do with Pen. But they've lost touch completely with singleness and pile their marriage baggage a mile high- both simultaneously swearing the singles off marriage and plotting to hook us up with the next poor soul on a deserted island we see. Insulting. yes. It's like, make up your minds. You know what, it's pissing me off too much. I can't talk about it. All i have to say is that entirely too many people are getting married and breeding-- and appreciate the fact people- that what you've got is what a lot of people want. like life and good health. so appreicate it for the god-given longing, reward and hard work and toil- that it was meant to be. dammit.
in other news today i must: 1 whites only load, 4 11x14 acrylic pieces, 1 book to finish, 3 mental crisis' to avert regarding: a job, my future, a husband.
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just thought this was funny, since i read it almost immediately after i read your blog. joblessness - according to washington - is apparently your own fault, b/c, hey, the the jobless rate totally dropped!!! : )
Jobless rate drops to 4-1/2 year low By Glenn Somerville
Fri Feb 3, 4:44 PM ET
The U.S. unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in 4-1/2 years in January as employers hired 193,000 new workers, the government said on Friday in a report revising up job growth for the preceding five months.
The jobless rate dropped to 4.7 percent from 4.9 percent in December, the Labor Department said.
The closely watched report reflected a relatively vigorous labor market and fanned concerns that interest rates were headed higher to keep inflation in check.
Federal Reserve policy-makers raised short-term rates for a 14th straight time on Tuesday, bringing the federal funds rate to 4.5 percent, but the jobs report left analysts convinced the U.S. central bank was not yet finished.
"It's much more likely now, I think, that the Fed will raise the fed funds rate to at least 5 percent," said Edgar Peters, chief investment officer for PanAgora Asset Management in Boston.
The prospect of stiffer borrowing costs drove stock prices down. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 58.36 points to end at 10,793.62 and the high tech-laden Nasdaq composite index shed 18.99 points to close at 2,262.58.
Bond prices initially sank, also fearful of rising rates, but later in the day reversed to post strong gains ahead of auctions next week at which a 30-year U.S. Treasury bond is being reintroduced after an absence of more than four years.
In late trading, the 30-year bond was up 1-1/32 points to yield 4.63 percent, down from 4.70 percent on Thursday. Bond yields move in the opposite direction of prices. Bennchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury notes climbed 8/32 to yield 4.53 percent.
The jobs report was one in a deluge of economic data on Friday that offered a mixed view of the economy's prospects.
The Commerce Department said factory orders rose 1.1 percent in December on strong demand for machinery and costly durable goods. But a service-sector index from the Institute for Supply Management eased to 56.8 in January from 61 in December, implying slower growth in businesses like restaurants and hotels.
OIL A WORRY
A third piece of data, the University of Michigan's final January index of consumer sentiment, showed confidence flagged in January as high oil prices and a slowdown in overall economic activity in the final months of 2005 took a toll.
Gross domestic product grew at a surprisingly modest 1.1 percent annual rate in the fourth quarter, though it expanded by 3.5 percent for all of 2005.
The labor market has shown signs of strength in recent months but the report showed that there were fewer jobs generated in 2005 as a whole than previously thought. Job growth totaled 1.98 million in 2005, 43,000 fewer than previously estimated, once the department's annual benchmark revisions of the data were applied.
Bush administration officials hailed the jobs report as confirmation the economy was robust.
"I am confident that we will remain on a good path and expect to see rising employment and wages in the months ahead," Treasury Secretary John Snow said in a statement.
Economists had forecast creation of 240,000 jobs in January and an unemployment rate unchanged at 4.9 percent.
The labor market report is drawn from two separate surveys -- a so-called household survey from which the unemployment rate is calculated and a larger poll of businesses to determine the numbers of employees on their payrolls.
REBUILDING PICKS UP
There were 46,000 new construction jobs in January, partly because of rebuilding following last year's devastating Hurricane Katrina. Service industries added a whopping 135,000 jobs.
Average hourly earnings rose to $16.41 in January from $16.34 in December. In the 12 months through January, earnings have risen by 3.3 percent, the largest for any 12-month period in nearly three years, since February 2003.
"These are the kinds of things that raise eyebrows at the Fed," said economist Cary Leahey of Decision Economics in New York. "The implication that this January report has for wage inflation is bothersome to the market and the Fed."
Snow has said the United States is close to a "tipping point" in the expansion where wages will start to rise.
The next meeting of the Fed's rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee is March 28.
But Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke -- just sworn into the job on Wednesday -- is to testify before Congress about the economy on February 15-16 and will face a grilling on whether labor markets are tight enough to spell danger.
The jobless rate "is probably at or slightly below the level the Fed is thinking is full employment, so it will strengthen their resolve to lean against inflation pressures," said economist Elisabeth Denison of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein in New York. "We expect another quarter-point hike in March."
The Labor Department revised up December job growth to 140,000 from 108,000 reported previously and said 354,000 jobs were created in November instead of 305,000.
Jobs are overrated.
my real concern was actually about a husband but i guess as far as pathologies go joblessness is good to focus on. but really # 3 is the most important. jobs, as kurt said are overrated... only if they lead to a husband and thus a future would they outrank. i ponder. i think clearly this jobless thing is gods fault. ive got constraints. and i need a job that fits said constraints.
I agree with you, married people are crazy
The married people are yes... wait. Law and Order plot lines are crashing into by brain....
If someone has something they think is great and you would like to have because it seems like it would be great to you and they can't give it to you... they could just say... yes it's great I pray that you get your chance at this happiness. instead of playing it down. Next time they say how hard it is would it tick them off if you gasped and asked if they are about to get divorced? Or ask if they are saying that you are crazy to think that there is a man out there who would be worthy of you...
hmm
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