ROE Blues

I am having some real difficulties this winter.  The weather is mild and there is not much snow, but I still don't have my EI.  It has been fifty days since I last worked and I still do not have my ROE, Record of Employment.  There was a mishap with the post office getting my mail redirected, but that has been fixed for three weeks and that would have meant all mail before the mix up was fixed would go to my old address.  It means that my first ROE went to my old address.

This brings up the subject about the importance of Friends.  Friends are people that you know that love or at least like you enough to help you.  The provide support and they will go slightly out of their way to help you.  When you send your friend your address and ask them to send you lost letters to that new address and they say, "No problem" you expect them to do it.  But here I sit forty days after making the request, three weeks after making the second request with no mail, no ROE.  I am asking myself if they are really my friend? I am supposed to go see him in three weeks– will he wait those three weeks and give me my mail then, another twenty days from now?  

Breathe deeply.  I am supposed to forgive my friends when they screw up, am I supposed to forgive them if they cost me $1500 a month?

My employer, I called them and left them messages and left my address change there on the message.  I could not get a person.

My anxiety is climbing.  Will I be able to afford first and last months rent now?  Will my credit card debt climb back up?  Sometimes I think I get lucky when I bad things don't happen but then I also have bad things happen to me all the time too, like this.  Perhaps my employer will have to send me my ROE for the third time.

Anxiety.  Frustration.  Exasperation.  Resignation.