!!!!!

[dragonlady7]

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i got a message from the NYS DOL today

(the last one was them being like “send us your SS card, front and back” and I was like “i don’t have it here’s my passport??” and that was that, so I’m waiting for my replacement social security card, which the SSA was like “you really don’t need this” and I was like “but I do” and they were like “optimally this will take seven to ten business days” but i was not hopeful)

the message said, simply,

“I would expect your benefits to be released tomorrow.”

So I had a small freakout and bluescreened my own eyeballs right there at my desk at work– I never got any determination of what I’d be eligible for, no hint of, like, anything– I literally don’t know– can’t begin to guess–

and then I got a text message from the DOL, which I did not know had my phone number, and it was a link, so I clicked it, and it was an image.

[image description: a formal notice with a big fancy letterhead across the top “WE’RE YOUR DOL” and the NYS Dep’t of Labor logo, and the relevant part of the letter says “Thank you for your patience. We have determined that your claim can now be paid. If you have not already, you will soon receive a letter in the mail telling you how much you will receive each week. If you provided bank account information, your benefits will be deposited there.”]

!!!!

I still have no idea how much it is but at least it’s something and it makes up for the fact that my job! is not! paying me! and golf guy never came in today! and anyway.

I am going to lie on the floor but this time not cry, that’s what I’m going to do.

I sent the above screenshot to the family group chat and got this stunning array of emojis back from the fam:

[image description: a screenshot from a phone showing a group chat containing my mom and dad and sisters. Sister A {Farmsister} has sent a huge sticker of a ball painted to look like a monkey’s face popping open to spill confetti and then the confetti-party-horn emoji nine times, sister F {middle-little} has sent the head explodey emoji guy, Mom has sent “Hooray” with a pile of exclamation points and five peacock emojis and eight unicorn emojis, proving that she’s learned how to text from her grandchildren. At the bottom of the screen I’m beginning to reply “this is a lot of emojis, I’m very overwhelmed.”]

Oldest sister hasn’t responded yet in the screenshot but I assure you in real life she… oh she missed the conversation entirely because the next chats from her phone are from her son, so she likely never scrolled back up. That’s fine, I am not concerned. Family group texts have increased steadily in complexity as phone technology and adoption has increased and now that all the grandchildren are literate and phone-stealers it’s becoming yet more complicated.

Someday I should write a memoir based entirely on my family’s grouptexts though because they’re pretty entertaining.

Anyway– I should find out today what kind of unemployment assistance I’m supposed to have been getting. Or, I won’t, and it’ll be a new hassle, but we’ll see.

Comments

[paean]

Huzzah!

[dragonlady7]

Ha I will really party once it clears my bank account. I've got alerts set up so I'll know when it does.