Chars Life and Times

I realize that is a strange title, but I wanted to talk about today in my life and also Roland Burris and the senate seat. 

Roland Burris was the man that our Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich appointed to President-Elect Barack Obama’s senate seat. Burris was turned away today when he appeared in Washington for the newly elected senate swearing in. All he could do was go back outside and visit with the vast amount of media waiting to talk to him. Since our secretary of state would not sign for him, technically his records were not in order for him to become our senator. Burris said that he will now confer with his attorneys to see what the next step is. So I guess we have to see what happens next with that.

With regards to my life, first of all I want to say that I did indeed order the electronic cigarette starter kit and also one for my husband. I don’t want to say where I ordered them from because I ended up going for a more reasonably priced E-cig and once I get it I will blog more about it and how it goes. 

My husband also found out last night that it might be awhile before he can go back to work. The last day he worked was the night before Christmas Eve. The plant where he works at was then going to be shut down for the holidays and they were told to come back to work on January 5. Hubby got a call the Thursday before from his employer and was told not to come back to work until January 12. Well of course that sucked since he would not be paid for that week. After hubby talked to a couple of friends he worked with, he found out that he might not get to go back to work even then. He also found out that some of his co-workers filed for unemployment, and he was told to do the same. He went down to the unemployment off this afternoon. So we will see what happens with that also. Darn recession!