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girlofprey) wrote2011-03-12 06:25 pm
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So. Late night posts about Casualty and Pairing Picspam aside. Obviously I'm pretty horrified about what's happening in Japan at the moment. I can't really say I hope everyone's okay when they haven't got the official death toll yet, and there's all this danger of nuclear accidents, but you. I'm sending good thoughts. As a lot of people have said, Japan is more prepared than most countries for earthquakes, so hopefully they'll get back on their feet again. I hope anyone on my flist who lives there or has friends or relatives near there is okay at the moment.
Is it just me, or are me seeing a lot of natural disasters lately, in the past few years? More than we used to? Or is it just that the news stations and papers are reporting more often on them? Then again, it's only in the last few years I've been properly paying much attention to the news, so maybe it's just me.
Anyway. On a personal note, the big news I have from my life this week is that I've come off Jobseeker's Allowance. I've been thinking about it for awhile, and sort of assuming I would be coming off, and I guess I was already thinking that I wasn't going to do it anymore, because I had an appointment on Wednesday and I really wasn't prepared for it, I didn't fill in my job seeking diary, or go to bed, and then I got up late. I was probably going to be late for my appointment anyway, so I took a bit more time and when I got in the car with my mum I told her to just go to Weightwatchers, and I'd walk over to the Jobcentre, because I was signing off. I told them I wanted to go onto incapacity instead and they gave me the number for them. I tried to call them that day, but my mobile's battery was nearly dead and I had to stay out and go to Wakefield for an appointment. So I ended up calling them on Thursday. My paperwork came through for me to check this morning, and I need to get an appointment with my doctor to try to get a sicknote or whatever. Which I might not get, so this might all go nowhere. But I'm going to try to do that this week, and I'll see what happens. I need to send my P45 as well, whenever the Jobcentre send that through. According to the paperwork I got today my claim with them hasn't ended yet, so I have no idea what's happening with that, or when that will be. So I'll just have to wait for that. But yes. Apart from that, I'm getting on with it.
Part of it was going to this new service in Wakefield, for people with mental health problems trying to get back into work. I came to realise while talking to them that actually I'm a little bit afraid of the idea of suddenly going back into a full-time job at the moment. Sometimes I feel like I'm actually doing about as much as I can at the moment, especially after looking after one of my nephews for a day or something. And I've had a few weird episodes where I went a bit weird mentally, and it was usually after something like doing a lot of things at once, day after day for a little while. So I really do feel like I'd like to try to ease myself back into work, maybe with a volunteer placement or a part-time job just to start with. I know you can look for part-time work with the Jobcentre, especially if you talk to the DEA and stuff, but I do find it a bit of an extra workload anyway, and quite stressful, so I'd like to just try using this service in Wakefield and trying to get on incapacity, if I can, for now. If it doesn't work, I will be straight back onto Jobseeker's I guess. Or not doing that, and having no money for a while.
Anyway. So that's what I'm doing at the moment. Actually, I've been doing a few useful things lately. I cashed a cheque I finally got on behalf of my dad for an insurance claim we made after getting stuck in Barcelona last year, and wrote him out a cheque for it this week. I changed my phone to a Pay As You Go tariff, in an effort to reduce some of my bills. And I called a woman who I'd forgotten called me one morning when I was at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cakesy's the other week, who is apparently sorting out or doing my new counselling sessions, and said she'd either be calling me in a few days or a few weeks. She hasn't called me, so I called her on Thursday, and she hasn't called back. I will be calling her again next week probably, if she doesn't get in touch.
In other news, I watched Thursday's second Emmerdale episode, and based on things I'd read in the soap mags beforehand, it was about as violent and awful as I was expecting it to be. But at least they seem to be making the point that Cain's behaviour is NOT OKAY, and treating your partner or ex-partner like that is NOT OKAY, and making fun of someone for having become a prostitute at 14 is NOT OKAY. And just that Cain and Charity's relationship is at least partly a pretty unhealthy one. I don't know if they weren't retconning Charity's prostitute past a bit, because I've never heard her talk about being awful like that before. But then, I didn't watch it when she first came into it, when she was a prostitute, and I don't think I've heard her talk about it before either. I didn't realise she became one so young, either. But it's still a pretty good point to make, even if it's a change from how they've treated it/talked about it before. And Charity was amazing, at any rate. And Nicola, in the same episode, was also amazing, oh God I love Nicola. And then I watched Coronation Street, and Rita was amazing. And David was running around trying to emotionally protect his girlfriend from his mother and grandmother, and trying to protect them from her comments. He wanted his girlfriend to go away and make some mood boards. Oh. I actually quite like the relationship David's got with Kylie, although I haven't seen all of it since she came back into it. But I think it works, and they do seem to really like/fancy each other. I don't know if they'll actually get down the aisle though. Mostly I'm picturing something going wrong on the day, and one of them leaving, and there being no wedding, and when David leaves the church Gary is outside waiting for him, all "Right. You ready to go?" But maybe they will go for it. Who knows.
Later on, David tried to reassure his girlfriend that his grandmother used to be a 'slapper from the wrong side of the tracks' as well, and that then she married a shopkeeper, and ended up being lady mayoress, so his mum and grandma would probably come around to her (Kylie) as well. Kylie was not that impressed with that bit of 'reassurance'. Oh David. I wish he would make friends with Becky soon. They could bond over their hatred of Tracy. But given the fact that he loves Kylie and Kylie and Becky hate each other a bit at the moment, that doesn't seem that likely. I didn't watch last night's soaps, though. My oldest nephew was here, so we played Monkeyball on the Wii instead.
My main news from today is that my dad has apparently been drilling up into the base of my set-into-the-wall wardrobe, thinking he was drilling into the floor of the room next door to mine, from a room underneath mine and the bedroom next door to me. No drillbits came up through the carpet, not even through the wardrobe really, but he's pretty sure the floor underneath it is where it came up. He's decided to stop his drilling project now, based on that. I think.
Is it just me, or are me seeing a lot of natural disasters lately, in the past few years? More than we used to? Or is it just that the news stations and papers are reporting more often on them? Then again, it's only in the last few years I've been properly paying much attention to the news, so maybe it's just me.
Anyway. On a personal note, the big news I have from my life this week is that I've come off Jobseeker's Allowance. I've been thinking about it for awhile, and sort of assuming I would be coming off, and I guess I was already thinking that I wasn't going to do it anymore, because I had an appointment on Wednesday and I really wasn't prepared for it, I didn't fill in my job seeking diary, or go to bed, and then I got up late. I was probably going to be late for my appointment anyway, so I took a bit more time and when I got in the car with my mum I told her to just go to Weightwatchers, and I'd walk over to the Jobcentre, because I was signing off. I told them I wanted to go onto incapacity instead and they gave me the number for them. I tried to call them that day, but my mobile's battery was nearly dead and I had to stay out and go to Wakefield for an appointment. So I ended up calling them on Thursday. My paperwork came through for me to check this morning, and I need to get an appointment with my doctor to try to get a sicknote or whatever. Which I might not get, so this might all go nowhere. But I'm going to try to do that this week, and I'll see what happens. I need to send my P45 as well, whenever the Jobcentre send that through. According to the paperwork I got today my claim with them hasn't ended yet, so I have no idea what's happening with that, or when that will be. So I'll just have to wait for that. But yes. Apart from that, I'm getting on with it.
Part of it was going to this new service in Wakefield, for people with mental health problems trying to get back into work. I came to realise while talking to them that actually I'm a little bit afraid of the idea of suddenly going back into a full-time job at the moment. Sometimes I feel like I'm actually doing about as much as I can at the moment, especially after looking after one of my nephews for a day or something. And I've had a few weird episodes where I went a bit weird mentally, and it was usually after something like doing a lot of things at once, day after day for a little while. So I really do feel like I'd like to try to ease myself back into work, maybe with a volunteer placement or a part-time job just to start with. I know you can look for part-time work with the Jobcentre, especially if you talk to the DEA and stuff, but I do find it a bit of an extra workload anyway, and quite stressful, so I'd like to just try using this service in Wakefield and trying to get on incapacity, if I can, for now. If it doesn't work, I will be straight back onto Jobseeker's I guess. Or not doing that, and having no money for a while.
Anyway. So that's what I'm doing at the moment. Actually, I've been doing a few useful things lately. I cashed a cheque I finally got on behalf of my dad for an insurance claim we made after getting stuck in Barcelona last year, and wrote him out a cheque for it this week. I changed my phone to a Pay As You Go tariff, in an effort to reduce some of my bills. And I called a woman who I'd forgotten called me one morning when I was at
cakesy's the other week, who is apparently sorting out or doing my new counselling sessions, and said she'd either be calling me in a few days or a few weeks. She hasn't called me, so I called her on Thursday, and she hasn't called back. I will be calling her again next week probably, if she doesn't get in touch.In other news, I watched Thursday's second Emmerdale episode, and based on things I'd read in the soap mags beforehand, it was about as violent and awful as I was expecting it to be. But at least they seem to be making the point that Cain's behaviour is NOT OKAY, and treating your partner or ex-partner like that is NOT OKAY, and making fun of someone for having become a prostitute at 14 is NOT OKAY. And just that Cain and Charity's relationship is at least partly a pretty unhealthy one. I don't know if they weren't retconning Charity's prostitute past a bit, because I've never heard her talk about being awful like that before. But then, I didn't watch it when she first came into it, when she was a prostitute, and I don't think I've heard her talk about it before either. I didn't realise she became one so young, either. But it's still a pretty good point to make, even if it's a change from how they've treated it/talked about it before. And Charity was amazing, at any rate. And Nicola, in the same episode, was also amazing, oh God I love Nicola. And then I watched Coronation Street, and Rita was amazing. And David was running around trying to emotionally protect his girlfriend from his mother and grandmother, and trying to protect them from her comments. He wanted his girlfriend to go away and make some mood boards. Oh. I actually quite like the relationship David's got with Kylie, although I haven't seen all of it since she came back into it. But I think it works, and they do seem to really like/fancy each other. I don't know if they'll actually get down the aisle though. Mostly I'm picturing something going wrong on the day, and one of them leaving, and there being no wedding, and when David leaves the church Gary is outside waiting for him, all "Right. You ready to go?" But maybe they will go for it. Who knows.
Later on, David tried to reassure his girlfriend that his grandmother used to be a 'slapper from the wrong side of the tracks' as well, and that then she married a shopkeeper, and ended up being lady mayoress, so his mum and grandma would probably come around to her (Kylie) as well. Kylie was not that impressed with that bit of 'reassurance'. Oh David. I wish he would make friends with Becky soon. They could bond over their hatred of Tracy. But given the fact that he loves Kylie and Kylie and Becky hate each other a bit at the moment, that doesn't seem that likely. I didn't watch last night's soaps, though. My oldest nephew was here, so we played Monkeyball on the Wii instead.
My main news from today is that my dad has apparently been drilling up into the base of my set-into-the-wall wardrobe, thinking he was drilling into the floor of the room next door to mine, from a room underneath mine and the bedroom next door to me. No drillbits came up through the carpet, not even through the wardrobe really, but he's pretty sure the floor underneath it is where it came up. He's decided to stop his drilling project now, based on that. I think.