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Dec. 12th, 2013 12:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
girlofpreySo I went to my Jobcentre appointment today. I was kind of dreading it, but it went okay. It was the woman I'd seen before and who was really nice, and we basically checked my contact details were the same, I told her what I was doing with my support worker in terms of looking for hobbies and volunteering opportunities and I said I was on the waiting list for CBT again, and she basically said that was good enough for her for the next few months. She gave me a leaflet for another volunteering scheme to do with environmental stuff which I hadn't seen before, and which looks pretty good. But I kind of want to focus on one thing at a time at the moment, so that's probably going in the Maybe pile for now.
As for the assessment thing, I am honestly a bit more confused by that now than I was before. I asked her, and she'd already checked it on her computer, because basically on my appeal outcome statement...thing...it said the Tribunal recommended I not be assessed again within 18 months, and I couldn't tell if it meant 18 months from the original assessment or 18 months from the appeal hearing. If it was the first one I'd be due another appeal this March, if it was the second it would be the March after that. But the woman said it was from the date of the original assessment, and my next assessment was due this September. Which is 24 months from the original assessment. So I don't understand that very well. But that apparently what it says on my records, so someone must have decided on it, and I'm not going to argue. Unless they've made a mistake and take it back again, I've got 6 months longer on ESA and the work programme than I was worried I might have, so fine, great. All I can think is that the appeal meant I retrospectively passed my original assessment, so I had 6 months of ESA I was entitled to from that (until the next assessment) - and then they added the 18 months onto THAT? Which would add up to 24 months? I don't know. But like I say, my next assessment is apparently due next September, and at least I know the time schedule I'm on now, and I'm happy enough with it.
Anyway. Other than that I was freaking out slightly that we were halfway through December and I had no idea what I wanted for Christmas, or what to get anyone else. But then I realised I had an idea for my ON's present (which I've now ordered), my MN and YN can just have something from Argos or the Early Learning Centre really, and I only give my sister £10 in a card, which just leaves mum and dad. Who never tell me what they want or seem to want anything, so in some ways I'm not sure it matters what I get them, as long as I get it with love and good intentions. I'll have to schedule love and good intentions, and a shopping trip, into next week somewhere. It is the 11th today and next week it will be the 18th and that is basically Christmas. ARGH.
As far what I want - it's weird because at the moment I have quite a bit of money, from a couple of ESA arrears payments over the years, so I can pretty much afford to get myself anything I actually want, if I wanted to. Even the pretty expensive stuff. So it doesn't feel like there's much urgency. The main thing I was thinking of in the run-up to this Christmas was a PS4, because they were released in November but...they're so expensive, they're more expensive than what my parents usually spend on me at Christmas, so I'd either just be getting some money towards it or giving them half the money so they and I could buy it for me together, anyway. And they've all sold out till after Christmas now, I think. And I'm still at my parents' house stuck in the spare bedroom playing on Playstation games, and I don't really want to be filling it up with consoles. There's still games I love and am replaying or haven't started yet on the PS3, so I wouldn't be getting rid of that, so there'd also be a lot of messing around with wires, making sure the right one's plugged in and hooked up to the TV before I used either of them. And we already have a VHS player and the Playstation in there, so it really would just be consoles on top of consoles. And uhh.
So I might just leave the PS4 until the spring, when I can plan for it better. Also, like I say, I don't even think you could get one now if you wanted to. So I'm probably going to just give my parents a list of DVDs and CDs I'd quite like, as per usual. I could use a new watch. But I could buy myself one, and buy the one I actually wanted, if I wanted to. So uhh.
As for the assessment thing, I am honestly a bit more confused by that now than I was before. I asked her, and she'd already checked it on her computer, because basically on my appeal outcome statement...thing...it said the Tribunal recommended I not be assessed again within 18 months, and I couldn't tell if it meant 18 months from the original assessment or 18 months from the appeal hearing. If it was the first one I'd be due another appeal this March, if it was the second it would be the March after that. But the woman said it was from the date of the original assessment, and my next assessment was due this September. Which is 24 months from the original assessment. So I don't understand that very well. But that apparently what it says on my records, so someone must have decided on it, and I'm not going to argue. Unless they've made a mistake and take it back again, I've got 6 months longer on ESA and the work programme than I was worried I might have, so fine, great. All I can think is that the appeal meant I retrospectively passed my original assessment, so I had 6 months of ESA I was entitled to from that (until the next assessment) - and then they added the 18 months onto THAT? Which would add up to 24 months? I don't know. But like I say, my next assessment is apparently due next September, and at least I know the time schedule I'm on now, and I'm happy enough with it.
Anyway. Other than that I was freaking out slightly that we were halfway through December and I had no idea what I wanted for Christmas, or what to get anyone else. But then I realised I had an idea for my ON's present (which I've now ordered), my MN and YN can just have something from Argos or the Early Learning Centre really, and I only give my sister £10 in a card, which just leaves mum and dad. Who never tell me what they want or seem to want anything, so in some ways I'm not sure it matters what I get them, as long as I get it with love and good intentions. I'll have to schedule love and good intentions, and a shopping trip, into next week somewhere. It is the 11th today and next week it will be the 18th and that is basically Christmas. ARGH.
As far what I want - it's weird because at the moment I have quite a bit of money, from a couple of ESA arrears payments over the years, so I can pretty much afford to get myself anything I actually want, if I wanted to. Even the pretty expensive stuff. So it doesn't feel like there's much urgency. The main thing I was thinking of in the run-up to this Christmas was a PS4, because they were released in November but...they're so expensive, they're more expensive than what my parents usually spend on me at Christmas, so I'd either just be getting some money towards it or giving them half the money so they and I could buy it for me together, anyway. And they've all sold out till after Christmas now, I think. And I'm still at my parents' house stuck in the spare bedroom playing on Playstation games, and I don't really want to be filling it up with consoles. There's still games I love and am replaying or haven't started yet on the PS3, so I wouldn't be getting rid of that, so there'd also be a lot of messing around with wires, making sure the right one's plugged in and hooked up to the TV before I used either of them. And we already have a VHS player and the Playstation in there, so it really would just be consoles on top of consoles. And uhh.
So I might just leave the PS4 until the spring, when I can plan for it better. Also, like I say, I don't even think you could get one now if you wanted to. So I'm probably going to just give my parents a list of DVDs and CDs I'd quite like, as per usual. I could use a new watch. But I could buy myself one, and buy the one I actually wanted, if I wanted to. So uhh.
