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Sep. 8th, 2015 02:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
girlofpreyHello. I want to give you my life news, but all I really have is video game news. So here we go:
Other than that, I'm having my scan tomorrow. I have to do the whole 'drink a pint and a half of water and try not to wet yourself' thing, but at least it's here and then it will be over. I was alright with the one I had at 18, so it shouldn't be too bad.
I'm trying to eat less chocolate, because my dentist said my teeth are slowly getting worse even though I'm on the strongest prescription toothpaste available, and all I can think is it's the chunky chocolate bars I eat, or the Ben and Jerry's I sometimes have with hard little nuggets of chocolate in them that I like to crack. I'm not really ready to give up chocolate, so I'm just trying to cut down for now. And I think I'm feeling better, overall. I had a couple of weird days of just being constantly restless and looking for crisps or fruit, something high-energy, to eat, but now I feel a little bit...I don't know. Less bogged down, I guess. Slowly but surely, feel like I'm making my way to a semi-healthy (for me) lifestyle.
Oh, and a nice thing that happened in the last few weeks is I had a Jobcentre interview with my disability coach woman, just to check in. She called at 9am when I was still mostly asleep, but it went well, and when I asked if I was due another assessment anytime soon, she said my file was currently saying September next year is when the next one was due. Obviously that's just a placeholder, and they could randomly call me up a lot sooner, but chances are good I won't be having one in the next few months, and suddenly getting cut off just before Christmas or anything. Which is a nice bit of breathing room. And honestly, I'm really grateful for the position I'm in right now. I've successfully gotten on ESA, my mum and dad are happy for me to stay with them while I sort myself out. I know that right now a lot of people in this country aren't in anything like as good a position, and I really know that I'm lucky. Hopefully by the time I need to find work I'll be ready for it again - I might even be ready before the next assessment's due.
I've been asked to join in on a soap podcast, a Corrie-only one after the live episode, with the people I've been talking with on Tumblr. Probably not just to sit there and tell them all they're wrong and why they're wrong for an hour, but still. If I can figure out Skype, I might well do it. I do like soaps enough.
- I didn't think I'd gotten to the point yet where I'd buy a console purely because it is pretty, but this orange PS Vita from Japan is beautiful and I'm genuinely thinking about importing it.
- I played a new game last week called Until Dawn and I love it. It's a sort of choose your own adventure about 8 teenagers trapped in a horror movie situation in a remote ski lodge. And it is actually brilliant. Just the acting and characters are great, the pacing is great, the story has a lot of holes in it once you finish the game and look back but you don't really notice during the game because the pacing is so good, and it's scary and it's atmospheric and the graphics are both really attractive and really suited to the story and gameplay. It's probably the first new game I've really enjoyed playing on my PS4, enough to drag me away from my PS Vita and Wii U. And one of the characters is a headcase, and I love him. So yes. That's my new fandom.
- Fannish conversations are really hard to have on Tumblr.
Other than that, I'm having my scan tomorrow. I have to do the whole 'drink a pint and a half of water and try not to wet yourself' thing, but at least it's here and then it will be over. I was alright with the one I had at 18, so it shouldn't be too bad.
I'm trying to eat less chocolate, because my dentist said my teeth are slowly getting worse even though I'm on the strongest prescription toothpaste available, and all I can think is it's the chunky chocolate bars I eat, or the Ben and Jerry's I sometimes have with hard little nuggets of chocolate in them that I like to crack. I'm not really ready to give up chocolate, so I'm just trying to cut down for now. And I think I'm feeling better, overall. I had a couple of weird days of just being constantly restless and looking for crisps or fruit, something high-energy, to eat, but now I feel a little bit...I don't know. Less bogged down, I guess. Slowly but surely, feel like I'm making my way to a semi-healthy (for me) lifestyle.
Oh, and a nice thing that happened in the last few weeks is I had a Jobcentre interview with my disability coach woman, just to check in. She called at 9am when I was still mostly asleep, but it went well, and when I asked if I was due another assessment anytime soon, she said my file was currently saying September next year is when the next one was due. Obviously that's just a placeholder, and they could randomly call me up a lot sooner, but chances are good I won't be having one in the next few months, and suddenly getting cut off just before Christmas or anything. Which is a nice bit of breathing room. And honestly, I'm really grateful for the position I'm in right now. I've successfully gotten on ESA, my mum and dad are happy for me to stay with them while I sort myself out. I know that right now a lot of people in this country aren't in anything like as good a position, and I really know that I'm lucky. Hopefully by the time I need to find work I'll be ready for it again - I might even be ready before the next assessment's due.
I've been asked to join in on a soap podcast, a Corrie-only one after the live episode, with the people I've been talking with on Tumblr. Probably not just to sit there and tell them all they're wrong and why they're wrong for an hour, but still. If I can figure out Skype, I might well do it. I do like soaps enough.
