Dear goodness! That's a massive amount of bad luck! Stay safe Zatoichi! 


I am nervous about going back to the dentist tomorrow... and I just got a message from the job center... next month was already very tight economically... and now they are cutting my benefits down further, and apparently they now also want me to pay back some of my benefits. 
Right now I don't even know what I'm going to eat next month now. 

Blegh. Luckily my Birthday is coming up in the end of next month and I can ask for money instead of presents... just so I have a bit to go on 
 

I called them... the woman there told me that it usually took them a while to write out the letters with the actual pay back demand... and when I finally get it, I should contact them again to find a way to pay back; apparently there's a chance they can split up the payments or something. 

But I think I need to make an appointment with my doctor; some conditions make you elegible for higher benefits since it's harder to find work... which actually is the case with my scoliosis... but I don't know if my diagnosis is enough on the paper... 

And I don't know when my unpaid job starts yet... but at this rate I'm not sure I can actually take it. 

Oh well. I'll survive somehow. 

That does sound like an annoying comment to hear.

And best of luck, Phantom!

This Is The Phantom Lady wrote:

Ugh. I do hate when people start complaining about shows because THEY didn't get it. Gah.

And I've got a rant too. I'll spare the most gory details... but I'm sort of stuk in the bathroom with food poisoning.

Oh, that´s too bad. Get well soon, Phantom.
 

nakahara wrote:

It´s always delightful when your colleague opens a can of smelly tuna salad in the office....

 
Oh, tell me about it.      I work at a retail store, so there's a lot of us, and varying shifts, so never know who's going to happen to be taking 'lunch' in the break room at the same time as you.  There's this one older guy in a different department who I often kinda inwardly groan if I see he's taking lunch at the same time, if that day was a day he packed a frequent 'favorite' of his -- a bowl full of grayish-brown gravy and dumplings.  Heated up in the microwave first.  So that the pungent smell fills the whole room…   

Speaking of food, gah, Phantom, I got 'sick' sick over the weekend, too!  And I rarely ever do!  Aside from stomach still being a bit 'sensitive' the next day, was so much better after I was (although uck, that's no fun), and tried to make light of it by telling the story as that 'the d*mn chicken was after me!'  (because that's the only thing I could figure it was).

Sorry to hear about you guys feeling sick.  It's never a good feeling.

You shoud try to get your protein somehow different. So many possibilities.....

Well, beans and eggs and such aren't that expensive that you have to poison yourself with cheap meat.

And this is the point where I give up already. Probably you don't want to understand what I mean.

Mattlocked, I do want to understand. 

but take last week... I had £10, after I bought meds and toilet paper I had 3 left. On top of things I have eating disorders... and beans for example makes me sick, I can't just pinch my nose and get it in. Also, I can't cook... a mix of a mother who didn't care to teach me, me having a learning difficulty and being too sick to stand for long enough. 

And they are threatening to lower my benefits further than this.