Another trip around the sun

I’m still alive, I guess.

Birthday

Yesterday I turned 45. I was too wiped out to do anything about it really, though; the previous week I’d been traveling to visit some family and got home late Tuesday night, then yesterday was a recovery day followed by dress rehearsal for the choir. Incidentally, have you gotten your concert tickets yet?

Anyway, spending an evening with some of my favorite people and getting ready to put on an amazing show was pretty much the best thing I could spend my birthday on.

Chronic pain shit

I’d love to be working on things but it’s very hard for me to get out of my gravity well right now. It hurts too much to do anything, and I definitely feel like I’m languishing. I have so many things on the backburner that I’d like to be putting on the… front?burner instead.

But anyway, I’ve applied for disability, and it’ll be months before that goes anywhere. In the meantime I’m still looking for jobs that are able to accommodate my needs while being a way to exercise my skills. Maybe something will come of it.

Unemployment shit

Dealing with the Washington State Employment Security Department has been really frustrating. I’ve been unemployed for a year and have been spending much of that time trying to get my unemployment benefits, which were on hold “pending adjudication.” I was finally cleared to actually start receiving benefits for my original year-long period about two weeks ago. Which means I’d have only gotten at most two weeks' worth of benefits.

With a lot of back and forth I finally convinced them to let me backfill my claims for the past year (what with claims being unavailable due to the pending status) and now they have been burying me in paperwork with a severe deadline and some extremely… let’s say “excessive” reporting requirements. Including a requirement of proof that I’ve been searching for a new job, but none of the job-search things I’ve been doing generate the kind of proof they’re accepting.

Anyway, today I got a letter from them that they feel that they’d “overpaid” me for the one week that they’ve supposedly cut a check for (which I haven’t yet received) and they’re demanding further proof that I haven’t been “overpaid” and threatening me with legal action if I don’t satisfy them, including putting a lien on my house and messing up my credit rating and all sorts of other fun things.

Man, that sure was worth the effort, huh.

Shit shit

One of the fun side effects of gabapentin is that it shuts down my bowel and makes me extremely constipated. So I only take it when I’m extremely desperate for pain relief.

I took a dose a week and a half ago, and I’m still paying for it.

Projects I wish I had the energy to work on right now

Oh well. I’m surviving, at least. Maybe soon I’ll feel up to working on things again.

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