Disaster struck last night. Water tank burst. No poweer; trying desperately to find somewhere for the cats so I don't lose them. Nephew is letting me recharge the laptop so I can at least try and keep in touch, but I don't think I'll be getting my=uch help from the family. It's clear I need a regular carer; can't pretend I can look after myse;f ( Read more... )

No DLA ( Read more... )

Two days before I potentially lose my money again and my autistic brain has gone into overdrive. All I seem to do is either sleep, or stay permanently in that "I'll wake up in a moment" state, or endlessly collate hours of data and material I never have time to use because all I do is save it ( Read more... )

Finally got a referral to mental health services through, but I have to call so I might need to check in at my sister's to see if I can use their phone. Paid my rent arrears, which crossed with the usual threatening letter from the council even though I said I'd be paying when my pension came through ( Read more... )

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Is anyone saving open_on_sunday from lj ( Read more... )

More than three hours to force myself out of the door; get to the council office to be told Welfare Rights is telephone only which, after some babbling on my part at the thought of having to deal with someone by myself over the phone, has me back out the door in under two minutes ( Read more... )

 
   It's hard to find the words to describe the sense of grief that is creeping over me; from reading some of the comments in my earliest posts by people who've gone in real life (R.I.P. 

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    Reading some of my early posts from my first lj, which I can no longer properly access, brought back a lot of stuff that nearly had me in tears on the bus journey back from Perth today. Found the poem I would have liked to post but, frankly it would have taken too long to type out tonight, and I managed to find one that follows, for me, a ( Read more... )

Laptop crashed and, thus far, they have been unable to recover anything.

All my stories.
All the videos I knew I wanted to keep; including all the Star Trek I had only the previous evening begun transferring to my hard drive, all my photos, and all my stories, and all the files I had saved from my older laptop; which I am on now, with a ( Read more... )