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It's been a long time between drinks

It's been a while since I've been here, and a fair bit has happened so far. Some good, some bad.

Lately I've been feeling a fair bit down. Comes from not being quite so happy with work (not that it was bad, just didn't seem "right" I guess), and not getting out quite as much as I'd like to. Well, that's changed. As of today it's been a week since I've been out of work. It's been good. I've bene able to de-stress a bit, and I'm feeling a whole lot more like getting up in the morning then I have been before. Now I just have to deal with Centrelink, and that is nothing but hassles. Every time I go there it gets worse and worse.

To make a "claim' for the Newstart allowance now, I have to go down there to register, then they give me the number of the call centre, and I have to go through all of the details there. That's a pretty big waste of time as they could do it in the office there just as easily, but... From there they send you out the paperwork that you need. of course, in record efficiency time... I contacted them on Monday, and I finally got the initial forms that I need to get back to them today (Friday)... And to top it off, the updated details that I sepnt 20 minutes on the phone updating seem to have magically dissapeared from the system, as they are not on the document that I need to sign and take back to them. This means that I can't sign that document. It's a legal document for them, and they didn't get it right. The worst thing is that I know that there will be an issue with that, and they won't be able to just print out another one while I'm there, so I'm bracing myself for a fight on that front.

Now that things have settled down a little bit more, i'll be trying to pdate here a bit more often. I know I should, but... life gets in the way most times.

posted by Michael @ 3:53 PM