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I'm not doing well right now. I'm tired all the time. Sleeping way more than 8 hours a day.

Between the anemia, the depression, and (maybe) the Abilify, I'm barely functional. Thankfully they've reduced the Abilify dose, back down to 5mg a day. I just wish they knew what was causing the anemia.

I got up around 09:00, took my meds, ate, read the news, and then went back to bed until around 13:30. Dressed, took the bus downtown to the Opportunity Council for my appointment with the energy assistance program (they're helping pay my electricity), and came home, and promptly collapsed back into bed.

While I was out, I had to sit down and catch my breath several times. I felt fearful, almost agoraphobic about being outside. WTF?

Tossed and turned a while, then got up and wrote this. That's the extent of my day so far.

Woo-hoo! A $1 Check!

The State of Washington has sent me a check for $1.
I'm one of 250,000 Washingtonians on food stamps who received $1 checks this week.

The letter accompanying the $1 check encouraged us to deposit or cash it as soon as possible. This presumably is so the state will have the canceled checks to prove they jumped through the hoops of supplying money to the needy, so that the feds will step in with Obama's stimulus funds.

This means I'll get more food assistance and home energy assistance now.

A bailout for the lowest. I like that.

This was a shrewd move on the part of Washington State -- by spending just a trickle more ($250,000) on the neediest Washingtonians, they leveraged open a flood of federal money.

And people wonder why I don't want to leave Washington.

FROM THE SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420ap_wa_food_stamp_checks.html
Feb. 23, 2009

Washington sends $1 food stamp checks to 250,000

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- The state of Washington sent out $1 checks to the 250,000 food stamp recipients in the state.

The director of the Community Services Division for the Department of Social and Health Services, Leo Ribas, says the checks mailed Feb. 17 trigger an additional $43 million in federal food benefits. They also connect recipients to an energy assistance program.

Ribas says the $1 check is a one-time move to leverage the federal money. He says next year the state will be able to trigger the federal assistance through a routine deposit in food stamp accounts.

(with information from The Olympian)

Hagrid is in the House!

Tired all the time.

Yes, I have received my $1 stimulus check in the mail.

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