• Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
    9·
    1 day ago

    My new rule is that when it gets below a degree in temperature, I huddle in bed with Gibson and listen to audiobooks.

    Nothing of value can be done at this time lol

  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
    9·
    1 day ago

    Gratitude thread! What are you grateful for today? :)

    I’m grateful for not cancelling my gym class booking today. Although I was tired and couldn’t give it my all, it was better than nothing. Also grateful for my mum being patient with me despite me being irritable.

    • dumblederp@aussie.zone
      8·
      1 day ago

      I’m grateful for all the birds I saw today while enjoying the sunshine.

      I’m grateful for this warm bowl of porridge.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
      8·
      1 day ago

      I am grateful for living in a nice apartment with nice little terraces I can garden on and I am grateful for living near beautiful parks.

      And I am grateful to all the people who make beautiful movies and tv for us to watch. It truly is a gift.

    • Catfish@aussie.zone
      7·
      1 day ago

      It’s my Friday! There are cats Boyo didn’t turn the freshly made bed into a burrito rolled dog nest in one day

    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
      7·
      1 day ago

      I am grateful to have insulation in my house. Seriously all those people who don’t, especially renters, my heart goes out to them.

    • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
      6·
      1 day ago

      Grateful for fluffy butt

      For somewhere to live that’s all to myself

      For the studio I can lose myself in when I need to

      And for a plethora or media to watch when I want to rest my mind

    • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone
      6·
      1 day ago

      I am grateful for central heating. And to have a roof over my head in this cold weather.

      I’m also grateful to the ABC for streaming ER on iview and keeping me entertained.

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
    9·
    1 day ago

    Just for a bit of fun, I decided to get on the little dog’s bed and mess up his blankets. Oh boy. He did not like it one little bit. He tried to nuzzle me off, snorting like a horse.

  • oztrin@aussie.zoneEnglish
    6·
    1 day ago

    It seems Booktopia’s gone into administration.
    I was just on the verge of putting in a order for my IRL cakeday, too. 😬

  • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    I got some news about the other kid. Apparently they are actually fully decided on moving him elsewhere. Their original plan was to move him out tomorrow, and have me move back in later tomorrow, but that didn’t end up happening because their plans fell through. So instead I’m staying in another hotel until Tuesday morning, and he’ll be leaving on Monday night.

    Also, kind of ironic, but the hotel I’m now staying at is the same one I lived in for a few months in 2018 after getting kicked out of another place in the country. Ironically in those days I was being moved close to every week and basically toured the entire west and south west of the state. Then I moved into this hotel and things started to settle down.

    I’m in a different room on a different floor, but it’s really interesting seeing it from a different perspective. 6 years ago I was still me, but so different it doesn’t even feel like I was. I was never expecting to come back here. I’m also loving the irony that despite how many places I’ve been at, and how much has changed in the world, system, and me, I’m still moving around every week. That doesn’t really make me sad though, because at least this time it’s a mutual thing and I have some say in where I’m going and when. Last time I was here I was only here because somebody declared that I would be, and that was the end of the story. Also I could’ve chosen somewhere else, or another Airbnb.

      • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        Try not to think about 2016 being 8 years ago and 2014 being a full decade ago then. Because that sent me into a spiral at the start of the year

            • Nath@aussie.zone
              2·
              21 hours ago

              My kids are 9 and 12. So you’d have been in between them in age. The idea of either of them being set adrift, alone, in a hotel is setting off all my daddy instincts.

              I am sad that this was your childhood. As he’s probably a bigger train nerd than you, I see a lot of parallels between you and my eldest.

              You’ve clearly managed to navigate the state system. So I guess we need to recognise also that something in the system is working. I worry about your support system when you turn 18. Do they just set you adrift and wish you luck in life on your birthday?

              • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
                2·
                19 hours ago

                I wasn’t alone back then, I did have support workers (contingency hotels in Vic are run under more or less the same conditions as resi, so 24/7 workers and such).

                I wouldn’t really give the system that much credit, because I know a lot of people it hasn’t worked for, the other kid who moved in is probably one of them. On my end, all I can do to get my needs met is being proactive about sending emails and text messages, and pretty much harassing people on the daily until they get things sorted. But that only works because the people within my care team are all receptive, have a good relationship with me, and do their jobs. If my case manager decided she didn’t want to follow something up for me, then it wouldn’t matter what I said or how often I said it, it would never happen.

                It used to be the case (as recently as a couple years ago) that the day before your 18th birthday you would be kicked out. Nowadays it has changed a bit, and there are more support options. I’m eligible for a service that some other people aren’t (which I don’t really want to get into, it comes down to personal reasons), which offers subsidised housing (although operates differently to the housing commission). There’s about a 9 month waiting list for that, which I only got onto recently. In the meantime though, I can stay in my current space until I’m 19. They’re not huge fans of that, and as soon as somewhere comes up, the expectation is definitely that I take it and move out ASAP, but the option is there to stay around until I turn 19. I will lose most of my support network once I move, but in their place, something else will take it for a few years.

                I don’t know what the “standard” pathway is for moving out, so I also don’t know what the backup is if my current plan falls through for whatever reason. But prior to this extension and moving into lead tenant, my plan after moving out was to live in a car

                • Nath@aussie.zone
                  2·
                  19 hours ago

                  The Car thing should be your fallback plan to keep you off sleeping on the street. It’s only a step up from that, and certainly not something you should be planning for. YouTube videos make it look a lot more glamorous than it actually is. I slept for a week in a van while I drove around in New Zealand. It was fully kitted out with kitchen, actual bed, power, water, the works! And a week was long enough - I would not have wanted to live like that longer term.

                  The dodgiest one-bedroom shoebox with a bathroom and toilet would be better than any car.

            • Catfish@aussie.zone
              5·
              1 day ago

              Very very rude words!

              If you want a Mad Internet Aunt or eight you’re probably in the right place.

              • Eagle@aussie.zone
                6·
                1 day ago

                Make that 9… you’re a good egg Baku, and my mind boggles at what you’ve been through.

                • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
                  4·
                  1 day ago

                  Thanks eagle and catfish. I’ll probably reminisce and share some stories over the next few days as I collect myself and settle in.

                  2018 was an absolutely wild year. I got kicked out of 2 places, moved 11 times, and had to travel about 300km between each new place. I’ve only moved about 25 (I think) times since I was born, so almost half of them happened in 2018 alone

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
    4·
    1 day ago

    Oh man I thought today was gonna be cruisey, and I did finish nearly everything by 1pm and stretched out my time at uni a bit, but being the conscientious idiot that I am, I decided to do one last work task when I got back to make up a lil bit of the 2 hours I was away (even though the deadline isn’t due for ages and nobody’s keeping track of my hours at this job)…

    …what was supposed to be a quick half an hour jobbie spiraled into hours because there was a fundamental issue with the entire thing - like, someone’s property boundary might be so off that either they or Council are in big trouble. It’s way beyond my experience or pay grade, but I just can’t let a bit of good problem-solving go…

    At least it wasn’t outrageous, I came home around 4:15pm and wrapped up around 8pm. Dinner, shower, bunch of tidying up, and now bed.

    Also bloody hell, I think I do need a new chair, or at least reevaluate my seating height; my neck and back haven’t responded well to wfh today. Alright, NO overworking the next two days.

  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
    6·
    1 day ago

    I was invited to a mutual friend’s birthday party and I’ve met her twice. Could be a good opportunity to socialise but a) there’s going to be a bit of drinking which isn’t my scene rn considering the eight week fitness challenge I’m doing and b) scary. Do I go or do I not go?

    • dumblederp@aussie.zone
      10·
      1 day ago

      Plan to go for an hour and a half. You don’t have to empty your battery. Go early, leave when you notice the effects of alcohol on people.

  • wscholermann@aussie.zone
    4·
    1 day ago

    Think I’ll need to leave the heating on overnight… cold is just a bit much at the moment.

    I don’t remember it being this cold last year.

  • Taleya@aussie.zone
    10·
    2 days ago

    Was mentioning this is the first house i’ve lived in that hasn’t fucked me on a cold snap, and how when i woke up it was 20c and it stays 20c!!

    Coworker overheard last part and tried to oppression olympics snipe me. Nosy bitch got a short, sharp lesson on exactly what growing up in a holmesglen concrete prefab special was like.

    I ain’t wearing guilt, i’ve done my fucken time and then some.

    • Catfish@aussie.zone
      8·
      2 days ago

      She can fuck right off and so cal the bills needed to get this place out of single digits and me be able to tell what colour my skin is.