Melbourne

I have: news

I thought on the TAFE situation some more and decided to see if I'd pass the assessment for the dual cert 4 in AOD/Community services, and if I didn't, I was going to look elsewhere for the cert 3 I wanted in the first place.

An hour of stressing over not knowing what I'm doing and what to answer with later, I finished the LLN assesment and got a phone call from the course lady. Apparently I don't quite meet the general entry requirements, but that given the nature of the course, I have a sufficient level to still understand what's happening. Apparently TAFE (or at least this TAFE) don't do binary pass/fails for their entry tests, it's either fine or needs work.

With that said, I've now been offered a place in the new course, so as long as they don't cancel this one too, I should be starting the same day as the last one (in 7 days). Do I know what I'm doing? No. But I hope I'll figure it out soon...

But for some bad news, I think I'm going to take a little break from Lemmy for a while. With everything that's been going on in my real life, I've found myself being more thin skinned and easily agitated than usual. Normally most things (particularly online) don't phase me all too much, but it's beginning to feel like I'm a camel that's a few straws away from a broken back. So for the sake of my own sanity, and not lashing out at people who don't deserve it, I'm going to take a short mental health break. I'll be back in a couple of weeks probably

I'm #1.

No I'M #1.

Idiots, circling the drain.

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Looked at ndis as I need help with disability. The sheer amount of doctors letters, assessments etc required is going to be insane, stressful and probably costly into the thousands. Then there’s the long wait times (over 6 months to get a response) Hardly accessible. Im struggling so hard to stay employed - wfh was so great for disabled people and now the return to office mandates has my job being threatened. It has no actual physical requirement (tech) but they insist that going into the office for “connection” with the internal team (who is across multiple states anyway ) is a “mandatory business requirement”.

Fucking joke at the expense of my health declining even further.

ta da, first big chair is finished . I think it looks pretty good ( I was worried for a while it would look odd ) and when it has the matching chair and some cushions it will hopefully be awesome and comfortable too :)

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Ah Gibson. Thank you for hocking up on my doona. What a great welcome home lol

The moon looks huge!

.... See... Ha ha

Mickey doing his best to eat the WiFi

Sky foggy

Reading my journal from a year ago and I was upset because I had sent my ex a reel that my friend had sent to me saying, "Have some virtual flowers, you deserve it."

He had replied back saying to send some good quality memes instead. Dude didn't like the tiniest hint of sap. I am very glad I'm not with someone I'm incompatible with anymore and that I'm not upset over such a stupid thing. Peace ✌️ :)

What I thought was an arvo shift is, in fact, a morning shift. So 4am wake up time and shower. Ughhhhhhhhhhh! 💀

Just had two toddlers sleeping on me the way pets do when you can't move

Wtf is this title ABC? Also the new design sucks

The Mystery Of The Missing Tram.

Ding, ding MF!

Mrs stole my Xbox so I dusted off the PS3 and hooked it up to an old tv to play some of the best games ever: Ratchet and Clank. Just finished a crack in time and really want to get back into some Up Your Arsenal and Rift Apart when I get my copies back from the brother in law. I know I played Rift Apart, but it must've been early days with the kid cause I remember basically none of it. Dont remember much of Tears of the Kingdom either...

I have spent a small fortune over the last couple of days. Organisation supplies for the bathroom and grocery/pet food/cleaning supplies mostly. Once Miss Meow's vet visit is over this morning I might have to glue my wallet shut!

Crapola sleep team, checking in.

The house over the road is having it's roof cleaned. Maybe I'm being too picky, but I don't think I'd have gone with a company called "Bad Roof Restorations".

18% rent increase for the piece of shit I live in. Not unexpected, but still sucks. I wouldn't wish anyone live here let alone pay for the privilege. Going to start demanding the agent to get awnings installed as it's been about eight months since last asking and nothing has happened. Figured that the worst they can do is evict me as they can't increase the rent again.

operation get rid of stuff continues

so much out of date stuff in the kitchen the chucked out 👍 not from fridge ( which is always really clean ) not like 10 years, just a few months

Miss Meow has now been successfully taken to the vet. I managed to get her into the carrier with only one scratch. She was so terrified about the whole thing the vet has prescribed sedatives for next time. She has also been declared overweight and in need of a diet, so of course the first thing she did when we got home was make a beeline for her dry food bowl and stuff her face with comfort kibble.

On the way home I beeped at a pedestrian for the first time ever. Seriously Miss Pedestrian, you have right of way to cross the road, not to stop half way contemplating life or admiring the view or whatever it was she was up to. Then, to add to the excitement of the trip, when I got home there was a police crime scene unit parked next door. I am guessing someone robbed the new townhouses over the road, empty houses filled with brand new appliances tend to be a bit of a target.

Okay, printing out these papers and trying to study in the uni library (albeit a very sad and neglected place now) is helpful, but I've had a ridiculously slow start to the day... and I'm dreading having to go to work the next couple of days, breaking the concentration/energy I need to focus on a very different mode of thinking/writing.

Maybe doing this work and study thing isn't a very good idea :c I thought I had it in me but I don't have the energy that I did 4-5 years ago. Okay okay, no more dwelling on these negative thoughts, just keep on with what I can do at the moment. I'm making some progress on this assignment outline.

How come there is no good aussie budget cooking folks on youtube? are our grocery prices just making that stuff redundant. I know americans eat like shit, but there is some real bargains in their grocery stores.

This humidity and fog is gross, fuck off!

Blargh! Using my new special leave. They tried to word it to avoid saying Blood or Broken Brain, but nobody is fooled.