Thank you… especially when he was so loud and had such a big personality. We have an almost 14y/o Kelpie who is super chill and very quiet so the little dog’s absence is very noticeable. We have discovered the Kelpie only barked because the Pom instigated it lol. The postie can now enter undetected.

Thank you so true. He was the life of the party - like the very loud, first time wasted kind of mate who you love anyway 😊

Thank you… He was very cute. He got a thrill out of being a pest and loved a good prank, especially involving toilet paper and underpants ☺️ our furry friends could live our entire lives and if still wouldn’t be enough. We were lucky to have this little guy in our lives for almost 12 years. He only did things he wanted to do so we seek a bit of solace in knowing he only would have chosen this moment because he was ready ❤️

That spiral of self sabotage is a real dark and slippery one. Especially with brains that gravitate towards self destruction to deal with overwhelming emotions such as stuff dredged up after therapy. But I agree, others have gotta draw a line at people going out of the way to get sucked into that vortex, especially when such actions directly impact the safety and welfare of dependents. Guy needs to be more forthright about his tendencies and get help on how to hold space after therapy/emotional spirals.

Alcohol really messes your brain up in ways it is really hard to see when being influenced by it. I’m at about 18 months sober, and in hindsight I can really see how much of my depression and other problems was being caused by the alcohol, but at the time I really could not see it. So i spent years stuck in this endless spiral of drinking to relieve the depression and anxiety, which was being mostly fueled by the alcohol. I knew I should stop drinking, but trying to deal with the depression without it seemed impossible.

I only managed to stop because I told myself it was temporary - just a few weeks so I didn’t have the covid vaccine side effects at the same time, then a couple of weeks more because it was nearly Christmas and I didn’t want to be hungover at the family gathering. Then I aimed for three months because some articles said that’s how long it took to reverse most of the damage of long term drinking. I guess they were right, because by then I was not feeling like I needed to drink to deal with things.

Manifest that for me, and I’ll think of something nice to gift you 😉😅

I wish we were closer, but I’m an only child and they are the eldest of 3 siblings. So they’re close to each other, tho the middle one just moved interstate. We’re the kids of 2 of 4 siblings as well, so Sunday lunch at nanandopas has always had aunts, uncle, and a subset of cousins.

I do see them individually, as mates, occasionally. This is one of those occasions.

Yeah. I rarely see then but it only used to be every so often so I’m not sure what it would have been like to have been really close with family.

Maybe not with my cousins specifically but maybe it would have been nice to have spent more time with some members of my family doing things.

Yeee i try to live by that, but the depression usually tips it over to “i am the worst”.

But it’s a bastard-man, and a liar, hahah

I’m a fan of Nathan Fillion. Does that count?

Big Firefly/Serenity fan. Huge. Not a fan of Joss, just most of the media he stuck his fingers into/created lol

That, and elizabeth st Hungry Jacks. Or swanston and elizabeth anytime during the AMs on a Friday and Saturday night 😅

It has done well, and you too. Thank you

Those racist people who complain that immigrants and First Australians get privileges and all the government money

but when challenged, when asked if they would swap places, they say no.

God, isn’t the the truth. Everyone has a soap box (and I realise the irony give my complaint), and seems like complaining about certain things while doing absolutely nothing about it is not only a right but a responsibility.

I need to get myself out of the habit of defaulting to Reddit. I use it for some news sources on particular areas I love, but ultimately maybe 12% of the content is useful while the rest is just rage bait, or click bait, or our-right false information. If others want to keep using Reddit then fine, but I really need to take a good hard look at what benefit I actually get from it.

I bought Dave the Diver last night and was having a blast with it. I switched over to Rimworld after a spell and had more fun. Then I realised I’m having so much fun with these more “indie” titles, and that things like Diablo IV are purely FOMO when it comes to wanting the game. I think it’s an exercise in avoiding the online hype (although in saying that, holy shit Baldurs Gate 3 looks fucking incredible).

Also, fuck MXs. The day they became an industry standard was the day AAA videogames took a turn for the worse.

… a slimy one at that

😂 Ay, some penis are female hahaha

Huge fan personally

The after taste wasn’t bad but the first bit was like dried grass clippings.

Yeah nah. It wasn’t good.

Thanks hongo, I appreciate it

I hope so. I got to pick out all new furniture for this place, so I’m not taking the furniture from my current place. I also get 2 bedrooms rather than just 1, though they are on the smaller side. I think it should fit though

Oh, please don’t apologise. It’s okay. A small part of the reason why I do share my updates here is to educate people a little, and I could yammer on about this for the rest of the night. I’m not sure exactly which of my posts you’ve seen, and how much you already know about the system, so forgive me if I say some things you already know

Basically I currently live in residential care, so rather than living with my parents I live in state care (it’s essentially a modernised and lower capacity version of an orphanage). There are workers here 24/7 who do most things, cooking, cleaning, washing, dishes, etc, etc.

Lead tenant is for people in residential (or in some cases, kinship/foster care) care 16+ to essentially act as a transition from residential care (where everything is done for you) and total independence (18, when most support ceases). There’s a “lead tenant” (although some organisations just call them “mentors”, but I call them both) who are volunteers that live there and are supposed to guide/mentor you to build independence. They are more like helpful roommates, rather than full on workers. Dinner, washing, dishes and the rest are all left up to resident.

Technically lead tenant is optional, although as soon as I brought it up, they’d already started packing my bags (metaphorically). What I meant from being forced to move before I was ready was essentially just the above. The first meeting I had with the lead tenant program leader was on the 14th of June, and on the 2nd meeting a week later I was told CP wanted me in there by the 14th of July. 3rd meeting, I was sick, and I couldn’t make it. I asked for an extension until at least the 1st of August, and they got back to me saying that the best they would do was the 24th of July. I didn’t end up seeing the house until a couple of weeks ago. It also wasn’t really about the date, more about my control over the situation being taken

Hope this helps, let me know if you had anymore questions

It took me waay to long in life to realise how clever the naming of Movicol^© is.

You need to serve more fibre in breakfasts.