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hello @rav3n 😎

awww @Cuddlebear , have been thinking of you soo much my friend , sorry it has been so hard , hope everything settles down soon xx

sitting with you

@rav3n Thank you for understanding and sitting with me. I see my psychologist Friday week and support worker for 3 hours on Friday.

Have you had a good week?

Hello @Cuddlebear + @rav3n @Shaz51

I'm glad to hear you've got the place and have moved in but gosh I hope you can settle comfortably. Sounds like it's much smaller and in need of repairs. How's your dog settling?

how's your wednesday going? @Shaz51

@Cuddlebear i'm glad you get to see them both soon, hopefully your support worker can help you with settling in a bit too. have you had a chance to do something nice for yourself today? i know it's hard to show self-compassion when things are rough, but you do deserve it, especially for powering through all these changes!

my week's been alright so far, thanks for asking! went shopping to get my sis a birthday gift, and realised i forgot to buy a birthday card so i'll have to go shops again tomorrow.

i'll be fixing up a cuppa soon, will you both be having one too? @Cuddlebear @Shaz51

hey @Dimity, nice to see ya around! how are you going?

Hi @rav3n I'm OK thanks, been juggling a few stressful things lately. Nice to see you.

@Dimity Yes it has been so difficult. My seeing guide dog is happy cause he’s got me here 🙂 As long as I’m with him he’s very happy lol.

I can’t shower here I can’t slide the shower door it’s faulty and very old. There’s a bunch of urgent repairs and I’m just too overwhelmed by it all. I’m legally blind and this is just a nightmare. NDIS only finds 9 hours a week of support work. Not enough to help me and not enough room to have my guide dog on harness to guide me inside. But at least there’s a roof over our heads.

Gosh @Cuddlebear a nightmare indeed. I trust the agent prepared a condition report before you moved in. Did they say whether they're amenable to repairs? I hope you won't have to battle them.

I own this place but learnt last week there's a structural problem I'll have to have checked. There's a lot of renovations abd minor repairs I've been putting off.

hope that things get lighter for you @Dimity

Oh @Cuddlebear just reading more details here about the additional stress of the place needing repairs and oh my gosh she shower door not dodgy too?! 😮 I honestly don't understand how a landlord - or their rental agent! - can rent out a place that needs fundamental repairs. I feel they should repair it prior to a tennant moving/paying. And I say that as someone who has just been doing that to my apartment that I'm about to rent out (because I needed to move back into my parents house) - I could not in good conscious rent out my apartment before getting the flooring and walls repaired, or even replacing the ripped sheer-curtain!

I hope you are able to type out a big list of all the urgent repairs and all the non-urgent-but-required repairs to send to the rental agent to get addressed ASAP. I feel that not being able to shower is in the fairly-urgent-repairs category.

I really hope your support worker is able to help you address the most impacting areas of clutter or unpacking or furtniture-placement needing adjustment.

This might sound silly, but I am a very daggy but practical person 😅, would putting some foam or bubble wrap on the furtniture/bench corners until you are used to the layout help reduce the injury from bumping into them?

My family and some others I know do this whenever there is an inconvenient corner we keep hitting ourselves on 😅, or an overhang for our heads to whack.

How long do you think it usually takes you to learn a new furniture/house layout?

(I have a funny story about this a friend told me as a teen if you need a laugh.)