Posted by alexandra_k on February 21, 2014, at 23:15:34
In reply to classes start in 2 weeks, posted by alexandra_k on February 21, 2014, at 22:33:33
i've had some trouble organizing my finances... mostly because this is the first year they have moved to having a proper rent account and they keep undercharging me the 4 weeks rent in advance moving cost portion of that... and i need that to be charged properly so i can take the info to work and income and then they will pay it (and i pay them back at like $3 per week for the next few years)...
I don't know if they have been undercharging everyone... Or just me... But I feel awful bad that I haven't paid another part of the moving in costs already (when I was supposed to) -- but as I pointed out to them -- I can't pay the entirety of my moving in costs until you bill me for them properly!!!
It is just weirdly confusing... For a bunch of reasons...
And I feel bad... I feel bad that I have a bill that I didn't pay on time (hard to explain - I need to take both to work and income together so i actually need them to charge me more before i can pay any of it)... I feel bad that I went back on my word that i'd pay it by the 20th... I feel bad that I have money actually that I have been spending on other things (but I can't spend it on that for various reasons). I feel bad that I cancelled 2 appointments with work and income and that 2 meetings with them were worthless because i didn't have clear information to provide to them because i hadn't been billed properly!!!
I ordered my new phone!!! I am really struggling with the wait for it to arrive. (If I spent that money on accommodation costs the govt could prosecute me. Also if I spent that money on accommodation costs then I wouldn't get the (recoverable) assistance with accommodation costs and I wouldn't get a new phone). It is a damned shame that we don't have uni wireless at the hall... We are still plugged into the wall... I need to see how much the relative lack of my willingness to use data will affect things... I wonder if I will love my phone??
Someone showed me how to turn off the newsfeed settings from the mac games store which should stop their popups / spam. Which... Has gone a long way towards sorting out my faith in mac product. Just need to sort out the app store so I can update my computer again... If those things had happened several weeks ago I'd currently be waiting on an i-phone 4 or... possibly a 5c... too late...
Things are ticking along... It will be good for me for classes to start. Schedule.
The meeting with my new OT went pretty well. Time will tell. She's versed in DBT speak. Time will tell whether I need to learn her language or whether she is open to us developing our own... Time will tell. We did bean bag tapping and she loaned me a bean bag. You sort of hit your muscles with it - which makes them contract... Which, over time, helps them to relax. She said about how it is kinda like whisping horses and how they can retain muscle tone through injury... I have faint memories of this as a kid (when I was nuts about horses)... Probably it is my imagination but it feels crazy loud... Which dissuades me from doing it. time will tell how well we get along... I think... There is potential. A lot (from my perspective anyway) will depend on how willing / able she is to... See me. To be open to bottom-up data vs how much she needs to cling to what she has been taught with respect to skills training or whatever. I am... Cautiously optimistic. She said not to bean bag tap your stomach. And I said 'but that is what abs are for'. And she said 'squishing organs' and I said 'but that is what abs are for'. That flinching at being punched... Was how boxers got abs. That dropping a plate (a bit carefully to be sure) from about an inch away was a good way to get them to contract... She's a crossfitter... Lets see how well she can process... The 'stay away from your abs' was just the throw away statement on the info about beanbag tapping that she printed off... She's a crossfitter... She should know better... Lets see if she can adapt.
I got a speed skipping rope. It is too fast for me. God dammit. And new compression tights (hurry up and arrive already!). The latter... Was a splurge. When my last lot (of this brand) died I cried. And cried and cried. This is hard(ish to explain)... Most tights like to camel toe. These ones don't. Because they cling good to your legs and don't tend to ride up that way. With my last lot I'd pull them up by... Pulling. Which reluctantly stretched them... So after a few years (actually more like 4 I think) of that they did rip around the middle seam... I'll be more careful with this next pair... But they gave me pretty good wear, really. I remember... Being so very sad about throwing them away because I knew I'd probably not be able to afford any more... Like... Forever, or something. So getting these is huge. We will see how I like them. I... Sort of have the means to buy more if these work out.
Before... I had a couple pairs of these I basically wore as a second skin... Uh... Always. Not for sleeping... But always aside from that. You can handwash them and they dry overnight - or they did in canberra, anyway, but probably not here with the moisture in the air. If they work out I'll invest in a few pairs... Helps hold me together. Feel... Decent. Hard to explain. Perhaps I'll go back to that again.If all goes well maybe i'll live in these forever. These and scrubs and hobo gear. F*ck yeah.
They make them with pretty black or red or blue or purple accent now. Even though the accent peels off within the first three months ahahahahahaha. Or actually maybe it won't given that I handwash everything now (not sure when I became such a cheap skate but $4 for a load of washing is criminal).
Hrm.
Best thing about my postcode: Fast shipping. Hells yeah!
Worst thing about my postcode: I think I need a water filter. I'm fairly sure we are drinking the water I used to pee in as a kid (Waikato River) bleh. And it has so many signs in it about not to drink it. Still... In Queensland they are drinking sewerage (and growing rice) I hear...
It tastes... Chalky. Alkaline? A little lemon helps freshen / brighten it somehow but it is still odd water...
Ditto for hair care with my hair feeling... stringy? squeeky?
I've finally found a clothes detergent that softens my clothing and freshens it (which is quite the feat for old gym gear)... (An eco / plant based one with lemon and aloe vera)...
It is to do with acidity / alkilinity - yeah?? That is why black coffee tastes different to lates... Milk fat makes it less acid. And that is why trim milk tastes bitter to me - not so much less acid.
Yes??
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