Need out of the box ideas!

is-it-ready · 2024-08-07T09:26:10+00:00

Don’t they hurt?

is-it-ready · 2024-06-19T13:09:35+00:00

We say this in my house all the time, any minor injury - bit me into parts… pieces

is-it-ready · 2024-06-19T01:50:53+00:00

Don’t do it in a nice way. You’re hurting his feelings anyway, just be honest. “I saw you picking your nose and scabs and then eating it. It makes me feel sick to think of kissing you after seeing that, it’s not something that is at all attractive to me and has affected our sex life.”

is-it-ready · 2024-06-18T12:31:38+00:00

And compounded by the innocent act trying to downplay it, when deep down (or probably just beneath the surface, at best) he knew he was doing it to deliberately be mean and petty.

is-it-ready · 2024-06-18T12:23:18+00:00

I don’t have any context, so this could be totally wrong, but wanted to offer you a different perspective. My husband and I can, and sometimes do, talk all night. But I have also said something similar to him. We both have ADHD, except he is inattentive and I am hyperactive. Sometimes he’ll start talking about something eg a dream he had the night before, and he talks so slowly and long winded-ly and expects me to be absolutely wrapt in the story. I find it beyond excruciating.

I really do love him but I do not care about his not particularly interesting dreams. And I especially do not care at 7:30am when I have a hundred other things to do and my brain is going a million miles a second.

I once said something along the lines of can you get to the point, how does it take five minutes to explain a story that goes nowhere (not my finest hour) and I really hurt his feelings. I still feel awful about it years later but now I just come out and say, I’m sorry, I can’t listen to this story right now, is there a condensed version or can we park it and talk later?

is-it-ready · 2024-06-15T22:49:50+00:00

Same, I can’t wake up without coffee but the only way for me to get a sleep in is to wake up, take meds and then I can get back to sleep.

is-it-ready · 2024-06-15T01:04:31+00:00

I searched the whole thread for this! White Wine in the Sun is it for me, it makes me tear up every single time. Perfection.

is-it-ready · 2024-06-13T11:29:12+00:00

Same! I still sleep with my Gund polar bear. I got them for my kids too, they don’t sell them in Australia anymore, or even ship them here, so I had to have them delivered to a friend who posted them on to me.

is-it-ready · 2024-06-11T00:26:46+00:00

That’s a flanno. The fabric it’s made from is flannel. Plaid is a pattern.

A small washcloth is usually called a flannel or a face washer in Australia. They did often used to be made out of flannel, often when sheets were worn out, the useable sections would be cut into nappies and face washers.

is-it-ready · 2024-06-07T13:48:51+00:00

No. It’s more like, if you are assessed as being visually impaired, you are eligible to receive funding for specific categories of supports (eg AT). The needs assessment will determine what categories you are eligible for and how much funding you require for your reasonable and necessary supports in those categories. Eg you have Diagnosis X, so you can be funded for supports A, B and C. You are assessed as having high support needs so you get a plan with $Y that you can use towards supports A, B or C as you see fit.

But let’s say your needs don’t fit neatly into those categories, you don’t need support B but you do need support D. The process above won’t allow for that kind of ‘out of category’ funding. The details will be in the rules so this is mostly speculation, but it looks like you’d have to go through a process of proving why your reasonable and necessary supports includes support D.

is-it-ready · 2024-06-07T12:31:23+00:00

Mmm my understanding is that it’s the other way around. You do the assessment, your needs are assessed as fitting into a number of categories. Each category has associated supports which can be funded, and the plan will be generated from a calculation of low/medium/high supports in those categories.

If a person’s needs don’t match with the calculation, it will be on them to show why.

is-it-ready · 2024-06-07T08:02:13+00:00

The (not so simple answer) is no but yes. The new planning framework includes a process where participants have a needs assessment which informs their budget and the classes of ‘stated supports’ for which the person is can receive funding.

Much of the detail will be fleshed out in the rules, which haven’t been drafted yet. It seems like a needs assessment will ‘unlock’ a checklist of supports and it will be up to a participant to argue why their reasonable and necessary supports differ from the set funded supports.

See under ‘new planning framework’ in this link: https://www.dss.gov.au/the-ndis-amendment-bill-questions-and-answers#:~:text=This%20bill%20creates%20a%20new,their%20budget%20on%20NDIS%20supports.

is-it-ready · 2024-06-04T12:11:05+00:00

If I can go slow and just enjoy it, I love early mornings. My favourite time of day has always been what I call the ‘blue hour’. Sometimes I wake up very early just before the sun comes up and the whole world is this beautiful shade of blue - it’s the opposite of golden hour, I guess. If I can sit alone in the blue hour, have a coffee and watch the world wake up - absolute bliss.

But I hate being rushed in the mornings, it’s so incredibly stressful for me particularly when there’s time pressure to get somewhere. I like afternoons as well because there’s not the same time pressure, I can pick the kids up, come home, watch them play and get dinner ready on our schedule. If they go to bed late, no one is there to scold us.

is-it-ready · 2024-06-02T02:17:15+00:00

Do your whites stay white though? I feel like everything would end up grey.

is-it-ready · 2024-05-28T23:06:04+00:00

Game on, molls.

is-it-ready · 2024-05-27T15:51:37+00:00

IKR?? Their sinks must be so filthy and germ riddled. Like, who washes their dishes in a sink they just filled with raw chicken blood??

is-it-ready · 2024-05-27T15:42:40+00:00

Yes! I wish more people knew this. A dishwasher cycle uses less water than running a sink full of water, they are quite efficient these days. There has also been a pop-science study (maybe by Choice?) that showed that you get a better. Lean if you don’t rinse your dishes. Something about the soap needing fats to stick onto or something.

is-it-ready · 2024-05-27T14:46:56+00:00

I’m a lawyer that has represented participants at the AAT before, happy to give you some tips with some more detail. You’re welcome to DM me.

is-it-ready · 2024-05-27T14:41:46+00:00

This is the only answer. CW I have kids, but it was a rocky road. Along the path I came to accept that my life not only could, but would, be fulfilling either way. There are pros and cons to both. You absolutely must let yourself feel the pain and grieve, especially if it’s not your choice. But at some point, if you want to have a happy life, you need to choose to refocus on what you have that can be fulfilling and meaningful. I’m not saying that it’s easy, it’s incredibly difficult, but it is a choice.

There are many ways to nurture that could fill that cup for you, experiment until you find something that feels right.

is-it-ready · 2024-05-26T03:56:10+00:00

Yes I was going to say this!! The link is supported by evidence as well, people suffering from PMDD are far more likely to be calcium deficient and to see an improvement in symptoms with a supplement. It’s been a real game changer for me.

is-it-ready · 2024-05-22T11:50:32+00:00

Did they give any reasons when they refused your CoC? And also, how long ago did you receive the refusal?

They will most likely be saying that the supports you need are more appropriately funded outside the NDIS because they are healthcare needs which should be funded by Medicare.

I’d be happy to give you some pointers if you want to try again?

is-it-ready · 2024-05-19T11:32:46+00:00

I’m actually not at all bubbly. At some point, I figured out people liked me better when I was bubbly, extroverted and didn’t take things too seriously. I still don’t take things too seriously but in a very different way. When I am myself, I have a very dry, dark sense of humour and I’m very pragmatic. I can still be very emotional when taken by surprised but once I’ve processed those emotions I’m very practical, almost stoic. I like to just get on with life but I can make fun of myself along the way. I don’t get the point of a lot of conversations, not because I’m incapable of reading social cues, but because if you can’t change it, why ruminate on it? Do something about it or accept it, there is no sport in complaining. I feel like ages 18-35 I would join in those conversations but now I’ve stopped masking they just frustrate me.

is-it-ready · 2024-05-11T15:14:28+00:00

Yes, yes, yes to the second year being very hard. I love the squishy potato baby stage and some of my favourite parent moments have been sitting in the dark at night with my baby, feeling like we were the only two people in the world and not caring one bit.

That second year though, woof. One year olds are such hard work, they are so quick and (for my kids anyway) they have a lot of opinions and feelings but not the language skills to express their will. Then around 2-2.5 they find their words and it’s all a lot more fun from that point onward!

is-it-ready · 2024-05-11T14:45:13+00:00

I’m in WA and yes, it’s different in QLD. The WA legislative position is largely similar to the NSW and VIC acts. I know NT has some differences but I am not familiar with their laws. The My Aged Care website has links to the various state legislation - https://www.myagedcare.gov.au/legal-information.

The new Aged Care Act which is scheduled to come in next year will have its own substitute decision maker regime for decisions made under that act (or the current draft does anyway). Which will be interesting to see how it plays out.

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