My Mosaic

[Bow]

Ahhh all the art supplies @Jynx  i hope you rediscover some forgotten gems! Do you usually create by yourself or do you have mates that come over and you create stuff together? 

I love my arts and craft group for that. I mostly just sit quietly, but it’s nice to be in that atmosphere of creating things together and watching others learn and use their creativity. I’m leading a craft next week. And I volunteered today to do another one in December. 

yes I think that makes a little more sense. Thank you! Having my agency taken away has been such a huge thing for me over the last couple of years, so yes the way this pdoc spoke was really hard. 

[Jynx]

@Bow I think it depends on the project!! But mostly I do enjoy the company, I think it helps my creative energy! It's nice to be able to ask for some ideas and inspo along the way too, and it's a perfect way to share space without needing to always be chatting. Sometimes it's soooo nice to just sit and make cool art in silence together 😊

Oh that's nifty as!! What craft are you leading the group on? That sounds so wholesome! 😊

Yeah absolutely hun, you could win an award for 'Most mucked about by the MH system' I reckon. Which would be funny if it wasn't so rage inducing.   

[Bow]

That sounds really nice @Jynx  i enjoy sitting down with my daughter and doing some craft projects. I love watching what she creates, watching her skills develop …. And then leaving me with the mess to clean up! 😂 I’m sure we will do some crafting together while mum is away. 

I got a heap of really cheap wooden Christmas decorations online. Ordered a few different shapes and we will paint them next week. The week in December we will do watercolour Christmas cards. Got a couple of different ideas that should be easy for folks to do. 

Oh for sure… funny! But so grrrr. 

I was sharing about my medications woes at my schema group yesterday and how my inner critic has fed off that and some of the things that it has screamed at me were ‘nobody cares’, ‘ you don’t deserve help’ and ‘ it’s happened again it must be you’. And then we worked at writing down some healthy adult responses and the facilitator/my old psych pipes up and says ‘the health system is fucked’. Which… (coming from my healthy adult self) is actually the absolute truth and what this is solely all about. 

anyways not completely sure where I was going with that. But it’s all very rage inducing 

[Jynx]

@Bow aww haha that is so cute!! My mum is super artistic too, and we used to have little crafternoons together!! I think it really helped me in developing my own creative flow hehe so your D is probably gonna be the same! Can't wait to hear about what you create together 😍

And can't wait to hear how the lil workshops go! How splendid, how festive, I love! 🎄🌟

Oh wow, it sounds like something clicked for you! I can see why you like this psych so much! I hope it gives you some new ways of reassuring your inner critic, externalise and place the blame where it belongs, ya know?

Oh wow, time has flown! Always does when I'm caught up chatting teehee. You got anything on tomorrow? I think I will be spending the time before work making lemonade! My neighbour's lemon tree droops over my fence, I think I collected nearly 100 lemons off it the other day! I gave half away, then juiced all 43 (yes I counted) of the ones I kept for myself. By hand. I sure do make some choices don't I... 🤣

[Eve7]

Good Morning @Bow', I'm just dropping in to say what a wonderful job you did yesterday advocating for yourself under such difficult circumstances. You are a champion role model to us all but mostly to yourself.

I hope today is amazing xox

[Snowie]

Hi @Bow 

I think you had your art group on today. If so I hope it is going well

💕

[Bow]

Aww thanks @Eve7  i appreciate your kind words. 

hey @Snowie 👋 yes I had my arts and craft group today. It was cut a bit short today though due to staff shortages. But I finished my calendar I was making for a friend and also made a few cards. 

I agreed to start eating breakfast today and an up and go was a back up. My SW called and checked in on me and cause I hadn’t had it she made me bring it to group and nagged me through group to drink it. It was hard 😩

currently trying to get through dinner. 

Had a shitty end to the day. Our landlord and real estate is a total %#+€. Flat out refusing to do any repairs and maintenance but pushing to increase our rent. And cause I didn’t reply to their email they sent yesterday they threatened to terminate our lease if I didn’t reply immediately this afternoon. @Jynx  This is the kind of adulting I really struggle with. Doesn’t help that they are jerks to deal with. 

[Jynx]

@Bow oh what that's such BS!! Do you have a VCAT equivalent up where you are? Or a renters union? You could join these guys if you need help advocating!! Renters and Housing Union Australia

Go you, you can do it, smash that dinner! Show it who's boss! 🤣🤣

Sucks your crafty group was cut short, you got a creative itch needs scratching now?

[Bow]

Yeah we have those kinda places here @Jynx  but we are scared that if we go and contact places like that that they will put the rent up even more. It is a horrible situation to be in. This house is so good for us, like the different spaces. Be hard to find something like it. So we basically just have to put up with everything. 

I managed some dinner. Just feel sick now 😩 what are you having for dinner tonight? 

yeah I had some crafty itches when I left group, had a bit of time before D was due home so set myself up on my desk and started some… but then my friend stopped by. It was nice to see her and good to chat… but I wanted to craft! 

oh and I dropped my script off at the chemist today…. With fingers crossed I handed it over. She went and checked it on the computer and it was fine! So I’m good now for about 6mths! 

[Jynx]

@Bow Totally understandable fear hun, landlords can be so predatory! However, your landlord/RE agency don't need to know you're contacting them!! I don't know the laws exactly but pretty sure it's illegal to use rent increases as coercion. It might be helpful to at least know your rights and what you can actually do to navigate this! And then if it feels too risky to get them to intervene you don't have to fully involve them. 

I have one last serving of dahl with some garlic naan! Hmm means I gotta go shopping tomorrow! What to cook what to cook...

Fiddlesticks and humbug, so many interruptions! Bow needs her crafting hours! Teehee, but glad you got to see your friend! 

Oh what relief!! I'm so stoked for you hun, I hope it's a weight off!