Winning the housing lottery

At the moment, I am entered in a lottery of sorts. I am on the waiting list for social housing for independent housing for people with mental health issues called The Haven, and I feel at times that it’s as daunting as hopefully winning Tattslotto. I know I stand a better than average chance of being housed there, but at times, it feels like a dream that won’t come true. Still, I approach it with a glass half full perspective.  Whatever happens, it is great that this sort of social housing is being built here in Victoria

Keep your fingers and toes crossed that I am one of the lucky ones who Mind approves for this housing.  It really would be an answered prayer 🙏🏽 and a big dream come true. I believe in the power of prayer 🙏🏽.

More time.

Do you need time?

Do I need time?  That is a good question.  Living on my own I often have too much time on my hands and sometimes miss human company, particularly at night I miss someone to share my day with.  Thank God for Lily as she is the best company ever.

When I move and begin my new life I hope to see more of my family and 🧡 friends. I will no longer have a steep set of stairs, so hopefully 🙏🏽 that will mean I  see more of my family,  as there will be no steep steps for them to climb.

I plan on being more active with my friends when I move 

Three years from now

What will your life be like in three years?

Three years from now I plan on living at The Haven, a peaceful quiet life where I can focus on my writing and enjoy the life I have created with Lily. I hope to still be a blogger and further explore my creative side.  I plan on regularly going op-shopping with Kathryn and Lani. I plan on regularly going out with friends for a bite to eat. I plan on spending more time with my family.

It’s Melbourne Cup weekend, so yes it’s raining.

I live in a Melbourne outer suburb and Melbourne is famous for having 4 seasons in one day.  Tomorrow is Melbourne Cup day and today so far the weather has been very wet and dismal.  Of course it’s raining 🌧 it’s Cup weekend. Nearly every early November day is wet, it’s springtime and the gardens need a good drink in this warmer weather.   I love this time of year even the really wet days, mother nature at her best..

Today is Susanna’s birthday 🎂 and although she has passed over I still celebrate her birthday in some small way. She is an angel up in heaven and she let God make it rain.   But it’s Melbourne so by the afternoon it could be sunny 🌞 warm and clear. I think God had a sense of humour when he created Melbourne’s climate. If you don’t like the Springtime weather, just wait a few hours and it will change.

Reading 📚 Nobody’s Girl.

Like so many other people in the world, I’m presently reading 📚  Nobody’s  Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre.  It would have to be one of the most important and powerful books I have ever read. I 100% understand the worldwide 🌐 interest in her story. It is however tragic that she didn’t live to see the impact of her life story. Within a week and a half of it being published, it has brought down the monarchy and after many years the story of Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew, has called the end as we know it for the now former Prince.

I think this book should be mandatory reading 📚 in secondary schools for all, particularly teenage girls to inform and educate young women about the not-so-nice ways of the world and of evil men.

Virginia is incredibly brave to recount the details of her life and I know she now has a special place in heaven where she is healed and can look out for her loved ones here on earth 🌎.

It will be interesting to see over the next coming few years the long-term impact of her words. I pray 🙏🏽 that her story contributes to great change in society here on earth.  I would love to meet Virginia in the next life and give her a big hug for being brave enough to tell her story.

To be a kid “at heart “.

What does it mean to be a kid at heart?

To be a kid at heart ❤️ means to approach life with a sense of awe, wonder and a touch of innocence that as we grow and age becomes wisdom. Finding joy and happiness in the little acts and gestures the world 🌎 brings into our lives and to have a loving heart and soul.  To have faith and believe in God with the same faith 🙏🏽 that as children we believed in Santa 🎅 Claus.

Three genie wishes

You have three magic genie wishes, what are you asking for?

My first genie wishes would be for world peace an end to all war and conflict in the world..

My second genie wish is for my loved ones, family, and friends 🧡 to live happy, prosperous lives.

My third wish is for my mother to have her wish granted that she lives to be 100 years old.  She is 84 at the moment.

My nephew James

Describe a family member.

My nephew James is my brother Peter’s oldest child.  He is handsome,  quietly spoken and very much the gentleman.  He is extremely intelligent and wise for his age. I recently celebrated his birthday with Peter’s family and it was a small, warm and genuinely nice event. I felt honoured to be invited

James is extremely intelligent and has made a career in mental health. To say I am proud of him would be an understatement.  I am hugely proud. I am quite sure that he has helped many people in his career.  He has grown up with me, experiencing my own mental health issues, and he has never judged me, just loving me, his Aunty Kaye.

I shed a tear when I think about the time I was at his sister Grace’s wedding.  I was sitting next to James and I said to him that the only time I miss having a partner is at 🍾 celebrations like weddings and parties.  James politely said that he would gladly be my partner for that celebration.   It was so lovely and thoughtful.  I have a bit of a sense of humour about it. I am his middle-aged, overweight,  mentally ill aunt, but he still loves me enough that he would gladly chaperone me to a wedding.  I feel like the most blessed happy Aunty on earth 🌎.. How beautiful.  What a lovely man James has become, that his parents raised him to be.