My mother got put back on her disability benefits and now I'm hunting down apartments for us to live in to get out of a bad housing situation that we were stuck in because it was cheap and we only had one income.

Got two viewings this week.

My mother's internal review went through and she not only is going back on disability, but because the decision to kick her off was a wrong decision, they're giving her almost a year's worth of backpay.

Things this means:

• We can actually move to a place without a landlord and her son living in it, giving us tenant rights and the ability to communicate with a landlord without worrying we're going to get evicted
• We can even afford movers
• We might not have to go to a food bank anymore
• We can now budget things instead of being like "okay that goes to rent, that goes to debt, and anything leftover is groceries"
• I don't have to hunt for a job while physically and mentally incapable of doing one right now

I'm honestly so thrilled my head hurts.

No bonus points - Air fryer potatoes with oil on it to make it nice and crispy

Yes bonus points - black bean burgers. It's breadcrumbs, warmed black beans that got cooled down, and an egg to make it stick together. That's healthy.

KDE Connect means that I can ping my phone that's usually presumably somewhere behind my bed or on a counter somewhere, without having to sheepishly walk to the nearest person and ask "can you call my phone I lost it :c"

Sally's Baking Addiction - really enjoy the pumpkin bread. might make it again once pumpkin is in season once more. Budget Bytes Many of the recipes are adaptable to Southern Ontario prices. Add a few dollars for estimation and you're golden. Cooking On a Bootstrap - I really like the concept of it, but I haven't quite made any recipes just yet.

Definitely not dissing pancake mix. That there is the holy baking mix. My mother likes to make them in cupcakes cups in the microwave and eat them later.

(I will however insist that the specific brand of canned peas that pop up where I live are really gross)

Also, won't lie, it is fascinating to meet another person who eats raw noodles out of the box. I thought that was just me!!!

The black beans sound yummy and so does that fried rice. Thank you for commenting with your recipes!

I notice injustice, I just don't often do anything about it because of my anxiety disorder, which makes me cry myself to sleep for six hours.

Oh good timing! I was trying to install Jellyfin and I've been having....issues trying to set it up without Reddit, lmfao.

I've instinctively typed in "how do i do so-and-so reddit" in my search like a fool a few times, but I'm pretty sure I'm staying on Beehaw for now. It's nice. It's comfy. I've only seen both literal and figurative unwanted dicks like, one time. It be a winner in my books.

Hi everyone! I am a person with mental disorders, Asthma, prediabetes, and the developing of thyroid issues who has been put on disability benefits due to my inability to find and or maintain work. If anyone ever has any questions about Ontario's disability support program, feel free to ask me and I'll try my best to help out. I am not a social worker but I have had to grudgingly read a lot of those horrible, horrible documents and rules relating to ODSP in my experience with them.

By the way, just a reminder to my fellow Canadians that there's supposed to be a federal-wide disability benefit program being introduced one day in the distant future. It's not happening now, but it received "yes" from pretty much everyone and finished it's third reading back in May. I am sadly not as politically knowledgeable as most people, so I don't know "wtf does that even mean", but it's apparently good news! Yeah!

Surprisingly, I installed Calibre on Linux and for some reason it just looks...better on Linux? Not sure if its because it opened up in default dark mode or what, but it doesn't look as ugly when I'm using it on Pop_OS. Feels at home, really.

I will say its definitely a beast. I've used it a few times but I never really went in depth with it's features. I'm definitely liking the bulk tag editing, the shop search (I've been looking for a way to search DRM-free books and it has it!), and the default tags. The last one is mainly because I think getting a tag called "mentally ill women" for The Yellow Wallpaper is a little funny.

It took me a few seconds to figure out what the heck just popped up on the side of my screen, haha! Thank you for the potatoes.

Out of curiosity do you find that neocities is easy to set up for a beginner? I'd like to get into blogging that I don't have to worry about getting comments on. Something where I can just ramble on a bit about how things went that day, what I learned, and then post and never touch it unless I want to reread that day's entry.