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   Chicken :cqlgusu: (lookitmychicken@blorbo.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 06:43:59 JST Chicken :cqlgusu:

   If everything goes according to plan, this afternoon I will have:

   - a mortgage
   - an apartment

   It's hard to believe this is actually happening.

   I've been a financial screw-up for most of my life, not helped by single parenthood and long stretches of disability-enforced downtime.

   But I'm privileged to have family members with their shit together, who have helped me out with this.

   And now I have a job I love, working with people I love, earning enough to service a mortgage.

   Feeling blessed.

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     Chicken :cqlgusu: (lookitmychicken@blorbo.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 06:46:35 JST Chicken :cqlgusu:

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     Also having twinges of guilt about being blessed when housing security is shit in Australia right now, and renters are being screwed.

     I believe that everyone deserves secure, affordable housing.

     I can't make it happen for everyone.

     But I have a window of opportunity to make it happen for me, and I'm taking it.

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     whim :hamsterdance: (whimwitch@blorbo.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 06:47:52 JST whim :hamsterdance:

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     @lookitmychicken congratulations!!!