Raffy - thanks. yeh she is not worth wasting time worrying about. glad to have her gone from my facebook

AFM: happy happy happy now! centrelink totally made my day. I rang them to apply for parenting payment and she informed me that I'll get $470 backpay baby bonus and tax benefit on MONDAY, followed by my usual newstart payment (while parenting payment claim is being processed) which has gone up by another $40 since I now have a dependent child on TUESDAY, and then another $296 on WEDNESDAY for my first regular tax benefit payment.
woohoo. did not expect it to happen so quickly!!

now I have no stress over money!! I can afford to do EVERYTHING I wanted to do, pay my bills, not have to cancel my layby, return to my house now that I can afford some food. I can finally afford to sign up for roadside assistance, which i worry about every time I drive to bendigo because it would suck not having it and breaking down.. and I can finally get my car serviced (its 3000km overdue and badly needs a wheel alignment). and I can afford to get the twinkletoes plaster cast thing done now too

its like an early xmas present. I seriously thought it would be like a month before they paid me anything!!