badbastion

We just got back from my hometown, and it was great to see my family again. Stressful for two people used to being largely by themselves to spend a week on a family of five's couches, but really great to see them still :)

It looks like we got an apartment! I'm 99% sure - just waiting for the complaince report to come back, which takes a few days, but since we didn't lie about anything and had all the paperwork done fully then it's mostly a formality, seems like. They've already told us we could move in on May 9th as long as the report comes back fine. We may be able to get in earlier, on the 1st. Yay!

We also got to see some of our old friends while we were there. It was so strange, and so wonderful, to actually be around friends. We live in a small retirement community (10,000 people, about 75% of them over 65) and we haven't been able to make friends in the three or so years we've been here.

EVEN BETTER, when we move, we'll be away from this terrible, dangerous, precarious living situation we're in. Just thinking about being in Texarkana again makes me feel FREE, which is something I'd never thought it would when we moved away years ago. I know a change in latitude doesn't always mean a change in attitude, but in this case, I think it will. I think that being around loved ones and friends, and in a town where my boyfriend might actually be able to get a job, and in an area with better mental health & social services, and away from here, is going to help both of us a lot. I worry about getting my hopes up, but I think the weight of our depression and anxiety is going to lighten quite a bit. I might even be able to draw again, lol.

I'm going to thank you all again, and I'm not going to stop being grateful. Without your help, we couldn't have made the trip to find the apartment, and we wouldn't have had the security deposit to hold the apartment, and we wouldn't have had the money for the pet deposit, which was stressing me out beyond what was rational. So we get to keep our little guys! \o/ We're gonna be squeaking by on the money, but oh man, I don't even care if we're broke as hell. We're going to get out of here.

We couldn't have done it without your donations, and I really do believe it was your good thoughts and positive energy that put us in the right place at the right time to have the apartment manager who turned us down be the kind lady who referred us to the low-income, tax-credit housing apartments where we ended up, and then to find the helpful lady at the desk who explained very clearly everything we'd need to have our application processed in as stress-free a manner as possible. I am babbling, but thank you, thank you, thank you <3

I've had a few inquiries about whether you can use paypal to donate on the GoFundMe site, and the answer is that you can't.

But if you still want to help, you can send money to my paypal with the email duckducknoose@gmail.com, and I can mark it down as an offline donation of it on my GoFundMe page as counting toward the total raised. It would help out a lot, either way.

We'll be taking the trip on Monday to try to find a place to rent, and it would be really great if we had the money to put down a deposit on the spot, in case we find something while we're there. We're getting pretty close, and even a dollar or two would help. Thank you for reading, and thanks again to everyone who's helped out so far!

My boyfriend and I are in a really rough living situation, and we're trying to get out of it. We want to move back to my hometown across the state from where we live now, so that I can be around my family and better mental health care and social resources. I'm planning to drive there next week to look at apartments/fill out/turn in applications. However, the gas money is going to make my grocery budget pretty much nil. I'm disabled and on a low fixed income, so we barely get by as it is.

Family's going to try to help with some of the moving costs, but they're at poverty level and won't be able to help much. I don't really even want to think about how we'll be able to afford this.

I hate asking for help, but I don't know what else to do right now. Please help.

If you could spare any money to help me out, please send it to me through paypal with the email duckducknoose@gmail.com.

If you'd rather, you can send a WalMart ecard that I can use for groceries. You can do that online here, and you can use the same email address as above.

Any amount would make a difference. I wish I could do something to give back, but right now I can't. I promise that I'd be incredibly grateful if you could help, and that it would all go to a good cause, and that I'd find a way to pay it forward when I'm in a position to do so.

If you don't have the extra money, any kind of positive energy or internet hugs you could send me way would also be appreciated.

Thanks for reading <3

So, the weather outside is frightful, lol. I'm sure a lot of you are experiencing this ice storm thing, and I hope everyone's safe! I'm surprised we haven't lost power or internet, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed through this next bit of ice coming in tomorrow.

I'm already going stir-crazy, though. I'm used to taking a few walks a day, at least, trying to do 5 or more miles a day. But now I'm just stuck inside, with my plenty of food and water and electricity and internet, poor me, haha. I probably won't be able to get out until Tuesday or Wednesday.

Art block! is kind of killing me. If I could art, I wouldn't be so frustrated. Or maybe it's the other way around; it often is. I was going to livestream tonight, but earlier today I had my tablet out and I just kind of drew blobs on it, then pushed it away in disgust. So I'd prefer to not do that in front of an audience, lol.

I have been podficcing, though :) I ordered a new mic from Amazon, and it was really shitty, but i was so ready to record things that I got out my old mic and found an excellent story to work on. I already recorded it once, but I rushed it and it was painfully obvious (my mushmouth can be hilarious, but not so much if you can't even understand the words that are coming out of my mouth.) So I'm recording it again, and I have the first part done, and I'm MUCH happier with it now. I'm sure the first read-through didn't hurt, what with getting me familiar with the fic. I'll probably record the second part tomorrow. My first longfic!

I can't wait to get my art mojo back though, because I have a commission I need to finish and some RBB art to work on soon, plus I just love to DRAAAAAW and it makes me happy.

So how are you guys doing? Tell me things. tell me your favorite podfics, tell me what you're doing to not be bored in all this terrible weather, link me to a short fic to try to record, tell me your favorite current fics! I know spn_j2_bb had a lot of great ones, and I was too busy moving to really pay attention to much.

In short, I'm boooooored, talk to me! haha

Thank you so much for the happy birthday wishes! I got some lovely PMs and emails and v-gifts, and even a wonderful gift fic :D  I think I replied to everybody individually already, but if someone slipped through the cracks, come and thump me for it, deal?

I had a super day. I had steak for lunch (and I'm about to go heat up the leftovers in a few minutes to eat with hannibal :D) and delicious cake + cupcakes, since we just have one small baking pan and a 12-muffin sheet. I watched some of X-Men First Class, which I'd never gotten around to, and I had some nice naps, then I watched Mama by myself at two in the morning. \o/

I was also really, ridiculously lucky and got some awesome gifts.


NEW TABLET :o My mother-in-law-ish (not married) got it for me a week or so ago as an early b-day present, so I'm counting it :D I'm still trying to get used to the new feel and layout of it, but I'm so excited about it! Then my bf got me the other stuff, and with the addition of the new box set I've got S1-4 of SPN (and the only one I'll want after that is 5, and MAAYYYBE 6, just b/c I loved soulless!Sam so much.) Also new ipod, which has 16 times the memory of the one I won at work 7 years ago, lol. I look forward to filling that sucker up with all the music and ebooks and podfics that'll fit, instead of having to listen to a few chapters, delete them, and put more on, haha. And the Murder by Death cd Red of Tooth and Claw, which I believe everyone in the world should own. Seriously, best gifts ever.

My cat disagrees of course, and thinks he is totally more interesting than anything else I could be looking at, and those other things only deserve to be looked at by his butt.

We're about 2/3 of the way moving (I think?) and the cats are still at the old place. I see them at least once a day, and have been spending some nights with them. I came over early tonight, thinking I'd get some internet + cat time.

( lol nope )