I hope everyone is well. As of moment I can easily say I am not in a good place. I have been dealing with a migraine for the last two days, waiting for the insurance to approve one of my meds for a week now, and had a cat pass the rainbow bridge last night unexpectedly. That's on top of dealing with everything else.
So! Update based on what I have as my GFM info:
My checking account was out of the negative, for 24 or so hours. Then the loan payment hit, and poof, back in the negative it went. Thankfully not nearly as bad, as it is only -$195, and if I can get $145 before six pm EST on 11/8/2021 I won't get an over draft fee.
Roof supplies are still needed as snow will be starting any day now.
The electric bill was paid by an awesome person, so I removed that from the total needed.
I still need the money for Stasia and the loan, I used to take care of her, I now need the money to drop her sister off as well.
Car insurance hasn't been touched yet, still have a little over a week to deal with it.
The loan is at $1900 after the part came out of my bank account, so I adjusted the total needed to reflect that as well.
Any and all help would be appreciated, thank you wonderful people who have helped thus far through donations, commissions, or sharing.
Apologies a head of time for any spelling errors or jaimi-isms. It's been a long few weeks, and I haven't had the energy to do much when not sleeping, I have been in so much pain going near my computer desk hasn't happened, and I'm exhausted from Murphy's Law.
Here's the last update link, shit wrong there directly ties to here. However to recap: trying to find money for Winston's payment, two loans, get account out of the negative, pick up the cats from the crematorium, electric bill, and repair the car. Total needed $1,015. From that, I got the cats and the electric bill. For which is awesome. So awesome. Completely awesome. I appreciate those wonderful peeps. Seriously. You’re amazing.
Technically I had the account out of the negative. For like a day. Then both loans hit and got bounced, and there were fees. Then Winston's payment hit, and it didn’t go through. I might be able to get my account back if I can pay it back within a week. Though, I'd like to try and pay it back when I call the main office on Friday the 6th. I realize that’s not a lot of time, considering it’s tomorrow. That said, if I could even give a date when I could make a payment, any payment at all, that’d be great.
Now I have over draft fees to pay for the loans and on Winston.
Besides the mess with my checking account, ma’s furnace broke down. Rather thoroughly. Twice sadly. Our normal furnace peep wasn’t reachable, and still, over a week later, not responded to the messages left for him. I wasn’t even a pest, simply called once and said who I was, asked if he had time to check ma’s furnace because it was acting off, and to please call me back. He never did. so I found a new company that was suggested by multiple folks in the area. They were awesome.
The first bloke sent got it running again, but warned it could break and showed me why, answering all questions I had. The second bloke came the next day with a temp furnace when it broke down again, that very part the first warned was a problem, and we hoped we could hold off on, cause it cost more than I had on hand. Yeah, that didn’t happen. So there went money I had planned to use towards the car, from a commission.
Then a third bloke came to actually fix it once the part was in. Sadly, it was discovered that fixing it wasn’t actually going to solve the over all issue, as the furnace has just reached the end of its life.
Today as I was doing errands, my front end started making odd noises, which is a problem, as I still owe from when my tire went flying. I think it’s a ball joint or springs, which means both front ones will need dealt with.
I haven’t been able to get the store building, as the terms have been changed multiple times during the negotiations, and I ended up pulling the money I had back out for bills plus I started working on getting an online store up and running. Sadly, due to everything, the payment is due and I haven’t had a chance to technically launch it cause I wouldn’t be able to get to the books. But I came up with a plan, use the bookshelves I can access in the shed to hold them so I can start selling, but every time I go to start that, it storms and gets snowed in. So I need the funds for that too.
I’m seriously hoping spring comes in and washes all the bad away, so the rest of the year goes smoothly. Cause on top of that, there are issues no amount of money can fix within the family that are adding to the stress.
Totals & Needs:
Get my checking account back to zero and re-opened: $265
Mechanic: $250 past due, probably another $250 for the further front end work.
Winston payment: $180
Loans: $600
Cosmos Market online: $200
Ways to help:
Share this post; my venmo, paypal, or cash app with a note about how it can help. I don’t currently have my GoFundMe hooked up to an account since it was on my checking that’s closed currently.
It’s been a stressful few days. Surprisingly though, for the first time in years, there was a truly good birb day. There wasn’t any fighting, arguing, or snide remarks. Probably because they all happened the week before.
I’m exhausted, so rather than type everything up again, I am adding the link to the Help Needed Page where not only my information is at, but so is several other people.
Over all I need $30 today, and $3,400 over all. Any help is appreciated! Please share, as that is just as helpful.
[ID Winston the rottweiler service pup relaxing on our way home.]
11/30/19 5:45 pm EST
So a lovely peep did the $30! That leaves the $2,370
(which breaks down into $180, $200, $591, $1356, $150, and $900)
This is gonna be a short one, because I’m not feeling good, and still on borrowed internet. Still trying to come up with $120 for my bills, and $250 so ma can have propane, as she completely ran out last night and now has neither heat nor hot water. Any and all help would be appreciated. I do commissions (writing & art), sell books, and arts and crafts for those who’d rather not donate. If you cannot afford either, I understand and kindly ask you share this.
To start with a massive, huge, beyond words thank you to everyone who has shared or helped in some form! You all are amazingly awesome!
The Good
Winston is doing amazing, we had a couple of long days, and there was only two instances of stubbornness on his part. The first because I needed to be sitting, and he was determined to make me sit, though had he not been so stubborn, we would have been sitting in the car quicker, but you know, pup logic. Sit now, not in 3 minutes. The other was a lady with health issues was sitting down to look over a sewing machine and he was Determined to Help her, whether she needed comfort or assistance getting up, and he wasn’t budging until he was sure she was okay.
I know some would say that’s not good, but really, it is, as he knows his job is to help. Even if he was a bit confused on the help me only part, but then, I was doing fine, and this person in his 10 month old brain was not.
The In The Middle
The fight for disability continues, with an appointment with a disability lawyer now on the books. I hate that it’s such a struggle. Still, there is progress moving forward, so I won’t count it as a bad thing.
Also, all meds are bought till the end of the month, so that’s a plus. Thank you random person who helped!
The Bad
My ma’s electricity is due to be shut off if I cannot come up with $300 by the 18th, as I will be getting the other $300 on the 17th. Yeah, I gotta have $600 for it. Why? Because of things going wrong in the last 60 days. Lovely.
If I can’t come up with the $300, I won’t be able to get the cat food, dog food, water, or end of month meds.
My pain levels are through the bloody roof, combo of a few long days and weather. I’m gonna make an appointment with the doc to discuss the problem with him, not that I expect much to come of it since my body isn’t the most receptive to doing the normal.
Need ASAP: $300
Please share this or the links post! Thank you all for taking the time to read this.
Evening all or is it morning? All a matter of perspective I guess. It’s 3 am, for me it’s still night, but for others it’s morning. Right now I am trying not to come out of my skin, I am a fretting, anxious mess for a couple of different reasons.
Bills - joy, right? Yep, still a joy. Trying to come up with $270
Disability lawyer appointment - I’ve been dealing with disability in some form for seven years, it’s getting to me. I know that giving up is not what I should do, but sometimes I think it’d be easier. So much easier.
Pain - the weather is kicking my ass, as is last week.
Sick - got bit by a horsefly, as normal I had an annoyingly bad reaction to it and slept for several days.
So I haven’t actually been online but for a few minutes here and there for a while, cause of all that. My queue was just keeping stuff going.
Right now I could really use animal pictures, shares and reblogs, and money. Notice the two free ones are the ones are first. The money would help a lot, at least for the moment, but really, animal pics are soothing longer term.
Jaimi’s Update Tag for those want to look back at how things have been the last year. Summary version - it sucked.
It’s been a long few days, the sort of long I could easily skip. I had to put a young cat down and take him to the crematorium. I’ve been anxious because of the fact I am being referred to a surgeon to have my left ankle checked as it’s not healing right. Considering the last time I had to deal with a surgeon didn’t go so well, I understand why I’m anxious, but definitely don’t like it.
I’ll have the money for the electric bill the last day of the month, to keep it from going into shut off warning. However I will be struggling to get the money for Brownie’s cremation, to buy cat and dog food, and to buy myself food. That’s $220 altogether. For any who’d like to help:
I noticed an influx of new folks lately, so I figured I’d make this update an intro too.
Quick about me:
Jaimi; 30s; gray across the board, use any pronouns, though not daughter; snarky, sassy, tries for polite (which my best friend calls kindness); will share anyone’s writing and art, just tag me as I don’t always go on the dash; I have several different disabilities, so I’d love to work and can’t, if you wanna avoid seeing my begging for help when things go wrong blacklist the tags Jaimi’s Updates and Jaimi’s GoFundMe.
Now the Update: Good Stuff First:
I bought a truck, due to a wonderful peep, he’s paid completely for.
There’s been further progress on Unexpected Meeting, and while a bit behind because of health, it’s still coming along.
I’ve also gotten further along on Finding Home, Unexpected Meeting’s sequel.
The Converging Lives website is roughly half done, I am slowly getting it where I want it so I can have it
In Between Stuff:
I’ve been making updates to the blog format.
I replaced Commissions, Donations and CBV with Help Needed. It gives background information, and links for each person included. If you would like to be included just send me a link to your assistance needed. I figure this makes it easier to keep track of who needs what. I update it as I get updated info.
I am gonna be updating my other pages as well, because it’s been a while, and it’s needed. I will also be putting in a Tags page.
Bad Stuff
Fighting off a migraine, lots of sleeping and pain. It’s meant the last few days I have been doing a lot of sleeping. I mean something like 15+ hours each day. Hard to get things done or queued when that happens.
Still working on raising some money for bills.
I was supposed to have a doc appointment today. On one hand it’s good it got rescheduled to next week cause the doc was out sick, on the other it’s for disability paperwork and I wanna get it done ASAP.
If you’d like to help me or a few others, the info can be found: Help Needed
