Hi Everyone, I'm feeling very torn this today as I look out our big windows with picturesque views; this past month and a half living here has been a godsend for our mental health. I honestly thought we'd be getting caught up on everything by now, but a couple of unexpected costs and us both getting low hours scheduled at work (which in and of itself is fortunate because I pour everything into my crappy retail job and have zero energy or spoons left even *with* fewer hours, and because my partner is adjusting to working after two straight years of being in a #CPTSD-induced anxiety attack) have combined to leave us far, far shorter than I anticipated. I really need to find a better job or some other source of income pronto, but that's easier said than done. Work leaves me so utterly depleted that I'm lucky if I can manage basic hygiene let alone trying to find higher-paid employment with zero marketable skills or higher education. The idea of using AI against the ruling class by way of faking credentials to join them and become an exorbitantly-paid middle manager sounds more alluring with each passing day. I'm so angry with myself because I don't want to jeopardize our situation here. Neither of us have felt the kind of tranquility that we experience here in a very long time. Like.. we're ready for this to be our forever home. If we can't live our dream of moving to Southern California or somewhere along the west coast, this is probably the best possible place we could be at this point in time and for the foreseable future. So it is with an exhausted but hopeful heart that I ask the community, yet again, to bail us out. It is yet another outrageous sum, and for that I apologize. I had a feeling we were going to come up short, but I didn't think it was going to be THAT short. But I swear to you, we're giving this everything we've got. I must humbly request help again. If you're willing AND able, please boost and if possible donate. If you can't donate, *do NOT feel guilty* for being in the same boat as us. Your feelings about it are valid but rest assured you needn't feel bad. Venmo:

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Hi everyone! We've been *insanely* fortunate thanks to the #Fediverse, and we are immensely grateful. You all believed in us when we didn't even believe in ourselves. I wake up every morning kind of.. excited. I throw open the blinds and look out at the views from our apartment with a kind of reverence. It's incredible. I'm not used to feeling this way. It's almost unnerving at times because I'm so used to the gnawing feeling of doom, and I'm scared of going back to that. It seems like things are finally starting to fall into place. These past weeks since you all banded together to give us this apartment have been surreal. I kind of shudder to think of where we'd be without your generosity. I'm trying really hard to break the habit of pay advances, both due to the fees involved and the need to save as much money as we can for rent. I am also desperately wanting to reach a point of stability that we won't need to begpost anymore. Unfortunately we've had multiple incidental expenses involved with getting set up with a functional apartment or having functional headlights on our only car, etc. so we aren't quite there yet. So I must humbly ask for your help yet again. We need to keep our car insured so my partner can get safely to and from his new job (which he is still employed at, and I am so unbelievably fucking proud of him!!) and the several hours' worth of driving we'll be doing on Christmas to visit family in opposite ends of the valley, but it's due for cancellation tomorrow. Let me close by including a candid photo of our Codependent Border Collie, enjoying his new apartment with oodles of space to run around and play. He loves it here as well, thanks to our online community here. Thank you in advance for your help, dear friends. If you're willing AND able, please boost and if possible donate. If you can't donate, *do NOT feel guilty* for being in the same boat as us. Your feelings about it are valid but rest assured you needn't feel bad. Venmo:

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(reposting so that @altbot will hopefully do it's magic Edit: three times the charm or whatever) Sorry I've been a bit quieter lately, folks. Retail during the holidays is really good for sucking the absolute life out of you. We've had to do a *lot* of fundraising the past couple of years; more than I could possibly ever repay with entry-level wages. I don't have much to offer as a return on your investments in us besides letting you live vicariously through my warped musings and pics like this of the view from our apartment the other morning that the community banded together to give us. ❤️🙏

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