Update, 08/15/2026
It's been approximately 2 months, if I'm calculating right, since I last updated this thing. I regret that, but I'll try and do a deep dive, for those who are curious about my life for whatever reason.
I am Cadence. Plural, blind, telling my story.
It's been approximately 2 months, if I'm calculating right, since I last updated this thing. I regret that, but I'll try and do a deep dive, for those who are curious about my life for whatever reason.
Hello everyone, It's been a few days since I last updated this thing, but we're back. Writing sometimes helps the stress, and I wanted to give an update on how things are going. We definitely have to move within the next 8 days. Technically 9, but the landlady is being confusing so we are aiming to be out of here by the 30th. Let me tell you ... I'm looking forward to being in a place where I have a professional lease agreement. Sometimes they can be a bit more restrictive, but at least I know what is and isn't allowed, and if someone's screaming at me, I know what I did. In related but slightly different news, we are also working on packing everything down into bins and totes and boxes ... We've done this before. We'll manage, but if anyone's reading this and feeling generous, our support links are below in the signature. We have to buy specific bins for various electronic devices that we don't want in cardboard boxes because we don't know what will happen to them during transport. Lots of stuff we have to be careful with, glassware, neatly shaped knickknacks that tend to be breakable, and more specifically, my grandmother's music boxes. So we're probably going to have to buy bubble wrap for all that. I'm going to have to make some speedy magic with the washer and dryer which is going to absolutely murder my back ... that won't be fun but we do what we have to do to survive. It's going to be difficult, but we will manage. Unfortunately though, that likely means I won't be streaming until we move. If I can manage it you may get some variant of an audio vlog, or I may record various things and just do a catch-up/deep dive when I get to wherever I end up. Yeah, we don't even know yet, but that's the next step. You will most likely get more consistent updates from this space for the time being ... I know I can post from mobile on here, it'll be a pain in the ass unless I have a keyboard from my phone ... but I know I can do it worst comes to worst. As always, I hope you got ... erm ... something out of this, can't say this post was particularly enjoyable, sorry about that. Feel free to visit the links below ... I'm slowly adding things to the shopping page for those of you who are interested in such a thing, and the YouTube has plenty of old content. If I have some time I may, possibly, set some old content to scheduled uploads so you all have something to watch for at least a few days after I pack down the computer. But I don't know if I'll have the time to get that done in the next 8 days along with everything else I have to do, I'm frankly surprised I have a free moment to type this blog post up. And I'm moving my fingers just as fast as they can possibly go, Z's probably wondering what the hell I'm doing. Relying purely on the volume of the music and the little buzz that I get when I misspell a word, so I can correct it. Yep, I'm about as stressed as I get, running on pure fumes and adrenaline. That's ... not healthy. Wait, I was doing an outro, good grief. Sorry all, back to the outro. Thank you for reading, feel free to visit the links below, feel free to support us financially if you have the ability and desire to do so, those links are also below. All funds will go to packing supplies, likely security deposits and the rent for the first month depending on if we have enough for such a thing. Oh ... one more thing, just in case you wish to visit this page, I'll put it here. This is the link to a GoFundMe that a pair of friends organized for us. Visit the GoFundMe here See you in the next update.
If you have any feedback, or want to talk to me directly, you can contact me in the following ways. Email me Visit my mastodon page View and follow our Ko-Fi Blog
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This is a new section that I've decided to put in as of 11/08/2025. Here, I've listed all my other links of interest, which you may find neat to visit. Visit the Youtube Here Visit our LinkTree here The linktree has many interesting things on it, and also links back to this blog. Visit our shopping page here What is this? This is an aggregated page of all the Amazon products we enjoy or have enjoyed in the past. We use the name Life Upgraded (now Cadence's Finds) on there because we feel the products we've bought and recommend on this page have upgraded or improved our life significantly. This next part is something we have to put near any page recommending product links for legal reasons. We are not pushing our links on anybody, but they're there if you want to see them. Note: I am an Amazon Affiliate. If you choose to buy any of the products listed on any of the pages above, I may make a commission from such purchases. We may add more links to this signature later, if we find more that you may be interested in. Always feel free to visit the YouTube, the Linktree, or the Ko-Fi, listed above, for any other updates that aren't posted here. As always, thank you for reading, and we hope you enjoyed or were otherwise enlightened by this post.
I didn't expect to be back here today. I honestly expected that I'd be busy ... and I probably should be. But there's not really shit I can do about any of this right now ... except what I'm already doing. Besides, I promised you guys I'd come back with something more positive. And ... actually I have that something, and it's probably something everyone already knows, but I didn't ... because ... well ... I'm rather used to things running in a certain way. You probably don't know what that means ... and that's okay. I don't write well when stressed.
Today, I finally figured out how federation with this blog works. When I first started this blog, I couldn't figure out why in the world I could see the user profile for my blog but never see any of the blog's posts through my mastodon. It .. erm ... turns out you have to follow the blog's user profile, or whatever it's officially called, to get the posts. So in order for me to get my own posts, I ended up having to follow myself. How do comments work? I ... actually don't know. I'm probably going to talk to myself for a bit and see how that works. Until now, I've never had a way to share the blog's user profile.
The ... unfortunate ... part is that when rant.li posts my posts in a way mastodon can read them, it posts them ... in full. Meaning that my giant rambles, neatly separated by headings, read on mastodon like a large, very huge, enormous pile of annoyance. Well ... maybe that's just my opinion. So ... for those of you reading, if you want to subscribe to getting over 10000 character dumps into your mastodon feed at completely random times, here's the strangely complicated process. Actually, there's really two ways to do it.
Follow the blog account when I boost it. Yes, despite how ... convoluted it may be, I will be boosting the blog with my main mastodon account. So if you follow me there, you should theoretically be able to follow the blog when you see me boosting it.
If you can't or don't see the blog posts being boosted from my main account, you would want to do the following. Go on your instance's website. At the top is a search box, search for [email protected] ... and it will provide you results. The profile you're looking for will show the same bio that shows at the top of the main blog page.
Since to a lot of you these may start appearing as normal posts, please feel free to leave comments. I don't know if I'll see them, but if you haven't gotten a response within 48 hours, feel free to bug me on my main mastodon. And with that, I am out of here for the time being. I will possibly be back later with another ramble, or tomorrow ... just depends on how I feel about my life.
If you have any feedback, or want to talk to me directly, you can contact me in the following ways. Email me Visit my mastodon page View and follow our Ko-Fi Blog
If you enjoy this content, and wish to support my work, feel free to send me money in the following ways: PayPal CashApp
This is a new section that I've decided to put in as of 11/08/2025. Here, I've listed all my other links of interest, which you may find neat to visit. Visit the Youtube Here Visit our LinkTree here The linktree has many interesting things on it, and also links back to this blog. Visit our shopping page here What is this? This is an aggregated page of all the Amazon products we enjoy or have enjoyed in the past. We use the name Life Upgraded (now Cadence's Finds) on there because we feel the products we've bought and recommend on this page have upgraded or improved our life significantly. This next part is something we have to put near any page recommending product links for legal reasons. We are not pushing our links on anybody, but they're there if you want to see them. Note: I am an Amazon Affiliate. If you choose to buy any of the products listed on any of the pages above, I may make a commission from such purchases. We may add more links to this signature later, if we find more that you may be interested in. Always feel free to visit the YouTube, the Linktree, or the Ko-Fi, listed above, for any other updates that aren't posted here. As always, thank you for reading, and we hope you enjoyed or were otherwise enlightened by this post.
CW: erm ... crude ... language? also drama. Hello again everyone, I actually managed to come back two times in one week, or ... sort of. two times in the same 3 day period at the very least. Anyway, I just wanted to write a quick update to you all because I'm trying, again, with this consistency thing.
A whole lot of stressful things honestly. Our landlady has decided that instead of conducting herself like a sensible adult, she'd like to push us out of the house by ... turning off the electricity on the day she told us to be out by. So we've been looking for a new place to go ... it's definitely happening now whether we want it to or not. This is the second time someone's just decided nope, we're not working with you, and chosen to sell a place we were living out from under us.
CW: This bit is a bit heavy, feel free to skip down to the area that says “Back to the Update” if you're not in the headspace to read about drama right now. When we moved here, my father told me that this house would be mine forever, that he'd pay off the house. Several years later, he did the same thing he's always done. He cheated on his wife, and just like every other time, the woman involved used her power with the court system to “bleed him dry” apparently. As he buys a new house for him and his number 6, and goes out to dinner every other day. Sometimes I wonder if he ever got over Stephanie. He was never big on posting on Facebook before her ... but after her he's been weirdly obsessed with it. Anyway, so he cheated on his wife. His now ex-wife, Jennifer, was left with the house. Jennifer is disabled due to something Jennifer did to herself. I'll get into that later. He cheated on her. This ... Jennifer ... decided that instead of actually working with us to help make an arrangement that would work out for both of us, it would be an absolutely grand idea to do everything from lashing out at us because she doesn't have money to pay the property tax (we paid her rent), to threatening to turn off the electricity because of some other money drama (we still. paid her!) She's also implied that I should go live with my father ... I'd rather empty a hive full of angry bees into my own stomach. Yes, living with him is that tedious, and I'll get into that later too. This is going to be a long one. I probably shouldn't be rambling about all this in public, but I need to put it somewhere ... guess I could go with my journal but I fi9nd I don't really care who knows. So to answer the question, what have I been doing? I've been dealing with a particularly rage-filled woman with nothing better to do with her life than harass a pair of disabled people because she's as dry as the Sahara, and apparently, even if she wasn't, not even her own husband would fuck her. Then again that actually tracks, give him 5 or so years and he gets bored. It's a miracle he lasted 8 years ... and he's already married to someone else again.
This isn't really relevant to the current goings-on, but it does show a pattern. On New Year's Eve, my father and his new wife decided it would be fun to go out. Jennifer has MS (important context for later). They both came back drunk ... back then my father was somewhat nice ... I celebrated New Year's alone but he came back 45 minutes later. That was considered good for the time. We were laughing and chatting and having fun. Jennifer decided to go downstairs (their bedroom in that house was downstairs, why would you make someone with MS walk down stairs to go to bed every night?) Naturally, drunk+MS+stairs=someone's gonna fall on their face ... and as usual the math added up. She fell down the stairs. My father, being the absolutely useless thing he is, responds by ... sobbing and running down the stairs. Don't do that! If someone is in medical crisis, sobbing while they're in that much pain is not going to help them. He's done that with me too. Eventually he carried her to bed, and I went off to the bedroom I was using while I was there. The next morning, around 5 or so, knowing she was still probably feeling it, knowing she was probably hung over to some degree, went outside, in the ice, it was around 20 or so degrees at the time, probably lower. She did this ... to smoke a cigarette. She fell down and ended up with frostbitten fingers. The doctors flat out told her they could have saved her if she came in the day it happened. But she didn't. She went to the hospital ... 2 days later. By then it was far too late. She lost most of her fingers. She became really quite bitter after that ... which ... part of me understands that. She'd just lost parts of her body. I'd probably be a bit upset myself. But ... and this may be controversial, I still feel she did it to herself. She should have been resting off a hangover, not going outside in under freezing weather to smoke cigarettes. This ... actually leads neatly into the other thing I said I'd go into earlier in the post.
I'm not very good with prioritizing, but I'm going to try to take these in somewhat of a prioritized list, from lowest priority to highest. First, by nature, I am a night owl. I stay up at odd hours, and generally my schedule doesn't mesh well with the “societally expected” schedule. When I've stayed with him in the past, he has actively become enraged because I slept during the day. Leads neatly into my next point. Though I have some exposure training with loud noises, my father likes to throw his weight ... and his fists, around with extreme, unprejudiced regularity. You don't do something he wants you to do, you're probably going to get to watch him punch something or slam something. It's his method of control. Not defending it, but stating that ... that's how it is, and nothing anyone does is going to change it. Despite the fact that he likes to throw his weight around, when I last stayed with him, I was the one accused of being a “bull in a china shop”. Why? Because I dared ... get this ... to use a microwave. Yep. He'd told me the night before, that I had food in the fridge and that he'd made me something. Nice of him. He said I could have it whenever I wanted. Me, taking that literally because of course I did, goes out quietly and makes it around 6 the next morning because I was hungry. Not 3 minutes in, he comes charging out of his bedroom to rip me like 18 new assholes because I was being like a bull in a china shop ... for the record, I had put a paper plate in the microwave, closed the door and started it warming up the food. To this day (it happened in 2018) I still do not understand how using a microwave is like a bull in a china shop. And lastly, there's the whole ... medical thing. When he's scared, or in a medical situation that's out of his depth, he usually goes between crying and being enraged at the very concept of a medical issue. One time when we'd first moved into this house, one of the roommates had an allergic reaction and had to go to the hospital. Not 3 minutes after they left, I got a raging phone call from my father about how he didn't want his house to be a “revolving door of ambulances”. Another time I had to go to the hospital, I got a screaming call literally while I was on the stretcher, paramedics loading me into the vehicle, and my father screaming his absolute head off over why I dared to go to the hospital. That one's ... the biggest one. I really don't want to go live with my dad. Oh ... and just to throw together a nice ending paragraph on this ass disaster, if I lived with him, I would never be allowed to leave, as he's not behind anything like uber. I'd never get to get food delivered, he's not behind uber and food delivery is uber to him. I'd never get to go to my doctor appointments by myself, medicaid transit, on the rare occasion they do their jobs, is still uber and ... again, he's not behind uber and things he doesn't believe in don't happen near his house. If he went to appointments with me he'd know about any medical issues they talked about with me ... because he kinda just ... intimidates his way into most appointments where I'm concerned with his face and his voice and his punching fists and his stupid mustache. I don't actually know if he has a mustache ... but he seems like a mustache guy. And really, at the base of all that, I don't want to live with him because where he lives ... if you're around him things never last more than 10 years. Either he gets bored, runs off and cheats on the person then leaves them like he did to my mother, or they tell him they “don't want older men” which I'm still about 95% convinced Stephanie broke up with him due to the kidnapping prank but ... that's another story. This is a pattern with him. He left my mother. Two years later the bank took the house we were living in and we had to move. He got to stay with his happy little family. Of course, like I said before, that didn't last long. I may tell that story some other time, but I feel I've rambled quite enough about my father and his drama for one post.
AS I mentioned ... or may have mentioned ... before, I did a stream either yesterday or the day before, feel free to visit the YouTube listed in the signature to find all the things I do when I'm not typing random tangents. I'm probably going to try to do one today, but we'll see. I also did a stream ... Thursday? Either Thursday or Wednesday. I normally don't link the streams in my blog posts, but I'm trying to get better at it. Now ... if I can just remember how to do links in markdown ... Right, I've figured it out. I always forget how to do this, took a bit of google searching. Watch the Playing with Cars stream here And ... Watch the Forza and Tangents stream Here Like I said, I'll be trying for a stream sometime today, but if I don't get one out today, I'll aim for tomorrow, and one way or another I'll try and come back to you with a bit more of a positive blog post next time.
If you have any feedback, or want to talk to me directly, you can contact me in the following ways. Email me Visit my mastodon page View and follow our Ko-Fi Blog
If you enjoy this content, and wish to support my work, feel free to send me money in the following ways: PayPal CashApp
This is a new section that I've decided to put in as of 11/08/2025. Here, I've listed all my other links of interest, which you may find neat to visit. Visit the Youtube Here Visit our LinkTree here The linktree has many interesting things on it, and also links back to this blog. Visit our shopping page here What is this? This is an aggregated page of all the Amazon products we enjoy or have enjoyed in the past. We use the name Life Upgraded (now Cadence's Finds) on there because we feel the products we've bought and recommend on this page have upgraded or improved our life significantly. This next part is something we have to put near any page recommending product links for legal reasons. We are not pushing our links on anybody, but they're there if you want to see them. Note: I am an Amazon Affiliate. If you choose to buy any of the products listed on any of the pages above, I may make a commission from such purchases. We may add more links to this signature later, if we find more that you may be interested in. Always feel free to visit the YouTube, the Linktree, or the Ko-Fi, listed above, for any other updates that aren't posted here. As always, thank you for reading, and we hope you enjoyed or were otherwise enlightened by this post.
Hello everyone, It has literally been what seems like an entire age since I last wrote on this thing. I didn't expect to stop writing for so long, but I guess ... such is life sometimes. For those who are curious what in the world I/we have been doing, I have mainly been focused on putting streams up on my YouTube. For those who may have noticed a writing style change, I've found that I don't always write in plural perspective, but instead choose to stick to more singular terms a fair bit of the time. You may have noticed a huge difference from the last post ... and I'm sorry for that. Though I haven't been writing as much as I'd really wanted to, I have been keeping the links that pop up below each post in the signature updated, so definitely feel free to visit those if you find any of our other content interesting. There are two Linktrees now, one for all my main pages and 1 that recommends products. See the signature for more details. If you guys ever want something more in-depth, feel free to email us (email listed in signature) and we'll get on that in the form of a product guide. However, product guides don't really fit in with the style of this blog, so I'll only do those if you guys want them, as I don't want to spam out the entire blog with things nobody's interested in seeing. For the likely few of you who ever visited the Life Upgraded kit pages, Kit shut down in May, meaning all that is gone. Hence, all the things that were up there will ... soon ... be up on the shopping page for you guys. Linktree is a bit of a tedium and a half, but it's made for a good place to stack up my product links. If that kind of thing interests you, feel free to visit, all those links can be found below in the signature. I can't remember everything I had in my collections, so if you are looking for that kind of content the links may appear on the shopping linktree slowly, but I will get them up as soon as possible. I will try to make more of an effort to put up more posts here more often ... mainly because I remember that people seemed to somewhat enjoy them. I try not to do very small updates, because each post link leads to its own page and I want to give you all a decent amount of content to read. I think that's it for today. Yes, I'm sticking with a similar somewhat informal style like my other posts. I will try to be back sometime in the near future, but if you guys don't hear from me up here, I do try to post regular streams on the YouTube, so feel free to watch those. They're mainly gaming streams, with a few recorded videos about other things, including a cooking video. Z and I had fun making that. In any case, see you in the next one.
If you have any feedback, or want to talk to me directly, you can contact me in the following ways. Email me Visit my mastodon page View and follow our Ko-Fi Blog
If you enjoy this content, and wish to support my work, feel free to send me money in the following ways: PayPal CashApp
This is a new section that I've decided to put in as of 11/08/2025. Here, I've listed all my other links of interest, which you may find neat to visit. Visit the Youtube Here Visit our LinkTree here The linktree has many interesting things on it, and also links back to this blog. Visit our shopping page here What is this? This is an aggregated page of all the Amazon products we enjoy or have enjoyed in the past. We use the name Life Upgraded (now Cadence's Finds) on there because we feel the products we've bought and recommend on this page have upgraded or improved our life significantly. This next part is something we have to put near any page recommending product links for legal reasons. We are not pushing our links on anybody, but they're there if you want to see them. Note: I am an Amazon Affiliate. If you choose to buy any of the products listed on any of the pages above, I may make a commission from such purchases. We may add more links to this signature later, if we find more that you may be interested in. Always feel free to visit the YouTube, the Linktree, or the Ko-Fi, listed above, for any other updates that aren't posted here. As always, thank you for reading, and we hope you enjoyed or were otherwise enlightened by this post.
Hello everyone, We actually made it back here to put up another blog post for you guys twice in the same week ... well sort of. Guess it doesn't quite count, since today's Sunday and the last post was on Saturday. So according to the calendar it doesn't count. In any case, we're quite stressed, as we have been for the past day. We truthfully haven't had the energy to get on a stream for you guys, and are very sorry for that. Stress takes a whole lot out of us, and we haven't been able to muster up the energy to do much of anything. This could honestly get rather dangerous rather fast, depending on how long the cause of the stress lasts.
We have mentioned this in past posts up here, but our bank account is negative. Another one of our monthly auto-pay things took and we're negative $60 now. We also need $55 to pay off the internet bill. If anyone wants to help us out with that, it would be seriously appreciated. We don't like asking for money, but have continued to try to apply for jobs and gotten no results. At this point, the financial stress is affecting our ability to eat, and is causing z to have an ulcerative colitis flare. If this keeps up we could end up in the hospital.
If by some miracle we can get some cash together, pay our bills, and get our stress levels down to a manageable level, we will be attempting a YouTube live stream for you all. The YOuTube channel link is below if you want to visit that page and see all our other content over there. That's pretty much it for today. If anyone wants to help with the financial issues, feel free to visit our support links in the signature. If you can't that's nothing to feel bad about, we appreciate that you stopped by to read the post. Thank you for reading, and as always feedback is welcome via our contact pages listed below.
If you have any feedback, or want to talk to me directly, you can contact me in the following ways. Email me Visit my mastodon page View and follow our Ko-Fi Blog
If you enjoy this content, and wish to support my work, feel free to send me money in the following ways: PayPal CashApp
This is a new section that I've decided to put in as of 11/08/2025. Here, I've listed all my other links of interest, which you may find neat to visit. Visit the Youtube Here Visit our LinkTree here The linktree has many interesting things on it, and also links back to this blog. Visit our shopping page here What is this? This is an aggregated page of all the Amazon products we enjoy or have enjoyed in the past. We use the name Life Upgraded (now Cadence's Finds) on there because we feel the products we've bought and recommend on this page have upgraded or improved our life significantly. This next part is something we have to put near any page recommending product links for legal reasons. We are not pushing our links on anybody, but they're there if you want to see them. Note: I am an Amazon Affiliate. If you choose to buy any of the products listed on any of the pages above, I may make a commission from such purchases. We may add more links to this signature later, if we find more that you may be interested in. Always feel free to visit the YouTube, the Linktree, or the Ko-Fi, listed above, for any other updates that aren't posted here. As always, thank you for reading, and we hope you enjoyed or were otherwise enlightened by this post.
Hello everyone, It's been a couple days. Our last update up here was ... rather a hysterical rambling mess. Sorry about that. We'll leave it up, because it's part of the archive now, and we don't believe in deleting stuff for no real reason, but just know, if you read that it's a bit of a mess. We did manage to get rent paid, but really need to find a stable job of some variety. Even if that job is just customer service, at this point I need to be bringing in money of some variety. We still have to pay the internet, and they've tacked on a late fee. We were supposed to have it, but since we had to use cashapp loans to get medicine earlier in the month, they took z's entire paycheck and applied it back to the loan balance and won't give it back. So all the funding we were supposed to have for survival just ... doesn't exist now.
We did manage to find a new mastodon home, though it's the big mastodon.social instance, unfortunately or fortunately depending on how one looks at it. Fortunately because there's a possibility that my reach may go up and I may be able to get my posts around more reliably. Unfortunately because the whole point of the fediverse is decentralization ... I just looked at the user count on this instance. 3020540 users on one instance isn't really all that decentralized. But to be completely point blank honest, we got tired of moving our stuff from small instance to small instance because the little instances kept going down. Once got frustrated about having to move for the 3rd time in 6 months, and got screamed at because, and I quote, mastodon is ever changing, if you don't like moving instances to keep up with the times, go back to twitter. Um ... no thanks. Yes, mastodon is ever changing. Doesn't mean people should have to move instances every 3 months. But that's done with, and part of me is glad we're on the big instance. It's been up since 2018 at least.
Right now, we're just trying to get some cash together to survive. We will possibly get on youtube and make a livestream, if we can get our stress reactions to a manageable level because trying to stream while stress hormones make mush out of your soul really doesn't work. Might do so anyway ... play some hearthstone for you guys or ... I don't know, get out the video game controller and pull up forza for a bit. Thought about singing on livestream, but A, I'm really self-conscious, and B, if I did that I'd have to get the setup just right or you'd have instrumental playing at one time and my voice like 3 seconds after. I know it can be done, we've seen the hackerlink vods on youtube. For those of you who don't know, hackerlink is this girl (she probably has a different name but the name on the page is hackerlink) she sings random songs on her stream and it's rather neat to watch. A bit confusing because she keeps calling random things “sick pranks”, but her voice is pretty so I ignore the confusing bits and pay attention to the music. She was introduced to us by a friend who also enjoys music, but we're leaving their name out of this because we haven't been given permission to post about them and posting about people without their permission is quite rude. I think we've said all that there is to be said today. We'll probably be back with another one of these tomorrow or in a few days, and will try to get on youtube for you before then. Feel free to visit the mastodon, the link in the signature has been fixed to direct to the new profile.
If you have any feedback, or want to talk to me directly, you can contact me in the following ways. Email me Visit my mastodon page View and follow our Ko-Fi Blog
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This is a new section that I've decided to put in as of 11/08/2025. Here, I've listed all my other links of interest, which you may find neat to visit. Visit the Youtube Here Visit our LinkTree here The linktree has many interesting things on it, and also links back to this blog. Visit our shopping page here What is this? This is an aggregated page of all the Amazon products we enjoy or have enjoyed in the past. We use the name Life Upgraded (now Cadence's Finds) on there because we feel the products we've bought and recommend on this page have upgraded or improved our life significantly. This next part is something we have to put near any page recommending product links for legal reasons. We are not pushing our links on anybody, but they're there if you want to see them. Note: I am an Amazon Affiliate. If you choose to buy any of the products listed on any of the pages above, I may make a commission from such purchases. We may add more links to this signature later, if we find more that you may be interested in. Always feel free to visit the YouTube, the Linktree, or the Ko-Fi, listed above, for any other updates that aren't posted here. As always, thank you for reading, and we hope you enjoyed or were otherwise enlightened by this post.
Hello everyone, Sorry we've been off the grid lately and not really engaging. It wasn't on purpose. We've been super stressed about rent and bills, and haven't been able to get the money to pay them. On top of that, the mastodon instance we used to live on went down due to the server admin being unable to afford the payments. We're not mad at them. Money troubles happen, we're no stranger to those. Frustrated? Definitely, but not at them. They didn't just decide to take down the server. Anyway, that makes it pretty much impossible to get my content around... we're trying to build a new online network ... it's slow progress. On top of that, we're still having money troubles, and need to get cash together to pay the rest of our rent and bills. Rent itself is $370, or rather, the half of rent we weren't able to pay is $370. internet is $45, probably $60 now with the late fee. And a bunch of our other stuff that's on auto-pay took from my account so that's negative too. We are incredibly stressed. We have to at the very least get the rent paid or we could end up homeless. Other bills ... while the collectors annoy me, other bills can come later. The top priority is rent. Two people with autoimmune conditions can't survive in winter ... even if it is a Texas winter. We'll try to come back to you guys with something a bit more positive next time. We wanted to update those who read this little corner of the internet. If anyone can help, it would be appreciated. Our financial info is below, PayPal, Ko-Fi, and cashapp. If you have to use the ko-fi or want to put it on a monthly scale, go ahead, but if you are able to send directly to the paypal or cashapp, please, please do. Ko-Fi takes some of the money I get off the top as a fee for hosting the page or something. Anyway ... we'll possibly be back sometime soon. Possibly ... not. Depending on how things go.
If you have any feedback, or want to talk to me directly, you can contact me in the following ways. Email me Visit my mastodon page View and follow our Ko-Fi Blog
If you enjoy this content, and wish to support my work, feel free to send me money in the following ways: PayPal CashApp
This is a new section that I've decided to put in as of 11/08/2025. Here, I've listed all my other links of interest, which you may find neat to visit. Visit the Youtube Here Visit our LinkTree here The linktree has many interesting things on it, and also links back to this blog. Visit our shopping page here What is this? This is an aggregated page of all the Amazon products we enjoy or have enjoyed in the past. We use the name Life Upgraded (now Cadence's Finds) on there because we feel the products we've bought and recommend on this page have upgraded or improved our life significantly. This next part is something we have to put near any page recommending product links for legal reasons. We are not pushing our links on anybody, but they're there if you want to see them. Note: I am an Amazon Affiliate. If you choose to buy any of the products listed on any of the pages above, I may make a commission from such purchases. We may add more links to this signature later, if we find more that you may be interested in. Always feel free to visit the YouTube, the Linktree, or the Ko-Fi, listed above, for any other updates that aren't posted here. As always, thank you for reading, and we hope you enjoyed or were otherwise enlightened by this post.
Hello everyone, We're back a bit sooner than we thought we would be ... mainly because we're really stressed out and writing helps us to be a little less stressed out.
For those of you who follow our mastodon, you'll know this, but for those of you who don't, this is something new. We got all the monthly benefits we're going to get this month, but are almost definitely not going to have enough cash to pay off rent, internet, electric, and our other payments we have. I'm honestly worried we may end up homeless, and since both of us have chronic paina nd autoimmune disorders, this could be dangerous. With that out of the way, back to our regularly scheduled blog update.
Besides stressing ourselves out over this financial issue, we've also managed to do a YouTube livestream in the past couple days. It was fun, being able to play Hearthstone and talk to the viewers. I like doing it. I've also been resting because ... yet again, more chronic pain. It's a bitch. But I did get something on the YouTube for people, and that makes me very happy.
Not much to say here, but we are sorry we didn't manage to get another post in near the end of November. We are glad to be back here now though, and posting for you, even if it's not entirely for a good reason, we're trying to make as much of this post positive as we can. So in a way, 4 or 5 days is better than the month/months we went without posting in the past. So we're trying to get better. And we plan to do a livestream maybe sometime tonight or tomorrow if we have enough energy.
Note: This section is not here as an attempt to make anyone feel obligated. If you are able to help and wish to, please feel free to visit the links linked in the signature and do so. If you can't help, please try not to feel guilty or in any way obligated. We understand that everyone has their own situations, and their own needs, and may not always, or even usually, be able to assist, and we thank all of you in advance for reading this post and the below section at all. (Yes, this was copied from a past post, but it still stands.) Due to receiving our benefits, we did get the negative account balance sorted before the bank took any insufficient funds fees. But ... due to the negative account balance, which occurred due to some bills, we now don't have enough cash to pay our beginning of the month bills. So that's our new goal, anything that comes our way will go to that, and to cleaning supplies and other household essentials. For instance, I still need to get a wheelchair so that I can go out more often, which would likely help me not to feel as much pain. When I was in one in the past, it did help a little bit, so long as I didn't use it all the time and did some stretches and exercises.
We discussed this in a couple of the previous sections, but as mentioned there, we did a livestream a couple days ago. The link for the YouTube page is in the signature, and the link to the live page is in our mastodon. Visit This Page for the livestreams However, we've put the link to the livestreams page here anyways. As mentioned in the last post, when we're actively streaming, that link will take you directly to our active live. When we're not streaming, it will take you to the page that displays our lives in order of newest to oldest.
As mentioned in the past few posts, we're trying to get more consistent, so we're keeping up the life goals sections. 1. Most importantly, we're trying to get the cash to pay our bills. The goal for that, as listed on our mastodon, is open-ended, anything we get will go toward that. 2. We're also still working on getting the money together to go to the SSA for Z's stuff. Again, don't know how much of that z wants shared, but that's still happening.
To keep with the consistency of the last post, we're now moving onto non-financial goals. They're pretty much the same as what they were 4 days ago, but I'm putting them here for the sake of consistency. 1. I'm still hoping to get more posts put up on the blog so you guys have more content to read. 2. I am also hoping to get back into the recording schedule for the YouTube, along with livestreaming. If Z is interested, we'll do some combination streams.
Over the past few days, I have also added some products to my kit.co page, which can be viewed from the signature. I know a lot of people don't like product placement, and that's why these are near the bottom of my pages. That way you can read the content you came here to read, and if you want to go look at my product pages, you can do so. It's mostly tea and snacks and random kitchen gadgets, but they're there to be looked at and bought should you wish to buy them.
We hope you have enjoyed this post, or have otherwise been enlightened by it. If you wish to support us financially, those links are in the signature. If you wish to visit our YouTube page that link is both in the signature, and available above if you want to go directly to the lives page. As always, stay tuned to my Mastodon for any spur of the moment live updates, with us they come at the most random times of the day. If you have any feedback or wish to contact us for any other reason, those links are in the signature, both our email and mastodon. See you in the next one.
If you have any feedback, or want to talk to me directly, you can contact me in the following ways. Email me Visit my mastodon page View and follow our Ko-Fi Blog
If you enjoy this content, and wish to support my work, feel free to send me money in the following ways: PayPal CashApp
This is a new section that I've decided to put in as of 11/08/2025. Here, I've listed all my other links of interest, which you may find neat to visit. Visit the Youtube Here Visit our LinkTree here The linktree has many interesting things on it, and also links back to this blog. Visit our shopping page here What is this? This is an aggregated page of all the Amazon products we enjoy or have enjoyed in the past. We use the name Life Upgraded (now Cadence's Finds) on there because we feel the products we've bought and recommend on this page have upgraded or improved our life significantly. This next part is something we have to put near any page recommending product links for legal reasons. We are not pushing our links on anybody, but they're there if you want to see them. Note: I am an Amazon Affiliate. If you choose to buy any of the products listed on any of the pages above, I may make a commission from such purchases. We may add more links to this signature later, if we find more that you may be interested in. Always feel free to visit the YouTube, the Linktree, or the Ko-Fi, listed above, for any other updates that aren't posted here. As always, thank you for reading, and we hope you enjoyed or were otherwise enlightened by this post.
Hello everyone, It has, yet again, been a while since we posted something here. Not quite as much of a white. granted, as it's been in the past, but all the same, we are sorry for said gap in posting.
Basically, it boils down to ... resting on account of lots of chronic pain, being sick, and cleaning little bits of the house when or if we have the energy. We also did a youtube livestream, though that was at a ridiculous time at night, so we didn't get any views, which was rather sad. We'll have to try and do another one here in the next couple days, and/or upload some of our old recordings that we recorded back in September, restart the upload schedule.
We are sorry that we didn't maintain the guaranteed 1 post a week that we thought we could. As explained above, chronic pain and the changing seasons hit really hard this month, and we haven't been as on top of ... much of anything ... as we'd like to be. Part of that is pain related, and part of that, we must be honest, is money related.
Note: This section is not here as an attempt to make anyone feel obligated. If you are able to help and wish to, please feel free to visit the links linked in the signature and do so. If you can't help, please try not to feel guilty or in any way obligated. We understand that everyone has their own situations, and their own needs, and may not always, or even usually, be able to assist, and we thank all of you in advance for reading this post and the below section at all. The past couple of weeks have been difficult for us financially. We've barely been able to buy groceries, and that only because we have EBT money and use it very sparingly. It turns out if you're careful feeding two people is a lot less annoying than feeding 3. But things that aren't covered by EBT are harder. Cleaning supplies, for instance, are difficult to buy. Medicines, especially those not covered by insurance, are particularly difficult to buy. And bills, particularly those from the more technology-based companies, like to just take money from your account on the due dates, without sending you any kind of warning. Which is what happened to us. We are currently negative $160 due to some bills that were paid automatically. Again, if you can't help, please don't feel guilty, reading our posts and engaging with us on mastodon is incredibly helpful as it is. However, if you are able and desire to help, the pay links are in the signature at the bottom of the post, please definitely feel free to do so.
If you got past that section and are still here, reading this post, thank you very much again. We really hate having to write about our money things in our blog, having to talk about needing mutual aid help, or what some would call e-begging. It doesn't make us feel good inside. We've been trying to apply for jobs that we can realistically do for about 2 years now, and get no responses. We don't know if it's something we're doing wrong or just that those companies found other applicants who fit the job better. It could also be that we don't have a high school diploma ... which we could fix if we had money ... kinda a circle of increasing poverty there. Can't get a job without a diploma. Can't get a high school equivalency without money, which you can't get easily without a job, which ... oh wait. you can't get without a diploma. Of course, if I'd stayed in high school in the first place I'd have one of those ... but I didn't. I had a good reason, I still believe that. My mother was being a bitch and I couldn't make it stop. I got overwhelmed, and I had to leave. But ... that's a story for another time.
We discussed this a bit earlier, but we're trying to remain consistent with some of the format from our previous posts, so there's now a heading here for YouTube updates. We did a livestream, as mentioned above, it lasted about an hour and 20 minutes. You can see out page of livestreams at the link below. click here to see our livestreams When we're actively streaming, that link will take you to the currently live stream. When we're not, it'll take you to a page showing our live tab, where all the previously streamed videos live. Unlike twitch, they don't get taken down after 14 days. They sit on your channel, so people can watch them. It's quite useful. I hope you enjoy them just as much as we enjoyed making them.
As mentioned in our last post, we're trying to get more consistent, and so we've kept up the life goals section from the last post. 1. We're still working on getting the money together to go to the SSA for Z's stuff. Again, don't know how much of that z wants shared, but that's still happening. 2. More importantly, and of higher priority, we're trying to fix our negative account balance. That goal is currently $160, though if we can't get that fixed we'll end up with insufficient funds fees and I'll have to up it based on those.
Keeping with the format of the last post, we're now moving on to the non-financial goals section. One day I'm hoping we can take out the financial goals section altogether. 1. I'm still hoping to get more posts put up on the blog so you guys have more content to read. 2. I am also hoping to get back into the recording schedule for the YouTube, along with livestreaming. If Z is interested, we'll do some combination streams.
This post is a bit longer than all the other ones, but all the same, we hope you have enjoyed it. We tried to separate things out by heading as much as possible, and where possible, put things into lists. Hopefully the markdown thing worked, and the lists came out the way I wanted them to. Hope you enjoyed, and we'll be back when we're able. If you want to visit any of our links, as always, they're in the signature. Thank you for reading.
If you have any feedback, or want to talk to me directly, you can contact me in the following ways. Email me Visit my mastodon page View and follow our Ko-Fi Blog
If you enjoy this content, and wish to support my work, feel free to send me money in the following ways: PayPal CashApp
This is a new section that I've decided to put in as of 11/08/2025. Here, I've listed all my other links of interest, which you may find neat to visit. Visit the Youtube Here Visit our LinkTree here The linktree has many interesting things on it, and also links back to this blog. Visit our shopping page here What is this? This is an aggregated page of all the Amazon products we enjoy or have enjoyed in the past. We use the name Life Upgraded (now Cadence's Finds) on there because we feel the products we've bought and recommend on this page have upgraded or improved our life significantly. This next part is something we have to put near any page recommending product links for legal reasons. We are not pushing our links on anybody, but they're there if you want to see them. Note: I am an Amazon Affiliate. If you choose to buy any of the products listed on any of the pages above, I may make a commission from such purchases. We may add more links to this signature later, if we find more that you may be interested in. Always feel free to visit the YouTube, the Linktree, or the Ko-Fi, listed above, for any other updates that aren't posted here. As always, thank you for reading, and we hope you enjoyed or were otherwise enlightened by this post.