Hello everyone, We are back with another update, as promised. We are trying to get better at this, and writing has always been where it starts for us. It was originally early in the morning, when we wrote this part, on November 10, so we may be a bit more rambling than usual, but in a way that's better than fewer words. It seems you guys enjoy the more rambling posts we've written in the past, so we'll work on including more words for you to read in these future posts.

Continued Updates from a few days ago

As mentioned a few days ago, we are still working on cleaning up the house from the whole roommate situation. It's a whole lot better than it was, but there is still a lot of progress to be made. One of our goals for the rest of this month is to buy some more cleaning supplies, and some more dishwasher pods. We may end up having to replace some dishes, though that will likely come later. We'll keep you updated on that.

Game Related Updates

We did, as mentioned a few days ago, get into some hearthstone. We enjoyed it quite a lot, and will likely be continuing to do so today. If we have the energy, we'll make some recordings with OBS and try to get back on our upload schedule for YouTube. We're not sure how much talking will be in these recordings, but at the very least we're hoping to get some gaming content up for you.

Blog Related Updates

Assuming the routine in the house remains relatively the same, we're thinking we can at the very least guarantee 1 post a week. If we're lucky, we'll be able to continue giving you these daily updates, even if we're just repeating and updating what we've already said. In order to vary up some of the topics we discuss up here, we may read back on some of our old posts and take concepts from them to write small “Rambling Musings” posts. For those who haven't read Rambling Musings, also known as Afternoon Musings, Evening Musings, or Morning Musings, if we feel like putting a time label on them, these posts were basically just us rambling and writing about what was on our mind. We're hoping to bring them back, and put some of them up here again, even if they're small and random. Our blog has always been a place of many tangents ... so we'll try to gradually bring back that old atmosphere.

Updates Related to Audio Posts

Since we're going to be doing some research and lots of house cleaning over the next few days, along with going to the SSA to help Z when or if we can get the transportation money, the audio post, also referred to on the YouTube channel as audio vlog, will likely not be happening for a few days. If we can, we'll try and make one by this Thursday or Friday. If we have time between all our tasks, we will do a livestream for you guys and play some battlegrounds and maybe a ranked battle or two. We are also hoping to get back into our Forza motorsport stuff, but keep getting distracted with various other endeavors. As interesting as Cosmic Rage can be, I can't help but think you'd find it highly boring if we streamed roleplay on a text-based game for you. Also, that game has a lot of drama, much as we try to avoid it, and we've always made our opinions of drama quite plain.

Signature Link Updates

We haven't added any new links to our signature, but for those of you who enjoy looking at our kit.co page, we have added a few new products to some of the kits. If you find that page inaccessible and actually want some of those links brought over to the blog, let us know and we will willingly write up product bundle pages that people can actually read and click through. We may do this anyways, but if there is interest, we'll put a higher priority on it. We will likely be starting back up our cross-updates to our Ko-Fi page, so for those of you who follow us there, you'll get emails when we write new blog posts up here, assuming we remember to post the link to the Ko-Fi. We are as always going to continue posting the links to our newest blog posts on Mastodon, so for those of you who follow us up there, always stay tuned for the latest blog post link. Once we find it, we will also be adding the RSS feed for this blog to our signature, so those of you who prefer RSS updates can use that.

YouTube and Podcast Updates

As mentioned in our last post, we do post audio posts, or audi vlogs, on the YouTube from time to time. We're gradually regaining our energy for ... life in general, so are hoping to start those up again. We have a podcast, Life Unfiltered, and we may link that in the signature as well. But we may also be putting our audio posts up there as well as on YouTube. We won't put our gaming updates up there, because gaming doesn't quite fit with the content vibe we're going for with Life Unfiltered, unless Z agrees to put games up there. That podcast is a shared thing between myself and Z, so we talk about every post that goes up there before it goes up.

A factual error I made

In the last post, we stated that each post starts as a heading level 1 on the main blog page. This is, in fact, incorrect, and we apologize for the wrong information. Both the post, and the signature, start with heading level 2's, so when reading the blog's main page, you can skip past the signature by hitting your shortcut to go to the next heading level 2, not the next heading level 1. We've done our best to remember to put the rest of the post at heading levels 3 and 4, so that you can get between posts with as little inconvenience and annoyance as possible. Again, apologies for the factual error, and we are doing our very best to fix it for you.

General Life Goals

We're going to try and put one of these bits at the end of each of our posts, before the closing and recap. Right now, we are working on the following. * We have to go to the social security office to get some government stuff sorted for Z. I don't know how much of that information Z wants discussed, but I have been told I'm allowed to say that much. Since it's Z's stuff, I try not to go beyond the limits of what information Z wants out there and what information Z doesn't. * In order to get to the social security office, we are trying to raise money for transportation. * Z also has some doctor appointments to get to in the next few days. We need to raise cash for transportation to those too. * We had to use our EBT cards to restock the house after our ex-roommate left (she wasted a whole lot of resources and we had to fix that) so any other cash that comes in will go to food and bills.

Non-Financial Goals

We're hoping that one day these will be 1 single section and we won't have to list our financial goals up here all the time, but since we do, this section is for the ones that aren't related to money. * As mentioned above, I'm hoping to get more posts written up on the blog. * I am also hoping to get back on a recording schedule for the YouTube. Before we dropped off we were releasing every day at 10 AM central time, so if we can manage, we'll start doing that again for you, along with the live streams. * If Z is interested, we will do a few combination streams, where the two of us play a game together.

Closing

We hope you have enjoyed this admittedly rather scattered blog post. We'll be back whenever we can be, hopefully within the next few days, to write more for you all. If you want to visit any of our links, as usual, they're in our signature. Thank you for reading, we'll see you in the next one.

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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, We didn't end up coming back to write last night, but we're back today. We were busy cleaning the house with the help of some of our sighted friends. They're very nice people, and come out to chill with us and help us out with some things from time to time. I don't know if they like their names being put out there on someone's blog, so I won't give their names here, but they are quite nice, and helped Z and us clean the kitchen a bunch. There's still lots of work to be done, but slow progress is better than no progress, as they say. In news not related to the house, we are gradually getting back into our games, more Hearthstone than anything else. We'll be getting back into our Forza as well, but in the meantime, are hoping to be able to do a stream for you sometime in the next few days. Probably not today or tomorrow, because we still have a lot more cleaning to do, but possibly Tuesday if we have some free time. For those who follow us on Mastodon, stay tuned to that space for updates and links. The main link to the channel itself is as always in the bottom of our freshly updated (as of yesterday) signature.

What's with the new links in the signature?

I know this is probably confusing to a lot of you. For those who read our blog and have done so for months or a year now, an extra block of text just appeared on the bottom of every post. That block of text is a bunch of links we are also putting content up on. We did our best to explain them in the signature, but we'll elaborate a bit more here.

The YouTube Page

It's a bit ... obvious what this link does, but for the sake of continuity and covering all bases, we'll put it in here anyway. This is the link to our main YouTube channel. We are ashamed to admit that we haven't posted anything up there in quite some time, but I'll take a look through the archives and see if I didn't, by chance, save some old recordings from July or August, before things got ridiculous, and throw those up there for you all to listen to.

The LinkTree

First, what is a Link Tree, someone who is unfamiliar with the concept may be asking? This is basically a page that shows all our links, with no other text elements, none of that. Each of them is labeled, but other than that, there is no text around them, none of that. Our twitch and a few other things are linked up there, but usually if we're going to use Twitch we post that link for your convenience on our Mastodon, which is also linked in the signature.

The Kit Page

We explained a little bit about what this is next to the link, but for ease of readability we'll type out a bit of a blurb about that here as well. The Kit page is a place where we've linked all our Amazon affiliate referral links.

Why are you passing out Amazon referral links?

Fair and valid question. The plain and simple answer is, I can't find a job right now. I've tried to apply for various jobs, tried to get into a lot of the platforms that supposedly pay you to do various tasks. Very few of them are accessible to visually impaired people, and sad as it is to say, very few companies, even in America, hell, especially in America, want disabled people working with them anymore because of our friendly neighborhood President. Back to the topic at hand, however. Why have I chosen to pass out Amazon links? I chose to do this, not mainly because of the commission, though as I'm always honest with my readers, yes, that was a factor. But I chose to do this because we get people coming to us constantly, asking what products we would recommend for various things. The kit page, listed below, under the name Life Upgraded, is a space where I list the products we've tried personally, even if we haven't bought them directly from Amazon ourselves for various reasons. Putting the link in my posts is not meant to push you to buy anything. It is meant to give you a place to look for the things we use, and buy them via our link, if you wish to buy them, and if you wish to support us while doing it. Disclaimer. I am not an Amazon associate or representative. I am simply an Affiliate who has aggregated product referral links for your viewing and convenience. I am legally required to disclose this, and legally required to make it plain that I cannot contact Amazon on your behalf. I am not a customer service representative there. With all the disclaimers and legal things out of the way, we'll move on to the next part of the blog post.

Future Plans

As mentioned above, we are hoping to be able to do a stream for you in the near future, but at the very least, plan to come back with blog posts every day or every few days. We make no guarantees as to a proper posting schedule right now because there's still a lot we have to get done in our physical space, but we will post updates when we can. If we can manage it, we'll get back into the audio posts we would make for you on YouTube. For those who haven't seen one of our audio posts yet, they're basically similar to this blog in a verbal form. We don't read out loud from the blog or anything, but will cover similar topics, more in line with our gaming and accessibility audience than the general ramblings of the blog. For those of you who have been with us since the beginning, you've seen the blog in all its phases. Plurality rambling space, goal setting space, absolutely nothing for a bit there, and we still feel bad for that ... but we're hoping to bring back the general atmosphere of the blog over the next few weeks to months, along with the YouTube. But since we're a bit better at writing in between times, we've started with this first, in hopes we can take it somewhere. If, in your reading of our past posts, you've found a topic you're interested in hearing more about, send us an email or contact us on Mastodon and we'll see about writing something up if we have the knowledge to do so.

Closing and Recaps

We hope you have enjoyed today's Sunday ramblings and that you've found the explanations of the new signature links educational, enlightening, or just in some way helpful to you. All those links will be listed below, rant.li still does it automatically for every single post unless we pin it. If that annoys you, we apologize. However, we've tried to make this a bit easier to navigate past by making the headings for each post heading level 1's, and the others subheadings, level 2, level 3, and so on. So if you wish to skip past the signature and you're using a screen reader, you should just be able to hit your keyboard shortcut to navigate to the next heading level 1, and you'll be able to start reading the next post. If you're viewing this as an individual post, there should be a link somewhere on the page to return to the main blog. We just looked, the link to return to the main blog from an individual post is at the very top of the page, next to the navigation bar of pinned posts. As always, if there's anything we can do to make your reading experience better, or if you have any constructive feedback, feel free to toss it our way at the email or mastodon profile listed below. If you enjoy our content and wish to support us financially, those links are listed below as well, and as explained above, if you wish to view an aggregated page of our product recommendations, our our Linktree, or our YouTube page, those are listed in the final section of the signature, under the label “Other links of interest”. Hope you enjoyed, thank you for reading, and we'll see you in the next one.

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Other Links of Interest

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 months since we've posted up here, and we are very sorry for that. But we're gradually getting back into our normal routine, and are hoping to come back with the blog first, and then the YouTube when we're more used to blogging. To answer the title question of this post, we have been very, very busy. For the first few months after we stopped writing, we had a lot of house related things to figure out. Then there was some drama that I won't go into, because it's over now and we don't like to remain stuck in the past. From June to October, we had a truly ... nightmarish ... person living in our house. I don't really want to go into all that, but for the sake of telling you where we've been, I will do so. This woman doesn't clean up after herself, had us all stressed out for 3 solid months, and is in general one of the most manipulative people we've ever met. We won't give her name here because ... we're far too nice for our own good. She was going to be homeless, needed a place to recover. We offered her a place to recover. The key word here being ... recover. Unfortunately, she was into the ... more ... wild ... part of energy healing. There are several stages we've found to one's belief in energy healing. Stage 1: This doesn't exist! It's not real! Stage 2: Okay, maybe it exists, but it won't help me. Stage 3: Ooh, this exists, it might help me, but I still need my medicines. (This is where it should ALWAYS stop in our opinion. It very rarely does) Stage 4: I ... may not need my medicines if I just do this energy healing thing all the time. Stage 5: I don't need medicines. I don't need doctors. I can just use hypnosis and energy to heal my existence, even if I have broken bones. The person who lived with us was deeply embedded in the mentality of what we refer to as “stage 5 energy usage”. It's not an official term, and it's not medical advice. It should not be taken as such. This woman had many mental health issues, including isolation and severe depression, along with some others I won't say for the sake of anonymity. Those who know us well know who we're talking about already. We asked her to get evaluated at the doctor, to get her state resources set up. She didn't do any of these things, and it was just, in general, a very stressful experience.

What's Next?

Good question, blogger voice in my head, and possibly person reading this. What's next is, repairing all the madness she caused. We've gotten the room she was in mostly fixed, though there are still some things we'd like to do to touch it up. Our main concern right now is the kitchen. We're going to have to replace a bunch of the dishes and probably a fair few of the pots and pans. But the silver lining, if one can call it that, is that once it's done, it won't be happening again. We're not letting anyone else come to live with us now ... and if we do it'll have to be someone we know really well or someone who's been thoroughly vetted. We enjoy helping people, but we can't hurt ourselves to do it. There was a whole lot more to the situation with she who will not be named living here, but I don't have the mental energy to type all that out again. I've told the story to a bunch of the people we know. Suffice it to say, next time someone says they can cook, clean and help you run a household, have them prove it BEFORE you help them into your house and can't get them to leave for shit. We'll leave that there for now.

Future Plans

After we get the house fully fixed, which will likely take a few solid weeks more of work, we're going to have to do a bunch more stuff. We need to get a better streaming setup so we can do our YouTube streams more effectively, but assuming we can make it behave, we'll stream for you guys at some point on this computer. Sometime in the new year, we'd like to go for some online courses, and possibly our GED finally, because we need that for pretty much any job. I'd quite like a job, I'm sick and tired of having to ask for money from people on the internet, it makes me feel ... small. Someday I'd like to be the one doing the helping. But I have to get my life in order before that can even begin to happen. That's going to mean a lot of doctor appointments, and a whole bunch of life changes. We'll keep you posted as best we can. We're hoping to be able to write more as time goes on, like we said earlier. We're quite a bit more rambling than we used to be, but in a way that's good, it makes for more material.

Closing

We hope you've enjoyed or gotten something out of today's blog post. We may be back to write later, especially if our brain remains in this hyperactive state it's in right now. If not later today, we'll try and come back to write tomorrow, depending on how busy we are with things around the house. Feel free to take a look at the signature below, we've edited it and added some new links we hope you will enjoy. If any of the links are inaccessible or give you trouble, feel free to send us a message via any of the contact methods listed in the signature, and we can try and help you to find what you're looking for. Again, hope you enjoyed, feel free to support us if you can or want to, and hopefully we'll see those of you who watch our streams on YouTube when we do one. See our mastodon for stream times and links, that's where we usually post that stuff. Mastodon is linked below in the signature.

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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, It's been a couple days, but perhaps we will become more regular with our posting over time. We hope everyone is doing well, and having a good week. Happy Wednesday!

First things first

We've created our second tier on our ko-fi, the $10 current fiction tier, and we've posted our first part to one of the many storylines we've been working on. If anyone is interested in excerpts, we are willing to provide small excerpts of our work. Normally we'd pass out our writing willingly ... well not entirely willingly, we're pretty self conscious about the whole procedure, but anyway. We'd normally give it for free, but we really need a steady income and as much as we've been applying for jobs and looking, we haven't yet been hired. To check out the first of many posts in the current fiction tier, visit this page where the post is located. If you're interested in an excerpt, send us a message via one of our contact methods found in the signature, and we'll get back to you as soon as we're able.

Slightly less positive news

Z is currently out of seizure medicine. Despite the obvious need for it, medicaid won't cover it for another 2 weeks, which, according to doctors, is too long for any epileptic to go without their medicine. These meds are pretty expensive, at $120 per bottle. So if anyone can help it would be appreciated. We'll be continuing to post things in our tiers, and may be introducing a middle tier again because $3 to $10 is a bit of a gap. We may also bring in commissions, where people can commission us to do things. A friend of ours has commissions on their page, though they're not a writer, they practice some type of energy healing. Apologies, we went on a bit of a tangent there, but the whole point to that entire paragraph is, if you can assist me with getting z's seizure meds, that would be incredible, I'd appreciate you quite a lot.

Closing

To summarize, since this post was a bit of a ramble, we created a new tier on our Ko-Fi page, and would appreciate if anyone who is interested subscribed to it. We've already posted part 1 to a storyline in that tier. Z, our housemate, needs seizure medicine, and any help that is able to be given would be appreciated. We hope you enjoyed the positive bits to this post. We'll see you in the next one.

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Other Links of Interest

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, Today, for the first time in a bit, we have some pretty big news. We've started the process of setting up tiers on our Ko-Fi. The first one is $3, and it's stories we wrote when we were in school. We have to be careful what we post on Ko-Fi because terms of service are a bit particular about what can and can't be posted, but if you're interested in the School archives page, we invite you to check out the first post to that tier here. It is behind a pay wall, and we apologize in advance for that. The cost is $3, but if you click the link above, the page should immediately show you the price and you can follow the prompts on the Ko-Fi page. We are also planning on starting up a slightly higher priced tier which will feature our currently in progress storylines. Since we write a lot of random things, this will probably be updated more often than the school archives. Feel free to visit the link above, or go down to the signature and visit our Ko-Fi as a whole to see what's on offer there.

Closing

We hope you've enjoyed this update, and hope that any who choose to subscribe to the tiers enjoy the content on offer. Thank you for reading. Kayla, Farren, Nicole, Elena.

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Other Links of Interest

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 all, It's been a few days since we updated the blog, but we're back again. This is going to be a combo post, updating on the things from the previous post and going into more detail.

Landlord Business

Our landlord came over again the other day because we had to get the septic system pumped out. We also had to have a plumber over to diagnose the problem ... plumbers, let me tell you now, are extremely expensive. We get why ... they're cleaning up the pipes, and from what we understand, pipes can get pretty gross. But still, plumbers are expensive! I had no idea until we had to call one out here. It turns out when the landlord said he wanted to build a wall in between the living room and the rest of the house, he meant a wall with a door. He didn't clarify, so we thought he meant, take a wall and block off the living room so we couldn't access it anymore. That is not what he meant. Thank goodness for that, we like our living room. It's where we watch television and listen to music and youtube videos.

In other News

We also had some friends come help us to deep clean the house, and they did a wonderful job. They're good people. We'd go into more about them, but don't know if they are or aren't ok with their information being on the Internet. We've also been writing stories from random prompts in our mind. If anyone's curious, we will try to pick some of the happier excerpts to share with the blog, just send us a message via one of our contact methods telling us you're interested. We are also trying to work on more blog posts outside our somewhat irregular updates. There are currently 13 titled blog posts in the works, though most of them need quite a bit more touching up and fine tuning before they'll be ready to put up here. In the meantime, we're hoping to become more regular with our updates on here, but to be completely honest, that will fully depend on our stress levels. Which brings us to our final, and not so positive point. Apologies in advance for ending on a negative note.

Financial News

Due to our landlord having us remove our third house mate, we are now financially hurting. We may be able to pay rent, but will have very little money after that is done. There is no specific goal as of yet, but if anyone can support us, it would be greatly appreciated. If anyone has work we can do, we'll take it. Note: When we say work, we mean standard jobs or even freelance work. No explicit stuff, we're not that kind of employee. You may be asking, “Why in the world do you need money?” The answer can be found by looking through our previous posts, which you should totally do if you're interested in our content anyways. But it can also be found here. We need cash because we live in a rural area that does not have cheap paratransit. Or, for that matter, any paratransit. In order to get anywhere, doctor's appointments, store, anywhere at all, we have to pay at least $15 each way in uber costs. We need to keep our house clean, and those types of supplies cost $20 for a group, $30 or more if you get the refills for the Swiffer mops, and the wet and dry pads. There are nights when neither of us can move to cook food, and on those nights we still need to eat. Meals cost money, at least $25 to feed two people. We'd really prefer a job, because as mentioned in our last post, we don't really like having to ask for cash from our online readers. It's not polite. But until we can find a job, this is what we have to do.

Closing

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Hello everyone, IT's been an age since we've put up a post, and we're very sorry for that. It's been an eventful few months, let me tell you that much.

What are we doing?

In December, the month was mostly uneventful. One of our roommates left to visit family for Christmas. January was uneventful until yesterday.

Yesterday

Yesterday, our landlord, called over to help us fix something, as he requested, did fix the item he was called over to fix. He then proceeded to walk around the house lecturing us about the various parts that weren't to his standard of cleanliness. He then made us kick one of the roommates out for ... some unspecified reason he still hasn't told us. Today he texted us to tell us that he wanted to rearrange our layout. Now that there are only two of us in the house, he'd like to help us save on electricity. He wants one of us to move to the back bedroom no longer being used by the recently kicked out roommate. That part is fine. He then suggested blocking off the entire living room by building a wall there. Not a wall with a door in it, not a wall with a gap so we can still get in there and watch television. Just ... build a wall there. We suggested accordion doors, but we're not sure if he'll pay for them. Installing them, according to the research we've done isn't that difficult. Our grandfather had one in a poorly insulated older house. It worked better than the French doors that he used to block the other rooms. Our point here is, we suggested accordion doors, but we don't know if he'll pay for or install them. Luckily Z is able to do a lot of assembly stuff so that probably won't be an issue. However, if anyone can assist, we are raising $150 for accordion doors. If we raise it and it turns out that the landlord will in fact pay for them, that cash will go to getting Z a bed so Z doesn't have to sleep on the couch anymore. Pay links are below in the signature, under the support heading.

In other news

We don't really like to end our posts on a negative note, so we'll share some positive updates. Our doctor gave us new medicines that work. We won't go into much of that but the medicines we're taking are working well and we've been able to function better. We may actually be able to follow through with some of those goals from like a year ago. We started playing a roleplay game that we are ... a bit iffy about right now but perhaps it will grow on us eventually. We are also working on finding a job, because while you guys are amazing to us we shouldn't be always asking for random money from our online community. It's not polite, and we are sorry that it has come to this so frequently.

Closing

We thank you for reading our update and financial aid request combination. Assuming the landlord doesn't stress us out too much tomorrow we will attempt to post an update. If you have feedback for more things you'd like to see on the blog, shoot us an email or send us a message on mastodon. If you wish to support us so we can grow to make more content for you all, please feel free to do so, but only if it won't put you in a rough spot. Again, thank you for reading, and we'll see you in the next one. Kayla, Farren

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Hello everyone, We're back again by some miracle ... who knows why. But ... we're here. For our readers in the US, we hope you all had a happy Thanksgiving. For everyone else, happy Friday. Here in the United States, a huge thing is Black Friday. Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving. According to the research I just did, most countries celebrate it in some capacity. We've never liked Black Friday, not because we're super capitalist and against sales. But because we're disgusted with just how ... frenzied ... people get in order to get their Black Friday deals. To illustrate that point, it's story time.

Story Time, Black Friday Edition

I was 5 years old, and by this point in life knew that every Thanksgiving we would go to Illinois to celebrate with Mother's family. That's tradition, therefore that's what happened. Thanksgiving day was never our favorite because they'd crowd 45 people into a space the size of maybe a standard living room with an attached kitchen. While crowded into this space, they would proceed to do things like scream loudly for no given reason, have food fights, yell at football, loudly, argue dramatically with each other about the best way to cook a turkey, and in general have precisely zero celebration of what school taught me Thanksgiving was supposed to be. But I could get away from that madness. They had a basement. A cold, quiet, big basement with a bed and pillows. I could get away from them ... Black Friday was a different story. For obvious reasons, us kids couldn't stay home alone at 5 years old ... that is some form of illegal in a lot of states I believe. But that didn't stop my family. Mother, Margy, and Leah along with their very loud pack of screaming lunatics would leave at 4 in the morning, leaving us kids in the care of the men. That wouldn't last long. One year there were no men present: they all had to work. So all of us got bundled into the car, a suburban, and taken out to town. There, we'd be dragged through store after store. Often used as placeholders in the lines while the rest of the adults continued to shop. Oh, you're hungry? We're shopping right now. We haven't eaten in 12 hours? Oh that's fine, it's shopping time. We were treated like dolls. Try this clothing on. Play with this toy and see if it works. Oh you're having fun? Stop playing now and give that here so I can buy it. The other kids grew to love it. They found it great fun to try on endless clothing and run about to endless stores. But even back then I couldn't stand for long periods of time. I remember distinctly feeling tired, bone tired, more tired than I'd ever felt in my life ... and knowing it wasn't normal. Knowing that it's not normal to need 3 days to recover from walking across a town... But Mother was determined. And the more I struggled, the worse her mood got. One time I fell down. I'd gotten mashed into by a frenzied shopper heading for a display of toys and trying to get there before Margy. I wasn't doing well, so it didn't take much to push me over. My mother didn't react well. I was accused of making a scene. I was taken home and told, “Since you don't want to behave for shopping time, you get no food and no Christmas presents.” Exact. words. verbatim. I got no dinner that day. She wasn't allowed to follow through with the no presents comment, I assume Dad told her no, that's not a thing you get to do. I got books and clothes that year.

Why in the world did we just tell you all that?

As we were typing, we were wondering the same thing. But I've come to a conclusion now. I told this story because I don't want the same thing to happen to anyone else. To anyone reading this with a plan to go out shopping on Black Friday, please remember this. Be safe. Be kind. Accommodate those with you, even if it costs you your place in line at some store. No item is worth losing yourself to the shopping frenzy.

Credits

This post was written by Kayla and Eva. Eva's contributions, the story time section, were edited by Farren for coherence and readability. We hope ... not that you've enjoyed this post, but that you have learned something and gotten perspective from it. Thank you for reading.

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Hello again all, We're back, as promised, with today's update. Not much to say that we haven't already said. See the previous post, entitled “A peek into the chaos” for more info about that stuff. What there is to say however, is as follows:

What have we been up to?

Over the past couple days, we've spent a lot of time in what we like to call personal reflection. We don't often post this reflection material on the blog, because it's very intimate and ... well frankly very confusing. We spend this time journaling and trying to pull apart and reassemble the strings of our brain until it all makes sense. It's an always in progress goal ... we doubt we'll ever make sense of everything. When we're not in our own head, we've spent some time scrolling mastodon, and some more time playing space games, text based with soundpacks are our favorites, or listening to music. We think that we've discussed our musical tastes on here a few times, and planned to do a pinned post discussing that. It will still happen ... just not right now because we have a pounding migraine. But we promised the audience an update, so an update we are giving. For those who wonder what space muds we play, we go between Cosmic Rage and Prometheus. We've recently gotten into Erion, but haven't played that in a couple days. We get really really into that one, but during the day we try to remain alert to our surroundings. Well, as we expected, this is a pretty tiny post. We'd like to take a quick minute to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving if you're in the US, that will be happening tomorrow for us. If you're not in the US, have a happy Thursday tomorrow. We likely won't post tomorrow, so see you all in the next one.

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Hello everyone, Today's post is a bit different... something we hope not to have to make a regular occurrence. We appreciate your support and the fact that so many people come around to read what we have to say... and apologize for the fact that this won't be what you all are used to. We'll try and also do an update post if we have the time/energy later on. In a post a few days back, I mentioned that Z injured z's knee. It's still sprained and healing, as things tend to go with most medical conditions. We do not have ice packs, and as those who have had similar injuries may know, ice can be essential in the healing process. So we are asking for enough cash to get an ice maker. For those who are curious we would likely get one that is button-based because all of us are visually impaired in this house. For those of you who prefer exact links before you feel able to assist, check out this page containing a likely ice maker candidate We require ziplock bags, both for making ice packs and for keeping our snacks fresh, and are currently out. We've also reached the point near the end of the month where it's time to do a deep clean of the kitchen for the sake of our health, but have reached said point with a lack of any finances which ... are unfortunately needed to get things such as bleach, pine-sol, more laundry detergent, wash cloths, and a spray bottle to make our mixture for cleaning surfaces. I know ... that's quite a lot. That ice maker is currently on Black Friday clearance for $53. The rest of those items are as follows: Please note: Since we have more characters to work with, as this is a blog post, we'll give you what we've never been able to give you before: a list of the prices for these items we're asking for money to buy. * bleach is $5.72 * Pine-sol is $9.98 * Cloths are $5.78 * Ziplocks are $5.98 * Spray bottle is $1.24 * Laundry detergent is $5.44 * And finally, a delivery fee to get everything here reasonably quickly is $10. If you add all those together, that gets up to about $100. We understand that this is a huge ask, especially around Thanksgiving, and would be extremely thankful for any assistance that comes our way. This should go without saying, but we like to make it clear anyway. We appreciate all assistance, but please do not assist us if you do not feel able to do so. For those who are unable to assist, that's all right. We will have an update out later on today ... if we're able. Support links can be found in the signature below. Thank you for reading and for any assistance you can provide.

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