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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This is a new section that we've decided to put in as of 11/08/2025. Here, we've listed all our other links of interest, which you may find neat to visit. Visit Our 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 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 we've decided to put in as of 11/08/2025. Here, we've listed all our other links of interest, which you may find neat to visit. Visit Our 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 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 we've decided to put in as of 11/08/2025. Here, we've listed all our other links of interest, which you may find neat to visit. Visit Our 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 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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This is a new section that we've decided to put in as of 11/08/2025. Here, we've listed all our other links of interest, which you may find neat to visit. Visit Our 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 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

We hope you enjoyed the good parts of this post, and are sorry we had to post the not so good parts. We hope that posts will get better in the future. Again, if you're interested in our fantasy work, send us a message. See you all in the next one.

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If you have any feedback, or want to talk to us directly, you can contact us in the following ways. Email us Visit our mastodon page View and follow our Ko-Fi Blog

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If you enjoy our content, and wish to support our work, feel free to send us money in the following ways: PayPal CashApp

Other Links of Interest

This is a new section that we've decided to put in as of 11/08/2025. Here, we've listed all our other links of interest, which you may find neat to visit. Visit Our 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 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 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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Other Links of Interest

This is a new section that we've decided to put in as of 11/08/2025. Here, we've listed all our other links of interest, which you may find neat to visit. Visit Our 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 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 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.

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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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Hello all, Once again, it's been another age and a half since we've updated. We keep saying that we're going to update more often and then shit gets in the way and we just can't or don't. But we're going to do a quick update today because ... don't know, why not.

What have we been doing?

Well, things have been crazy busy here the past fair bit. We had to go look and figure out when the last time we wrote was. Turns out it was the 18th of October. Interesting ... wish we were keeping up on this more. Apologies, we ramble quite a lot. We were supposed to post about this about a month ago but have been sick or dealing with migraines or sleeping and didn't. Z, who we've mentioned on here many times, somehow managed to injure Z's knee, and without going into too much detail, we've been helping Z with a lot of stuff when we're up. That has taken up a fair bit of our time over the past month. However, we don't mind, and would rather use our energy to help someone we care about than use it to worry about things we can't change. Which leads us into our next point. We've been working on changing our way of seeing things. We used to worry quite a lot about just random out there things, get paranoid pacing around the room upset. But we've been trying to redirect our attention away from that kind of mindset. Instead of, for instance, being paranoid about having not put the food away after dinner, put it away after you're done with it, then write down that it's done or complete it with Finch. That's not an actual example, but a hopefully illustrative one nonetheless. The past few days, we've been doing laundry like crazy. We've not caught up on it for months ... not because we didn't want to, but because we were just that sick and screwed off that we never got around to it. But the other day I finally, yes, finally, at 25 years old, learned how to use laundry detergent without making a room-sized mess. Why did it take us this long to know what to do with laundry detergent? Well, for that we have to tell you a bit about our mother.

Our Amazing (sarcasm) mother

Our mother believed, and probably still does believe, that the most important thing about a person is the way they are publicly perceived. Due to this, she would do a number of things. At a young age, we were not allowed to learn to take trash out to the trash cans. We wanted to ... not because we wanted to help her but because other kids were doing it. She instead chose to teach us how to function at formal dinners. At times to the point of screaming at us because we didn't know how to use a knife with our food. We weren't taught that either until our VI teacher told her off for not teaching us to use silverware with some hint of common sense. That's the only reason we were ever taught much of anything. That all changed when we were 14 years old. Suddenly we were expected to know how to do chores. Wash the dishes, she would say. How? You never taught us how. Take out the trash she'd say. Again, how? Where is out? Then she showed us trash cans. Only then did we know where trash went on trash day and why it was so important to gather up one's trash the day before and have it ready.

Back on Topic

Well, that was a tangent about our mother, brought to you by a combination of the littles, Martha, and Farren translating it to something able to be understood by the average person. Now that we know how to use laundry detergent, we've been doing so like mad. 2 loads went in last night, and we've already done 2 today, 3rd is going through. Not that random people on the internet are interested in our chores, but if you're curious what we've been up to ... nothing terribly interesting. Chores and living our life.

What's next?

Should we somehow manage to get a consistent posting schedule going, which ... well, go scrolling down the blog and see how well that's gone ... we'll possibly do some more posts about games and tech that we mess with. We'll continue the updates as regularly as we can manage, but no guarantees on how frequent those will be.

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This post was written by Kayla and the littles. Input by the littles was directed and assisted by Martha. Edits were made by Farren. We hope you've enjoyed reading.

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