Sorry For The Quietness - Update
8 years ago
Hey y'all.
Since this is what I think most of you are curious about. This is my current queue and I am currently -CLOSED- for everything til I catch up. If you're not on this list, and you should be, please message me and let me know.
Star Wars ($ = paid, Underlined = sketched and approved)
Highyena - $
AvatarSong - $
Magarnan - $
Lionel - $
Clothoverlord - $
Jarrikk - $
RogueWander - $
perdikitti - $
Lionel - $
Mozdoc - $
EpicDragon55 - (half sketched, half paid)
Sketches/Etc, ($ = paid, Underlined = sketched and approved)
MajicPolarBear - $
RogueWander - $
nilapony - $
AevalPanthera
DesertRose
The reason behind the quietness/being AWOL.
I've been trying to keep people up to date with what's going on on this side of the computer, but also trying to avoid unloading on all of you every single day. I will give just a general update as of right now, just so you guys can understand where I'm coming from.
When all was said and done with my mother, after 35 years(actually 40 but she took a break for college and they only count the time in a row) of working at her job, she was fired on Thursday of last week. It was a job she loved and the only real job she ever had. So even though she knew it was probably coming, it was a hard blow. As of right now, we have a plan in place but as a family we've got enough for the important bills(utilities and mortgage) and we're getting help for food, however right now mom's medical bills are the main worry. She's trying to work out with how to pay them something still, but it's going to be rough in this current situation.
She has applied for unemployment as well as SSI Disability. But we're still waiting for both to kick in as well as her last paycheck.Since she now has no job, she also has no health insurance as of the 1st of next month. So we're trying to race to each of her doctors to get in a last appointment for a while until we can get a good budget together to decide how much she can afford for insurance. Because of her health issues, my mom can't drive. So I have been the one running around and driving her from here to there, or picking up things for her, or sending things off in the mail to make sure that this transition process goes as smoothly as possible.
I was planning on starting college this fall along with a part-time job, but since my mom can't help me out now with the first semester's tuition, I'm probably not going to be able to do school. I am thinking instead of trying to find a full time job instead to help out with my family's finances, even if most of it went to helping to pay down my mom's medical bills. At this same time, I have a friend's wedding coming up in Oct and I am helping her with all her DIY stuff that's needed whenever my sister has a free day off that we can go together.
All of this has left me rather emotionally/physically drained at the end of the day and so I haven't been working on as much art. Still some each day, but it's been slow and I am sorry about it guys. Now that we're a bit more stable, I'm back to pushing myself harder to finish all that I owe. i'm just kind of tackling the list at what I can finish fastest first, instead of being strict about order, so that way hopefully people will get commissions faster since I'll be able to get the pics that are talking to me for the day out first.
I love all you guys, and I'm so very sorry for the chaos that i may have caused. But I'm trying my best to fix it.
Since this is what I think most of you are curious about. This is my current queue and I am currently -CLOSED- for everything til I catch up. If you're not on this list, and you should be, please message me and let me know.
Current Commission QueueStar Wars ($ = paid, Underlined = sketched and approved)
Highyena - $
AvatarSong - $
Magarnan - $
Lionel - $
Clothoverlord - $
Jarrikk - $
RogueWander - $
perdikitti - $
Lionel - $
Mozdoc - $
EpicDragon55 - (half sketched, half paid)
Sketches/Etc, ($ = paid, Underlined = sketched and approved)
MajicPolarBear - $
RogueWander - $
nilapony - $
AevalPanthera
DesertRose
The reason behind the quietness/being AWOL.
I've been trying to keep people up to date with what's going on on this side of the computer, but also trying to avoid unloading on all of you every single day. I will give just a general update as of right now, just so you guys can understand where I'm coming from.
When all was said and done with my mother, after 35 years(actually 40 but she took a break for college and they only count the time in a row) of working at her job, she was fired on Thursday of last week. It was a job she loved and the only real job she ever had. So even though she knew it was probably coming, it was a hard blow. As of right now, we have a plan in place but as a family we've got enough for the important bills(utilities and mortgage) and we're getting help for food, however right now mom's medical bills are the main worry. She's trying to work out with how to pay them something still, but it's going to be rough in this current situation.
She has applied for unemployment as well as SSI Disability. But we're still waiting for both to kick in as well as her last paycheck.Since she now has no job, she also has no health insurance as of the 1st of next month. So we're trying to race to each of her doctors to get in a last appointment for a while until we can get a good budget together to decide how much she can afford for insurance. Because of her health issues, my mom can't drive. So I have been the one running around and driving her from here to there, or picking up things for her, or sending things off in the mail to make sure that this transition process goes as smoothly as possible.
I was planning on starting college this fall along with a part-time job, but since my mom can't help me out now with the first semester's tuition, I'm probably not going to be able to do school. I am thinking instead of trying to find a full time job instead to help out with my family's finances, even if most of it went to helping to pay down my mom's medical bills. At this same time, I have a friend's wedding coming up in Oct and I am helping her with all her DIY stuff that's needed whenever my sister has a free day off that we can go together.
All of this has left me rather emotionally/physically drained at the end of the day and so I haven't been working on as much art. Still some each day, but it's been slow and I am sorry about it guys. Now that we're a bit more stable, I'm back to pushing myself harder to finish all that I owe. i'm just kind of tackling the list at what I can finish fastest first, instead of being strict about order, so that way hopefully people will get commissions faster since I'll be able to get the pics that are talking to me for the day out first.
I love all you guys, and I'm so very sorry for the chaos that i may have caused. But I'm trying my best to fix it.
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-big, giant hug-
Hope all works out smoothly for everyone, and I want to throttle someone at your mom's work for shoving her and the rest of you into such a crap situation. :/ Not fair or right at all if you ask me. *hug* keep your chin up and smile, ok? Y'all will get through this. :)
All else can wait.
I used to work in medical billing and eventually got laid off when the company was going under - through all this, I learned about the COBRA side of health insurance, which might be something her situation/your state has going? Her employer should be required to give her notification/paperwork about it if so, but you might want to do some googling to find out even if not. It's basically a continuation of health insurance for a certain period (several months generally) that you pay a certain amount to your previous employer and they have to keep paying a portion as well, kind of like it probably was when you were employed. It saved my bacon when I was between jobs and just couldn't afford to not have insurance. It's hard when your finances are still tight, but I have basically accepted at this point in my life (and my husband's) that between our meds and doctor's visits and everything, we can't *not* be insured pretty much ever again, whatever it takes. I hope that maybe helps in some way, best of luck to you and yours!
((hugs if you want them))
Was wondering where u been.
Sorry to hear all that.
This Summer seems to be hard on a lot of people. :(
I know that messing with SSI Disability is a pain, we went through it with Shrag and had to send so many papers... He did most of it but I had to help a lot. With luck time will straighten things out.
Wishing you some better fortune soon. Feel free to say hi if you need me.