He’s the best kid in the world. He’s 10 years old, autistic, and charming as heck. I love spending time with him.
I just found out just a couple of days ago that my ex–my son’s other mom–is suing me for full custody of our son because I am living in California rather than Massachusetts (even though she knows I have been working hard to move back). In order to avoid losing the case out of hand, I need to move back to Massachusetts much sooner than anticipated–early February rather than late August– to avoid losing access to my son.
My son is the most important person in my life. I talk to him every day and I do everything I can to see him as often as possible. I am hoping to go back to having him live with me 2-3 days per week once I am back east, since that is what I did before.
For the past several years I have been disabled and unable to work. After years of struggling I moved across the country in 2016 to be with my (ex) partner who said they would take care of me and make sure I would be able to see my son as often as I needed to. That relationship ended because they were abusive, leaving me stranded and broke in San Diego.
Since then, I have gotten help for my disability and I am working again and going back to school. I am rebuilding my life. I am making just enough to pay for my own rent and food and I can put a little bit aside. I will have just enough money in cash and loans in early february to rent a van and move myself and my best friend/partner back to New England, but I can’t do it safely without a little bit more money.
This is a bare bones, budget move where I will arrive with almost nothing to move into a new apartment and barely enough money to pay rent.
I am putting in $4300, which breaks down to:
$800 Van Rental $400 Gas and Tolls $400 Hotels and Food for 5 days $2700 Move in rent and security for the new apartment
I still need at least another $2500 by early February:
$800 furniture so that my son can have a place to live with me $700 expenses for while I am finding a job $1000 retainer for my lawyer, just to get started
I will continue to work as hard as I can to make it happen even if I don’t reach my goal, but I really don’t want to end up being homeless after all of this.
Please help as much as you can. My son is so important to me and I can’t even imagine losing him.
My heart is heavy to even say this – I am homeless. I am writing this from inside a local McDonalds because it is freezing outside. My social worker is working on finding me a motel to stay in, but I am scared to be out here with nowhere to call home. The shelters are full tonight, and most of those are not even wheelchair accessible.
My heart is breaking – I have lost everything I once had. I was enrolled in university, living in student residence, and making friends. It all went south on November 14th, 2017 when I tried to end my own life. I was admitted to the psychiatric ward until December 4th, 2017. When I came home, the university said they were concerned for my safety and they could not offer me the resources I needed to be well mentally. I was asked to leave my only wheelchair accessible home.
Tomorrow I am going into the school to appeal their decision to evict me from student residence. No one should be treated badly simply because they have mental health struggles. I am going to therapy and taking all the necessary steps to ensure I do not end up back in the hospital.
Tonight I will stay in a motel with the money fundraised and see where it goes from here. My mother is still working on making the necessary renovations to our family home but we need your help. Please reblog this and share it everywhere.
If you can, please click here to make a monetary donation to my GoFundMe.
this poor baby showed up at my house a few days ago, refused to leave, isn’t microchipped, and is currently hanging out in my front yard while i look for a possible owner and figure out if he could potentially be a good fit with the rest of my fur babies. he’s very sweet, but he’s not fixed, which is an issue i would definitely have to take care of and don’t know if i have the resources for. but he’s so sweet???
(p.s. dog side of tumblr, any ideas on what kind of pupper he is? don’t know if you can tell from the pic but he has one ice blue eye and one dark brown. not pictured is his big, fluffy tail.)
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just dropped the baby off at the vet for a bath to get rid of his ticks and probable fleas as well as a general health work up. they’re running a special this month on spaying/neutering for $99, so i’ll probably talk to them about setting up an appointment for that when i go to pick him up. still looking to see if he’s been lost, but i get the feeling he’s mine now. dude definitely picked the right house to fixate on. god knows i’m the softest of soft touch when it comes to animals.
frankie is currently sulking and making sad puppy whines because his new best friend has disappeared. dude. he’ll be back this afternoon. chill out. you’ve known him all of four days. there’s no need to go all romeo and juliet about it.
indiana bones is home from the vet. he’s all vaccinated up, confirmed to be heartworm free, has had a flea bath, was held down and force fed an oral treatment for the many many MANY ticks on his poor self, and has an appointment to get his manhood removed on friday.
so i guess i have another dog now.
at least frank sinpawtra is happy about it.
i really, really, REALLY debated doing this, because it seems like so much to ask, but i’ve set up a ko-fi account. my bills are high because of the holidays and i’m currently looking at my next bi-weekly paycheck being roughly half of what it usually is and while i’ve always budgeted to account for my pets in the past, i was seriously not expecting a new one to turn up out of no where. if you can spare even a little bit to help offset the unexpected vet bills i’m currently looking at, i’d be so incredibly appreciative.
I think he might be a husky mix, between the brown/blue heterochromia and the face markings and some things about his overall shape. Not sure what else might be in there, though.
If you were Australian, I’d think he was a Cattle Dog mix, but they’re not as common in the USA.
See this beautiful sleepy puppy? This is @taibhsearachd and my baby girl, Ace. We’ve had her since she was a teensy tiny flea-covered stray barely old enough to be away from her momma, and for the last decade she’s been our best girl.
Tomorrow, Ace is going to the vet to have surgery to remove a breast tumor that developed very abruptly while we were moving to Kansas in late October. We’re finally able to afford the surgery – just barely.
Because we don’t know what the biopsy will say, we’re not sure how much more money (besides what I’ll be paying tomorrow, mostly cleaning out our bank account) this will take. And that’s okay – she’s our baby and we’ll do whatever we have to in order to take care of her. But we have other animals, and we have to eat and pay for gas to drive to work, and pay bills, and this surgery is cleaning us out of pretty much our entire safety net.
If you have any money to spare, please consider donating to our YouCaring fundraiser. We’re not asking for much, we’re not even trying to cover the whole nearly $700 the surgery will cost, we’re just trying to recover a bit of a cushion so that if anything goes wrong, we won’t be at a loss, trying desperately to survive in the wake of it.
Thank you so much for your care and attention. Ace thanks you too.
Hi, Tumblr. I’m a queer genderfluid Latinx Pagan, working a full-time job with bipolar disorder, anxiety, and PTSD. While I can get by when things are going well, I moved at the end of October, and had several unexpected expenses that came up, including $325 in locksmith fees when my keys went missing. (Yes, I got scammed. Beware locksmiths who tell you it’s just $15 to come out, and the locks are $35 and up. The “and up” will excuse all manner of fuckery, and they probably won’t even be able to unlock your door.)
I’m offering tarot readings so I can make ends meet this month. I need meds (a monthly supply is over $100 by itself when you factor in both the prescriptions and the OTC stuff like allergy meds and prilosec) and cat litter, and ideally a good chunk of January’s rent so I don’t have to pay $110 in late fees again. For that reason, I’m asking a lower price than I would otherwise.
One-card readings are $2, three-card readings are $5, and 5-card readings are $7. For more complex readings (9 cards and above), I charge a flat $15. The only exception is for polyamorous relationship readings, which are $30 for polycules of more than three people, because they tend to require multiple layouts to fully map all the relationships involved. I’m happy to do them, they’ll just take time and a lot of space.
I’ve been reading tarot since 1994, and read professionally back in 2005, when I was living in New Orleans. Although I’m happy to read for any topic, I specialize in:
Relationship readings, especially for QUILTBAG, poly, and kinky folks. Need a reading that accounts for unique relationship dynamics, or three or more people? I’ll be happy to do that for you.
New Year’s readings, focusing on what you’re bringing with you from 2017, and what’s yet to come in 2018.
Spirituality, particularly questions about what’s going on with your chosen god(s) and how to improve your relationship with them.
EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE. WHY. No, really, if it feels like everything’s falling apart, I have a couple of different spreads I can do to shed light on what’s going wrong, what you’re better off leaving behind, and how best to rebuild.
Readings for other diviners. Have specific associations with certain cards, and you just need someone else to lay the cards out for you without giving you their own interpretation? I’ll give you 50% off the cost of any reading if all you need is a copy of the results, sans interpretation.
I’m also offering an eleven-rune reading for $9. I read with the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc as opposed to the conventional Norse Futhark. Spiritual questions only,
What you get: unless you request otherwise, I’ll email you a pdf file with a picture of the reading, a list of card/rune positions and what they mean, and my interpretations.
If you don’t need a reading, or can’t afford to help, please reblog. I’m really struggling right now, and I’m doing my best to provide something of value in exchange, so every signal boost helps. Also, if I give you a reading and you like what I do, please reblog and say so.
Want details on the decks I use/looking to request a specific deck? More info on that under the cut.
Hi y’all, so this is my dear dear DEAR TO MY HEART partner Jaqui (sometimes Jacks when I’m feeling silly) and we had to leave them behind in Florida when the Great Landlord Debacle went down. Not only do we miss them horribly, but they helped us out a lot when we were trying to get by and they were the only one bringing in much money.
I can definitely attest that their readings are top fuckin notch. They’ve read for me before and honestly I got some of the clearest (and most smack-upside-the-head, honestly) results I’ve ever gotten from a reading.
They are a wonderful person who’s been through a fucking LOT in the past year alone, and if you have any interest or know anyone who might, we’d love a signalboost. Thank you so much!
hey, it’s channukah and i’m broke. i need money to get to services this friday and saturday—i haven’t been able to go for a while due to money being tight and me being ill and i’d like to at least not miss channukah services.
i’m multiply disabled, estranged from family and living on benefits rn. i’ve just recently stopped being homeless/insecurely housed. things are pretty stressful right now.
you can donate via paypal here. even just a little helps, it all builds up. thank you for your time and attention and chag sameach to my fellow jews 🕎
hey, i forgot to include my paypal.me link: it’s paypal.me/zacknesvitsky
i’m homeless now i think. i dunno. my mom told me i could leave so i did. i’m, uh. kind of in shock i guess? i don’t know if this is real.
but uh. hi, my name’s john. i’m a seventeen year old transgender minor who has schizophrenia, autism, and dissociative identity disorder. i can’t drive, i don’t have a bank account, or a car, or a place to stay. i didn’t get kicked out, i’d probably be welcome if i went back home, but…i dunno. i’m trying to come to terms with things. i don’t know what i should really be asking for here. there’s three issues i’m worried about, i guess.
a) medication. i’m on a lot of really important medication that keeps me functioning (makes me less prone to unreality issues like hallucinations or delusions and the likes), one for my hypothyroidism that keeps me from gaining weight rapidly, antidepressants, and adderall. i’m a little bit worried about how i’ll do without them, but i don’t really know how anyone could help with that.
b) money. i have a paypal account, and i recently got a bank account under my mother’s name, but. considering everything i’m sure she’s disabled my card by now, not that it matters considering i only had twenty dollars on it, but like, fuck. i guess i’ll put a donations link at the end of this post or something, and then see what i can do about getting a debit card.
c) shelter. i don’t have anyone in town who doesn’t know my mom/that wouldn’t take me back to her right away if i told them what happened, so i’m kind of pressed on that for now. i literally have no idea how to resolve this. the closest person to me that i trust is in WA, and the person i trust the most is in OH. i’m in UT, so i don’t know how to resolve that either. i don’t have any way of buying a bus ticket or anything until i get a bank account, which i don’t know how to do, because i’m underage.
i have my laptop, a cell phone that my mother has already disabled, my drawing tablet, a nintendo switch, a 3ds, two jackets, one sweatshirt, two pairs of pants, one pair of socks, one pair of shoes that need to be replaced, $2.12, and three pairs of glasses. i dunno why i picked up the things i did. i was kind of freaking out. i have no fucking idea what i’m going to do.
if anyone has advice, or money to spare, i’d appreciate that.
knitting in the dark 