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Welp. July was.... a very unexpected train wreck here at the end.

Still have a couple of July Patron Customs I'll be finishing up this week so we can get started on this month's order. So you'll be hearing updates very soon!

Where to start... Well. Round 2 of commissions is completed and shipped to all customers. I'm so thrilled with my work lately and makes me incredibly happy to do this.

Early/Mid July I got pretty under the weather with my period, took about 2 weeks to recover. Back on all my meds now and feeling much better, but it took up a lot of my free time during July.

Right here at the end of the month our Uncle passed away from heart attack. 
Our grandmother has also just passed away this week from a bad fall she couldn't recover from. 

My father this last week was hospitalized for staph infection. Today we got further news he's in more critical conditions and most likely will need permeant dialysis. We are waiting for more updates.

Junior, our rottie / middle dog, had a small injury during a dog walk this month. His bad leg with the ACL repair started to audibly pop every single time he walked or ran anywhere. He seems to be distracted by it. We have refilled his puppy advil and giving that to him twice a day which is helping.

Junior has been to his general vet, they can't do anything for his leg and suggest we go to the surgeon who worked on his ACL injury. So we have that scheduled and waiting for.

Junior did have to return to his general vet, his blood work and came back with high levels and we are currently doing more testing to see if he has Addison's disease. We are still waiting for results.

If you would like to help us out at all with Junior's vet bills, I have a ko-fi goal where I've been logging payments I get for art, adopts, & donations. 
And I've been just having a little bit of personal drama in my own life. I'm just really struggling and it is affecting my friendships.

So... I think we can all conclude July sucked. It's been... A long month. And it's all still not over. We're constantly on the phone with Prov's Mother to talk about dad and what medical decisions we need to be making and that he will be happy with.
So unfortunately it's going to spill over into this month while we work with our family to... get everything organized. 

Both prov and I can not afford to travel or go to anyone's funeral. We are very upset by this and would like to be there and support our families. But with covid and an active pandemic we are required to stay in isolation for my health.

Prov will be taking 2 weeks off from his work to... just grieve and recover. We'll spend this time cleaning up our home and start meal prepping. I would like to think we will stream too, we need lots of distractions right now.

Prov's school loan payments also start this month so we will have an extra $300 bill every month I have not planned for whoops.

I will not be taking any time off work because with Junior's vet bills coming up we do not have enough in savings. And if he is diagnosed with Addison's it will be a pretty big monthly bill for his medications. I need to start working harder and pinching more pennies now while I have this bare minimum head start.

So my  goal is to do a lot more kitchen cleaning / meal prep to save money on delivered meals.

Do my patreon speedpaint tier rewards for last month / this month.

And if there are any spoons left, I'll be opening for Round 3 commissions. Probably only make three slots in the next opening just because I'm wiped out and don't want to overburden myself.

And... I think that's everything on my plate. I think. I honestly might have missed stuff but... I'm so scrambled right now. Please know I'm trying my best.

I am here. I'm going to keep trying.

Thank you everyone for the support. Thank you for taking time to read this.

AJD . ART