Patreon post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/76746437

Hey everyone, AJ here with all the updates!

With the winter cold flip flopping around where we live, it's been a bit of a struggle with our health. Constantly causing joint tenderness and flare us. We're mostly focused on the struggle of getting through our day-to-day.

We do not have any helpers currently for inside of our home which is where we really need it. I will work with Prov to get us updated on our covid booster shots and getting some hired help to start cleaning up around the house on a weekly basis.. I hope.

I have a doctor's appointment today! I've been off my medications now for a while since they refused to fill them until I came to the clinic in person for a visit. I scheduled it immediately but it was still about 2 months out.... So it's been a frustrating waiting time to get depression, stomach, anxiety, birth control all filled. I am excited to have access to my meds again after this visit.

At this time I believe my current medications are not helping, now that I've been off them a while I feel no differences in pain levels. Only thing that seemed to help is the meds for my stomach. So I will be requesting to get off the anxiety meds I have and to change my depression meds. Next 3 months will be a fun ride to get adjusted to them. 

Otherwise just AJ and Prov surviving day to day for the most part. Prov working hard to stream more games and I'll be hanging out with him on voice or chats - so be sure to join us! We're lonely and we want peeps to chill with!

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Pillowing Pile updates - we're currently working on the species website. Holidays kept us real busy but now things should be back to normal and I'm excited to share any updates about it with you patrons!
I will be reviewing the writing submissions for the group to earn cc, getting them new rules and prizes, clear it with the mods, and get it implemented for everyone.

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Artwork and posting online - I'm still not well enough to take care of myself at this time. So I will not be making an effort to do public posting through postybird to update my galleries and social media. Patreon updates and discord updates will remain the same as usual.

I don't want my art blocked up by a pay wall, I'm just literally too sick and spoonless to do anything about it. I will try to figure it out either myself or maybe trying to find an assistant again.

Right now my focus is on my own physical and mental health. For the mental side I just love to draw and doodle my ocs. I'd like to take some more time to do writing so you might be getting more mixed works of written and drawn!
Next hard art goals isn't commissions - but to get more stickers and physical merch made up. I will be working on making project lists and sketching out ideas for the sticker sets I wanted to move forward on. So hopefully lots of cool merch updates for patreon as I work on it!

(Though I might take a couple of commissions so I have some fun money to buy fun stuff if I ever get a spare spoon, haha!)

Thank you everyone for all of your amazing support! I'm so sorry everything has had to slow down so hard for my burn out. But thank you for taking the breather with me and letting me figure stuff out. I'll keep you all posted if anything new comes up.

AJD . ART