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Happy New Year! Thank you for all the support~
🕑 Added 2024-01-09 03:05:27 +0000 UTCHi everyone; a bit late but the new year is still fresh. Thank you everyone for your continual (or whatever you could spare) support for the last year. It was an incredibly tough year. But I got through it, and that's what matters.
I hope everyone had a good holiday season, at whatever capacity you chose or were able to do!
I wanted to share more WIPs, but this is all the energy I have. The amount of time to write this all up is kind of embarrassing.
As for life updates...
I'm not really sure how this year will go down. After battling with it the past couple months, I couldn't get any healthcare. I'm going to keep doing research, who knows, maybe I'm missing something. But it's not looking great. Without adequate healthcare, this is going to slow down the progress of getting better. It doesn't make things impossible, just...not looking good.
I've cancelled extra spending, adjusted my budget, trying to find ways to live (or at least still afford some basics) with what I'm making here. FWIW, after taxes and the like, it's about $270 a month. Which is a lot considering my lack of activity and presence! So thank you! I'm beyond grateful and won't ever complain. But with our society...and now without healthcare...yeah.
Many have dissuaded me from wanting to shut down my Patreon. And I appreciate that sense of generosity and kindness--but when I'm unable to fulfill basic promises or to do something I love, it hurts. I am still thankful, really, I just hope people can understand where I'm coming from. But without no income at all...I don't know what I could do.
I'm exploring the possibility of disability, but so far my experience trying to make progress with them is an absolute nightmare, so that's likely years off, and even then after experiences I am not convinced. But what else can I do, give up? Maybe these are all consequences from poor choices and my own flaws. If that's the case, I probably should accept all this with grace and understanding. If I and my environment is to get better, then I have to go through some challenges and facing what I've done wrong.
Anyway...again, I apologize for the continual negativity. I'll try to make sure this is the last of these sort of posts, unless something big happens--whether me needing to shut down Patreon, some bigger life issue that drops down, etc. Until then...I guess just hope for the best. I'll try to at least post through some sketches/WIPs as usual for the month.
Thank you all, really.
SueDraws/Susannah
