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Wow, I'm almost to 300,000 page views! Thanks everyone!
Y'all deserve updates, lets share.

1) I think I'm gonna 'make' Ted soon. Our new pixel buddy that was developed by the watchers, who will be my mini-mascot for the pixel art gallery. Those of you who have been answering poll questions may have some closure and an Idea of what 'Ted' will look like.

Ted is male.
His eyes are blue.
He has Purple hair!
Hes Nerdy.
Hes LEGAL! (and possibly dead...)
Hes a scrawny lil thang.

So, I guess the last thing is to determine what is actual style is huh? Be sure to fill out the next poll so Ted can come to maturity :wink:

2) The family is doing better health wise, but were In a tough place financially, aren't we all. When we let a friend move in, he was supposed to pay 300$ a month to cover his food expenses as well as the extra wear on our utilities. Unfortunately he couldn't find work and rather than kick out a friend, we put our self further into debt. Then the medical bills came. 7,000 for my c section, 4,000 for my doctor. I forgot about the electric bill and started paying my medical bills instead, then realized how fucked I was on electric.. but by then making bi-weekly payments of 100$ a pop wasn't satisfying our debt and they turned off our power on October 30th. We had to borrow half the money from our parents, (Thank god for my mother in law!) which we paid to have the electric turned back on.

We shipped Ky off to Gma's house so that she'd have a happy Halloween.... I didn't get to see her in her bunny costume and I'm still pretty bummed about that. We didn't dress Ari up. Too expensive to buy her a costume at 3 months old when we could be buying diapers instead.

Oh Let me add, Us poor people are totally screwed in life. I mean, We make too much for government assistance, so fine, we live paycheck to paycheck and make it work, BUT, When this all came down to the nitty gritty, I called 6 different places that are assumed to assist people like myself. From the Salvation army (Who told me they were having Christmas issues and to call back in a week like we could last without power a week with a 3 month old baby...) To calling social services and Loudoun community help.. Which I left messages on their answering machines for, and no, they didn't call me back.

Anywho, Were negative in the bank and wont get paid again for 2 weeks. I called my drunken mother, desperate for help, We had the electric bill back under control, but 400$ shy of rent due that day. We wrote the check, which today Im sure has bounced, or put us dramatically into the negatives once more, but moving on; Calling her.. Big mistake.

You see my mother's mother died a few years back and my mom made out with a few grand from the sale of her mothers house. Its all tied up in bonds now, but I didnt know this at the time. I had to listen to her drunken self scream on the phone about how my dads a child molester and it was all his fault...

Mind you, I was at work lol.

Yeah, So, Somehow my debt is my dads fault for mollesting me... Yeah, That was the highlight of my day. THANKS FOR YOUR HELP MOM.... ass.

ANYWHO. My dad got a loan from his boss and plopped it into my NY bank account which were waiting to clear so we can take it out and deposit it into the bills account... I feel like Im loosing at monopoly. DO NOT PASS GO DO NOT COLLECT 100 DOLLARS.

ANYWHO. Ok, yeah Drama drama. This is why I havent been pixeling much. This outside of the flu, urinary tract infections, yadda yadda, life goes on...

3) FUCKING DUMBASS HOLDING UP A SCHOOL IN NY TOOK OVER MY WENDY SHOW!. Yes, I love Wendy Williams. This morning some dumb fuck held a principle hostage at a school in NY, which made the news run late about 15 minutes into my wendy show.

Shes my friend in my head. How you doin?.

Ahh ok... This was a significant update so Im gonna take a shower while Ari sleeps and take a dump, have another cup of coffee, clean the house and get ready for work.

Love ya'lls!

J

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