We’re in The Bad Place, aren’t we?

You know when you see people who have constant emergencies and you think damn, like this is ridiculous, surely you’re making it up? How can something terrible happen every two to three weeks for months straight???

Well, who had four cats with health issues/veterinary emergencies in four months atop a cold and a leaking roof?

This girl!

I’m still not convinced this isn’t The Bad Place tbh.

I don’t even know at this point. I thought without the cost of Libby’s medication and food every month that some of the financial strain would ease, but that was kind of hilariously naive now that I think about it.

I spent ten hours on Sunday waiting to be seen at the emergency vet with Temperance as she’d been vomiting for two days and it was a long weekend. Today we had a regular vet follow-up to run some tests and treat her continued symptoms of not wanting to eat even though she can keep it down now. She might also have cancer so, you know, that’s fun.

I was cautioned to not panic yet as there were a few things that could explain the fluid around the intestines and it’s fine, I’m actually not panicking, I’m too tired for that at this point.

My life is just a happy little dumpster fire being carried away by a flood.

I am so exhausted. I was months behind in some projects because of how much time I lost in the fall due to Shawn’s emergency, Rodney’s cancer, and saying goodbye to Libby. Rodney is still doing well so of course Tempe, who was fine in October, is having an issue. I already was looking at working weekends this month and I’ve just lost another three days.

I should still be on track for Waverly 5’s release but I’m still behind on the hardcover extras (as I said on Bluesky, SATY sold 23 hardcovers and 4 paperbacks, so let’s be clear: I am killing myself here for something that will maybe make $70 total, but I just will feel really bad if folks can’t order it early to arrive on the eBook release date). Patrons have also selected who Elis is going to kill for the new serial, so I have to get that new chapter written this weekend.

This means I’m going to pop up Freedom for at least the next week and try to calm my brain enough to focus on getting through as much work as possible. So if I’ve disappeared, it’s not that anything’s wrong, it’s that I need some silence right now so I can get some stuff done because working is all that staves off panic.

My thanks to my neighbour for taking us (I continue to feel horrible about how long her dog was left alone at home), and then Krista for starting a Bluesky thread encouraging people to buy books to help with extra costs, everyone who boosted, everyone who bought books, kicked in Ko-fi, or grabbed a premade cover. It helped a lot.