I want to apologize for the lack of responses or really activity. I am struggling at the moment, still physically but also financially. I'll elaborate a little more on those issues in a moment but I wanted to assure everyone I owe commissions to that I am still working on them. I intend to do my best to have as many (and as close to all of them) completed by the end of this month. That is the goal. I want to work on some new YCHs and things since September is up coming and I'd like to do another "Draw All September" commission challenge as I did last year. (It was super successful and helped me greatly in building up my productivity.) So for anyone I've forgotten to pm back or respond to, I am working on commissions (in general) and am trying to complete as many as possible before the beginning of next month. (and the goal is again as many if not all of the currently owed commissions.)

And now more about life updates and the things going on again. So if you read my "More Life Issues" journal made back in June then you probably recall that we were still having car troubles, our washing machine broke and that I had gotten a severe ear / tooth infection. Well here we are and it's August and the tooth infection has returned it seems full swing. I meant to get the tooth pulled by now but money is tight and without a solidly working vehicle we couldn't make the drive out of town to find a dentistry that could extract the tooth based on a sliding scale or cheaper means to help us out in our financial dilemma. Good news is though that we do have a car now that is dependable and only has a couple minor things in need of fixing. The old car that was in the shop (Suzuki) is out of commission still but my mom has taken over payments and is working to get it fixed and intends to keep it. Which is fine. We have this new to us car (08 impala) and it's truly perfect for what we need. So that's a blessing. The washer is still out of commission for now, mostly because we're uncertain on the part we need/where to get it. And it would take some time and several people off at once to fix it. So that's still a bit of an issue.

I'm going to call my health department again tomorrow and ask if they can squeeze me in to get me some antibiotics again to kick out this infection for now as I try to earn the money to go to the dentistry that I've found that does extractions for a bit cheaper (for the type I'll prolly need and I don't have insurance, again due to financial issues). However, the issue is that I need $200 usd in cash essentially to get it done. That's a bit of an issue for me right now as money doesn't grow on trees and I'm immensely behind on commissions as it stands so I refuse to take on more atm. If I didn't owe quite as much I'd consider doing a couple larger YCHs as those would get me the cash a bit more quickly but I honestly can't even focus with the sort of pain I'm dealing with right now. I hope to get that part at least taken care of tomorrow or friday at the latest so I can really buckle down and finish as many owed commissions as possible so I can earn the money I need to get this rid of this tooth that keeps causing me so much issue.