Hey Honeybees!

most critical: i’ve been struggling worse the last couple months with managing showers/wash hair/wash face, especially, and using the wipes i already have on face and body feels Bad. so i have a list of stuff to try that will hopefully meet my needs as far as ingredients, reactive skin, particular hair, & functional capacity go (itemized list below cut).

i haven’t heard anything more about the status of my disability case, but that’s not entirely surprising, as the hearing scheduling was at least 8 months out when I appealed in the spring. the horrors persist, but so do i.

i know i’m not alone in the things are bad & getting worse” department, so if you can’t manage donating, that’s ok 🩵 no pressure, no worries, whatever happens is ok!

because i am at least somewhat a foolish optimist 🤪 i also made funds for home improvement (shower desperately needs recaulking, photos below cut), trying out a different (cheaper) compression gear combo before i ask for it for xmas, groceries, and pharmacy. not out of meds yet, but 🤷🏻 probably better to ask before emergency, in case anyone has a vested interest in my dopamine maintenance or tachycardia/fatigue.

🩵 thank you for sharing and contributing 🩵pretty sure you can hide your actual name while putting a note in the note box, so feel free to leave your handle there & i’ll send you a thank-you here! (it should also be possible for you to earmark for a specific item, if you’re superbly interested in, say, caulk 😉)

if i know you & you’d rather buy the stuff, send me a message - thinking about making a stuff list for irl people (vs just the gift card funds). i can’t hide my name/info on a list of stuff (unlike a gift card fund…i think 😅) so i’d rather not put that out there for just anybody.

deets below da cut:

Ilya though? Ilya would LIVE for it. I could 100% see him being forced to retire early hockey and immediately signing up to be a puppy-raiser for service dog organization. He would be the organization’s poster boy. He would get hockey teams to sponsor dog so the cost of their care during puppyhood is covered. His and Shane’s house would be a revolving door of cute and squishy Labrador puppies. He would adore getting down on the floor and explaining to small children why there is dog wearing special jacket in the grocery store. He would SOB HYSTERICALLY every time he turned a dog in for advanced training and dramatically tell Shane he will never ever recover from this heartbreak. Then he’d bring home a new foster pup a few weeks later and he’d be in love all over again. He would get periodic postcard updates from his pups in advanced training and insist they need to go on the fridge. (“These are our CHILDREN, Shane, and they are sending us letters from college. Are you not proud?”) Every single person who enters the house must look at the postcards. (He probably makes copies so David can have them on his desk at work.)

Shane would have to make a rule they can’t adopt all the foster pups who flunk out of service dog school. (The failure rate is 50-80% depending on the type of service work so there would be many.) Except, of course, for that Very Special Dog (every puppy-raiser has one) who he pretends he doesn’t like, but he 100% cried the day they left for advanced training.

Dog tax:

My old lady, Whimsey, who was my Very Special Dog.

WHIMSEY!!! I'M LOVE HER!!!!