Image 1 — Rescue Disabled Woman from Life-threatening TX Heat After Layoffs
Image 2 — Rescue Disabled Woman from Life-threatening TX Heat After Layoffs
Image 3 — Rescue Disabled Woman from Life-threatening TX Heat After Layoffs
Image 4 — Rescue Disabled Woman from Life-threatening TX Heat After Layoffs
Image 5 — Rescue Disabled Woman from Life-threatening TX Heat After Layoffs
Image 6 — Rescue Disabled Woman from Life-threatening TX Heat After Layoffs

Rescue Disabled Woman from Life-threatening TX Heat After Layoffs

Hey all. I'm Elizabeth (in the 2nd photo) this is Sara.

We're not especially comfortable having a GFM as there's so many people in need, but I think it's time we admit that we need a hand up.

I can say for certainty that this GFM would completely repair our lives, and set us up for the rest of our lives.

GFM has a FAQ section & financial breakdown, and I'm available for any questions in the comments.

https://gofund.me/615d87e06

Sara & I have been homeless in the back of a sedan converted to be disability-friendly since March after back to back layoffs in her sector, first due to massive corporate bankruptcy, the second due to restructuring.

While my (Elizabeth's) condition is genetic and responding to treatment, Sara was made severely disabled at only 37yo by code-violating housing that was illegal to rent to us. I've been her full time caretaker day & night since that happened many years ago. Even then, the situation is becoming beyond what I can handle. There's no good time for me to sleep without putting Sara at very real risk. The legalities surrounding that illegal rental had us couch surfing, and in & out of extended stays while trying to make a recovery.

This was fine until the back to back layoffs, which have left us completely exposed. It's now becoming life-threatening to Sara to stay in this area, but it's where the money is.

I finally got a windfall with a job out-of-state, in a region where we had always dreamed of moving to together, but need help closing the financial gap;

as of right now, we can't afford our medications even with assistance, govt services are taking too long, and multiple ER trips due to the heat have caused delays for bills. Sara was improving with a breakthrough treatment that may help her become fully abled again, but is being massively set back and at-risk.

This is my dream job, I hope to be in it for a long time; it's in the region we've wanted to settle in for almost a decade now, and it might very well be the place we grow old together.

The GFM itself has more information.

Thank you for reading. Y'all stay safe yourselves!

u/ClippyWouldntDoThat — 4 days ago

Rescue Disabled Woman from Life-threatening TX Heat After Back to Back Layoffs

Hey all. I'm Elizabeth (pictured left) and this is Sara.

We're not especially comfortable having a GFM, as there's so many people in need, but I think it's time we admit that it's our turn needing a hand up. I can't watch her go through this anymore.

I can say for certainty that this GFM would completely repair our lives, and set us up for the rest of our lives. There's a plan in place that needs gap-closing in finances.

If we happened to meet our goal, our expenditures almost completely flatline, turning almost all earnings into savings.

The GFM has a FAQ section & financial breakdown, and I'm available for any questions in the comments.

https://gofund.me/615d87e06

Sara & I have been homeless in the back of a sedan converted to be disability-friendly since March after back to back layoffs in her sector, first due to massive corporate bankruptcy, the second due to restructuring.

While my (Elizabeth's) condition is genetic and responding to treatment, Sara was made severely disabled at only 37yo by code-violating housing that was illegal to rent to us.

Sara was too young, too abled, too healthy, too athletic & active, eats too well, was too lean, and had no genetic factors to receive congestive heart failure, afib, and extreme sleep apnea diagnosis. This directly coincided with her exposure to the code violating environment which is illegal because these violations cause these emergent conditions and kill people.

Her healthcare team is extremely worried about her prognosis and considers her at emergent risk of death, now in +100F conditions and routinely blacking out.

I've been her full time caretaker day & night since that happened many years ago. Even then, the situation is becoming beyond what I can handle. There's no good time for me to sleep without putting Sara at very real risk. The legalities surrounding that illegal rental had us couch surfing, and in & out of extended stays while trying to make a recovery.

This was fine enough until the back to back layoffs, which have left us completely exposed. It's now becoming life-threatening to Sara to stay in this area, but it's where the money is.

I finally got a windfall with a job out-of-state, in a region where we had always dreamed of moving to together, but need help closing the financial gap;

as of right now, we can't afford our medications even with assistance, govt services are taking too long, and multiple ER trips due to the heat have caused delays for bills. Sara was improving with a breakthrough treatment that may help her become fully abled again, but is being massively set back and at-risk.

This is my dream job, I hope to be in it for a long time; it's in the region we've wanted to settle in for almost a decade now, and it might very well be the place we grow old together.

The GFM itself has more information.

Thank you for reading. Y'all stay safe yourselves!

u/ClippyWouldntDoThat — 4 days ago
▲ 17 r/irving

Lost house keys turned in at Irving HEB!

Found in the parking lot at about 5:30-6pm! They weren't yet too hot, so it had only been a few minutes. Please come get your keys!!

u/ClippyWouldntDoThat — 15 days ago
▲ 101 r/Dallas

Lost house keys turned in at Irving HEB

Found in the parking lot at about 5:30-6pm! They weren't yet too hot, so it had only been a few minutes. Please come get your keys!!

u/ClippyWouldntDoThat — 15 days ago
▲ 31 r/Dallas

Someone's longhair chow mix is loose going west by UT Southwestern, please keep an eye out! It's too hot for him, he would be in danger tomorrow!

I wasn't able to get a photo so I drew him from memory. He looked ratty and unevenly wet, and extremely uncomfortable. I couldn't figure out how to get to him

u/ClippyWouldntDoThat — 2 months ago

Met a famous stranger who said he knows 3DG personally, and I'm trying to figure out the band HE'S from because I will probably like HIS work also

Okay, I really hope this doesn't get removed because I'm hoping for Reddit to do its thing. I work delivery gigs late at night all over Dallas, Tx. I visited an Indian place in Irving that I'll leave anonymous for his privacy; but, I held the door for him and commented on his Three Days Grace shirt, because I grew up with the band since their first self-titled album. I was listening to it yesterday even.

He stopped to try and chat with me, but it was just too busy for me personally to concentrate on the conversation.

I didn't get a chance to ask what band he's from before the crowd bubbled us apart without feeling like I was prying into his life.

Now it's eating me because it sounds like their work overlaps genres I've loved all my life and I REALLY want to listen to the discography!!! 😭 All I had to do was ask but I didn't want to be rude and it slipped my mind in the bustle! fuuuuuucccccckk!

Maybe y'all will have a closer idea what bands they're known to collab and chart with than I do.

- Wore a crisp Three Days Grace Explosions 2022 t-shirt, the orange version

- Spoke well of 3DG, Godsmack, & one other

- The band charts around 3DG

- He reminded me of Elrond from LotR, with a stronger jaw and more experience in his face. Hawklike and focused brow, light eyes, might have been green or hazel. He might have been a baritone or a tenor in his speaking register. Medium brown hair to his shoulders. He might have been around 6ft. I'm 5'6", and he was a little over a head taller than me.

I'd love to have a new band. I'm going to start by seeing who opened for the 3DG Explosions tours and cross reference with hit charts, see if I recognize him anywhere.

Update: So far, he looks the most like Luke Narey. 10 Years played with 3DG in Europe that year. I checked their tour dates, and they aren't scheduled to be in the US right now or any time soon... not that it means he can't have flown in!

Update2: Someone pointed to me Phil X and I think they're on to something!!! He plays in Triumph which MIGHT have been the right age bracket, and this post on the 20th pins him IN IRVING. This post from 19hrs ago indicates the same and it damnly looks like him; bro could have taken a shower after the show, brushed his texture out, and gone to pick up some Indian. Holy shit. Sounds like him too.

I'm not calling this solved but that's so damn close!

u/ClippyWouldntDoThat — 2 months ago
▲ 19 r/Dallas

Need help figuring out the band of a famous stranger I met in Irving so I can listen to his work! Maybe he's touring here or works out of the city?

Okay, I really hope this doesn't get removed because I'm hoping for Reddit to do its thing. I work delivery gigs late at night all over Dallas proper. I visited an Indian place in Irving that I'll leave anonymous for his privacy; but, I held the door for him and commented on his Three Days Grace shirt, because I grew up with the band.

He stopped to try and chat with me, but it was just too busy for me personally to concentrate.

I didn't get a chance to ask what band he's from before the crowd bubbled us apart without feeling like I was prying into his life.

Now it's eating me because it sounds like their work overlaps genres I've loved all my life and I REALLY want to listen to the discography!!! 😭 All I had to do was ask but I didn't want to be rude and it slipped my mind in the bustle! fuuuuuucccccckk!

Maybe other DFW metalheads and rockers can help me out, please?

- Wore a crisp Three Days Grace Explosions 2022 t-shirt, the orange version

- Spoke well of 3DG, Godsmack, & one other

- The band charts around 3DG

- He reminded me of Elrond from LotR, with a stronger jaw and more experience in his face. Hawklike and focused brow, light eyes, might have been green or hazel. He might have been a baritone or a tenor in his speaking register. Medium brown hair to his shoulders. He might have been around 6ft. I'm 5'6", and he was a little over a head taller than me.

I'd love to have a new band. I'm going to start by seeing who opened for the 3DG Explosions tours and cross reference with hit charts, see if I recognize him anywhere.

Update: So far, he looks the most like Luke Narey. 10 Years played with 3DG in Europe that year. I checked their tour dates, and they aren't scheduled to be in the US right now or any time soon... not that it means he can't have flown in!

Update2: Someone pointed to me Phil X and I think they're on to something!!! He plays in Triumph which MIGHT have been the right age bracket, and this post on the 20th pins him IN IRVING. This post from 19hrs ago indicates the same and it damnly looks like him; bro could have taken a shower after the show, brushed his texture out, and gone to pick up some Indian. Holy shit. Sounds like him too.

I'm not calling this solved but that's so damn close!

u/ClippyWouldntDoThat — 2 months ago

Market shifts suddenly made a different skill viable, what did you do when something like this happened to you?

Hey, I'm 28yo in the US SW reaching out to y'all folks to get some more life experience advice (vs hard numbers) from people who might have had to do this before.

I'm hoping to hear more generalized opinions not bound to one specific trade so not to limit what folks might have to say.

I don't have older peers or family to ask instead and thought I'd give a subreddit a crack.

I have a skilled trade I've done just as a hobby for most of my life and at this point, I've gotten pretty good at it. The same things that kept me out of the market have flipped and instead are creating a huge demand for my skillset. I'm dealing with a sudden unexpected spike in demand for my hobby that has staying power as a side gig.

I'm flat footed because it's not what I have done for work my whole life, and could seriously rearrange my lifestyle. It's a market pivot nobody in this market really saw coming until it got here. I've always prioritized into steady, guaranteed forms of income over this, and making room for something like that in my life is new to me, even as a side gig.

Whereas I'm familiar with more seasoned folks who have been able to jump careers when something else they know how to do is a better job path, especially with one recession after another. I grew up in a construction contractor family that did a little bit of everything so I've seen that happen up close and with family friends.

I've never navigated this kind of pivot before so I thought I might benefit from voices of experience, hear some stories, get some insight.

reddit.com
u/ClippyWouldntDoThat — 3 months ago

I've wanted to do this my whole life, and now that the opportunity is finally here, I think I'm choking out.

I'm one of those people that has drawn the entirety of my life since I was very small. I got into realism early. After a few years of that, I backed out because I realized I was chasing accuracy more than I was enjoying the process, and gave myself a break to explore other things. I've since then been a painter, an illustrator, a comic artist, and learned a love for ink wash & negative space. My skills in realism have only continued to improve over time but not as much as they could have; ... because, once I became comfortable with the idea of maybe taking artwork seriously, the algorithmic social media boom happened, and I never felt like I was in a place where I could compete with the algorithm.

Algorithms on mainline social media reward constant posting, burnt-out mangaka levels of output, and following trends; I learned early to really value my connection with my work and allow it to evolve on the canvas, so I've remained a hobbyist my entire life.

I'm now in a place where I feel like my work can really sell for something because I have a really diverse profile that can do a lot of things, and those skills transfer over to my market niche. And... it started to take off about a week ago. I have a bunch of people asking for commissions right now. I don't even have accounts on most platforms so I've been building them the past week to meet a sudden demand.

Of course, I'm good at metering my workflow now and I can absolutely crack these out. Volume is not a problem. I've tapped into the right markets and my niche likes what I can do.

It's just that... this has been on the back burner my entire life. There was always something better I could be doing with my time. ...The awkward part is that I don't really have finalized photos of my work either, because I was never "in the game." It's all stuff I did for the sake of doing it for a few hours. My sketch level is enough to sell. People are being very generous and letting me do some portraits at low cost to develop more specific portfolios. I'm 28 now so this has been 25yrs of climbing to do what I can now, and this will push me to really deliver past the, "I'm just doodling for myself and loved ones," thing.

Everyone around me, myself included, is really happy this is happening, but I'm also feeling a level of paralysis as I go through all the steps to set up payment options and business profiles & whatever.

I think it's the right time. My market niche is really tired of free options and generative AI, so I'm picking up traction fast.

Logically, I know to just keep getting through it, but emotionally, it's a lot to process... ... because, again, there was always something else I could be doing that would be more productive or make more money. That's a long trail of maybe not excuses, but walking myself through emotionally, that that now's maybe not the right time.

It is the right time now though, and I'm caught a little off guard.

I think maybe I just need to hear from more experienced people than myself and my immediate family and friends on how I might process this. Thanks.

reddit.com
u/ClippyWouldntDoThat — 3 months ago