{"id":22947,"date":"2024-06-12T22:08:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T02:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/steelmagnificat\/?p=22947"},"modified":"2024-06-12T22:08:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T02:08:46","slug":"a-sheepish-request-on-a-sick-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/steelmagnificat\/2024\/06\/a-sheepish-request-on-a-sick-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sheepish Request on a Sick Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Hi guys,<\/p>\n

I absolutely hate doing emergency appeals; for months I\u2019ve been trying to just do the regular monthly updates on all the places I\u2019m writing and how to follow me on social media with the tip jar at the end. I\u2019ll have a normal post worth your time up on the blog as soon as I possibly can. It\u2019s just that I\u2019ve gotten into the worst jam since November, which is the last time I had to do a special post asking for help. Let\u2019s hope I can go longer than seven months next time!<\/p>\n

As I mentioned the last several times I wrote on the blog, I have been very sick this month<\/a>. It will probably be under control now that I have a diagnosis and meds, but the first step of the Augmentin has been to make me feel sicker because it\u2019s a heavy duty antibiotic horse pill. I have been trying to keep sharing old content on social media all week because my writing speed is so low, but it\u2019s hard to even keep my head clear to sit at the computer. I can\u2019t even do my regular bantering on X\/Twitter as much as usual. I\u2019ve had the tab for this measly tiny post open for hours and I\u2019m so exhausted all I\u2019ve done is drowse and play games on my phone, just to give you an idea. As you know, I live on my books and the hits on my blog and my different writing projects bit by bit, plus the tip jar. I don\u2019t happen to have had a paying gig writing for the newspaper the last few weeks and I finished my Lives of the Saints writing project and already got paid for it last month,\u00a0 so June was already going to be a dry patch. Now we\u2019re coming up empty. Writers don\u2019t get sick days.<\/p>\n

Rent is due to be mailed on the fifteenth, but right now we don\u2019t have it. We have an overdraft instead.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re already a regular contributor to my blog tip jar and that\u2019s all you can do, I certainly don\u2019t expect more. If you just can\u2019t afford to slip me a few bucks now and then but you like reading , that\u2019s wonderful, and enjoying and sharing my work is the absolute best way to help me make ends meet. I don\u2019t want to guilt anybody into doing what they can\u2019t afford. But if you\u2019ve been meaning to leave a tip in appreciation of my writing, well, now would be a great time.<\/p>\n

I have a paypal donate page here<\/a>; the button says \u201cdonate\u201d but I report those payments to the IRS as income so they\u2019re not anything like charitable donations; they\u2019re just the same as leaving a few dollars for your waiter. It says you\u2019re donating to \u201cThe Little Portion\u201d because that\u2019s the name of an Etsy craft shop I used to have and I never changed the Paypal name. It actually goes to me.<\/p>\n

I also have a Venmo<\/a> if you\u2019d rather use that.<\/p>\n

Thank you so much for all your support, and now I\u2019ll go crawl into a hole from embarrassment and try to be back in the saddle soon!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 Hi guys, I absolutely hate doing emergency appeals; for months I\u2019ve been trying to just do the regular monthly updates on all the places I\u2019m writing and how to follow me on social media with the tip jar at the end. I\u2019ll have a normal post worth your time up on the blog as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2694,"featured_media":22950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1761,4721,15318],"class_list":["post-22947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blogkeeping","tag-request","tag-sick-day"],"yoast_head":"\nA Sheepish Request on a Sick Day<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"now we're coming up empty. 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