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Good morning everyone, and welcome to Radio Free Monday!

Ways to Give:

morgynleri linked to a fundraiser for elegantmess-southernbelle who needs help getting a wheelchair, to gain her greater independence and mobility. You can read more and support the fundraiser here and there's also a rebloggable tumblr link here.

amemait linked to a fundraiser for Nikolai, who is taking commissions and donations after having lost his job due to issues with his fibromyalgia and anxiety; he is currently dealing with other insurance and health issues as well. He needs to raise enough to make rent through the end of summer and repair his car. You can read more, request a commission, and find donation information here..

flippac linked to a fundraiser for a friend, Kia, who is trans and has recently escaped an abusive family. The fundraiser is to buy her a car which she can live in until she gets her feet under her better; you can read more and help with the purchase here.

dreamwaffles linked to a fundraiser to help Hawaiian elementary school students learn about Rat Lungworm, a badly publicized but very preventable tropical parasite. You can read more about the program and support it here.

stinaleigh linked to a fundraiser for Koan High SChool in Dallas, TX, which is sending students to France for a study abroad program. Travel and accommodations are covered, but they're fundraising for extracurriculars and field trips. You can read more and support the trip here -- they are halfway to their goal already!

Carolyn linked to a fundraiser for J127, a ranch in Taraz, Kazakhstan that provides safe housing for single mothers and orphans, as well as aid for parents of children with disabilities. They are behind on their payments and are raising $100K to buy out the property. You can read more about the ranch here (it's slightly out of date) and support the fundraiser here.

maschalismos was recently diagnosed with lupus and fibromyalgia, and is struggling to cover medical bills for her diagnosis and for ongoing attempts at treatment. You can read more and help out with her medical bills here.

editrx has been struggling a lot lately, and is now facing huge water bills, plus a lien on her house for a property tax bill that has gone past due. She needs to raise $6K to keep her head above water. You can read more about her situation here and help her keep her home here; she also has jewelry for sale on Etsy and her bookshop, Star Cat Books, sells through abebooks here.

Just for Fun:

Anon linked to a My Little Pony parody of The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock.

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Hey so let's try this yet again, not totally ignoring DW/LJ in favor of Tumblr. Sorry guys. Microblogging grabbed me by the shoulders and yelled "IT'S JUST SO FAST AND CONVENIENT."

But the other day I was trying to remember when I moved to Chicago, and I knew I moved on my birthday, so I just paged through my birthday each year on my LJ until I found the SEE YOU IN CHICAGO post I made. And I thought, well, I kind of stopped blogging on DW/LJ in part because I didn't get a lot of response -- it wasn't so much that I was looking for response as that I didn't think anyone was reading here, so why bother?

That said, as a record of my life it has proved useful in the past, so I'm trying to go into blogging here more often with a sense of "recording my life in an easily indexable way" because god knows Tumblr's no good for that.

So probably there will be way less fannish stuff and way more just regular life stuff here. I will attempt to keep it amusing.

This week's going to be intense enough in ways that will probably be funny to people who aren't me. Last Friday I spoke with a mortgage advisor about buying a home, and it turns out getting a mortgage is actually going to be the least difficult part of the process, especially after I showed him my 52 page binder o' home loan.

Where it gets complicated is that I'm not sure if I want to buy the condo unit I'm in (or even if my landlord wants to sell it) or buy into another unit in the same building, or buy in another building altogether. I would like to stay in the area and it's up-and-coming in a way that kinda makes my eyes pop, so now is a good time to buy. Aggrivating this decision further is the fact that I know (through means I cannot disclose) that the bank is about to foreclose on my landlord.

For me this isn't a huge deal; I have a lease, I'm legally bound to this unit until June of next year, even if I'm paying rent to the bank. But it also means that my landlord might be more willing to sell -- or that I could get this place hella cheap after foreclosure, as skunky a move as that sounds.

So this week I'm talking to the guy who helped me rent this place about looking around for places to buy. And pending the outcome of that discussion, next week I'll be very innocently emailing my landlord to let him know that if he should wish to sell, he would have a buyer who wouldn't make him pay brokers' fees.

You know, after all this, trying to decide whether or not to get a cat once I've bought a place is going to be rather anticlimactic. Also my requirements for pets are less stringent than my requirements for homes. (Must be under 5 years of age, possess at least a majority of its original limbs, and not wish to murder me on sight.)

Mind you most homes I've lived in haven't tried to murder me either but it's still a basic requirement.