Vacation Update: I'm gonna be gone a little longer than I thought (Patreon)

Hey everyone, I'm in a bit of a spiral right now

TL;DR I'm extending my vacation by a week because this week has been a proper hell week for me where I've had to work every day for one reason or another. Thanks to these issues I'm just sending your PAIN-Mass Cards this weekend as I only got around to putting them in the envelops just now.

UGH! SO where to even begin with this week!? well to start earlier this week it was all stormy and since we only have one car right now I wasn't really able to go out and get the cards printed. that wasn't too bad of a thing but that was only Monday and Tuesday.

After that I got the not-so-pleasant surprise of finding out that the broker for that sponsored video I did had neglected to pay me. I sent them a proper invoice and everything, they just ignored it. As it turned out when I finally got to talk to a human that their entire accounting department is a bot that only recognizes invoices if they come from paypal directly or some other service, so when I sent mine how I do with literally every other person I've worked with in my life, the bot didn't recognize it and did not process my payment. I'm hopefully getting that money on the 20th instead of the 6th like I was supposed to. Otherwise I'm just going to hire a collection agency because as of now I have bigger issues at hand

So just when I thought that I had left all those issues behind in Monday through Thursday, today happens. This morning I got a letter from the California EDD (unemployment department) which I kinda ignored until a couple hours ago as even though I cancelled my unemployment a while ago when I moved out of the state at around the time that I was now making enough money that I no longer needed the unemployment benefits. I opened it a couple hours ago, just to make sure it wasn't tax information. They're now saying that I owe them back every cent of what they gave me for every week that I was on unemployment benefits. The kicker is I didn't even receive all of that money as I told them to withhold some of it for the purpose of not having to pay it all back all at once when it came time to do taxes. Now I have reason to believe this was in error and I'm going to call them tomorrow to try and see where I can go from here, but the big issue is that If I'm going to appeal it, I'd have to go to a hearing that would be in California which for one, it would cost a lot of money to do so and for another, the pandemic is worse than ever right now so it's simply not safe to travel right now. 

As a bit of side information for those of you that are relatively new to the channel and I, YouTube used to be a side-gig for me that only made enough money to maybe go out to eat out an extra time or two every month or maybe help with a large bill back when I lived in California. I had a job that paid the bulk of my bills and when the pandemic hit I lost it. Since YouTube still wasn't anywhere near enough to so much as make rent I filed for unemployment/pandemic assistance. Things started to take off in July so I sent notice to them to cancel my unemployment and stopped filling out the claims forms they kept sending me since now YouTube was my full time job. I filed my forms with complete honesty and reported my earnings from YouTube an Patreon accurately, which did not effect my status. At the time I was making like, less than $500 from all sources combined which isn't even gas money in Southern California. 

I'm kind of at a breaking point right now as I've been scrambling to figure out as much as I can about why I got this notice (the letter itself is very vague) and determining that this has to be some sort of error. I'm gonna try to work on getting all of the PAIN-Mass cards addressed and properly written in like I've been meaning to do for the better part of the week now but I won't lie to you all right now: I'm kind of having a bit of a breakdown right now. This came entirely out of left field for me and these last few years it's starting to feel like every time things start going well for me some act of god happens that sends me entirely back to square one. I've got the cards and all of the addresses and I'll know I'll get it done by the end of the weekend, it's just that I got hit with a lot this past week all while I was supposed to be relaxing and trying to decompress from working so hard last month. I'm going to try and take an extra week in order to hopefully have some time to actually rest and recoup, but hopefully you'll have a video this Month as I've already got E.Y.E mostly figured out.

I'm really sorry about all of this. I hope I'll be able to make it up to you guys soon. As always, thank you for your support.