Cheerfully Offensive

Update: Found Safe! 🙏 Albuquerque, New Mexico

Has anyone seen Autumn? Her father has been looking for her since midnight last night. As of 8:00 a.m. this morning, she cannot be located.

Autumn is a 5'4" with light brown hair. She's also a very nice girl and friend with my granddaughter and the neighborhood kids.

(505) 916-6281

Pride wasn't a June subscription.

We'll keep supporting LGBTQIA+ rights in July...
and August...

and every month after that.

Human rights aren't seasonal.

People think I just "make shirts."

Reality:

☕ Coffee
💻 Design
😅 Existential crisis
🐶 Pet dogs
🎨 Repeat

SHHHH...New design coming💚

Melissa Jones

I’m just glad to be included somewhere 🙂

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This is “Soldier Scene,” created between 1680-1738 by Carel de Moor. The original work is held in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

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Political opinion:

Tacos should be tax deductible.

I will not be taking questions.

This is going to be a long full disclosure post and I am basically going to write it by using voice to text so that my thoughts don't get interrupted so please accept my apologies if it is too chaotic...

Actually do not accept my apologies if it is too chaotic where do you think you are 👀 AF is literally in the name of the business 😘

Okay so the last couple months I have really struggled. I haven't struggled emotionally so much, I'm not overwhelmed, I'm super happy about life, but my body isn't cooperating. I don't know if it's because menopause is starting combined with Summer combined with early summer stress combined with immune and pain disorders but I haven't been able to figure it out.

It comes with a huge amount of task paralysis because when my body hurts I tend to just want to sit because that's the least painful position to exist in.

I kind of hit my breaking point this weekend, I know I should have been in the kitchen working diligently to get all of your orders out.... But no matter how ready I was mentally my body just was not getting up and going.

Thank goodness I was able to make the gifted birthday cupcakes in my home where I could bake a round of cupcakes and then sit for half an hour...

Over the last 20 years I have figured out a very specific nutrition plan that works for me. But it is extremely expensive.

Which is why I continue to eat ramen noodles and ice cream cones and inexpensive pre-made but not so healthy for me specifically food.

A huge component in this way of eating is beef. And beef is astronomically expensive. What I struggled in the past to pay $100 a week for is now almost $300 a week, making it virtually impossible for me and my family to afford for me to eat the way that maximizes my physical and mental potential.

I spent the entire weekend figuring out a plan that would agree with my body to get me back on this way of eating and putting the nutrition in my body that it works so well with.

I'm talking normal blood pressure within a month. I'm talking energy through the roof where 6 hours of sleep is plenty a night. I'm talking full remission of all of my fibro symptoms. No chest pain, no joint pain, mental clarity like you wouldn't believe.

My health and well-being has been put on the back burner for 3 years to get this business to grow. But this business is not going to grow any further without my health and well-being being put into the front of my priorities.

I'm taking a huge risk here, because I'm facing a catch 22.

I feel like I won't be able to effectively increase sales without full mental clarity and energy and I can't have that energy and full mental clarity without the money to buy the food which depends on sales.

Wifey's income takes care of a minimal grocery budget for the both of us which I will be able to take some of for myself, and keeps our essential bills paid.

Anything above that, such as me wanting specialized foods, needs to come from my own income source which is.... Here.

I think I've got it worked out to where I can get back on track with minimal worry of not being able to sustain it, so I started today.

Within the first 24 hours my gut will heal, preventing unwanted bacteria from entering my bloodstream that causes my cells to retain fluid, or inflammation.

All of the fluids that all of my cells have been retaining and bursting with, IE inflammation, will be flushed out. I have appropriate electrolyte supplements that prevent severe electrolyte loss during this process so it's generally not unpleasant for me to experience.

Within the first 48 hours my body will start producing little brain warriors they will start feeding my brain in an amazing way providing clarity, energy, and drive.

I have to do this, I don't have a choice. I've had it work in the past, and stopped to focus on this biz. I just hope that we can continue to grow this page and this business and get the word out there and provide treats to all the queerdos across the Nation.

Right now it is super easy to get 5 to 6 orders a week. I don't even have to bug you for that lol

If I bug you sometimes I can squeeze out between 20 and 30.

I need 25 minimum to sustain. I've got a few weeks of savings left, but we're down to the wire here Q***r Fam. We're down to the wire.

Imagine what would happen if we had 30k followers? Id hire help, thats for sure (Sara? 👀)

I'm hoping these changes allow me to set a definitive schedule because even though you guys are super understanding that I take breaks and I push things back I don't like it.

Thank you for staying with me this long, thank you for experiencing all of the ups and downs of starting, growing, and sustaining a small business. Thank you for being a part of this amazing community. Thank you for bringing joy into my life in so many ways.

Now it's time to see how far we can fly 💜

If you made it to the end, congrats 🙌

In the past I've reserved special giveaways to the end of random posts. This isn't one of them. As soon as we get back to a sustained 25 orders a week I'll start rewarding y'all for putting up with my sh*t again 🤣💜😘🤷

Anyone else agree?