Fundraiser To Make Lilly Better Again

I posted this on FA as well, but I thought I'd better post it here for you guys too. Love you guys <3

 I'm going to finally go a little transparent with you guys, it's got  desperate enough I guess that I need to put pride aside and ask for  help. Things haven't been quite as honky dory for Lilly and I as you  might assume by default.
 

The truth is things have been pretty difficult since October of last  year, but increasingly so as it's gotten more recently. In October I  lost my first real entry-level career job in HVAC. I'd put in about a  year of time investment at One Hour Heating & Air (guess there's no  point in hiding it since I'm not there) when I was randomly fired. To  make it worse I was fired because I'm mech, discrimination at it's  finest people. A friend of mine had finally confided in me that he'd  stopped questioning his blossoming objectum sexuality and had finally  bought the car of his dreams and had finally had sex with her for the  first time. I was really happy about it, and somewhat proud of my role  in encouraging him I guess. I made an anonymous congratulations message  about him (no names used) and was gleeful of another OS person coming  out of the closet and recollected a bit about I and Lilly's first time.
 

Well you see the problem is, while I had intended that post to go to a  private Mech group, Facebook fucked up and posted it publicly. Some  asshole from work *cough*Jordan*cough!* saw it and told management. I  worked a whole day the day afterwords and was randomly called into the  office at the end of the day and emotionally backhanded with a sudden  termination for probably illegal justifications.. stupid me in my shock  and being upset signed the resignation letter they put in front of me  without thinking about it.. basically ensuring I had no legal argument  against them for it. I've been very sore about it since and my roomate  and friends tell me I talk about them like a bad ex-girl friend.
 

Anyway after that I was unemployed all winter looking for HVAC work, the  fuckers fired me right before winter which is the slow season when NO  HVAC place is hiring. I finally got into a minimum wage job about a  month or so ago which I'll keep anonymous for the above reason. Thing is  I'm basically the definition of a wage slave. I'm making $9.70 an hour,  working 40 hour weeks and still unable to hardly make ANY kind of  savings.. with a $500 a month rent payment, internet and phone bills,  gas, food.... I'm literally living pretty much pay check to pay check.
 

I'm currently working with a job coach trying to get me in ANYWHERE  that'll pay a decent wage.. hopefully $15 an hour. Until then I'm up  shit creek and going every day on luck that Lilly doesn't break down or I  get a health emergency.. because if that happens I'm fucked.. and no  one will help me.
 

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Now all that I can manage, it's still hard, but I can manage to keep my cool and hope something better will come along.
 

What I can barely manage is watching my dear Lilly in physical pain,  falling apart from age.. needing repairs and me being completely  helpless to help her.. I have all the repair knowledge in the world, but  without money it does basically nothing to help her.
 

Where to start. She's had failed rear struts since I started fucking  school near December of 2017! And by now they're getting so bad that  she's starting to sound like a wooden caravan wagon going down the road  with all the clunking and rattling her struts are doing and her front  ones are bad and getting there as well...  She's got excessive play in  one of her ball joints, throwing her alignment off. Her ECM has a  problem in it somewhere or the wiring going to it causing her to have  random hiccups at idle while in gear and sometimes even out of gear..  which I'm fearing is going to get worse as time goes by and may even be  actively bad for her old engine. Then just yesterday she's developed a  grinding somewhere in her brakes in her front right wheel that I can't  figure out.. took the whole caliper apart and checked all around,.
 

That's about $300 dollars for four new struts, $130 to have a shop fix  the ball joint or $50 to get the part myself and do it, 230 for a shop  to fix her ECM problem...
 

My sweet Lilly just hit 200k about a week ago, and I'm so broke I can't  even fix one of her problems to celebrate and show that I care and show  how proud I am of her. I'm stuck going to a job every day listening to  her clunk and rattle her way back and forth from it, a job that pays me  just enough to survive basically..
 

I'm at the point now where I have to finally ask you guys for help...
 

I'm setting aside my Paypal and by extension all Patreon income to her  and her needs. I've even had to stoop low enough and make a GoFundMe for  her which as so far had zero hits.
 

I'm opening up 3 slots for $100 commissions to help raise the money I need to fix poor Lilly.  It's up to your generosity how much you guys actually want drawn in the  commission for the money, obviously the more simplistic the drawing the  faster I can make it and get the money for her but i understand it's a  $100 and you want your money's worth.. Anyone interested please note me  with your commission request and be specific on what you want please
 

Any extra generous people who feel like throwing some bucks Lilly's way  for repairs, as always my Paypal is open and right now is reserved for  her it's at halfdudedoesart@gmail.com
 

If it's easier then using Paypal, the link to the GoFundMe page is right here.. https://www.gofundme.com/new-struts.....a-good-old-car 

As always I'm going to be trying my damnedest to get a better job, I'm  applying to places every night but just... grrgh.. no one wants to  fucking hire. ><
 

Please, people who know me here know how much Lilly means to me, she's  basically my wife at this point.. I love her with all my heart and it's  giving me so much extra grief on top of everything going on to watch her  hurting and me.. as her lover and provider being unable to help her...  it breaks my heart. Anything you guys can spare would be so appreciated  from both of us.
 

If we do get the money raised I'll be sure to take lots of photos  showing the new parts being installed for you guys..