Shirley

Update - please read! 🤕

Added 2025-11-17 19:24:29 +0000 UTC

tldr: I got injured and will be taking content slowly

This weekend I was at a volunteering event for a local shelter that had a surge of food donations come in after the SNAP benefits announcement (for anyone not in the US basically a lot of people who depend on government programs for food, had their benefits taken away 😔).

It was really nice to see the community stepping up. And seeing all the posts on Instagram especially made me emotional. Maybe it’s because I’m on my period but for whatever reason even though I have a presentation to finish I decided to sign up for a two hour shift yesterday.

At the shelter the staff were kind enough to give me tasks that didn’t involve heavy lifting of boxes since I told them about my spinal injury. I was given a laptop with spreadsheets to fill out while sitting in the warehouse with everyone else.

When I wasn’t looking, someone walking past me, slipped and dropped a heavy box on my foot - thankfully I was wearing shoes otherwise I might’ve broken my foot entirely. I don’t know how much it weighed but judging by how instantly my foot turned purple and started swelling, maybe 40 lbs (20 ish kg)? Imagine a large Amazon box full of canned goods. Then picture my foot. Bam 😅

So instead of shopping Black Friday at Lulu which just started this morning, I’m getting an expedited x-ray today. My friend is picking me up since I can only hop around by myself lol.

Anyways, I’m not sure how this will impact content since I’ll probably need a few weeks to heal and be able to walk normally. Until then, I guess I’ll keep making as much content as I can while looking as sexy as possible wearing Lululemon on crutches (hopefully it won’t be that bad and I can get away with a boot 😂)