Molly needs a Mac
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Babycakes is on her way out. My 8-year-old MacBookPro laptop has been hitting the skids which is very scary. I already have a desktop iMac that crashed over a year ago and I haven't been able to access the hard drive there.
If Babycakes goes before I can replace her, my professional and social lives are going to take some hard hits.
I live on my laptop. It's where I write, edit, socialize, and publicize. Not just for me but for the people I work for and hope to work for.
With the connections and referrals I receive daily, being without internet or a laptop is a very scary, anxiety-causing, heart-palpitating, nightmare-inducing thought.
Yes, I've backed up my information. But old information does no good if I can't create new content.
This is not only my passion, it's my livelihood and a piece of the pie for others as well.
So on the advice of a treasured family member, I'm doing the scary thing and putting this out there.
My goal is to raise $2,500 which would incrementally provide for a new laptop, external drive (the new laptops no longer have disc drives), carrying case/backpack, mic and headset for podcasts, and anything over and above could go toward resurrecting the iMac or at least retrieving the info off its hard drive. Beyond that, any funds would be invested in writing supplies: printer, ink, paper, document production, travel/conference/speaking expenses, and the like.
I teach social media platform building, produce a weekly podcast, run social media for fourteen sites, am a freelance editor, blog for myself and am a contributing blogger to other sites, and am working on the first of at least nine novels in my "City Series".
My current laptop is slowly fading. The response time to connect to the internet is jagged and slow, it's not just my internet. Some sites work fine but the sites I need to access regularly and quickly are problematic.
I'm afraid of losing everything I have before I have the chance to reboot.
This worry is a distraction I'd like to get off my plate as soon as possible.
Thank you for reading, and for your prayers, positivity, and providence. I anticipate a heartfelt update soon, and you have my unending appreciation for investing not only in this GoFundMe campaign, but ultimately, helping to lay some stepping stones to my career.
~Happy writing,
Molly Jo
If Babycakes goes before I can replace her, my professional and social lives are going to take some hard hits.
I live on my laptop. It's where I write, edit, socialize, and publicize. Not just for me but for the people I work for and hope to work for.
With the connections and referrals I receive daily, being without internet or a laptop is a very scary, anxiety-causing, heart-palpitating, nightmare-inducing thought.
Yes, I've backed up my information. But old information does no good if I can't create new content.
This is not only my passion, it's my livelihood and a piece of the pie for others as well.
So on the advice of a treasured family member, I'm doing the scary thing and putting this out there.
My goal is to raise $2,500 which would incrementally provide for a new laptop, external drive (the new laptops no longer have disc drives), carrying case/backpack, mic and headset for podcasts, and anything over and above could go toward resurrecting the iMac or at least retrieving the info off its hard drive. Beyond that, any funds would be invested in writing supplies: printer, ink, paper, document production, travel/conference/speaking expenses, and the like.
I teach social media platform building, produce a weekly podcast, run social media for fourteen sites, am a freelance editor, blog for myself and am a contributing blogger to other sites, and am working on the first of at least nine novels in my "City Series".
My current laptop is slowly fading. The response time to connect to the internet is jagged and slow, it's not just my internet. Some sites work fine but the sites I need to access regularly and quickly are problematic.
I'm afraid of losing everything I have before I have the chance to reboot.
This worry is a distraction I'd like to get off my plate as soon as possible.
Thank you for reading, and for your prayers, positivity, and providence. I anticipate a heartfelt update soon, and you have my unending appreciation for investing not only in this GoFundMe campaign, but ultimately, helping to lay some stepping stones to my career.
~Happy writing,
Molly Jo
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Molly Jo Realy
Organizer
Hesperia, CA
