Hi, my name is Noreen Malarkey. My family and my friends are my world and mean absolutely everything to me.

We are a small, but proud family who live, laugh and love and help others wherever and whenever we can.

I live to make people laugh, I try to bring joy wherever I go...be it in my standup comedy, my acting, singing, music, my srt, or just plain reminding you that I see you, you matter and are loved...and i will lovingly dote on you like a mother figure...those who know me from way back in my Drag Cruise days, remember be lovingly doting on all my beloved Angels. I am the type to give someone the shirt of my back, give whatever i have, and do anything to see you smile and be filled with joy. I'm the helper of others...but now I am in need of help.

My family is desperately in need help to save our home, and I am doing whatever I can to save them ....sadly my family's situation got really bad, really quickly. Im still trying to understand all the legalities, but our house already had a lein put on it and now its starting Foreclosure...to save our house from Foreclosure, we have to come up with $15,000(and get a new bank to take over the loan) ...I know miracles happen everyday, but this is a big one and im feeling very lost and scared(we have been told hiven the situation it is best to move). Our situation has been spiraling since before my dad died nearly nine years ago, bad investments that we have never recovered from.

I was working at a job as a secretary at a local furniture store for over two years when I was laid off due the the business not doung enough sales(July 25th), i managed to get a part-time seasonal job at Walmart (two month contract)...I am currently unemployed (I was looking for additional jobs even when I was a secretary)...im not sure how much longer my employment insurance will last ...I already am having to pass on an opportunity of a lifetime that I was given recently in show biz, because my situation is what it is and I can live with that, but I cant live with loosing our home... we have no savings and nowhere else to go.

I am job hunting like crazy and also selling and combo giving away pretty much everything I own, atleast then I can give things to others that might make them smile and I won't have to figure out what to do with my things...

Thank you everyone, so much, you are all beloved Angels...even if you cant help, please check on your loved ones, please keep spreading love, kindness and making people laugh ....thats the legacy I was building and thsts the possession that matters most, caring.

Love you all xoxo

Noreen

***BELOW IS MORE OF OUR FAMILY'S STORY

My family, we are good people who do anything for anyone! ...now, we find ourselves in the position of being the ones needing help., desperately.

...To quote GoFundMe, "What if the only thing standing between you and getting the support you need, is the courage to ask for help" ...please help us... I am normally the type the one helping others, to the point that friends tell me their is no point in me winning the lottery, I'd just give it all away to help others...true. ....My loved ones are my lottery in life and when we all help one another, we all win in life, we share this journey! My loved ones are my heroes, we all look out for each other!

...I need help with a miracle...to help my family.. I would do anything for my loved ones.

We need help, my family is facing losing our home in the next few months if something drastic doesn't change and we find help from helping hands...

My family has had real struggles and hardships our whole lives... and now we could use a miracle, to save our home, that we risk losing soon... every single family member is struggling with major health concerns... and I am scared. I promised myself to keep this short, but without explaining everything...it's hard to fully explain how urgent and dire the situation is becoming.

NOREEN MALARKEY & FAMILY:

I would like to introduce a few of the Malarkey family. Those of my family who live together are my Mom, Joyce(70 years old), my little sister, Jaden(27 years old) and myself, Noreen(45 years old). We look out for each other and take care of one another. My mom, since my birth, has been my best friend(ride-or-die bestie), my mentor, my strong warrior Mom that I look up to and my hero... she has always worked for fingers to the bone her whole life, since the day she was born, nothing has come easy. She has pushed herself both at home and at work, doing anything and everything to help our family survive in anyway she can. Even when I was a child, she would make the hour long commute to Lloydminster, from Frenchman Butte, braving terrible winter conditions, just to get to her job... this wasn't cell phone days, so if/when she had car troubles...believe you me, a friend/stranger that sees you and goes above and beyond to help you, is worth their weight in gold. ...We used to live out on a farm, when our pipes from one winter, she would fill pots of snow to warm on the stove, to melt for drinking water and baths. ...the hardships she endured in the farming days... they were rough, and most people would have broke under such troubles, but not my mom. ...in 1988, while my mom was away at work one day, my dad decided to burn brush. my brother and myself, only aged 8 and 10 years old, were his only helpers. ...it got out of control. My brother got me on the go-kart and drove me down the road to keep me safe, and then went back to help our dad... we lost the pig barn, along with all the pigs...neighbors two miles away saw the smoke and came, they had to rush my dad to Hospital for smoke inhalation...we lost a big part of the Farm that day, including other little buildings...but we saved our Trailer and most importantly our lives... we Trooped onward with the strength of my mom, ...we sold the Farm in 1992 when our family could no longer financially get by Farming and my brother and I struggled in the Paradise Hill School.

Our family has never had it easy, we have dealt with hardships our whole lives and as we have gotten older and more and more medical problems set in, and financial woes come up and money a scarcity...we are facing losing our home...it's not a matter of if, but when. We are good people, who would do anything for anyone....but now we are the ones facing needing help... i heard said once, "What if the only thing standing between you and support was the courage to ask for help?"...so here is a moment of vulnerability, to ask for help for a much needed miracle ....

... many years back, my Dad had the idea to mortgage our house to buy investment properties in Northbattleford...it was not the best move...and to make matters worse, he got Colon Cancer and passed away back in 2017, ....he wanted to be buried, not cremated, but all we could afford was cremation and it took everything my mom had just been given by her Mother. To this day we do not have a headstone marking his grave, my mom and I dug the grave for his Urn, ourselves ... I love my Dad, this is not a judgement... before he passed, he made me promise to look after my Mom (I would have anyways)...to this day we are dealing with not only the ripple effect of that business decision(my mom sold the properties in 2019...not as a profit, trust me, the debt still exists...so many tenants never paid, and damaged the properties...I even fell off a ladder and broke my wrist while trying to clean and fix one of those properties, my mom fell also at a different time, hitting her head and needing staples in her head to close the wound.... this was not the end of financial woes, it was the spiral of the getting worse. My dad, ...he had thought it was best to fix our house issues, cheaply, rather than professionally, it has caused long term problems we can't afford to fix to this day(there was some structural problems with the house by the people who originally constructed it as well), things that were done wrong...and other things have just started sort of falling apart.... our house has issues with mold, appliances not working, paint crumbling....and more...we barely keep up with the mortgage and utilities, fixing things is a stretch ... we struggle to take care of our own health, everything is poured into the house, so we keep our home...we keep working, we are strong women...but even strong women need help...and even heroes need heroes sometimes

We have already been struggling to make ends meet sometime...last year I was working a full time job that paid well, as well as my mom, my sister was/is looking for work... even then I knew I was going to need a second job just to make ends meet, net alone get ahead. Then in December the mortgage went up $400 a month (We already couldn't afford dental or new clothes, we did not need this). Then in January of this year, our Furnace broke. A very expensive ignition replacement later, we were told that we should replace the Furnace as soon as possible, it's old and were lucky it stayed running after that....then our hot water tank went, we tried two expensive fixes, neither worked, we had no choice, it needed replacing and we did not have the money, nor could we get a loan. For over two and a half months we bathed out of a pot, heated on the stove and carried downstairs to the tub. Our only reprieve was my beloved ride-or-die bestie Adrienne and her family, they opened their hearts and home to us and made a shower option available to us once in awhile. Another beloved Ride-or-Die bestie of mine, Travis (He and his family are amazing!), he loaned us the money to get the new hot water tank! I had him half paid already, when on July 25th of this year, I was laid off from my job...the very next day was my mom's 70th Birthday(which we never got to celebrate properly), and she came to the show I performed in, probably one of my last Standup Comedy moments I will ever do ...my routine was on "Luck, Chance and Circumstance" regarding opportunities in life, tragic irony....

Before I lost my job, I was already looking for additional jobs to get ahead...I wanted to get us ahead...and I wanted to go back to school to train for something different, to become a Teacher finally, ... retail has been breaking down my body for over two decades, I also dreamed of getting my own place ...I also wanted to help my friends and others, ...i love helping others, thats my thing

I started looking for another job right away(my friend Adrienne got me involved in going Church and into all the music programs: Bells, Ukuleles and Choir...I already dropped from Bells to open my availability up for jobs...Choir is next(hopefully i can keep it)... I am doing what I have to do....I am mentally stuck in survival mode and I am burning out and I know it) ...everything was falling in to categories of things I am either, not qualified to do (Travis always makes me laugh when he says, "Tell them you know how to do it and Google 'how' to do it later), or physically know I will struggle(Arthritis is breaking my body down really fast, especially my feet) ...I finally started applying for everything, it didn't matter anymore. I finally got a job, but it was part-time, seasonal...it ended January 3rd. ...my Mom's job (she is a cook at a seniors home for over 25 years! ...she is 70 years old, she shouldn't even have to work anymore, but our circumstances dictate we will all work until our end, no savings...only debt. All three of us have Arthritis, very badly... often friends threaten to roll me in bubble wrap due to my injury track record, my mom is the same! We have both had broken wrists, popped ribs for me and broken for her, tons of head injuries for both of us, broken bones galore for me - so many, broken shoulder blade for my mom(doctors won't fix it), both shoulder muscles ripped on my mom and only one is fixed, and it lead to complications with blood clots that she still has in her lungs to this very day, she has two aneurysms, we have both have had covid (myself three times and suspect some of my medical issues might be long covid side effects), i have spondylitis and heel spurs, I also have two bad chemical exposures(from one of my jobs...a lot of my mom and my injuries came from jobs that didn't have safety followed properly) degenerative disks in my neck/Spondylitis ... the list goes on for both of us.., just in February of last year I was diagnosed with ADHD (finally), the meds side effects put me in Emergency while I was recovering from Gallbladder surgery in October of the same year. Also diagnosed with low Iron...I have mystery respiratory issues and blood pressure issues).comedy is about the only think that keeps us going, being able to laugh at ourselves, and hugs for the moments in between...I hate to admit my mom and I have had discussions about "sad thoughts" and the realization of 'that solves nothing and makes things worse for those left behind"...in those moments, I am extra glad we do not live alone...talk...care, be seen, heard and loved and appreciated. Support mental health...support those you love. I share all this not for pity, just hopefully some love, compassion and understanding in why each of us are struggling so

I am so lost right now, how do I fix this situation? *deep breath* How do I save the woman that gave me life? My hero... I'm not rich nor famous, but if I was, i would trade it all to keep our family safe... I am trying to sell everything I have, selling all old art projects and creating new ones, all the while looking for additional jobs to help my family to pay back Travis as soon as i can. My mom needs a break...and I will admit that I do to. ...If my arthritis does to me what it did to my aunt and grandmother on my dads side, I am not sure how much longer my body will hold out, it's getting bad and fast(but I will break my back before I let it break our spirits break)...it deformed them and they needed to have care assistance...and I am already at the age they were when it started getting bad for them and it is happening for me. I do not share our story lightly... we have dealt with bullying our whole lives...please, if someone cannot help, that is fine...just please do not judge... count your blessings, pray for us, do kindness for others wherever you can...check on your loved ones, you never knowing who is barely hanging on... I am looking for a miracle.. Love you all.. and thank you, just for hearing this lost soul's heart pour out and sharing about my mom, who is my best friend, my guardian Angel... she deserves so much, ...I always try to make her proud, even in our struggles... we make each other laugh, we share tears, and are each other's teachers and guiders.... my mom said she has always believed I was put on this earth to teach unconditional love... I had/have the best teacher, her

I am truly trying anything and everything I can to raise funds... this is where I am selling my my art, my possessions, giving lots away to downsize to move if we have too and it looks like we do..and working as many jobs as I can get ...please help if you can, I am so grateful for every kindness, be it financial or best wishes and prayers.

Love you all, please take care of one another