Determined to go out completely on-brand

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Last day of April, and this month is determined to go out completely on-brand, like the nightmare that it is. Ten minutes ago, I said elsewhere that is warm and the winds were calm, and of course, that's all it took for that to change drastically.  The clouds are moving in, but they're too high and thin to amount to anything, and the winds will blow them out of here anyway. At least the raven in flight just above the pear tree on the left side of the photo is apparently doing better; it's got some small creature in its beak, so at least it'll have lunch.

I jinxed everything yesterday, too, because not half an hour after I wrote about what a beautiful day it was, we got a call from the fraud center. Some jackass has our debit card info and was trying [apparently, hopefully, in vain, but I can't verify that for sure until tomorrow after the bank opens] to run up $500 bucks at a fucking Jersey casino. No, we have not made any sketchy purchases or donations. No, the card is never out of our possession. We did everything right, and once again, some retailer (or GoFundMe, or our doctor's office, who TF knows) has either been hacked and our data stolen, or has an employee leaking and selling it. And there's no way to prevent that.

But in the absence of the sales I so desperately needed to make before today's end, and with this now hanging over me, the shift in May is grim. The second big tax payment is pending. At least no autopays will go through, because the card is locked, but no we have to wait for a new one to be issued and then contact everybody all over again to pay all the stuff that will now be late over the next few days. 

I'm not sleeping from the stress ad the physical pain that's been ratcheting up so badly lately, and this is all on top of the fact that I have to figure out this secondary solution for Wings from a wholly different provider, and I have no fucking idea how, but at some point it's got to be done. His knees also need to be done, to the tune of almost $2 grand in cash, up-front, in June. And it's just endless with the tax bullshit. With the two big tax payments we've already sent in, I've got to start making up for it somehow, and that means bringing in sales. Like right away. In the best of times, we need to average one sale a week (any amount; it eventually averages out) just to break even. We're nowhere near that right now, thanks to this colonial government.

So no, I did not have time yesterday to get the new pieces posted here, but they'll be going up here momentarily, so stay tuned for those. I am wiped out, I'm angry at having to deal with this garbage yet again, and I'm tired of feeling like a government mule and everyone else's, too. I need to bring in sales TODAY, badly, because I've got to get this nonsense handled by tomorrow (and if I don't, it'll be yet another sleepless night and more pain as a result) Please share all the links:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (new priority, because this week I've been forced to eliminate another staple from my diet just to function rather minimally, and someone mentioned that perhaps our old non-stick pans, which are in fact long since well beyond their useful date, are making the matter worse, so there's a non-PFAS replacement set at the top that would help with cooking/cleanup/my hands/my illness; and yes, the Zero-Odor sprays are still useful right now, although these days it's dusty dogs, not wet ones); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

There's lots of fabulous work on the site, so please share all of the links. 

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