Looks and feels like winter.

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White sky. There's snow on the way — possibly even sooner than the forecast arrival tomorrow.

It looks and feels like winter, and I'm grateful for that.

My knees, notsomuch. ::Sigh:: I knew today would be murderous because of the standing and walking I had to do yesterday, and sure enough, here we are. Hands and feet are sore, too. And the loss of swelling since I started the methotrexate means that the ugly nodules in my joints show up much more prominently now. Then again, almost nobody sees them except Wings and me, so I suppose it doesn't matter much. The pain is the problem, and I have so very much to get done over the next couple of days.

Through it all, I still have to make sales, of course. We've had a couple of them two weekends ago, and a couple more last week, but we'll need to sell a lot more between now and year's end, obviously. My Patreon for the month is down ~$250 at the moment [that's how much it was short on the December 1st payout for subscriptions for the month of November, and so far, all of those still haven't been paid]. My guess is that those won't materialize later in the month; that will be the penalty [or one of them anyway] for taking a vocal stand about the genocide being perpetrated against Palestine and its people now. Of course, we haven't brought in anywhere nearly enough sales all year across the board, even before recent developments that require a moral stand of us. It's grim.

And aside from all of that, I also need to bring in at least $6K in sales between now and year's end to cover tax prepayments, and we haven't hit the $1K mark on that yet. Normally, I would've been paying them quarterly, but not this year; we haven't had enough sales to do that, and I'm behind on everything else, too, all while my illness worsens seemingly by the day. Until those prepayments are off my desk, I can't relax, can't do anything other than push to get them covered. I really need help. As always, all the links are listed below, and sales are the most important:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (the liquid soaps I had on the list are now refusing to ship to us, so I've replaced them with two others, at the top of the list, for now, and they're the current priority [or Amazon cards, and I can order them myself]); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

There's lots of fabulous work on the site, and there will be much more in the days to come [some possibly as early as tonight! yes, I know I said that yesterday and the day before, but Saturday was a nightmare and Sunday was playing catch-up and yesterday had me crippling myself with errands, so here we are]. The way this year has gone, things will still be grim for a good while and the holidays are already here, so please share all of the links. 

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