That kind of hope gets dangerous fast.

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We had a gorgeous daybreak, and then a little early snow. Now, we have brutal winds and bitter cold — quite the drastic change from the 61-degree highs of the last several days in a row.

And still no new meds. They've only had the scrips since Wednesday morning, you understand. But they're still "in process," and they're now closed on weekends, which means Monday will be the absolute earliest I can get them. So my plan to start them on Sunday is shot; even Monday is questionable now. And I'm having to keep reminding myself that they may not even work, because I'm catching myself banking entirely too much on the prospect of them actually allowing me to be marginally functional and able to walk properly again.

That kind of hope gets dangerous fast. I know that all too well from hard, painful experience.

Through it all, I still have to make sales, of course. We've had a couple of them over last weekend, 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!]. 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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