It has been A DAY.

Photo copyright Aji, 2024; all rights reserved.

It has been A DAY. Mostly not in a good way.

Except for the extra snow; that's been great. The sunset light was pretty amazing, too.

We had a couple of errands to run, one in part because the corporate pharmacy cannot get its shit together, neither its Web site nor its phone systems, and eventually I wound up giving up, given the length of the line and the amount of pain I'm in, unable to stand that long. I've also got some new bureaucratic bullshit to deal with, and this better be the last damn time I have to address it.

But what was supposed to be two errands became several times that many, and we didn't get home until late, just as the snow was starting up again, and by the time we could get to the evening chores, it was already almost dark. It's snowing lightly now, just softly, and this is likely to be it, but I'm grateful for the half-foot-plus that we've gotten over these last three days.

I also wound up giving away all the cash I had on me, because we encountered too many folks who needed it more than we did.

As always, there's work to do. A lot of it. More than ever, because no one in authority or control is going to do it; that much is evident from this week's disastrous [but entirely predictable] election results, and the utter craven cowardice of the Dems]. The cold tonight is going to very bitter, bone-deep, and too many people don't have housing or shelter. One of the members of our new mutual-aid group has her own outreach effort aimed at unhoused local folks [their numbers growing literally by the day] with pets who need to survive the winter.  Here's that group's Amazon wishlist; go do some good in a world that's otherwise shit by buying some of the items on it that will keep our most vulnerable, people and animals both, alive for another winter. WHAT THEY NEED MOST:  SOCKS, SLEEPING BAG SETS, THE PUP TENTS. The most expensive item is 10 sleeping bags for $136; the pup tents are $27 each, and folks NEED those in this weather. The ground becomes pure ice.  The address it goes to will take care of it, so go buy some things for folks who have been less lucky this year; there's stuff at every price point.

And of course, there's more than enough that I need to get done around here. I'm already putting in 12- to 16-hour days every day, 7 days a week. Three mornings straight now with episodes like those that almost killed me 7 years ago this month, unable to breathe from everything shutting off my airway. No, I don't know why. Today was chemo day; we'll see if anything changes tomorrow morning. I'm seriously disliking this return of these episodes, though, even when they're of short duration like today. Feeling like you're dying is a terrifying thing.

But the work won't wait, and for us, being able to help anyone else starts with us making sales, of course. And as I also said, I'm also redoing what I highlight here. I'm just going to highlight a few items here each day. Today's feature is a trio of works, brand-new pendant, pair of earrings, and existing cuff that all match, all tiger iron, fire in shades of gold and red and gray. So, tonight, let's highlight a very different kind of tree, the last three Warrior Woman pins in current inventory, which are set, respectively, with . . . yup, gold, and red, and gray:

• "For the Pollen and the Light," the "gold" of the three, set with sunny citrine, here;
• "A Dance With Fire and Storm," the "red," with garnet, here; and
• "The Direction of the Light," the "gray," with moonstone [regular moonstone, not rainbow, and absolutely haunting], here.

There's more on the way very soon; he's got something like four more cuffs, a couple of pendants, several new pairs of earrings [a long, elegant ribbon turquoise pair possibly as early as tomorrow], and eventually all the new coils he'll need for holiday inventory. And I need to sell them all, because I still need to make sales weekly for us to catch up on the year and cover all the stuff still in the pipeline that needs covering [roof next year, more medical, etc.]. So: GO BUY! Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priority is the liquid soaps and Amazon cards, probably most useful at this point); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year, this one already far worse than the last, we really need to get what's left of 2024 onto a better footing, so please share all of the links. 

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