One image I keep forgetting. Also two weeks in, and better today, but it's all relative. Work resumes Monday.

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I keep meaning to post this, and keep forgetting. Our wedding vase holds pride of place in the nicho next to the stairs. It was made by Wings's cousin's ex, and was a gift from her daughter (his second cousin) and family.

Two weeks ago today, I thought I was gonna die. Literally. Since then, we've managed a wedding, and a whole bunch of house/construction-related stuff, too. And today was the first day where my cardiovascular system cooperated enough to allow me to feel, in a  BIG way, the accumulated AI pain of the last two weeks. As screwed up as that is, it's actually good news. It's VERY good news.

But it wipes me out. Like, completely. I have to stay awake another half-hour to take care of She-Wolf's glucose testing/insulin shot/food, and then I'll likely crash. "Crash" is not really metaphorical these days. I am feeling every second of my age and then some, and I still have all the testing to undergo whenever they manage to get it scheduled. Until then, I'm pretty much prohibited from most of what I used to do. It's one thing to work through constant pain and fatigue; it's another entirely to work through (and trigger) an impending cardiac event. I really don't think it will turn out to be cardiac; my money's on a mix of AI and hypoglycemia, but I can't take that chance.

So everything below this point is just going to be cut and paste, because my brain can't even focus enough to figure out what might be wrong/out of date/otherwise inapplicable. Please just ignore whatever doesn't make any sense (probably a lot of it). Whatever happened two weeks ago has ratcheted up the problem with brain fog in a fairly significant way, and by this time of night, my cognitive abilities are already packing it in. Just know that I will be late and I will miss everything and none of it is intentional, but I just don't have the resources right now to fix it. To be clear, I am better. I'm also not taking it for granted. But this whole thing has loused up my ability to focus and function, and there's no magic wand for that but time and recovery.

As I said last night, I think — think — we'll be mostly okay on donations for the next few weeks (and thank you, thank you, dear friend), but I'll leave the link below anyway. More important are sales — if you want to commission something for the holidays, now is the time to get it in — and the other stuff. And I know that I have some commissions to get back to folks on, and I hope I'm caught up enough on everything this weekend to do that; apologies for my tardiness with everything, but the events of a week and a half ago threw a massive wrench in the works across the board, and I am slow getting back on my feet and to everything that needs doing. I will continue to be slow, and will continue to miss things, at least as long as it takes me to get through all the testing that I need, so please bear with me. Trust me; no one's as frustrated by it as I am, but I'm working my way through everything step by step, per doctor's orders. In the meantime, here are the cut and paste of the links:

• Wings's direct PayPal link;
• Wings's site, for sales;
• Wayfair gift cards, to replenish all the furnishings that the RV has destroyed in one way or another.
• Partial registry #1, from Bed, Bath and Beyond. It's not complete; I've added a few more kitchen-y items, but there'll be some later additions, too.
• Partial registry #2, from Wayfair. Also not complete, but there are more items to be added there, too, once I get them to resolve this fulfillment/shipping problem they have with their site. Now, it's going to be mostly odds and ends that make this place more liveable, because of the sheer volume of stuff destroyed by too many years in the RV (e.g., by the oven and stovetop, by the wiring, by the water, by the mold, etc.), or that we simply gave away seven years ago because we had no room and no place to put them and despaired of ever being able to use them again. But about Wayfair, and VERY IMPORTANT: They make it possible to crowdfund each item. So if you'd like to help, but the prices are too much for one person? You can kick in 20 bucks, or ten, or five, on any one item; many small donations can add up to one item.

As I've also been saying, I am still catching up, not only from the health issues (I'm still not allowed to do anything but walk here and there to keep everything circulating properly; no, I'm not lifting anything, not maintaining anything but a gentle pace, not letting myself get stressed over anything as much as [super]humanly possible at this point), but also from the pace of the construction and the wedding. As promised yesterday, today was indeed a quiet Thanksgiving, but one filled with the kind of gratitude that defies words. So please continue to share the links, and given that the holidays are essentially here, please refer folks to Wings's site (and if you have an endorsement, too, so much the better). I'll be trying, slowly but, I hope, steadily, to get caught up over the course of this week. Thanks again, to everybody, and we love you all.

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