A little holiday spirit, maybe. Sales/shares still very badly needed.

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Better today, in terms of my frame of mind. No, nothing's changed on the health front. Not a peep out of Amazon on the concentrator, so we went into town and renewed the rental on this one for the rest of the month. At least the CPAP folks are prompt; it's currently at the ABQ sorting center, and will be here sometime tomorrow.

I wiped myself out with errands, since I have no way to take the O2 with me. But one wonderful thing we got done is that up there. We went looking for one late today in a special place; Wings found the perfect one, he cut it, and we brought it home. Tomorrow, hopefully, we'll get it up into the stand so its branches can rest, and then we'll decorate slowly over the next few days. We haven't had a real tree in . . . well, ever, so this is a gift. 

Still, I have no idea how we'll meet even minimal expenses, much less how we'll help our friend get down to her cancer treatment appointments. Forget what remains to be done on the house for now. We need to make some sales. A lot of them. Sales are way off this year, in part due to the  terrible weather (terrible here being 60 with no snow), and in part due to the terrible situation in D.C. But sales are not just what's going to keep me alive and Wings healthy; it's going to help other folks, too. Given the circumstances, I'm leaving up the donation link, too, and the registries have some new items on then, mostly lower-priced, to replace stuff damaged by the RV or given away when we first moved into it seven years ago. So please share our 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. There are new kitchen-y things on it now, stuff that I didn't realize we'd need to replace (either because the RV ruined it or because we gave it away when we had to downsize).
• Partial registry #2, from Wayfair. Still waiting for them to resolve this fulfillment/shipping problem they have with their site. Even so, I've added some things (kitchen/dining room stuff mostly), most of which are comparatively reasonably priced. 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. A CHANGE ABOUT WAYFAIR:  NO MORE CROWDFUNDING. Their Web site coding is bad, and it will not permit crowdfunded items to ship. Items purchased outright arrive in two business days, but you can't even get the others out of the warehouse. I've spent the last month fighting with them about shipping the dozen or so things that folks fulfilled, and today's message was finally terse enough that they did the manual override, four whole weeks later, that I knew they could do but simply weren't bothering. But I'll be removing all the crowdfunding options. I'm supposed to keep my blood pressure down these days.

As I've also been saying, I am still catching up, and will be now for a while. But this is the holiday season, and the sales/commissions from these few weeks are what keep us alive throughout the whole long winter and spring months (to say nothing of what's in the offing medically), so please continue to share the links. And 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. We have some massive expenses coming down the pike, and a lot of testing yet to be done before I'm out of the woods. So please keep sharing all our links. For now, I'm just so damn grateful to be alive, to have a healthy heart, to be back home with the love of my life and our dogs, the whole world is beautiful, even in spite of my terrible depression. Thanks again, to everybody, and we love you all.

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