Curtain rods, finally. Drapes, too. Pray that the testing starts tomorrow. Sales/shares/registries needed.

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Not a good shot, because iPad. The transfer (and charging) port on my camera didn't survive the Albuquerque trip, apparently, and so I'm trying to find a solution. No luck yet, and not enough time or energy to devote to it as I normally would.

At any rate, Marcos did that today. He needs the work, and so we're keeping him on intermittently (nowhere near every day) between now and January. He's working with his brother tomorrow and Friday, but he had today free, so we had him put up curtain rods (and he hung the drapes so I didn't have to, all on his own), and do a couple of other things. He'll be back a couple of days next week, too, to take care of various odds and ends that will take some of the load off Wings (because I'm useless right now; I'm not allowed to carry anything, much less install stuff), and earn some extra scratch for his family for the holidays, too. 

Tomorrow is the day when I find out whether I can really trust this new doc. If I come away with the necessary labwork, we're good. If not . . . ::shrugs::. No comment. So fingers crossed that she schedules the necessary blood panels tomorrow. I wont know anything at all before that appointment's over, and I suspect I won't know much even then, because this is clearly going to take some testing to figure out what it is, much less how to treat it. But it's got to be the first step. 

Lots of expenses coming down the pike (first one already here in yesterday's mail), and we need to make some sales. 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 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. 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. Thanks again, to everybody, and we love you all.

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