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Clouds that turn to rain . . . elsewhere.
It actually looked like we would get some last night, but no. Stopped just short of us, then the wind did a 180, and it blew out completely. Probably more of the same today.
More of the same on the other kind of rain, too, which is to say, none. Christmas is less than four months away now, and we have got to start getting sales stepped up. Summer into the winter holidays is our busy season, but not this year, and I have no way to cover everything I need to cover just in the next three weeks. This week's labor more than wiped out such sales as we did make. I don't have the requisite alchemical powers to manufacture money out of nothing, but as always, I'll find a way because I have no choice.
The medical expenses aren't going to let up for me, either. Nothing's changed on the pain front; see here for details if you really want to know (it's not pleasant). What we're having to expend now to fix all this before winter comes (and when the guys are available to do it), because it will be many more times as expensive if we have to replace everything next year because it rotted over the winter months? That's what we had set aside for my future medical testing later this year and into next (because there's a LOT of it yet to be done, and it all costs a fortune). So I'm having to push sales to replace that, and that means it's all stress all the time, because I now have to raise a lot more money sooner than I expected, and still deal with whatever might be in the offing medically. Some of the details are here; the upshot is that I've got to raise about $3,500 just for this first go-around, which I hope will cover about three weeks' worth of labor on all this stuff. We've managed $755 in sales, which means another $2,745 to go, and I'm so tired.
We were supposed to go to Santa Fe yesterday to take care of some paperwork, but there's simply no time. I got almost nothing done yesterday; my pain levels are so extreme right now that I can barely function. Today promises to be just as terrible with regard to the length of the to-do list, and the inability to clear it because of my pain levels. Squeezing in some writing time would be nice, given that I have deadlines today, but that's doubtful, since I can't seem to be left alone even to get the usual posts done. And there's always the housework. On top of that, there's always the endless push for sales, because these bills won't pay themselves (and I paid out another $1,100 Thursday in what I hope is now the final final bill from my biospies).
So I need help to get all this done. Folks can help in several ways:
And as I said, sales are ideal, of course; one or two of Wings's bigger pieces would cover the whole shot for this round. Patreon subscriptions are good, too. Either way, it's a trade for value. But I'm already feeling panicked at what we thought wold be our schedule being so suddenly and thoroughly upended, and we'll take it however it comes at this point. Oh, Wings dropped new bead pieces yesterday, with more to come probably over the weekend; you can see, share, and shop yesterday's here.
Please share everything, because I'm suddenly back behind the eight-ball on a whole additional front, and yeah, I'm scared about covering everything and surviving, too. Thanks.
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