A very slow process.

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Dawn. As in this morning. We've had several days like this now, rare by this time of year; red sunrise skies tend to be an October phenomenon here. But they do seem to be ushering a change in the weather, even if they're making a very slow process of it.

Everything else seems to be very slow, too, in a season when I have absolutely no time. I had to go into town five days in a row last week, and I swore that I would do none of that this week . . . but of course, today had other damn ideas. That's why everything is late today. For the rest of the week, though, I'm sticking to it; the only reason for me to leave would be to ship orders, should we get any more. That's it.

Clothes are a little looser again today. Less swelling in certain specific joints. Indescribable pain in my right knee, now that there's no buffer from said swelling. And I know that I will be barely able to walk tomorrow, because of all the walking and standing I had to do on hard surfaces today. But that's the way it's going to be, apparently. 

Through it all, I still have to make sales, of course. We've had a couple of them over two weekends ago and a couple more last week, but we'll need to sell a lot more between now and year's end, obviously. My Patreon for the month is down ~$250 at the moment [that's how much it was short on the December 1st payout for subscriptions for the month of November, and so far, all of those still haven't been paid]. My guess is that those won't materialize later in the month; that will be the penalty [or one of them anyway] for taking a vocal stand about the genocide being perpetrated against Palestine and its people now. Of course, we haven't brought in anywhere nearly enough sales all year across the board, even before recent developments that require a moral stand of us. It's grim.

And aside from all of that, I also need to bring in at least $6K in sales between now and year's end to cover tax prepayments, and we haven't hit the $1K mark on that yet. Normally, I would've been paying them quarterly, but not this year; we haven't had enough sales to do that, and I'm behind on everything else, too, all while my illness worsens seemingly by the day. Until those prepayments are off my desk, I can't relax, can't do anything other than push to get them covered. I really need help. As always, all the links are listed below, and sales are the most important:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (the liquid soaps I had on the list are now refusing to ship to us, so I've replaced them with two others, at the top of the list, for now, and they're the current priority [or Amazon cards, and I can order them myself]); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

There's lots of fabulous work on the site, and there will be much more in the days to come [some possibly as early as tonight! yes, I know I said that yesterday and the day before, but Saturday was a nightmare and yesterday was playing catch-up, so here we are]. The way this year has gone, things will still be grim for a good while and the holidays are already here, so please share all of the links. 

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