All dark skies now.

Photo copyright Aji, 2024; all rights reserved.

The blue skies at dawn have vanished; it's all dark skies now. No snow here yet, although the peaks are getting some already. It's supposed to arrive down ehre this evening and extend into tomorrow. As always, we'll see.

At the moment, everything else is pretty dark.

We have had one sale this whole month, and that's not gonna cut it. I'm so overwhelmed with physical pain and bureaucratic health care bullshit and the upcoming nonsense with taxes, and I can't focus on any of it because the need to make sales is so extreme. I also can't afford to have even a fraction of the health care work done that I need to have. The lymphedema is back in a big way in my right breast [this is the one they thought was a sign of inflammatory breast cancer a couple of years ago, but concluded, eventually, that it was just the lupus, because they simply couldn't tell what it was]. I have a new mass in my neck, aside from the existing one that they thought, before that, was medullary thyroid cancer [again, because they couldn't figure out results of the multiple biopsies]; it's probably been there, but the chemo has taken down the swelling, and now it's very much perceptible. No, I'm not going to Santa Fe for testing; I can't afford it, and literally everyone in this state has COVID and goes unmasked, and with no immune system at all anymore, I can't afford to contract that, either. Besides, our current expenses are far more than enough. After last week's hideous outlay [in our third week without a single sale, and with my January Patreon payout still $250 short] I have got to bring in more income somehow. But there's no getting blood from a stone, and it's really rocky around here right now.

As always, all the links are listed below, and sales are the most important:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities now are the liquid soaps and especially the vacuum, because mine has died a complete and ignominious death, and if I don't vacuum every single day, the dog hair takes over completely [and the dustbuster is just not cutting it]); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

There's lots of fabulous work on the site about a dozen all told over the last three weeks or so, cuffs and earrings and pins, plus the necklace and earrings to come. After such a grim 2023, we really need to get this year started off on a better footing, so please share all of the links. 

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