My brain is not managing any of it well.

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All these lovely clouds this morning, and nothing out of it. Mostly sunny now, and much too warm.

And much too much pain. It's a product of the joint damage, which in turn is a product of the medical establishment refusing to treat it for a quarter of a century. I'm never getting those years back, but by now, I'm also never getting the function back, and between the knowledge of what lies ahead and the side effects of the pain itself, I'm increasingly depressed. It'll pass, but the weeks and months to come are going to be very, very difficult, and the pressures on me right now, financially and functionally both, are immense. And my brain is not managing any of it well.

As I said yesterday, I was hoping that with a new week, we could leave the mess hat was the last one in the rear-view, except that it cost us such a terrible, decimating outlay. We've still got all the septic pumping [every 8-10 days until they can dig] the digging and figuring out whether we have a blockage or need a whole new leach field, and the taxes that are already the thing that's keeping me up at night. And I still feel like absolute death today. Nothing I can do about that.

But I have GOT to make some sales. 

The new necklace was posted Tuesday; another is in the works, as are some simple concha earrings [all of those items likely done tonight or tomorrow; yes, I know I said that yesterday, but yesterday turned out to be awful on every front, and we're both way behind]. And also 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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