Be glad when April's over.

Photo copyright Aji, 2024; all rights reserved.

The green is getting closer; just not here for our aspens yet. What shows in the photo is down the highway around the curve, so maybe less than a half-mile south of us. Maybe we'll get lucky and have aspen leaves here in a couple of more days . . . you know, as opposed to the long dangling strands of pollen we have now. Being on the chemo, I've handled allergy season better this year than ever before in my life, but my eyes still itch and I still have that pollen-induced cough. I'm just grateful not to be sneezing and sniffling constantly, which is my usual at this time of year.

Also? We'll both be glad when April's over. It's a bad month every single year, for so many reasons, but this has been one of the worst in recent memory, and while May is not going to be any better on certain fronts [namely the financial ones], it'll be an improvement in a lot of other ways.

But May is still going to be hellishly costly: In addition to all the usual, we both have major medical expenses near month's end; there's Wings's ongoing dental; we have some bureaucratic nonsense to take care of; and somehow, I have to squeeze out a big chunk for taxes. And the other demands on me are just as relentless [the ones that don't, directly, anyway, have to do explicitly with money]; there is no help for any of it, and I am at my wits' end over the latter ones especially.

As though that weren't enough, my Patreon is still down by more than $700 a month over last year, and as our most consistent source of income, that is what pays our monthly bills like utilities and groceries and gas and so forth. It's not going to be enough even for that, never mind the taxes and everything else. Somehow, I have to bring in sales. If you're in the market, now would be a really, REALLY good time. I posted four new pairs of earrings a few nights ago, here, all at lower price points than his usual, and three new all-silver cuffs, here. And the other night, I got the new naja [it's extraordinary] posted and sent viral, and it matches an existing cuff! and you can find them here and here. And as always, all the regular links are listed below, with sales, as always, being the most important:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (we'll always need the dog treats for the monsters, and Amazon and Lowe's cards [the Lowe's cards are probably going to have to go on a new fridge, so I'm hoarding them]); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim 2023, and with this year starting off MUCH worse, we really need to get 2024 moving onto a better footing, so please share all of the links. 

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