Storms coming.

Photo copyright Aji, 2024; all rights reserved.

We had to run several errands this morning, including a trip to the grocery store, and just as I walked out of there to the truck, it started to sprinkle. In the ten or so minutes it took us to get home, it became a heavy, windy rain, and it looked like that. We didn't quite make it before the storm really hit.

It rained almost all afternoon, and we're supposed to get another line of storms after 7 PM. Right now, it's sunny and mostly clear, but I can see the dark haze starting to build again to the west, so for once, the forecast might actually be right.

For now, of course, I'm way behind on everything I needed to get done today, and the weekend's going to be ore of the same. And through it all I have to do what I haven't been able to accomplish all week, and bring in some sales this weekend. Sales, plural. Because there are storms coming of a far more dangerous sort.

Because on top of the taxes, the chimney cleaning coming up Monday, the change in our Web hosting [a year already paid in advance, unless we wind up having to upgrade to more space, in which case it goes up by another $400], the need to replace my dying laptop, and all the other nonsense? Four figures' worth of medical bills coming up fast. The stress of all this is what's killing me now [and the insomnia, and the pain, and the fear of what this other thing might be]. I keep saying that I refuse to entertain the notion of the new pain and other symptoms being anything other than autoimmune complications, but that's getting harder to do know that I know that suppressing my immune system isn't stopping them. It's already abundantly clear that reverting to the proper chemo dose has accomplished exactly nothing on that front, and that's worrying in the extreme. It's clearly not muscle or bone. Yes, it could still be all lymph, but given the location, that in itself isn't exactly without worry, either. And the persistence of the pain and other issues . . . well. Meanwhile, the expenses won't wait.

So we've GOT to make sales now.  Desperately.  I need help; I can't do this alone.

I've put up a bunch of new work lately, including two new pairs of earrings yesterday and four other pairs of earrings, all posted on the NDN Silver site, the other night [for the second time; the Web migration glitchiness wiped them out all the first time around several days ago]. There's more to come, including possibly a new cuff soon [he's not satisfied with it currently] and several additional new pairs of simple bezel-set gemstone earrings, in addition to the pairs from the other day. And as always, all the regular links are listed below. I've added some new items to the wish list; Wings needs the Flex-Tape and we need the filters for the air purifiers imminently. But as always, sales are by far the most important:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (apparently the FlexTape is also the priority now, so I'm told; otherwise, Amazon cards and the filters for the air purifiers); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim 2023, and with this year starting off MUCH worse (and given that we're already approaching the half-way mark), we really need to get 2024 onto a better footing, so please share all of the links. 

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