Not enough to do anything.

Photo copyright Aji, 2024; all rights reserved.

Early thunderhead buildup this morning; only a couple of dozen scattered drops this afternoon, despite the heavy cloud cover. Certainly not enough to do anything.

Which is the story of my life now. No sleep last night; no particular reason, beyond pain and fatigue and all the problems that attend autoimmune disease, oh, and the stress of having to bring in enough money to pay off everything and no way to do it.

I'm so tired. I'm disheartened, discouraged, so tired of everything. Every bit of good news I get winds up being qualified by caveats that are potentially worse than what my brain initially conjured up; every bit of progress we make on any front gets hindered by several more steps back.

The expenses won't wait, particularly the taxes. We have come to the point where the IRS is openly hassling us, threatening us, demanding money we don't have on a timetable we can't meet. I have to have help. That leachfield/septic failure early in the year, coupled with the complete lack of sales for months on end, set the stage for this mess, and our expenses have only gone up since then. I have to hold out at least another grand for the truck, whenever that stupid part comes in. But I was only able to send them a token payment in April [see $10K leachfield failure], and now I have to give them a much bigger chunk. And then there's the additional $550 cash out the door on Friday, because the pressure switch on the well failed. It's endless, and I'm losing my mind trying to make everything work, especially when I'm in this much pain.

I'm going to need to bring in at least $4K-$5K a lot more than that in sales this week alone, and that feels like such an impossibility that I don't even know where to begin. I mean, other than cry, which I can't afford to do now because I won't be able to stop. One thing I do know is that, barring a miracle, the roof repair is out of the question. And that's horrible, but here we are.

I HAVE GOT TO BRING IN SALES NOW, NO MATTER WHAT.

There is a ton of new work on the site from just the last couple of weeks [with two or three new cuffs in the works currently, and at least one belt buckle plus some collectible items coming soon]: 

• Three new cuffs, two set with incredible turquoise focals, one solid silver; go here, here, and here.
• Six pairs of new concha floral earrings in the Earrings Gallery here [larger are garnet, golden rutilated quartz, and malachite; smaller are amber, carnelian, and iolite];
• Art Deco Labradorite cuff here;  
• triangle wire youth bangle here; 
• Art Nouveau vine pattern-wire youth bangle here; 
• small Art Nouveau pattern-wire bangle pair here; 
• malachite butterfly/leaf-wing earrings here; 
• a big solid silver classic cuff here; 
• ten new pairs of the gemstone-bead earrings are also up in the Earrings Gallery;
• and another new cuff is also here. 

There's more on the way very soon. And I need to sell them all, because I still need to make sales at a rate of at least two per week for the rest of the year for us to catch up [and that's just breaking even; I'm already behind on that, which means I need to make FOUR sales this week just to catch up]. So: GO BUY! PLEASE! Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Amazon cards are probably most useful at this point); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year, this one already far worse than the last, we really need to get 2024 onto a better footing, so please share all of the links. 

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