Monday.

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Two of the newest, the royal lapis I promised and the Leland Blue.  I had intended to get them up tonight, but this day has conspired against me on every front, so it's looking like tomorrow now.  Hopefully by then the bead strands for the silicon and Rosarita pendants will be done, and I can do them all at once.

That's if I'm lucky.

Today, though? Today's been a Monday in every sense of the word. Awakened in the early dark hours with a blinding migraine that had not subsided in the slightest by dawn; up early because Wings needed [routine] labs; seventy degrees when we should have snow, but of course, then the high winds show up, too; and all in all, the way everything combined jacks my pain levels makes everything an absolute misery. And now tonight I'm battling to keep my laptop alive [it's shut down on me multiple times already], PLUS Indian killer telecom's service, with no actual redundancy, no matter how they lie about, is borked and we keep losing access. Oh, and I forgot; I've gotta come up with ~$700 now, and a few grand before, say, late April, for cultural stuff [not us, somebody else, but there's no one else to do it].

And I'm losing my mind. Because all the usual issues continue apace. So does the work, our own and the vocational stuff that we have no choice but to do. And, of course, the world is still on fire, they're still coming for us all, and we still have to worry about our communities, about our relatives [both of whom are disproportionately affected by this illegal "funding suspension"], . . . and about us. Last year was indescribably bad on pretty much every single front, especially sales. This year, already a month into it, and it's not appreciably better. I have GOT to make some sales, since we've had only two so far in this new year, and we're already in the second month. It takes at least one sale a week [sometimes more] just for us to break even on the year, and last year? We didn't even do half that. We're going to have to replace the well pressure pump, without question. Taxes are coming. Now we have a potential security issue, and I think we're going to have to hire someone to install a camera system here [the distance is too great for the little cheap cameras; this will require something a lot more sophisticated (and a lot more costly, natch)]. My laptop apparently will have to wait yet another year [assuming I can keep this alive that long, which I can't assume for a moment, actually]. So now would still be a good time to buy. TONS of new and fabulous work on the site, and tons more on the way, too. But I've got to sell something, for the love of all that's holy. I can't live with this level of unrelenting stress on top of everything else.

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 far worse than the last, we urgently need to begin 2025 on a better footing before taxes take every cent, so please share all of the links. 

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