It's been a hell of a Monday.

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Not a single cloud in the sky all day long. Seventy degrees, too, although no real wind, so at least there was that.

Meanwhile, my laptop keeps shutting down mid-work on me, and the well pressure pump is actively failing, and before we even made it out of bed this morning, we already had two requests for financial help.

It's been a hell of a Monday.

Tomorrow's not looking any better. 

I am so fucking tired.

Two more sales, with all items shipped today, but still, five sales over eleven weeks is not going to cut it. It's also tax season, which means that the loss of sales form last year into this year is going to kill us that much more. Last year was a nightmare, all year long: expenses of the sort you can't plan for that were astronomical, combined with one of our worst sales years ever. We still haven't recovered from it. Meanwhile, new expenses mount [this year's taxes, the well pump, the security system, a lot of other things I had no way of anticipating, but there's no one else to do it]. I am at my wits' end. And I can't even get anyone to volunteer to take over promoting [not administering; just promoting] the olla auction so that I can spend two or three days focusing on all of this. Then again, most folks won't even bother to hit the share button on other local folks' GFMs. Apparently I'm supposed to create donations to meet all of those needs out of thin air, and all on my own, too? 

I'm disgusted with everything right now, and with most people, too. We need sales; can't help anyone if we can't keep our own heads above water, no matte what everyone seems to think. Wings has been rocking in the studio for weeks. There's a ton of new work on the site, and I need to sell all of it. If you're in the market? Now would be a really, really good time to buy, because I really, really need to sell some of his work, and soon.

Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (I put an inexpensive little rice cooker on it, because mine died two nights ago after MUCH long use; those adjustable Black KN95 masks are badly needed, because I gave away all the rest of ours to relatives); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and this one beginning at least as badly, we urgently need to move 2025 onto a better footing before taxes take every last cent, so please share all of the links. 

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