End of year; longest night.

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End of year; longest night. The winter solstice is at 8:03 AM tomorrow morning, which means that by this time tomorrow evening, we'll already be [infinitesimally] closer to the sun again.

Not that we had any time to think about it or enjoy it today. It's been chaos from dawn onward. But I did manage to see three friends today: one brought us some of her homemade baklava [glorious]; the other two I got to see at their fundraiser this afternoon.  And I realized then how much I've missed them in recent weeks;; this time of year is always like this, with no time to think never mind anything else.

But we did get to the post office and the grocery store, and we did finally get our tree. Still gotta find the tree stand; that's for tomorrow. We'll let it sit for a while so its branches can settle, then slowly decorate it. If we're lucky, it'll be done by Christmas Eve, LOL. But we've taken to approaching Christmas that way, which is to say, the old way: the 12 days of Christmas way, where we celebrate from Christmas Eve through Epiphany.

And by "celebrate," I mean we finally get a little time to relax a bit.

Now, if only I had someone to put up our electric farolitos on the deck, because I learned the hard way last year that I can't do it anymore. 

We were blessed with a really good sale last week, so the pressure to cover immediate things would have been off in a few days when the payment clears, were it not for the thieves that shoved our account into negatives. But even aside from that bullshit, there's still all the rest, all the stuff we couldn't cover all year because of one catastrophe after another, the taxes that still need to be prepaid, all the January bills that will be here before we know it [which include truck insurance and a whole bunch of business-related expenses that come due once a year, but total well into four figures]. So we still need to make the equivalent of a sale a day now, on average. And he has so much new work!  I'm hoping to pull another late night to get five of them up yet. yeah, I know, I shouldn't, but it has to be done, because the last two years have all but killed us financially, and we're almost out of year. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [somebody got the vacuum! which makes priorities now the thermos and the rugs];
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And we do still need to make those regular weekly [daily now, really] sales, so please share all of the links. We really do need this to be a better month than what we've had so far this year.

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