Stripped of any pretense.

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A couple of brief hours of beautiful clouds, and then nothing. Too much sun, too much heat; it should not be 72 degrees in the first week February, but that's what we had here today. Yes I know the weather service says it was 62, but 1) that's still 40 degrees too warm for what should be normal here now, and 2) they never report accurately, especially on this. Hell , they're not even allowed to say "climate change," and we're long past change into collapse.

And the pace of this week, and the last one, and the last several months and all the stress I'm having to carry daily right now . . . all flattened me today. I feel like I have a full-blown case of mono, that's how bad the fatigue is. I don't have active mono, of course, although I do have a constant case of chronic EBV syndrome and always have had, which just makes the lupus and RA worse and vice versa. But today has me stripped of any pretense of functionality, and I can't afford it. I'm so tired that I'm skipping the rest, because I have so much weight on me over all the medical stuff and I honestly don't want to think about any of it. I can't escape the weight of bills and the lack of sales, and that's much more than enough right now.

Our floor for sales and breaking even is making a minimum of one sale per week for the year, and we're still more than a week in the hole now. I don't have enough hours in the day as it is, Monday was chemo day, the first higher dose [and a lower one Wednesday, too], and I definitely haven't felt very well. Yesterday, third of this week's 3-day steroid burst. Today, I feel half-dead from fatigue, never mind the pain. Because regardless of side effects, I've got to do something to bring in sales, although damned if I know what at this point. It's grim. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [priorities are the LaminaSaver, because apparently Miika's out of it again; and the rugs, to replace those destroyed 2 years ago by the leachfield collapse and ensuing septic disaster];
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And we do still need to make those regular weekly sales, so please share all of the links. We really do need to begin this year on a better footing than the last two, and so far, it's been impossibly grim.

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