Oh, whatever.

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At least Miika got to enjoy the first day of official spring. Me, notsomuch. Or, you know, at all. But there's no rest for the weary. Or the wicked. Or something.

No sleep last night. None. Equal parts acute chronic pain and just general autoimmune fuckery, because that's what lupus and RA do: cause chronic insomnia for no reason other than that they can. So I finally gave up, got up, and this day has just been . . . oh, whatever.

Our fridge stopped cooling at the beginning of the week. I had to haul it out of its space today [and wow, do I not want to have to clean behind it like that again, which means I guess I need to haul it out every 6 months, at least, and do this, because ew], disconnect everything, scrub and mop and vacuum everything, defrost everything [on an allegedly frost-free freezer], and then figure out the problem. Which was apparently a leak [stupid ice maker that has been trash from Day 1] blocking the recirculating air vents. Anyway, it's finally starting to cool again now, but on no sleep, I've spent the day up and down ladders and lifting and hauling and scrubbing and just general bullshit, and I will good for absolutely nothing all weekend as a result.

And next, I have to figure out the stupid door lock. I hate proprietary crap. And it's been crap since the day the installers hung it the wrong damn way, so . . . .  That windstorm in 2018 that took half the stable roof off? Also took out that door. Wings was sitting at the island, I was at the sink, and there was this massive crash between us; the door, glass and all, fell straight onto the floor. Nobody hurt, nothing broke, and we're just grateful for that. But it happened because those numpties hung the freaking hinges UPSIDE-DOWN.

If you've asked me for something, I'll get to it when I can. I'm sorry, but I can't promise anything more than that. I'm dealing with extreme health/medical issues right now, plus the business, plus household/animals/land, plus taxes, plus 1,001 other demands on my time, and I'm not doing well at any of it, because the pain will simply not let go. People are just going to have to deal with me being perpetually late and behind on everything.

And I don't have time for any of it, for the love of all that's holy. This week has me slammed on so many fronts I can't even think straight. And still, I have to find time to chase sales, because if I don't bring those in, nothing else gets done, either.

And if I could just make several sales [because we're about six weeks behind where we need to be on the year, already], I'd feel a hell of a lot better about everything. I'm going to try, again, to get this necklace and the now-TWO new cuffs up tonight, but no promises. The last five months have been this way, nonstop, and I'm still not caught up on housework, taxes, OR sales. Which is not good, because we still have to bring in sales weekly to break even. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [and to whomever sent a bunch of stuff off it that arrived today, THANK YOU; there were no purchaser inserts with the items, zip, zero, nada];
• 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 get this year onto a better footing than the last two, and so far, it's been pretty grim.

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