What does it mean to be a kid at heart?
What it means to be a kid at heart is to find joy, wonder, and creativity in the most casual and mundane of places.
Category: Writing
Prompt Answer: Alternative Careers
What alternative career paths have you considered or are interested in?
I’ve considered becoming a welder, a teacher of art, an art therapist, or an office manager.
Prompt Answer: Working On
What have you been working on?
I just finished the Rainbow Round Ripple earlier this week and started another blanket for DW as a thank you for sending me soup money when I had COVID and seventy-three cents to my name.
Prompt Answer: Lazy Days
Do lazy days make you feel rested or unproductive?
As someone who routinely overdoes things even when the mental check engine light is on, catching Covid has made me rest whether I like it or not.
So let’s say rested.
Of New Friends and Neurosis
14,353 Days Alive
4 Pieces of Chicken Quesadilla Eaten
2 Diet Cream Soda Imbibed
1 Pleasant Meet Up
I was social!!!!
The local former-NaNoWriMo group had two new friends for me to meet at this local pizza tavern and game store aptly named Slice And Dice.
Continue reading “Of New Friends and Neurosis”Of Hooks and Hugs
14,352 Days Alive
4 Small Slices of Jack’s Meat Lover’s Thin Crust Pizza Eaten
1 Early Anniversary Gift Received
I got hooks!! Mac bought me a rather expensive, really good ergonomic crochet hook set for our anniversary later this month. I’m so happy. I’ve never had Clover Amour hooks before but they’re so good!!
Continue reading “Of Hooks and Hugs”Of Autumn and Awesomeness
14,345 Days Alive
1,304 Words Written Today
25 Days till Halloween and My Anniversary with Mac
26 Inches From the Center of the Rainbow Round Ripple
4 Loads of Laundry to be Done
2 Years with Mac on Halloween
Despite being in a level seven pain cloud and being at a level six discomfort level, I managed to get a lot done today!
Continue reading “Of Autumn and Awesomeness”Of Bacon and Booze
14,336 Days Alive
1 Margarita Had with Dinner
1/2 a Double Bacon Burger Eaten
Had therapy this evening. My therapist recommended something sweet or alcoholic or both to loosen up after the rough week I’ve had. So I had a margarita with dinner.
Continue reading “Of Bacon and Booze”Prompt Answer: Three Jobs
List three jobs you’d consider pursuing if money didn’t matter.
Oh, this one enters the realm of the ridiculous. Three jobs I’d consider pursing of money didn’t matter? Easy-peasy:
- I’d head a New Age leaning but all faiths accepted community center
- I’d run a witchy themed café/bakery that runs the midnight hours, 6pm to 6am., with locally sourced ingredients, a courtyard with edible elements like fruit trees and blueberry bushes, and very seasonal menus.
- Librarian. If I could afford the degrees to get there.
Of Analgesics and Awful Teeth
14,332 Days Alive
1,000 mg of Acetaminophen Taken 4 Hours Ago
400 mg of Ibuprofen Taken Half an Hour Ago
2 More Rows Done on Zypher’s 13 Point Rainbow Round Ripple
1 Ice Pack Purchased
I feel like I got socked in the jaw. Which, I basically did, getting a tooth pulled. It was Not Fun. I am in pain.
I’m going to crochet till the ice pack gets cold again, then try and sleep.
Take your meds, folks.
Of Apprehension and Applesauce
14,331 Days Alive
3 Hours of Poker Research
1 Breadstick Eaten
I’m getting a tooth pulled tomorrow. It’ll be the first time in over a decade I’m getting a tooth pulled and I am, as the title implies, apprehensive as fuck.
Continue reading “Of Apprehension and Applesauce”Prompt Answer: Favorite Album
What’s your all-time favorite album?
The soundtrack from Baz’s Gatsby!!!
Of Bleach and Bitching
14,328 Days Alive
10 Hours Worked Today
I bleached my hair this evening. It looks…. Well, ready for color, that’s for sure.
I’m toasted levels of burnt out. Like blackened toast.
I’m going to bed. Take your meds, folks.
