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Saturday is a different animal in the Just Jot It January fun, Saturdays are always, Stream of Consciousness Saturday. Still, both prompts and rules can be found on Linda G. Hill’s website. Come join us with your own versions!

I went to the library today. It is not a thing in other areas I’ve lived in that I get two calls in a week, from the librarian just checking up on me. I had nothing checked out so there was no other reason. So on this second call, I knew I ought to go show my face. I love our little library and the librarian. It is the knowledge center of our tiny community. We have a lot of churches here, but no bars or other places of gathering. The library is it! So after a delightful chat with the few that were there and her majesty Julie, I decided to check out a few picture books and a book that looks like I could read it.

That is the book I reached for to pick the sixth, seventh, and eight word as the prompt suggests. I didn’t want to use the beginning of the book. I just opened where it fell and found on page 133 of Bittersweet by Susan Wittig Albert. The words were: “the sound of”. The next word is gunshots but I thought that would be cheating so I won’t follow that path.

Because the newest Pirates of the Caribbean is on Netflix we are watching our set of four DVDs before watching the new. We have the first three fairly well memorized so I often find I get napful.  So I drifted off to sleep to the sound of “Why is the rum gone?” and the marvelous music by composer Klaus Badelt and producer Hans Zimmer … That is the thing that pulls me in on these films. I love the stories and the actors but the music… It is my music of choice when writing. During NaNo when most things are distractions, especially music with words, I can go to Pandora and put on Pirates or Game of Thrones music and write for hours. It gives me energy and excitement.


I dunno. Maybe not so much. But I liked the cartoon! What I am really aggravated about is how I have known this prompt all day and only now at nearly midnight have actually sat the laptop on my lap and started doing something about it. I don’t blame old age, although it does play a part. I blame ADD. I have been so busy all day and here at the end of the day, I can’t figure out what I have done! Pure aggravation!

If you like prompts to help you write every day,  join us for Just Jot It January. You can find out the rules and ideas here.  Linda G. Hill is our inspiration! The prompt is courtesy of Fandango check out his blog, “This, That, and the Other” Here’s Fandango’s blog: https://fivedotoh.wordpress.com/


All these books and movies about bondage and humiliation. Just wait. As you get old you will learn daily of pain. You will learn the meaning of the word humiliate. There is no safe word.

Just Jot It January is brought to you by Linda G. Hill. The prompt is courtesy of  Jim of “A Unique Title for Me” 


Well, congratulations ME I have made it to day 8! Again, thanks to Linda G. Hill for the inspiration to write every day and to Barbara for the prompt. Click on their names to find out about this fun project and their own blogs.

Coffee

For most people, this word is a wake-up call. Mostly I get headaches from coffee. Even smelling it. And I like how it smells! Decafe us worse than hi-octane. Many times in my life I’ve tried to be like everyone else. But not only is there the throbbing head, I shake like crazy as I reach for Advil. It makes me sad to know that more statistics are saying it is very good for you and long life.

I live on tea. Earl Grey in the morning, green the rest of the day and often! I guess that is my UK roots coming out. This picture makes me happy:


Thank you, Linda G. Hill for hosting Just Jot It January. Thank you, the many layered pensitivity  for the prompt:

Pants

It is not as cold for us right now, in the Outback of Oregon. Last year seemed to be constant snow that didn’t go away until May. It’s raining outside today. I went outside yesterday in a T-shirt and no sweater or sweatshirt. BUT…

Early in this winter, my daughter made a statement on FaceBook that has stayed with me. You know how you wear a coat when it’s cold? What about that lower part? Ladies, don’t you find that the lower parts are still cold? Some people said that thermals were the answer or leggings. But honestly. You may already wear thermal tops and bottoms but still wear a coat. Why don’t we have pants that are like coats that when you get somewhere you can unzip and put them aside and not die from the heat inside? Why hasn’t this ever been invented? We could call them poats.

Anybody want to take this on? I’d love to not have a freezing bum or thighs when walking the dog. Let’s hear it for poats!


Thanks to Linda G. Hill  for the inspiration to write every day and to Ruth  for the prompt.

Indelible

I am a sloppy writer. It is why I hate writing letters by pen and ink. My cursive isn’t too bad but I often make mistakes and end up scratching out misspells or words that are ahead of where I’m at in writing. I like pencils with erasers because I can fix said mistakes. No indelible marks there.

I remember when I discovered the typewriter. I had an old Underwood as a kid. I loved it. I learned quickly how to cross things out with the forward slash or X. I was so happy when I learned about the pen and typewriter erasers. But those made holes in the paper. Later we had Whiteout. But it still left a nasty look to the paper.

Then I discovered these:

I don’t know how to make the picture happen or if it does show up just with the link but these pens are so nice! My only excuse for not writing is sitting still and doing it! No more indelible mistakes! Need to order more soon!


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I want to thank Linda G. Hill for her inspiration! Today’s prompt is Eco.

The prompt sent me to the internet. I found

Ecofeminism

The definition goes on and on. Check it out here.  As I studied that I realized that I was upset. Why, if we want people to embrace feminism do make everything so hard to read for the normal person? I remember when I first started reading about feminism I could find nothing simple to read or understand. Sure I understand the word, but if you want ALL humans to get it and the average person has a reading level of 7th or 8th grade, why make your assertions college level. Good, you made it to college but we need to boil it down so that a person who is reading casually might not have to look up every other word to make sure they know what is being said.

I think it was Feminine Mystique that I tried to read when I was pre-marriage, pre-kids that wore me out.  I came from a traditional family so all I could see what how snooty these women were and the only way that information would get to the common person it needed to be watered down.

Look. Here’s what I know now. As a stay-at-home mom, I thought I was saving money on a lot of levels. I figured that I birthed them I ought to care for them. And child-care was/is more expensive than any job could pay me. So I followed my heart. Now at retirement, I make less than half the SSI than my ex-husband. How was/is that fair? If you are a stay-at-home mom right now make sure you stuff away money for your retirement. Have your own bank account. Don’t touch the money even if you have a family emergency.

Honestly, I don’t know how I would have done any differently in my life. I love my children and loved raising them to be super adults. And what should I have done when I became a single mom, let my kids starve? Don’t take them to the doctors? Don’t make sure they have a roof over their heads? I didn’t drain the system. But the system drained me!  Take that EcoFeminism!

 

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