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For some of us, a sky like this promotes deep contemplation. Others see it as a conspiracy. This is from last summer. I took a bunch of this crisscrossed sky at sunset. The prompt made me think of these. It is so peaceful here but never so much as just as the sun goes down. It could have been the busiest day but something like this slows down the thoughts and bring on thoughts of blessings.

I chose to go with this as the rest of my day has been busy trying to get ready for our new resident. Clearing a room means making a mess in the others. But I think it is coming together. Still… taking a look at the beauty outside helps me breathe through it all.

 

Thank you, Linda G. Hill for your constant inspiration, including Just Jot It January.

Cheryl brought us the prompt “Contemplation.” Check out Cheryl at her blog, “The Bag Lady”  https://rugby843.blog/


This is directly from Linda G. Hill’s blog:

Your prompt for January 14th, 2018, brought to you by a new-to-me blogger, Itinerary Planner, is “Ultimatum.” Use it any way you’d like in your post. And make sure you visit Itinerary Planner at her blog, “Travel Itineraries: Travel the World for Less” (sounds good to me!) to read her post and say hi! Here’s her link:  https://traveltinerary.com/

I think of myself as a rather peaceful person. But I have a serious rebel side. And to see that an ultimatum is announced. ‘You will do this, be this, or ___ will happen.’ You know often _____ is often a better result than complying. In fact, it has often been life-changing.

I spent all day trying to tell the story to back it up but I can’t without involving someone else and I don’t want to do that. Well, and I have had one shiny thing after another today. But I think I made my point.

Has anyone watched Pirates 5? That was one of my distractions today. Talk about ultimatums! Oh, and we started the series Disjointed. FUN! I needed the laughs that came from that.

Another distraction, my 44-year-old son is coming to live with us this next weekend. Now I have to clear out a room for him and figure out a lot of logistics. If you could climb into my head right now, you would see a knotted bunch of yarn trying to break out!


              

 

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” 


 One-Liner Wednesday and Just Jot It January are fun ways to keep journaling or blogging. Stop by Linda G. Hill’s site to see how this works.

Why is it that the more things I knit, the more yarn is all over my house? You would think that the things I make and give away would mean less yarn. But I seem to have far more now than before and I didn’t buy more or pick up any more donation yarn. I guess this is a good thing! The yarn bunnies are multiplying!


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!


Just Jot It January is brought to us by Linda G. Hill. Go check out her site. The prompt for the day is boisterous.

After the drama of yesterday’s prompt, I cannot feel boisterous. With all that is happening in the world, I cannot feel boisterous.

There are some things I feel grateful for, the healing of my ex-but-friend-and-always-my-adult-childrens’-father. Health, home, family, friends, food…etc.

But not boisterous.

I think I used to be. I think I am still more energetic that even my body or people I know and love can handle. I think that is why I have a hard time with the fibro/arthritis. I want to follow my ADHD from here to there and back, but only my brain goes and the rest sits and knits. It seems all I can do. At least I can do that. And the projects go to folks who need them. At least there’s that.

Boisterous goes with my kids when they were small and had enough energy people always told me they wish we could bottle it. As tired as I was chasing the four of them, I knew where that energy came from. Boisterous goes with reading aloud books like

The Monster at the End of this Book

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I think if I read it again to my pets I might gain back a bit of the Boist!

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