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Corny Saturday

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The world is a messy place and I am finding life a bit frightful. That’s where I find myself these days. There’s no rest or peace. My thoughts go round and round like a frog in a blender – a bloody mess. There’s nothing to do but sit and stay.

So here I am, on this 5th day of the Ultimate Blog Challenge. It’s more like my own personal journey on a lonely highway. I set out to write every day to make sense of the mess out there and in my mind. I must keep on. It’s better to limp along than to give up. I have decided to take an active part in our messy world rather than hide away in my personal sanctum. I am not alone so I might as well butter up and pull up my straps. Time to stop whining.

It helps to have a purpose to keep those boogie men away. And I do have one or two serious ones. Like I said yesterday, I am on a food adventure. Yesterday’s shopping was for the makings of fire cider. I wasn’t quite ready for it today. It can wait a little while but the corn in the cooler is getting older and older. They’ve been harvested a few weeks ago. I finally got my corn cutter from Lee Valley today. You can guess what came next. Here are the pictures.

First I removed all the husk off the cobs. Next I stripped off the kernels with corn cutter. Then I put half inch of water into pot large enough to hold all the corn. Next put the corn in and boil for 3 minutes. Remove pot and put pot into sink of ice cold water. Cool corn to room temperature. Bag corn in freezer bags. I got 4 bags for the freezer. Another day, another post.

Not Today

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I can’t say that today was a terrible day. But then I can’t really say it was a great day. Feeling thus, I thought best not to do any brain surgery type of things. It’s not a good day to do any financial or life altering planning either. But it calls for some muttering and stuttering on these pages. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not complaining. I’m taking some positive actions. I have taken some positive actions. What may those be, you might query?

For one thing, I’m not going to worry about the format of the new linking thing for the Ultimate Blog Challenge. It’s not very user friendly and distracting. I’m not trying to build up a business with my blog. It’s a place for me to mutter to make sense of the world and to stay sane. I’m feeling deep sorrow today and just need a place to put it outside of my heart. Sorrow can rot my soul and corrupt my whole being. So I’m saying no thank you. Not today.

I said yes to the library today. It’s a comfy place, full of words. I came home with 2 murder mysteries. They’re good for killing sorrow. I also came home with a yam, some horseradish, tumeric, ginger and curry leaves. They did not come from the library but from SuperStore. I’m on a food adventure. I’ not sinking into a depression.

I Could Just Scream

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Sometimes life is so hard I could just scream. I would scream and tear my hair out if it would help, but it doesn’t. Nobody hears me. It’s as if I’m in an empty canyon. All I get back is the echo of my frustration. So I come here and tap away on the keyboard. Muttering here brings me more relief and solutions than anything else. My fingers do the talking and somehow the impulses and words travels to my whole body. I am listening and feeling. I hear/feel the problems. My brain processes them, spins its wheels and offers up a few alternatives for me to choose.

It’s been a hard lesson learning to save and use my energy wisely. I am a round peg in a world of square holes. No matter how hard I try, I can not make myself fit and be heard. I don’t think it is such a bad thing. I’ve learned to march to the rhythm of my own beat. I’m surviving. Each of us sees the world differently. It doesn’t mean that I am seeing wrong. I’m seeing different. I’ve been told I’m eccentric long time ago because I butter my toast with avocado and I read ‘weird books’. In that case I guess there’s weird writers out there.

Today I am celebrating my weirdness and eccentricity. I like being a round peg in the midst of square holes. Acceptance is bringing me alot of relief. Writing brings me alot of relief. So ends day 2 of the Ultimate Blog Challenge.

Mad as Hell

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It’s October 1, the official beginning of the Ultimate Blog Challenge. We, participants are called on to write a post each day, publish it on our website and share on the Ultimate Blog page. But where is the usual daily thread upon which to attach our post? Have the rules changed and there is no daily thread? I’m a bit annoyed. It’s not very gracious of me, I know. But I’m mad as hell – not over that but ….

It’s aggravating that overnight we went from summer to winter. I know. It’s an over exaggeration. But it was in the high 20s℃ a few days ago. Now we are at furnace temperatures. The elm trees in the front yard turned from green to yellow overnight. Or so it seems. Don’t mind me. I am in an irritable and critical mood. There does not seem to be any gradual easing into a season or anything. Nature and life feels sudden and chaotic. But I should be grateful that we are not in the path of Hurricane Helene. I should stop being mad as hell.

But it feels good to get it off my chest and not let the madness fester in my body. We tell ourselves so many falsehoods like you’re not getting older, you’re getting better/wiser. Some of it is true to an extent. On the way to better and wiser, I am having some anxieties. That is not good. Losing physical and mental strength is not good. Losing acuity in vision and hearing is not good either. All these comes with aging. I suppose feeling all these will propel me to finding ways of coping. That might be the getting wiser part. But if I could have my druthers, I like to stay on the younger side. And that’s call wishful thinking.

I think I’ve been mad as hell long enough. Time to put a stop to it. The good thing about it is it gave me fuel to rant and write. I hope to show up here daily on the Ultimate Blog Challenge without getting all fired up. It’s an opportunity to meet and share with others. Oh, I see that it was my own oversight. There is a new page to share our post. Sorry and thanks Paul Taubman. https://ultimateblogchallenge.com/october-1-2024/?inf_contact_key=13cd7c8fa7a91f9b644159c4f137ff13