I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately. Not much else to do with the weather we are having lately. Like yesterday, we all had to sit out in the hall for a couple of hours during a tornado warning that went on forever. Okay, so it wasn’t forever, but it sure felt like it. And naturally it had to happen at lunch time.
I guess one of the things I think about too much is eating. Seems obvious, given the statement above, but I am a foodie of sorts. I like good food, a commodity that is not always available. Fortunately my daughter has been showing up at the right times to bring me some of my favorites, and even more fortunately, there is a microwave in the kitchenette to heat the food. There is also a refrigerator, freezer in there as well, so I manage to keep something available. Now I have come to the conclusion that I’m eating too much salt and retaining water — always a fun sight! So I have cut out the habit of adding salt to everything even before tasting to see if it is needed. Happy to say I’ve lost a few inches since beginning that new habit, and now having a few problems eating the chips I have left over from my last trip to Wally World. It’s hard to believe I’ve gone from not enough salt in everything to too much salt in a lot of things.
I’m getting cabin fever in a huge way. All the rain we’ve had keeps me inside and mostly in my room. Alone. Busy but still alone! I can feel depression trying to take hold, so now have 4 or 5 different projects that I’m working on. It keeps me almost centered, but at the same time none of them are getting very far along. And the more I tell myself to stick to one thing until it’s finished, the more i look for something to add to the load. I think I’ll have to live another 50 years to get it all finished and I just don’t want to live 50 more years. I mean, really, who wants to be 131 years old? Hairless, toothless, deaf, blind — all very real possibilities with my MS and diabetes. Well, maybe not the hairless part, but my hair is another thing I think about.
At least this time I’m just thinking about the hair. I’ve managed to leave the scissors alone when I look in the mirror and see my shaggy mop. Usually by this time I’ve whacked off a basket full of hair, and not at all evenly at that, but this time I keep telling myself if I want it to have a chance to grow out by winter I have to leave it alone now. My hair grows very slowly, a good thing if I don’t happen to want it to touch my shoulders by the time winter sets in, but a bad thing when I want it to get longer to keep my ears warm in winter. My last cut was before Thanksgiving of last year, and so far it’s grown about an inch longer that the day it was cut. So unfair. My Mom and both sisters have hair that grows like wildfire, always complaining that they have to have it cut every month.
My older brother is the one responsible for my hair!!! I know he is. When I was just over 2, while mom was out shopping, my sweet older brother and a boy who lived next door to us decided to play barbershop. And guess who was the first and only customer? ME! I had just grown enough hair to prove that I would one day have enough to tell I’m a girl and those two guys took my child’s scissors and chopped my hair off. And I do mean CHOPPED. For most people it would make the hair to grow in a hurry but for me? Hair tufted in little clumps for years after that incident.
So, thinking about that incident made me begin thinking about all of the other times my big brother got me in trouble. After Mom read “Hansel and Gretel” to us as our bedtime story, he decided we would act the story out. I’m rather sure I’ve mentioned the tale about the sugar used in lieu of bread crumbs so won’t get into it again. And we can’t forget the barn he burned down showing me how it wouldn’t burn! I don’t think either of us could sit down for a couple of weeks after that.
Ah, so many memories invading my brain now. But they will have to wait for a different time. Right now I hear the cart with my breakfast. Again with my stomach!!!
Okay, I’ve been offline for several days and just now hit “publish” to get to my before publishing prompts and they aren’t there now. Did WP update again in the past week? Where is the “tag” option?