I generally have a blog post in the queue and ready to publish at 7:05 a.m. This morning, Wednesday, October 4, 2017, I had nothing. Oh, there were a few words typed into a draft: “milk, cat litter,” but only because I’d accidentally written my shopping list on a blank page in WordPress.
For a moment I wondered what I could do with those words. A poem combining the two concepts of homogenized liquids and cat hygiene, perhaps? Hmmm. Not today, but the topic has possibilities.
As I pondered what to write I heard one of my cats in the throes of dislodging a hairball, so I rolled out of bed to clean up the mess. With a box of baby wipes in one hand and a paper towel in the other I went in search of cat puke. Scout was sitting like a lady in the dining room admiring her artwork which she’d deposited on the carpeting literally two inches from the tiled hallway.
“Dammit, Scout, couldn’t you have turned your head to the right just a fraction and avoided the rug?” I asked, knowing that was a rhetorical question. She never pukes on the tile.
As I bent over to attend to the mushy hair ball mess my nose began to run. I swiped one of the baby wipes under my nose and continued cleaning. Not to be outdone, my nose continued leaking like a faulty faucet. I swiped at it again, only then noticing that my nose wasn’t dripping snot, but blood. So now I was dealing with two icky bodily emissions. Two wrongs, if you will, giving me something to write.
As I finish typing this the time is 6:55 a.m. Looks like I’ll make my self-imposed deadline after all.
There you go – preparation not always necessary. Trust you are OK. Love the cartoon
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Thank you. I’m fine–dry sinuses to blame.
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Ha ha. You could blog your list any time xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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I might have to do that’s!
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Hee hee. This could be brilliant actually xxxx
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Or incredibly boring!
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Next time you’re stuck you should do it for a giggle xxxxxxxxxx
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Amazing how inspiration comes a callin’. I hope you’re well, btw. – Marty
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Darned sinuses.
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You crack me up, Leslie.
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Oh good!
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yikes – this was really fun (and i came here from the newer post)
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I’d forgotten about this one! Thanks for reminding me.
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well i was glad it came up in the reader (near your current post) even tho I now feel a little sick – hahah
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After rereading it, I must admit it comes under the heading of Too Much Information.
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well sometimes the TMI posts are extra nice because of the deals and the natural sharing – you know? and other times we might share too little – so just keep with the flow of where we are at in a given season – 🙂
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It’s always a balancing act!
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Indeed 😉
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