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Mush Muffin's Complaint
Fri Mar 19 2004


Oh dear.

I have writer's block.

(That doesn't seem to be keeping you from writing, now does it? Have you ever thought that WE would be better off if you just took the day off and didn't bother us with your artistic constip... oh never mind, I know you are going to keep right on going. You were saying?...)

Boy, looks like I am not the only one in a funk today.

(I am NOT in a funk.)

Whatever you say there Mush Muffin.

I think I am suffering from the painful embarrassment of low biorhythms, brought on by the unseasonably warm weather.

Now don't get me wrong. I am enjoying the weather. It's just that not long ago it was a howling gale outside and now it's 80 degrees. Kind of makes your head spin. One day I needed the heater in the car and the next I used the air conditioning in self-defense. One day I am incredibly productive, and the next I can't keep my eyes open. I think they used to call this Spring Fever. Now they call it Seasonal Biorhythm Fluctuations, and they give you Prozac for it.

Well, I don't have any Prozac, so I am writing in here instead.

(So what does that make US? Your therapist?)

No, I already have a therapist.

(So, go see your therapist and leave us alone, there's a good girl.)

It's 80 degrees. It's too hot to take a bath.

(I give up.)

Very wise, very wise indeed.

I put up the plaid flannel sheet over the patio swing so I would have a bit of shade out there. The sun beats down mercilessly as we have no back porch yet. I have brought out padding and pillows, so I was testing out the swing late this morning. I looked over at the Chanticleer Pear tree that was dropping white blossoms looking for all the world like a mini snowstorm and noticed that it has leafed out enough to be making a very decent patch of shade.

Robbie used to lay in that patch of shade.

(Now we are getting somewhere.)

(Wait a minute. I am NOT the therapist ! ! !)

Sigh.

I know, I know. I have gotten my literary devices all mixed up today.

It's because I have Writer's Block, Spring Fever, and I Miss My Robbie, all on the same day you see . . .



9 Comments
  • From:
    Pragmatist (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Mar 18 2004
    Yeah, I see....

    If I had the energy, I'd drive to the coast and just watch the waves roll in and out.

    Shalom
  • From:
    Bookworm (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Mar 18 2004
    Your entries always makes me smile. Cheer up and take a day off, sounds like a good idea. ;-)
  • From:
    Salamander (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Mar 18 2004
    Blast and darn. If this is how you write with "writer's block", then you are a formidible person indeed.
  • From:
    AeolianSolo (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Mar 19 2004
    It amazes me that you can take a pill now for "social anxiety disorder"-- used to be called "shyness." Saw an ad for another pill (probably just Prozac in disguise again) to combat "fatigue"; part of the commercial says "Symptoms of fatigue include..." as if we're so stupid we don't know what symptoms of fatigue look like. And fatigue is usually a symptom of something else, not a disease itself!!

    Anyway, the punctuation issue goes like this: For the possessive of "it", I like to remember that if you couldn't write "it is" in your sentence instead of "it's", then DON'T use an apostrophe. "Its" means "belonging to it" and "it's" means "it is". Every time, no exceptions. I've seen it wrong in print so many times it looks funny to me when it's correct! But it's about the simplest punctuation rule I know. Hope it sticks, and thanks for being a good sport!

    --Solo
  • From:
    Yarngirl (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Mar 19 2004
    I would be happy to let you borrow Maisie for a little while, if only we lived closer. She'd love it and after a while you'd be feeling like somebody's aunt ready to pack her off back home. Maybe you should get a little bench to put there in the shade, just pick a spot, or plant a little garden nearby. A happy thing to share Robbie's memory with. A little birdbath would be nice too, with a feeder nearby.

    Julie

    Julie
  • From:
    Dustbunny3 (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Mar 19 2004
    Yes there are days when you hit a wall, I did the same as of now I have dropped and limbded over 40 trees. Shame as I only had 5 to go but was stumbling and not good with chain saw. I is so tired I can just make out what I am typing so time for bed without a shower as not sure I could
    finish it. But the good part is I should be able to burn thr slash pile if the wind will allow.
    Nite All
  • From:
    Becoming (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Mar 19 2004
    These are the days we have to have sometimes so that the good days seem that much better. Take care.
  • From:
    Sezrah (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Mar 19 2004
    hehehehe you're so funny ms yetzirah :))))
  • From:
    Parett (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Mar 19 2004
    Well, Foul Weather Friend...you cease to amaze me.
    I can't believe I actually chose to come to this planet with half a functiong brain!!! I hope I find the other half in the next realm...Then maybe I could write like you. Love, Parett