Only last week? Seriously?

This little 105 word poem is linked to Saturday Centus.  The five word prompt is in bold. To read other offerings, just click here.  (I apologize for the weird spacing here.   Blogger is being blogger-like tonight!   Grrrr...)

 

Was it just last week we gathered together?

With turkey and dressing? Bowed heads?

How has the calendar turned to December?

Cool weather? Christmas music? Flannel beds?

When did this year wind down to the end?

Resolutions unfilled? Words of wisdom unsaid?

Was it truly last week that we gathered together?

My Christmas cards are unwritten yet!

Last week and last month and last year I could swear

Were just a few hours ago

My 40’s and 30’s and 20’s are gone

And there’s still just so much I don’t know.

So many answers I continue to seek.

First one…how was Thanksgiving only last week?

 

C is for Christmas Crafting

Crikey!

We're up to the letter C already.

Just so you know...I've already caught up reading the B's.

Go.

ME!

 

Anyway.

Today I have 3 C's to share.

The first...

Some cute Christmas signs.

 

 

And here is my stack of Christmas Quilts I'm trying to get finished.   These are super fast to make.   Less than 5 hours from start to wash.

 

 

 And lastly...here's some little Christmas gifts the Grandlittles and I made on Wednesday night. 

 

 

Sorry about the last sideways picture!   She's mighty sweet, though, even sideways!

 

 These Christmas signs are already gone, but you can see other signs in this series by clicking on 'Painted Alphabet' in my sidebar.

Thanks for stopping by!

To visit other links to the letter "C", just click here.

Alphabe-Thursday Letter C

Good morning class. Welcome to round six of Alphabe-Thursday!

Today we will be cavorting around the cuddly letter:


Please link directly to your Alphabe-Thursday URL (if you don't know how to do this let me know!) and please continue to visit the five links before and after your link and leave a comment. Minimum of 10 links visited please. You can visit more if you like, of course.

I also want to let you know that each week I visit every blog. If it appears I haven't visited your blog by the following Thursday morning, please let me know!

If you have any difficulties with your link, please make sure to include the number of the link when you e-mail me. It is really difficult for me to find you easily otherwise.

If you have any questions about Alphabe-Thursday or problems doing your link, just post it in a comment or send me an e-mail. I'll do my best to help you as quickly as I can.

The McLinkey will be live from 1:00 pm MST time Wednesday afternoon in an effort to assist our lovely "friends across the pond" and continue through 10:00 am MST time Saturday morning!

And remember.... link back to this post, you need to be registered as a follower of my blog, PG posts only, and visit at least 10 other students (perhaps the 5 students before and after your post). The links will stay live after the final post deadline has passed so you can even wait and visit over the weekend or whenever you have more time.

Please share your cute post about the letter C now!

Story-Time Tuesday - If Good Health Was Easy...

I'm making myself write this story. Partly because my Naturopathic Doctor just published a very interesting book and I want to share it with you. Partly because I'm pushing myself to write more. And partly because I think this story might be YOUR story. And sometimes reading makes pain hurt a tiny bit less. This story will be pretty candid...I'm not attempting 'the glass half full' philosophy here. I know it could be worse.

I'm using the Story-Time Tuesday format for this and each week I will be doing a giveaway for "A Different Kind of Medical Care" but Dr. Tina Marcantel.

You can read about this book by clicking here.

I will have Mr. Jenny select a random number from all the comments on this post. Feel free to enter any time before Monday.

Winner will be announced next Tuesday along with the continuing story. Autographed book will be mailed out on Wednesday or as soon as I get your address!

The winner of last weeks book is this comment:

"Alone again.... naturally!"said...

I fired my old dr and in the process of looking for one like you have! I am so tired of feeling like I am being ignored and disregarded. I have gone to him for the same thing a few times and every time I come out of there with something different and no further ahead on a diagnosis and he is constantly contradicting himself....NO MORE!

November 27, 2012 1:02 PM

Congratulations!   If you could e-mail your snail mail address (jennymatlock at cox dot net with the words BOOK GIVEAWAY) and I'll get the book out to you before Friday!

PART SIX - IF GOOD HEALTH WAS EASY, EVERYBODY WOULD HAVE IT!

(Sorry this is super-short!   I somehow missed the fact that Christmas is in three weeks!  ha!   Good news for you, though, is there's extra book giveaways!)

 

While Mr. Jenny was out shopping for all the specific foods I needed, I re-read  the saliva testing instructions.

To be frank, I’d never even heard of saliva testing. Sure, I’d had a ton of other things done but never that.

There were a few big tubes and a lot of little tubes and I read and re-read it trying to make sense of it.

When Mr. Jenny finally returned with several bulging bags filled with sugar-free, gluten-free, yeast-free, preservative-free organic yumminess, he deciphered the instructions and told me he would help me the next day.

I recall taking a handful of supplements that night. I don’t know if there was that many but it felt like I was swallowing forever: magnesium, potassium, vitamin C, candida cleanse, vitamin D, vitamin E, calcium and I don’t even remember.

I cut my pain-pill in half that night which turned out to be a mistake in the wee hours of the morning, but the next day awoke with a tiny bit of hope in my heart.

The saliva testing proved to be a bit hard to figure out at first. No bubbles, no this, no that and that first tube seemed to take forever to fill.  I think it was just me, though.   I had a hard time making sense of anything in those pain-filled months!

Doing the blood tests a bit later in the morning was a lot easier.

By the time I was done spitting and fasting, I was cranky and starving.

I ate organic turkey and black olives and sugar-free hummus and celery. No dairy, yeast, sugar, gluten or preservatives of any kind seemed pretty difficult.

The rest of the day was a continuation of filling tubes with saliva, swallowing handfuls of supplements, crying, and feeling generally hostile to the world in the general.

It wasn’t until Mr. Jenny got fearfully into bed with me (apparently I was snarling even more than I realized that day!) that I recognized my heart arrhythmia felt less severe.

“Probably just wishful thinking,” I pondered as I fell into a drug induced sleep.

TO BE CONTINUED NEXT TUESDAY

Part one - linked here.

Part two - linked here.
Part three - linked here.
Part four - linked here.
Part five - linked here.

PLEASE READ BOOK GIVEAWAY INFORMATION AT THE TOP OF THIS POST.

Landform Schmandform

"Awwww, look! It's a gorge Gorge!" I said to Mr. Jenny.

"It's not a gorge, it's a canyon," he replied.

 

We had driven north to Sedona over the weekend and I was pretty fired up because last week I got to paint a custom sign for a major, super-cool retailers for a photo shoot.

On Friday the photographer e-mailed me when she got the package and told me the sign was, "Gorge!"

"Look! Look! It's a gorge Gorge!" I shouted again, "Oh wait! No! It's my sign that's gorge!"

I think I was getting on Mr. Jenny's nerves.

"It's not a gorge, it's a canyon," he stated again.

"But! Listen! Wait! The photographer said the sign was GORGE! GORGE! ISN'T THAT RIDICULOUSLY COOL?"

"It is RIDICULOUSLY cool and so was your sign," Mr. Jenny said drily. "But it's still a canyon." ...

... Sigh.

But I'm still grinning over the whole photo shoot thing!

Even if the darned thing WAS a canyon!

Saturday Centus - Was it just...

Welcome to week ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SIX of Saturday Centus.

 

I was sick last week.   I know, it's a poor excuse but that's my story of why the prompt last week was so bad and  I'm sticking to it.  ha!  This week I think I did better...and I kept the tenses correct.

The prompt this week is, "Was it just last week..."
Number of words: Up to 105 (including the 5 words of the prompt).

Style of writing: Any
Pictures: Any additional you want to share

The regular restrictions apply: PG, no splitting of the prompt, play nicely and visit the other entries, any style or genre of writing you prefer. Please display my link button or just a hyper-link back to Saturday Centus. Be careful to link your SC URL to the Linky and not just link to your main blog.

E-mail me directly with ???'s or ask your question in a comment and I will do my best to get back to you as soon as possible.
 

Feel free to link up anytime between now and next Saturday.

Saturday Centus 135

Holy cow. Who wrote that prompt? Talk about difficult tense.

Dark poem.

I was just in that mood.

Mostly because of the tense issue.  But I think I hit 110 words exactly.   Small consolation for some sub-par writing.

Other valiant souls have tried this prompt here.

Sigh...

We are bound together forever

by the cord that once connected us.

When you fall, I fall.

Your pain is my pain.

And it screams silently inside my heart.

I am exhausted from the effort of wanting to save you…

…depleted by my inability to let you go.

Drained dry by fear and imagination

By memory and projection

I pace the floor at night

I’m a deer caught in the headlights…

Of your addiction.

Reading the scrawled words in the back of my notebook surprised me.  I thought I had known suffering.  You’ve been gone almost five years… and now I finally understood the phrase, ‘a deer in the headlights’.