Child’s Play?

Sometimes, I feel like I’m waking up for the first time in my life! I’m learning things that most people figure out as children or teenagers! Wild. Yesterday I left some refrigerator pie dough out of the freezer after tussling with stuff up there. Then I was stuck with having to do something with it, (Hate waste!) So I had just gotten some canned pumpkin and decided to make a pie. Of course the can was 29 oz so had to make 2 pies, don’t even have 2 pie plates. So handy dandy Cast Iron 10 ½ inch pan! Cast Iron is like the best cooking pan ever, and it isn’t because I come from a southern family that used them for everything, they’re just so convenient and beautifully black (My favorite color.) You can fry, bake, sauté, simmer etc in or out of the stove! (Off on another tangent I see! I am incorrigible!)

Moving along, every time I deal with the freezer I forget something! Do you think I check? Of course I don’t check, that would be, hmm, smart? Ah, I even forgot some sausage on the counter when I was trying to make a space for the pie to fit in the deep freeze, but luckily I was cleaning up in the kitchen so I found it within minutes. These are the kinds of nonsensical mistakes my friends always warn me about because they know I’m the absent-minded professor at heart!

I woke up this morning just a little disoriented again. The weekend seems longer for me than normal. Not really in a bad way, it just seems like I got so much done that I can’t imagine having another day left of it! Now that I’m up writing at 5 AM the day will be long again, and I pray productive! Anytime I start off writing, even if it’s journaling, it’s a positive thing.

I just got a new ceramic heater that’s “cyclonic” whatever that means in relation to that heater I have no idea, but I will say it can sit flush against the wall, it’s light, has a remote, and digital console. It has a timer up to 4 hours, with a thermostat that you can set including an air ionizer if you want to use it. I didn’t even realize the thing was on it’s so quiet! I use it basically to take that chill out of the air and then it’s off. I don’t like the baseboard electric heat. Besides that I’d like to boycott our public power utility because they’re raise prices but then they make horrendous mistakes and get away with it because it’s our only choice! When I have the funds to build my own place I will most certainly spend the money to run the place almost exclusively by solar power!

It’s the abuse by public officials and organizations that infuriates me! Our power company sent my best friend a bill for $1300.00 because, get this, they’ve been reading the wrong meter for her in her condominium! It turns out my friend who’s lived there 3 years has been paying her neighbors bill, and her neighbor who’s lived there 10 years complained about her high bill because she hasn’t been home for the past year while living with her sweetheart. Well the neighbor received some outrageous check for thousands and she’s ticked because the jerks didn’t give her any interest on locking up her funds for 10 years! They creepy utility company had set up the meters incorrectly since the building was first set up, yet my friend’s expected to go through a financial hardship due to their ineptitude! It still makes me angry! Yeah I use very little power when I can. All lights get turned off as soon as they can, I conserve on hot water and my laundry and dishwashing as well as cooking. If I can use a pressure cooker or crock-pot instead of a whole oven I’ll do it. It’s just my private fight! Fight! Fight the powers that be! That’s me, as my first lover told me years ago “You’re a true anarchist at heart.” I didn’t like it when he said it back then, but I find that I resemble that remark more and more with each passing second!

Well here’s my numbers, not sure what I’ll plan for eating today, in other words, not planned! Yesterday I had soup, some chips, and pie! Not exactly working towards my goal. I told my neighbor to come by and get some pie and my best pal as well, so I’ll get it out of the house and the other pie in the fridge I’ll save for the actual Halloween get together I’ll have with my friend who doesn’t get under my skin with “manipulative whinings!”

147/79 BP 77 pulse - Down -01- Total Lost 017 - 398 till Goal

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