WNBP: I'm Being Berry Good

I know I complain about calendar dysfunction more than I should, but this time it is very serious.  I honestly don't have the foggiest notion what day it is on a regular basis now.  It all got really bad last Wednesday when, due to the holiday, I decided it was Sunday.

I've been hopelessly off track ever since.

To make matters worse, I'm coming into this week's Wednesday Night Bullet Post woefully unprepared.  I know that the quality of this blog has suffered over the past year or so, but I honestly do try to think up a few things before I put fingers to keyboard even on my worst of writing days.  Today? Not so much.  Were it not for the helpful reminders provided by the television programming guide I consulted a few moments ago, I would have let this whole thing go without a backwards glance.

I'll do my best to come up with something kinda-sorta-sense-making...

*I woke up this morning feeling kind of...off.


*Not sick exactly.


*In spite of the raging allergies I seem to be experiencing this summer...


*No...just "off."


*I couldn't figure out just what was out of whack until I spent some time reviewing my dietary choices of late and then it hit me.


*I've been a little heavy on the carbs and protein lately.


*And disturbingly light on the fruits and veggies.


*As in "I think I had some watermelon a few days ago but, otherwise, I am a poster child for scurvy."


*I remembered it was Wednesday this morning even though I forgot by the afternoon.


*Wednesday is the day of the Weekly Visit With The Vegetables.


*Farmer's Market.


*Today, I went with a mission.


*After purchasing the prerequisite garlic and basil followed by the cukes I shall need to make relish this week, I went on a fruit hunt.


*There is little in the way of fruit this early, but there were berries.  I got "blue" and "rasp."


*The latter required that I take out a second mortgage, but it will be worth it if I can get myself back in some sort of equilibrium.


*Berries are not going to help my sinuses but you can't expect fruit to do everything.


*I am very serious when I tell you that, if I have to knit another inch of pink and green houndstooth pattern, I shall go utterly mad.


*Keep an eye on the news people.


*Because I have, by my estimation, another 15 inches to go.


*Plus a border but that's not houndstooth so I think I'll get through that.


*I call this the Hounds (of Hell) Tooth Pattern.


*This situation is my own fault.  I underestimated the time before the deadline.


*Not to mention overestimating my ability to produce vast amounts of pink and green houndstooth in sport weight yarn.


*I am seriously reduced to wearing a wrist brace now.


*Wrist went numb due to excessive panicked purling.


*I love my Very Complicated Kitty.


*And am grateful that he now lets me sleep until 6:00 in the morning as opposed to enforcing the school year schedule.


*But I found his reaction to my slumbering until 6:10 a little bit of an overreaction.


*Bit me hard enough to leave a bruise.


*The VCK is a biter.  He bites out of love.  He bites out of irritation.  He bites out of boredom.


*Those bites I can tolerate.


*The hunger bites are not working for me.


*How hungry must he be to start in on my forearm?????


*Feline Initiated Behavior Modification.  


*In between gulping down blueberries, frantic knitting and explaining to my cat that I am most certainly not on the menu, I've been getting in a bit of reading.


*After reading the first in the Dante Valentine series, I decided to spring for the omnibus edition and just get through the whole series.


*Wrapped up To Hell and Back (Dante Valentine, Book 5) last night.


*I was stuck for a bit after that, but then remembered that another new book in a series I started last summer was out.  Actually has been for a while, but I got distracted by other stuff.


*So I'm rereading Johannes Cabal the Necromancer and Johannes Cabal the Detective.


*That way I can be ready to enjoy Fear Institute (Johannes Cabal 3).


*These books raise the concept of Snarky Anti-hero to a new high.


*Johannes has maybe one and the three quarters of a redeeming quality.


*But I love him anyway.


*Enjoying the reread!


*Except for the guilt I feel over not knitting or feeding the cats when I should.


*And not eating a balanced diet like Mommy Sheep taught me...



Well, it's back to the grind for me.  I promised myself five inches of (Hell)houndstooth before bedtime and I know I'm due for another dose of berries.  Plus I see a couple of cats and I don't like the look the chubby one is giving me.  I think it is almost the dinner hour by their reckoning.

Time to be on my best behavior


SA