I’m going to say it right now. I’ve struggled to come
up with something to post about today.
I thought about doing one of those “Christmas Letters”
where you talk about all the stuff that’s happened in your family in the past
year (mostly good). My problem was I couldn’t remember everything that happened
and certainly not enough to write a whole post.
I think my past blog posts would jog more memories but
I’m not sure about it. Plus that’d be a lot of reading with very little time to
do it.
So with scant memories and nothing worth writing about
I started searching for other ideas.
Bonnie often writes about her writing but I’ve done
almost none this year. Just my posts and my homework assignments. When you are
working dawn to dusk four to six days a week trying to get your homework done
you don’t have time for much else.
My muse is also not talking to me so I’m still trying to
find things to wake it up or waste time. Wasting time is the only one that’s
working because I’m sure doing a lot of it.
I got lost down the rabbit hole that is Facebook.
Looking at my past posts, the most recent posts on my wall, any little thing
that might be interesting. Then there is checking my emails. Between school and
whatnot, I’ve got four or five of them. It might be worth a few minutes of my
time to get caught up on them.
It does not, however, germinate any ideas for a post.
I should be in bed already and I’m still attempting to
get at least an idea for my post and if not that, something to waste my
time. Including letting Facebook suck me back in.
Okay, so maybe I’m not going to get any sleep tonight
as I struggle to get something written. And it’s not like I haven’t had some
ideas. Just none that will fill more than a page. Most of them won’t even fill
one line.
It’s times like this that you start wishing for a
minor catastrophe to awaken your muse. But around here the most inconvenienced
we’ve been is that the toilet in our full bathroom started leaking and needed to
be replaced.
It did cause some headache especially since Jerry, the
only person in the family who had ever done such repairs on toilets, had just
undergone surgery and couldn’t lift even 10 pounds. Yeah, toilets weigh more
than that.
With effort, and asking the right people Royce and
Melinda figured it out but the bowl of the toilet cracked open when they
accidentally dropped it trying to get it back into place.
Getting a new toilet was another undertaking and took
a few days. Fortunately, once they had the new one they were finally able to
get it installed and working fairly quickly. The worst part about it was having
our only functioning toilet in one bathroom and our only tub in the other one.
So yeah. Minor catastrophe, but not inspiring any
muse.
At this point, I’ve even tried getting a few hours of
sleep and I’m still not getting any inspiration unless you count a strong
desire to get more sleep. I’m surprised I even woke up before my alarm went
off.
All my thoughts are running dry.
I did read an article that came out yesterday about the
new Social Security payment schedule. Someone thought giving seniors and
disabled people less than a week’s notice that their next payment won’t be coming
sometime during the first week of the month anymore and some of them won’t be
getting their money until the last week of the month was sufficient warning.
Meaning in January anyone dependent on Social Security to cover things, like
their rent, won’t be able to pay it on time unless they’ve got some savings.
So there are going to be a lot of people dependent on
Social Security who are hurting and scrambling to get their bill covered in
January because their money isn’t coming at the beginning of the month like it
used to. Some people won’t be getting their January payment until nearly the
end of the month. Read about the new schedule here.
The only other thing I have to say is happy birthday
to my wonderful son-in-law.
I’d give my usual close but I don’t feel like smiling
while still digesting how this new Social Security payment schedule is going to
be impacting us.
Hopefully, things will be looking better when I post
next time.
