Friday Afternoon

Well, today is turning into a full day... As I type this, I've got meals in the works to finish and be prepared to make lunch and dinners out of for the next few days. Yeah, I'm a "few days at a time" prepper, a whole week feels like way too much to cram into 1 day of cooking. Plus, then how am I supposed to get my frustrations out later in the week?? So, today I cooked enough to feed us at least through Monday.

I work double shifts this weekend, so today was going to just be food prep and relaxing but then... people. Last week, I was complaining that I didn't have any good friends and that I couldn't find anyone to socialize with, and today I've got people swarming around. Maybe it's because they smell the food...

Woke up this morning to a text from my brother asking what I was doing. Snow day for his kids today means the 3 of them were bothering each other before the clock even struck 7:30. So, I get the oldest one. Cool! He's on his laptop in front of me right now, playing Minecraft. Oh, to be a 13-year-old boy seems so relaxing! Ha, no thanks.

Then, a few Deaf friends are coming over to my (hearing and ASL-clueless) mom's house for dinner. Should be a good time for sure! Whenever we have friends or family come over, we call the dinner a Smorgasbord, which I only recently realized isn't an English word. My mother always makes way too much food - she used to be a caterer and can't divide. ;)  Interpreting this shindig could prove to be interesting, though. I'll be the only hearing bilingual person there, with 3 other hearing people and 2 Deaf. Hopefully, I can convince my awesome friend to join us and help me, since he's fluent in ASL also.

Well, for now, I'm off to bother my nephew into playing a game with me, then errands that need to be run. You'll read all about it later, I'm sure. Or not. After all, it's not like I'm writing a novel that requires set information about my life events. It's just punctuated graffiti...
~A

Hello All!

And welcome to my blog!

I hope you enjoy all that you will find here. The blog name came from spinning a quote from the movie Contagion: Blogging is not writing. It's just graffiti with punctuation.
 Most of it will be emotion-fueled ranting about life's ups and downs. But, hey, a lot of it might make you feel better about your own life! Ha!

I'm not here to look for pity, or even advice. It's more just a place to hurl out my thoughts so they don't turn inward. Somewhere I read that human adults are capable of thinking 300 words in 1 minute. That's a lot! Can you imagine what 5 minutes of negative thinking or self-degradation could do to your mind and spirit? We're talking serious damage!

So, I'd prefer to spew it out here on the keyboard... And let you all read it and criticize it. I'll listen, but I probably won't let it bother me.
After all, it's just punctuated graffiti! ;]
~Al