Akannie's Weblog

This is me today.  I am a troll.  And not a cute and cuddly troll like this one either.  A mean and whiny and snarky and cranky troll. Who is hurting beyond belief. Waiting for today’s mail, and if nothing has come from the doctor I am calling somebody.  I hate the inefficient way that doctors offices (especially these clinics) handle things.  I feel like getting in bed and leaving the covers pulled over my head.  I want my mama.  I want these pain pills to take the pain away (and they don’t) and I want this knee fixed NOW (and it’s not) . And I hate it when I don’t get what I want, when it concerns my body.  I’m supposed to be the boss here!

…15 minutes later…

I walked outside and checked the henhouse for eggs.  2.  Two beautiful brown eggs. The mail hasn’t come yet, and I walked around a minute and checke the Japanese Beetle traps we put up yesterday. The freaking beetles are buzzing and flying all around them and there’s already about 2 inches of beetles in the bottom of every bag.  It’s a beautiful day out there, about 82 degrees.  It occurred to me that a root beer float would probably make me feel better, so I detoured through the garage to the freezer and pulled out a big tub of vanilla ice cream and brought it in the house.

I was right.  I love root beer floats.  We have a local burger joint in Wood River that makes its own root beer.  Mine is just stuff out of a can, Barq’s Root Beer.  But it is really good. I may take a nap after I finish it. lol  I really feel like crap.  Only now I’m smiling, ’cause that’s what root beer floats do–they make your tummy smile.

We have a class tonight…the first one in this session. The book is called Choices for Sustainable Living and the first articles are about Easter Island and  one by Micheal Pollan called Why Bother? and another by Howard Zinn, a playwright I adore.  They are good and thought provoking and should make for good discussion.  The second article is called Making Other Arrangements, and talks about how we refuse to look at how we need to change the way we live, instead focusing on How can we get around the problem? I enjoy these classes…courses developed by the NorthWest Earth Institute. I need to finish reading this lesson….

I hope that I feel up to going…this sucks.

But the root beer float was sure good….

Namaste.