Here I am thinking of Thanksgivings Past - and some of them were awful.
This one is also going to be especially awful.
What makes this one especially awful?
I'm bitten up by NoSeeUms - ie. insects I never see or feel on my skin that have left me itchy and scratching. I actually think some of these are spider bites. Others? I hear there is a tiny Chinese mosquito that likes to live indoors: people are closing their toilet seat lids and dumping their dog's water bowls more often. I have bites up and down my arms and legs, on my chest. I've been wearing pants and socks and long sleeves to bed but it seems no use. I've never been so bitten up in my life.
I have a sinus headache due to the terrible fires in Malibu/Calabassas. I used to travel out that way and go to Broad/Zuma/Point Dume so I watched news coverage to see if I recognized anything burning or burned. This devastation and that of Paradise, California has got me feeling down. And all those people waiting for End Times are including these fires as evidence.
Turkey is no big deal these days. People, including me, eat it all year around. Along with stuffing and green beans and cranberry sauce. Someone recently said to me of Thanksgiving, "I won't used canned." (How is that for status?) Anyone who is my friend and might have invited me to eat with them is leaving town.
I went into the 99 Cent Only store and Christmas music was blasting. I hate to go shopping to the theme of yet another holiday being celebrated weeks before it should be, the music being used to create anxiety in me that I need to spend more money and shop for it.
Someone made me an extremely improbable job offer as the Next Great Thing For Me. I tried to be open minded. Do I really want to leave the county for a more rural area where there might not be anything much to do in the evenings?
C 2018 Christine Trzyna
