#JusJoJan “Candy” ~ 1/31/21

Look right HERE for Linda’s last entry along with the rules and ping back. This years #JusJoJan was exceptional. I loved all the fictional short stories. Linda has a gift 🎁 I’m telling you what!! For our swan song, we’re prompted with candy 🍭 🍬 ooooh sweetness

I’ve never met a candy that I didn’t like. Well maybe licorice but that’s about it. Everything else is delightful. Chocolate 🍫 is my favorite 😍 especially Reese’s 🥜 🧈 ☕️ ☕️ . Pretend there’s no coffee in those cups and I’ve given you my fave candy with emoticons.

The sour stuff is just ok. Except for green apple 🍏 jolly ranchers. Back in the good old days, I’d save up my returnable coke bottles (pop or soda to some) to get me some coin for penny candy. Those little jolly ranchers were my first pick. That and dubble bubble. Not candy but cost pennies also.

There was a jolly rancher fire 🔥 stick that tasted like cinnamon and was a little more expensive than a few pennies because it was bigger. Which reminds me of red hots! Oh my and what about Chick-o-sticks? Or Slow Pokes? Or Milk duds? Or Sugar Daddy? Or Sugar Babies? Haven’t had those in years. Now I want candy!!!

But, noooooo. I’ve got to be careful. Watch my sugar intake and calories. Back then I ate it all and walked it off. The good old days for more reasons than one.

Any who. I guess I’ve rambled on long enough. Lemme let ya go 😂.

As always more to come.

#SLS ~ 1/31/21

Jim prompts us with even/odd. Hmm. Decisions, decisions. I landed on “Even Flow” by Pearl Jam. Writer(s): Vedder Eddie Jerome, Gossard, Stone.

I like to joke that Eddie Vedder is my twin since our birthdays are the same year, just two days apart. I wonder if he is as angry as he appears to be in the video I picked. That was a long time ago. Who knows?

Freezin’, rests his head on a pillow made of concrete, again
Oh, feelin’ maybe he’ll see a little better, set of days, ooh yeah
Oh, hand out, faces that he sees time again ain’t that familiar, oh yeah
Oh, dark grin, he can’t help, when he’s happy looks insane, oh yeah

Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh, he don’t know, so he chases them away
Someday yet, he’ll begin his life again
Life again, life again…

Kneelin’, looking through the paper though he doesn’t know to read, ooh yeah
Oh, prayin’, now to something that has never showed him anything
Oh, feelin’, understands the weather of the winters on its way
Oh, ceilings, few and far between all the legal halls of shame, yeah

Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh, he don’t know, so he chases them away
Someday yet, he’ll begin his life again

Whispering hands, gently lead him away
Him away, him away…
Yeah!
Woo…ah yeah…fuck it up…

Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh, he don’t know, so he chases them away
Someday yet, he’ll begin his life again, yeah

Oh, whispering hands, gently lead him away
Him away, him away…
Yeah!
Woo…uh huh…yeah, yeah, mommy, mommy…

How about those lyrics? Here is more backstory at the wiki. I also found this video which I thought I’d share. Perhaps he had a reason to be angry. Glad he overcame what life dealt him and that “he’s still going strong”

Sunday Reflections: A Week in Review ~ 1/31/21

Quick roll call to start us off. This week was ab-fab!

My #JusJoJan offerings in da house …  

1. #JusJoJan – Trigger ~ 1/24/21
2. #JusJoJan – “Specs” ~ 1/25/21
3. #JusJoJan “Shutter” ~ 1/26/21
4. #JusJoJan & #1linerWeds. 1/27/21
5. #JusJoJan “Storm” ~ 1/28/21
6. #JusJoJan “Beach” ~ 1/29/21
7. #JusJoJan & #SoCS ~ 1/30/21

Then the usual suspects …

1. #SLS ~ 1/24/21
2. Haiku ~ 1/25/21
3. Share Your World 🌎 ~ 1/26/21
4. #WATWB ~ 1/29/21

I had quite the week this week.  Up, down, and all around.  Internet was off kilter a tad bit on Monday then back in good standing the rest of the week.  Of course my work week ended Wednesday.  I took off Thursday and Friday for greener pastures.  Well the pastures of our back yard.  Because I stayed home.  Except for a quick trip to the vampire for Lulu’s blood work.  She finds out her fate on 2/3/21.  That sounds so ominous but it isn’t.  Not really.  We like to get a lil sarcastic to fight the jitters.  

Speaking of jitters … I have my annual lady parts appointment on 2/2/21 and my annual “get squished” on 2/4/21. Glutton for punishment I know.  And TMI too,  I know that as well.  So avert your eyes, if you don’t wanna know my bidness.  Saying stupid stuff combats the nervous jitters that “IT” whatever it may be is Bad with a capital B.  Everything hurts y’all.  That’s all I’m sayin.

Now we’re off to curbside and once stuff is unpacked and put up we’re gonna work in the yard.  Fertilize all the trees and do some garden pre-prep.  We’re trying again after a one year hiatus.  Wish us luck.  May the garden gods magic bring abundance. 

Peace y’all. Until next time. Stay safe.

As always, more to come.