When you’ve got a cold, do you ever wonder why you didn’t appreciate being healthy when you were? And then, when you get rid of the cold, you sigh and think, yes – I will always appreciate this feeling of not being sick until, like, the next day when you totally start taking it for granted again.
Why do they call it a cold when it makes you hot?
When it was hot in the summer, my mother used to swear by drinking hot tea. This was back in the days before homes were air conditioned and we just had to live with it. Her theory was that a hot drink made you sweat more, and when you sweated (is that a word? It doesn’t look like a word. Don’t you hate it when that happens?) …anyway, when your body produced sweat (better), the air, though hot, cooled you off more than if you had just been sweating normally. Like you do on a hot day.
My mother may have been crazy. I realize that now.
Yet it means that I don’t shy away from drinking the hot coffee I crave, nay, need in the middle of summer. Or in stupid temperatures in the fall like we’re having now.
Hellooo!! It’s Friday again, and time for your Stream of Consciousness Saturday prompt. It’s been an interesting week around here. The first full week back to school for Alex, which has been nice. I’ve been seriously considering doing something totally out of the ordinary. For me, at least. If it happens, you’ll be the first to know. In the meantime, here’s your prompt:
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “hot/cold.” Use one, use both, bonus points if you start your post with one and end with the other. Enjoy!
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Dick: You’ll never guess what my wife and I did last night for dinner.
Gerald:(raises eyebrows) Do I want to know? I mean, really, are you sure I want to know?
Dick:(elbows Gerald in the ribs) Come on, of course you do. Anyways, I get home from work last night and she’s got all these candles going in the dining room, right?
Gerald: Lucky you don’t have kids.
Dick: Yeah whatever. Anyways, I walk in the door and there’s all these candles on the table and the sideboard and everything, and there she is dressed up in this … thing …
Gerald: What, like a gorilla suit?
Dick: No! She’s not wearing a gorilla suit! She’s got this black lacy thing on with her boobs hanging out, out to here (gestures with his hands in front of him) and this tiny little thong stuck up the crack of her ass that’s she’s wiggling at me …
Gerald puts his hand to his face and slouches in his seat.
Dick: … and on the table – get this – on the table is this assortment of whips and handcuffs, and I’m like, holy shit babe, this book you’ve been reading, it’s right up my alley.
Gerald: Don’t tell me …
Dick: That’s right, man. That Forty Shades dealio. I got my hogtie on with the handcuffs and the ball in the mouth and shit and she went to town on my ass, all night long, man. It’s incredible! Man, you should get that book for your wife.
Gerald:(unenthusiastically) Sounds like balls of fun.
Dick: Speaking of balls, mine are fucking aching this morning. You know, after all that she didn’t even want to have sex. She just flat shut me out. It’s like she just wanted to beat the hell outta me.
Gerald: Hey maybe I should read that book … The lingerie’s not a requirement, right?
Dick: … I guess not. But what would you want to read it for?
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Agatha: When we get home, I think I’ll need a cup of tea.
Kitty stares out the window silently.
Agatha: All this traveling on the bus is for the birds. I’m not as young as I used to be.
Kitty regards Agatha and looks back out the window.
Agatha: I see all these young people, the boys with their bottoms hanging out of their pants and the girls … (shakes her head) If I’d tried to go out in the things the girls wear these days, my mother would have sent me to my room without any dinner. But, times change. I suppose I’m just old-fashioned.
Kitty turns to Agatha and blinks.
Agatha: You’re such a good girl, aren’t you pet?
Kitty yawns.
Agatha: Where would I be without you?
Kitty: Probably sitting at home drinking tea instead of taking me out to buy new jeans.
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