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Relax and Take a Load Off

Daily writing prompt
How do you relax?
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Relax. Take a load off. Cool your jets.

But… how? How does one cool one’s jets?

Well, everyone is different. We all have our own ways to relax. I can tell you what I would do, but it might not work for you. Maybe you could give one of these simple things a try and see how you feel?

  • Spend some quiet, quality time with the family
  • Listen to some music
  • Play the guitar
  • Watch a good movie
  • Watch some TV
  • Go for a drive, with or without an actual destination in mind
  • Go to the ocean and just sit and listen to the waves
  • This one is something I hope will be a go-to in the future but it’s not quite there yet: Exercise
  • Pet a kitty
  • Pet two kitties

There are a few ideas of things you can try. I should add read a book, but ever since I had to start wearing bifocals (progressive lenses, actually) sitting down with a book has been less relaxing than it used to be. I should still do it more than I do, but I still have something like 390 episodes of the original Doctor Who series to get through. How can I spend time with a book (such as the new Stephen King novel, Holly which either just came out or is just about to come out) when there is still so much Who to go Through*?

*And you thought the goofy haiku were the only evidence of my mad poetry skills.

Daily (goofy) Haiku for You #23

Hello and welcome to this Friday edition of the Daily* Haiku For You.

It was a short week
that felt more like a long week.
Some weeks are just weird.

*I will continue to call this the Daily Haiku For You until such time as I forget to do it once. Then it will just be the Haiku For You.

Basically…

Daily writing prompt
If you had to give up one word that you use regularly, what would it be?
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What percentage of posts written in English are going to talk about giving up the word “fuck”?

25%?
33%?
50%?

Whatever the count ends up being, I am guessing it’s going to be a lot.

While Fuck is definitely the word I should give up, I will not go with that one. No, I do so love that flexible, brilliant, jack-of-all-trades of a word. It is English language at it’s peak. Yes, a filthy little peak mind you, but a peak nonetheless.

No, if it is up to me I would give up a word that I feel makes me sound sort of dumb and a little pretentious at the same time. Basically it’s a word that I just basically over use… basically.

Basically, I would give up the word basically and I would sound a little less like a pompous dumb ass.

Fuck yes, that’s the word I’d remove from my vocabulary. Basically.

One More to Go

My epic binge watch of the new Doctor Who show ends tonight. One episode to go and then I’ll be caught up until new episodes air in November.

I still have 7355427846428 episodes of the original series left though.