5. A day in your life…

This should be good.

Wake up, coffee. Where is the coffee? Aha, coffee. Make coffee. Shit no water in the kettle. Go to the bathroom and fill up the kettle awkwardly as the tap is bent. Manage to get it half full. I’m still in the motel if you haven’t guessed. The kettle is on! Right find pills for the day, and take the morning ones. Now something to eat for breakfast, aha nutrition bars, they will do. Have one or two of them so the pills can get into action. Kettles boiled. Hurrah now we are in business. Oh am stoned, pills must be working. Sit down and scroll through news and things for an hour.

Right over to the house to see the kids. Right gets ignored by teenage S, and B comes down and gives the best hugs ever. He’s 11. I need him to stay that age. He goes to high school next month and I’m fucking terrified for him. Watch Ben play on one of his many racing games. Suzi comes down for food now and again saying hello and state-ordered hugs. Play with the dogs, take them to the park and back.

Doti has come back from work and I can go to the motel. I go on my laptop and find a pot of something to put hot water into. I wait for that to make a coffee. Dinner time scrolling through the news of the day and eating like a king.

That’s about it. Throw in pill-taking time.

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QOTD

Daily writing prompt
Scour the news for an entirely uninteresting story. Consider how it connects to your life. Write about that.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66410846

Maine woman, 87, fights off then feeds hungry burglar

The gist:

  • An 87-year-old woman, Marjorie Perkins, fought back against an intruder who broke into her home in Brunswick, Maine.
  • The intruder, a 17-year-old boy, punched her in the face and forehead and kept knocking her against the wall.
  • Ms. Perkins fought back with a lawn chair, and the two had a “chair fight” for quite a while.
  • Eventually, the boy got tired and headed for the kitchen.
  • Ms. Perkins told him to get out, but he said he was “awfully hungry.”
  • She gave him some food, but he only ate one cracker.
  • While he was eating, she called 911.
  • The police arrived and arrested the boy.
  • It turned out that the boy had mowed Ms. Perkins’ lawn in the past.
  • Ms. Perkins has received a lot of support from her community since the incident.
  • She is surprised that her story has been so widely shared, but she is glad that it has brought some hope and positivity to people.

How does this relate to me?

I hate crackers.