Every time I go to write an article I read the first half of it and think, "This more bloggish than article-ish. Maybe I should start a blog?"
So here I am!
Drinking my second cup of coffee, in my PJ's at ten in the morning when I should be getting paid to write.
Oh well! We people who write have to splurge every now and then so this is my splurge for this week. I am starting a blog people! Do you hear me!!
Okay, no really. Why is it when I think about getting paid to write I do good for about a week....
Then I take a break and can't write a darn thing and then about a week then, another week later my brain feels like it's going to spontaneously combust at any moment while that book #1 and book#2 (books that I have written or am writing) are screaming at me from their shelves where I have lovingly placed them in their own binders that took my hours to put together and find all of the doodlings I have doodled while writing them so that I can decorate said binders.
Book #1 sounds something like; "You need to COMPLETELY rewrite my first 15 chapters before you can even think about publishing me! Why won't you do it now?!"
While Book #2 sounds more like, "Will you hurry up and finish me! Why must you cry every time you start typing me! Put on your big girl panties and get back to work!! There's no crying in baseball!!! Space ball? This is a sci-fi after all."
All of this is going on while I'm thinking, "Oh! I still need to clean the apartment and run my errands and write some articles and go to work and do reading on how to prevent radiation poisoning because apparently everyone in West Tennessee is going to experience Japan's radiation all the way from the Fukushima nuclear plant which I'm guessing is about 16,000 miles away. Oh and did I feed the cat this morning? I can't remember..."
((SIGH))
Just be glad you don't live in my head. It's a lot going on, All. The. Time.
And people wonder why I'm so high strung. ((twitch))
Okay no REALLY, back to the Fukushima nuclear plant! I want to run with this thought for a minute.
So I work at a Vitamin Shoppe, and this lady walks into my store when I'm the manager on duty one night. She asks my and my associate where the kelp is and so I jump up to show her where the green foods section is.
Then the lady sighs in relief and says, "Oh good! You have it! No one else in this town has Kelp. I need enough for my whole family I have three kids and husband how much do you think we'll need?"
My eyes widen because, as an herbalist, I happen to know that kelp can be used to treat mild to moderate thyroid problems and I can't imagine an entire family of five having thyroid problems severe enough to warrant using kelp. Because if you take the dosage of kelp this lady was talking about you can also get sick from too much iodine which can mess with your thyroid making you feel terrible! And I do mean T-E-R-R-I-B-L-E.
So I ask the lady who I had never seen in my store before, "Ma'am, may I ask what you're using all of this kelp for?"
That was when she looked at me as though I had just grown a second and third head right infront of her. "Don't you watch the news?" she asked.
I shrugged since I hardly ever watch the news. In fact the last time I watched the news I ended up crying because of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and I couldn't contact any of my friends living in Japan.
Then the woman raised a brow through her sunglasses and asked me, "So you don't know what's going on in Japan?"
I nodded. Of I knew what was happening in Japan! I have several friends who live in Japan, and I have a fascination for Anime, Manga, Visual Kei, and other Japanese Pop Culture. But I was confused about what this poor lady was talking about.
I knew about the earthquake and that they were having issues with at least one of their nuclear plants, but I didn't understand why this woman, who lives in West Tennessee needed kelp for her entire family and what that had to do with Japan. Perhaps she thought buying Kelp would support Japan?
((shrugs))
That's when she began telling me about to possibility of the Japanese nuclear plant's radiation coming all the way to the United States. And she's not the only one who feels this way because since then I get no less that a phone call a day asking about potassium iodide and kelp.
While the chances of this happening are slim it can't hurt to be prepared. Even if you do live roughly 16,000 miles away and said radiation would have to cross The Pacific, The Rockies, and the expanse of the plains before making it to my home town in West Tennessee. (Sorry if sarcasm was just launched at you from your monitor to smack you on your face like unwanted space goo.)
While I keep a small bottle of kelp on hand just encase I also keep a stash of military rations and canned goods and jugs of water and a few weeks worth of V8, a bottle of hot sauce, (You always have to be prepared for anything dude,) and a couple of gas masks around too. Just encase. You know.
Of course I'm also that weirdo that lives in a bunker underneath one of the Smokey Mountains with a beard growing down to my knees. (Which is really REALLY hard to do when you're female!)
Okay no seriously.
Having a bottle of kelp on hand in a good idea. I actually do keep one around. Just encase the worst case scenario does happen. If you want to take some reasonable steps towards preventing radiation then make sure you also have some Calcium and Magnesium on hand too.
It's also a good idea to keep an emergency stash in a closet. I try to keep a gallon or two of water, some canned soups, and a battery radio with extra batteries on hand in the event of bad weather. We're been known to have some nasty tornadoes to come through here a time or two and there's nothing like enduring a bad storm without a radio, and a few good gas masks.
((snark))
Sorry I'll go now before my microwave exposes all of West Tennessee of unwanted nuclear energy. I wonder what would happen if I blew it up..... 0.o
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