I know this alphabet thing worked well for awhile, but I’m ready to get to the end and be done. Is that terrible? It’s nice to do it, nice idea and all of that, but I think when I started I had no idea what I was commiting myself to. 26 days of ready made posts, it seems like. That’s like having a whole month of dinners stashed in the freezer. You pull one out, nuke it and eat the slightly freezer burned meal before you. It’s kind of stale, still half frozen in the center, but you eat it any way because it’s what you had planned, it’s what was ready. It’s not really good, but it gets the job done.
That is about how I’ve felt about these alphabet posts some days. They either reduce me to tears from the memories called up or they bore me to tears because I can’t think of anything poignant to write. Guess which kind of day today is?
I thought about writing about rice…I do cook a fair amount with rice. I don’t really have any memories, funny or touching or otherwise, attached to rice though. It’s a utilitarian meal element, nothing too fun is done with it most days. I do love rice pudding, but I’m the only one in the house that likes it. I take it with no raisins but lots of chocolate!
I thought maybe rhubarb? Well, I don’t really like rhubarb, but I remember my dad grew it at one point and my mom made a rhubarb pie. She often made (makes?) him rhubarb pie at Thanksgiving time. He’s the only one who eats it. Well, my grandmother would eat it when she was with us for Thanksgiving. His mom loved rhubarb too. When I moved to Ohio, I discovered there was such a thing as rhubarb-strawberry pie. It was very red and pink and not at all appealling to me.
What about raisins? Yeah, what about them? I don’t like them. I keep trying them, year after year, but I just can’t enjoy their texture or taste. Craisins I like, though….you know, ‘raisins’ made out of cranberries. Those are good. I like those mixed in with my granola (along with chocolate).
Well, I guess I’ll toss the remains of this freezer-burned post out to the winds and see what happens. Hopefully tomorrow ‘S’ will inspire me more.
February 2nd, 2008 at 4:29 am - Edit
You, not able to complete a task with the same enthusiasm with which you began? Go figure! Maybe we could start our own version of the alphabet and start leaving out letters.