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Run Run Run!

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RDP Monday: CASCADE

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Mount Rainier is part of the Cascade Mountain range here in Washington state.

It’s a pretty impressive mountain. It’s huge. It’s also killer.

That aside, I have a funny story about what it is like to live next to a giant, very much alive and able to wipe you out in one good belch volcano.

In toilet town- where I exist- we have  a LaharWarning System and according to plan if you hear the alarm you have time to run for you life. Well they don’t say that, but that’s what it amounts too.

There’s a sign like this on the street I walk my dog on.

First of all, if everyone jumped in their cars and tried to get on the freeway they’d end up like those people in Pompeii who are now on display in museums. Second. I know there was this drill where people were supposed to run up this hill called Meridian-  because you’d be safe at the top.

Nobody made it in time.

Photo A.M. Moscoso

I guess when your ticket gets punched, its time for you to go and that situation is NOT open to debate.

However, I do hope that I don’t get done in by Mount Rainier because of all the ways to go this one has to be the lamest.

What Would Krampus Do?

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This is the time  of year when Christmas Revelers,Turkey Connoisseurs and Halloween Afficionados start telling each other to stay in their own lanes,

For real, do I need a bunch of Turkey Munchers to say when I can listen to Holiday music-  or start Halloween shopping so that I can enjoy these moments? Ha. I Do NOT.

For you consideration:

When I was little my Grandfather told me all about Krampus.

Krampus was Santa’s side kick and if you weren’t good, you just didn’t get a lump of coal. Krampus would show up, put you in a sack, spirit you away into the woods and bake you into a pie.

I adored Krampus.

Over the years Krampus went from folklore that existed in some communities to pretty much being a rock star and now you can buy his ornaments wherever ornaments are sold.

You can buy Krampus stuff over Thanksgiving, Halloween, Christmas and for some reason Easter too.

Krampus doesn’t CARE what the date on the calander IS. HE’s going to suit up, grab his sack, his switches and ride into your town when he darn well feels like.

So my advice to you is, if you feeling like celebrating your favorite festival months and months early,

Be like Krampus.

He knows how to have a good time.

amm

AI Art by The Pumpkin Empress

Pucker Up Baby

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RDP Thursday: LIPS

When I think about the Vampire’s kiss I think of:

kissing a toilet seat-

cold sores that pop and fester

having dental work done

without novocaine.

Given those less then savory images,

if I had to chose between being kissed by a vampire

or slamming my own fingers in a car door

I’m sure I’d choose the car door

every single time.

Vampire
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The Mateless Soul

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I had this friend who thought his ” Soul Mate ” would give his life ‘meaning’ because as they both told all of us- their lives had no real meaning until they hooked up on Facebook.

He believed that he and his Soul Mate would blossom and grow and take on the world side by side. They also thought they would bring it to it’s knees. I’m not sure why that was important to them, but it was.

Unless you count my dog and my cat, I don’t think I’ve ever come close to having a ‘ Soul Mate “. I dodged a bullet there.

I consider myself lucky because I feel like my Soul is my own and I don’t want to hitch it to anybody’s wagon. I like the idea that in life IF you have to give away pieces of yourself all of the time-there is that one thing you don’t have to give away, that you have to, hmm what’s the best way to describe it- that you have to re-arrange the furniture for-

that’s your Soul and I suppose it means a lot of different things to a lot of different people.

My lonely, worn but lovingly well worn Soul gives me a sense of independence.

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