So, I had the good fortune to secure some fresh strawberries. A friend is having fresh fruits and veggies shipped down from Baguio once a week and I ordered a kilo of berries for 450 pesos ($9). Yeah, a bit pricey but I haven’t seen a strawberry since the last time I visited Baguio back in February.
Those smoothie dreams were soon to be shattered, however.
A broken blender may well be an apt metaphor for my love life. It seems I don’t mix well with the female of the species. Last night I got a message from Jessa saying “I am serious about you but you aren’t serious about me”. I’m not sure why, but that message left me with a blend of feelings–anger, hurt, and sadness. I was a few beers into my night at that point so I chose to limit my response to “I’m sorry you feel that way”. This morning we chatted our way through the issue, but honestly, that kind of emotional manipulation is a huge red flag for me. More and more I’m thinking I might just be better off alone.
And when you are surrounded by nature’s beauty whilst out walking are you ever really alone? My hike today was a beast–6.66 kilometers exactly. Scary, huh? And check out this spider:
And I would suck as a banana harvester because you’d never get me to climb this ladder:
“And when you are surrounded by nature’s beauty whilst out walking[,] are you ever really alone?”
Words of wisdom. Colin Fletcher would approve.
Just for the record, I had that comma in the original post. Then I noticed I had “waking” instead of “walking”. For some reason, when I added the “l” it deleted the letter next to it. Rather than rewrite the whole paragraph I sacrificed the comma.
Picky, picky, picky.
You should see some of the stuff on Reddit here. I used to think much of it was typos. I am convinced that many people can’t spell or put together an understandable sentence. Read one today that was total word salad. Have no idea what the point was.
I am also quilty but claim old age and pre alzheimers..
Still a sceptical about Jessa. Take care John. This to (too?) Shall pass.
Jerry
Hey John, I am sitting here giggling away to myself because I think we now need to add a * to the saying “if life gives you lemons….”
2020 version should now be
If life gives you lemons you make lemonade*
* Unless you’re John Mccrarey in which case you are screwed because you probably lost half the lemons, can’t find a knife and broke your blender.
Stay safe my friend!!
Yeah, Thirsty. That would be me!
Time will tell, Rascal. Keeping my eyes wide open!
John,
Well, as I’ve contended, 95% of your punctuation-related problems would be resolved if you read and mastered Parts 1 and 2 of my “Commas” series. If a subordinate clause comes first (as in this very sentence), use a comma to separate it from the main clause. E.g.:
If you do that again, I’ll kill you. (comma; sub. clause first)
I’ll kill you if you do that again. (no comma; sub. clause second)