This month here at the Wild YAMster's bloggy, you are going to be regaled with words related to feelings and happenings of the last twelve months. Oh yes, you know of what I talk. This is to be the ALPHABET OF AAARRGFIZZZ... We've all had to deal with it. This will be a reflection purely from my point of view. You don't necessarily have to agree with what I say; just appreciate where it's coming from. Normal service will resume on May Day. (By which time I may be yelling that down the ether phone loud and repetitively!)
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Here it is, the X-factor of the alphabet. What to play with here?
Do I tell you about the Xerosis (abnormal skin dryness) Xeropthalmia (dry eye condition) I have noticed since the menopolyxinaemia started tapering off? I had been blessed all my years till then to not require any such thing as a moisturiser. Now I can't get enough of the stuff. Those of you who are Xennials (hitting your 40's), be warned! At least I don't have any Xanthomas. Yet. TMI?
Perhaps that was a bit eXtreme. Then again, is that not a symptom of the times? Everything about the past year, in these times of Coviditionitis, has been beyond anything anyone could have eXpected.
Further, eXtreme kind of describes much of the twenty-first century thus far...
I have that dry skin thingy too. Our usual very dry air (~5% humidity) doesn't help it!
ReplyDeleteDry skin, dry eyes, tell me about it - dryness is omnipresent here too:)
ReplyDeleteSo much uneXpected stuff this past year.
ReplyDeleteAn eXcellent post!
ReplyDeleteHi Yamini! Sorry It took me this long to return your many visits to my blog. It was a crazy week, with two projects wrapping up. But I want to tell you I appreciate so very much all your comments.
ReplyDeleteWell, what to say? You weather the terrible X in a very graceful way ;-)
@JazzFeathers
The Old Shelter - The Great War
x is a challenge, not only while playing scrabble... da xanthomas is like a character louis de funes played once here ;O)
ReplyDeleteThat bubble is very neat. Did you ever experience hails storms in Aus? We used to get some real corkers in Bathurst. All the car sales yards had hail net over them to stop the cars getting damaged, and when hail started the town used to erupt with people running out to get their cars under cover. The roof of a shop on our street collapsed under the weight of hail in one storm while I was living there.
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DeleteOOOh, you lived in Bathurst??!! For a while, my parents were based out of Rylstone and they loved going into Bathurst (and Orange).
Yes, those hail storms can be something else. I have a great photo (somewhere - oldstyle print) of my backyard in Wahroonga covered in ice the size of tennis balls and looking like it had snowed! Bruising stuff. Yxx
Great post
ReplyDeleteHi Yam - X is always a challenge isn't ... makes us think out of the box ... weather equally a challenge - as for skin ... another thing altogether - it needs the water word to enhance it ... drinking lots of it to hydrate the old bod. All the best - Hilary
ReplyDeleteIt was only when I experienced Oklahoma weather that I realised that what we think of as Xtreme weather in the UK is generally pretty benign!
ReplyDeleteX marks the spot today!! We are quickly approaching the Xtreme weather season here in NC. Hurricane Season begins in June
ReplyDeleteHugs Cecilia
It seems today there are way too much of the extreme stuff. It's scary and can be so destructive.
ReplyDeleteI have been so busy recently - only now catching up on some blogs. X for me today was casting my postal vote... and sometimes a sign of on a text or note. x
ReplyDeleteXciting things are happening at the Casa today! It looks like Mom will be taking her 3rd trip to the big city in as many days and once again we shall be behind in our posting! But Cinnamon does not care...today she gets to ride shotgun!
ReplyDeleteEverything is done in eXtremes these days - it's what the media and the far right and left thrive on.
ReplyDeletehttps://iainkellywriting.com/2021/04/28/the-state-trilogy-a-z-guide-x/
I am slathering lotion and it is still scaly dry skin. purely aging! when my skin is dry it rips if i touch it. Xtreme weather is what we will start to watch for from not until November here in florida. those dreaded hurricanes. we made it through the VIRUS and all the hurricanes, and now we will get 2nds.
ReplyDeleteAlas, I'm afraid extremes have become the new norm. Sometimes I think the best solution would be for me to take up extreme napping. :-)
ReplyDeleteEXcellent use of those X words.
ReplyDeleteI love letter X posts! Always such variety.
It's hard to believe the blogging challenge is almost over. Then the after survey, reflections, and the road trip sign-up.
Plus, I'm taking part in the Bout of Books read-a-thon in May. So much excitement!
J Lenni Dorner~ Co-host of the #AtoZchallenge, OperationAwesome6 Debut Author Interviewer, Reference& Speculative Fiction Author
Great X's today! My skin has also lost soooo much of its moisture and I'm forever having to lotion up!
ReplyDeleteYour S word could have been Sahara for all that lost moisture! But, as it has gone to extremes now, it might as well be here.
ReplyDeleteKlem
There sure have been a lot of eXtremes this year. We have to say though after watching that video all the way through that the part with the car driving in the snow is NOTHING like a real white out blizzard where you have no idea where the road is or if you are off onto the shoulder let alone drifting towards the center.
ReplyDeleteWith the kids here, I've washed up so much.Hooray for hand cream.
ReplyDeleteHaving grown up in North Texas and later living in Southwest Missouri I have seen more than my share of tornadoes. That first tornado with all the green took me back to my tween years. I stood with my Granny at the top of the cellar steps watching the tornado follow the railroad from one village to the next town. That was less than a quarter mile (.4km) away. The rule about tornadoes is if you can see it moving you are probably safe. If it appears stationary, get to cover as it is heading straight toward you! Had two different rooves that had hail damage. Storm windows broken out in one house during a hail storm. Lightning strikes 3 different times. Once blowing a small hole in an exterior wall of our home. Life in tornado alley! namaste, janice xx
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