kryptonite...

kryptonite...

things that make me weak....like chocolate...

I guess people use this to express things that make them weak...in good ways...like weak in the knees....

like cords.  Like a really good jazz cord will make me...gooooooey.   :) oh...I mean...chords....the other cords...those are good too...nothing like Fall weather and a pair of cords.

or there's the stuff that just immobilizes you in a not so blissful way....

like wasps.  yellow jackets.  they are my kryptonite...I have an irrational fear of them....or at least I did...

I went 41 years without a sting...without even knowing what a sting felt like- but whenever I'd see them, I would just lose it...either I would freeze...become frozen and not move until the damn thing flew away...or I would just kinda freak out... irrational...I know.

and then-

one day- at the end of summer, I was walking outside with a long summer dress on...flowing....in the breeze....minding my own business....in the backyard....just, moving kid play structures around....and- a felt a gentle...something fly up my dress....and my first thought was.... hmmmm, dragon fly.  crap.

and I touched my back....and thought maybe I would deter this thing...and it will fly out....

and then.....   a needle...like...prick....which started to increase in pain...searing OMG, PAIN....I'VE BEEN STUNG!  and as I ran into the house....I yanked down my dress, which was a strapless thing, that could easily be yanked down...

anyway...I yanked it down....to my ankles.....and felt another prick on my calf......F*&*%!@

it lay...dead.... next to my dress...on the floor.  


god....I finally got stung...and by a wasp....twice...and yes....I overreacted the rest of the day....maybe...just a little.


damn that wasp.  

damn...that...wasp.

peace....love...and kryptonite.... 

may you only feel the kryptonite that makes you weak... in a good way.