Sugar Coating

Update time! Week 28

I've been a crazy person the past week.

Stats:
Running Mileage: 529.59/1,000
Push-ups: 5,150/10,000
Sit-ups: 5,150/10,000
Pages Read: 5,577/10,000
Books Completed: 14/25
Words Written: 49,339/100,000

Fasts (Days without)
Internet: 57/100
TV: 70/100
Gaming: COMPLETE 149/100
Meat: 56/100
Junk: 55/100
Booze: 41/100

I've been running at least three miles everyday since the thirtieth. The adverse weather lit a fire in my brain. I must conquer it. Makes it that much more of an accomplishment.
"You did what? Are you crazy?"
Yes I am and it gives me power. Try it on sometime. Barreling down a hill so steep your legs can't keep up is what makes life worth living. Weirdly the speed of it all makes the moments of stillness so warm and satiating.

God it's cold. The wind is shotgunning iron filings on my flesh.

Haiku of the Day:

A nation freezes,

succumbing one step closer

to the cold of space

Today's Drawing (inspired by the word "Insulated" from the inside of my coat.)

Today's "365" Project (Do something with sugar.)
"Azucer's Game"

Ominutia - Small, Trivial Details of Foreboding

My coffee tastes like warm ash and mossy tree bark. In time, the brew gives me tummy quicks - roiling little burbles that punch out and energize my sore legs. Sheets of ominutiae cascade and brush the crown of my head like the flaccid blue strips of a car wash. It's a wet, dragging tug that draws my head back. And with an exposed neck, I sigh, mouth slack and waning like a grouper's. There I wheeze shallow, sensing the acrid stink of my breath on the flesh of my tongue and inner cheeks. My chapped lips sting like rubbing alcohol in the stale subterranean breeze. I'm in the snaking damp of my own throat, aloft on sickly kangaroo haunches...braying out a biblical verse from my childhood in gravely tones. A necktie band blossoms purple on my bare neck. I feel like a circus bear or a Mennonite downtown.

Haiku of the Day:

Purple morning sky,

pale with bloat like a drowned man

floating in the bay

Today's Drawing (inspired by the word "Ombudsman" from MW's word of the day. It's a person who helps investigate, report and settle complaints.)

Today's "365" Project (Do something with your lunch before you eat it. It's been a while since I had a good food project. Seemed like it was every other one for a while there...)
"Baked Pothulu"

The Carpeted Tree of Azaroth

Here's the letter we wrote for the neighbors we cat-sat for this past week:

To our blessed itinerant parishioners,

We do hope your mission to the Godless hovel of "brotherly" love bore some fruit - We trust you were able to convert some weary souls along the way. As for your charges, we have done our best to be righteous and adequate substitutes in your absence. The one you call "Chiba" or "Mr. Pencil" saw us for the impostors we were. His incessant howling and wild antics proved a tiresome endeavor for both us and his two feline comrades. Grand Poobah "Nimbus" ate more than his fair share of rations in an attempt to cope with Chiba's antics.  While Frau Mitty took the high road, confining herself to the carpeted tree of Azaroth, to gaze at the vexing, winged sparrows of the forbidden walkway. As for us, we managed to survive, sustaining ourselves solely with the wondrous golden chips of corn. We hope we have provided enough replacements for your consumption upon your return. We thank you, and of course, our lord Jesus Christ, for your luxurious sleeping accommodations and...laundry.

Yours in faith and board games,
Mike and Emily

P.S. We played Dominion and it is SICK AS SHIT BRO! DONG ALLIANCE 4-evah!

Ok, so there are a few inside jokes here, but I thought it was worth sharing cause I think it's super fun and we spent some time on it. :D

Haiku of the Day:

Wind gusts like cold death
Render ache and sting on skin
The harsh of winter

Today's Drawing (inspired by the word "Fallible" from MW's word of the day. It means something that's capable of making mistakes.)

Today's "365" Project (Do something with discarded hair. Yuck. Good thing I'm cat-sitting three very hairy cats!)
"Aller-Jen"

Laaaaaaaame

Wrought

There's a molten forge
in each of our bellies
where smithies rail
on singing strips
of bone and conviction,
pouring viscous ladles of glowing
amber notions into pan form casts.
There, they cool into belief to be
wielded on the fatty pink hills of the cortex.

Soon sanity will be restored. We'll returning home on Tuesday, just in time for the Panto to go nuclear. Strap on in for this puppy, it's going to be bumpy.

Haiku of the Day:

Headstrong little boy

snowball in hand, fire in eyes

charges his sister

Today's Drawing (inspired by the word "Bromide" from MW's word of the day. It's a chemical compound, but it can also mean a commonplace/tiresome person or idea.)

Today's "365" Project (Make a flag of some kind. I made a flag for a robot army I made up. They would have colors in the flag if they felt they were important. Which they don't.)
"The Cybernetic Amalgam's ID Banner"

MRRREEEOOOOW!

So Emily and I are cat-sitting at our friend's home and they encouraged us to stay there for the duration. It's weird. Especially since the place is the same layout of our old apartment. I keep having displacing memory flashes.

Haiku of the Day:

Forbidden Desert:
A Brotherly Christmas Gift
Equals: Excellent

Today's Drawing (inspired by the word "Mote" from the book, Consider Phlebas, which I am currently reading.)

Today's "365" Project (Do something that's inspired by/goes on a mouth. Took the high road on this minefield of a prompt. Sorta.)
"Mouth PSA"

Them Monsters

Great Saturday. Saw some excellent theatre, ran a bunch and had beer and sandwiches at one of our favorite places. Also It snowed for the first time (really) of the season and it was extra magical.

Haiku of the Day:

First snow of season

Fierce and stinging now but will

vanish by morning

Today's Drawing and "365" Project (Make a monster that hasn't existed. This is the Skrablat. I'd draw the rest of it's body but it's too horrifying for humans to see. You're brain would bleed out your nose.)
"Skrablat"

2015!

Rung in the New Year in true with the Kuehn: On a couch watching TV by ourselves. It was truly excellent.

I guess now would be the time to ruminate on what should be resoluted for the year, but I'm kinda up to my eyebrows in that with the Project. So we'll start with this month and see where it gets us...

January:

100 Miles
1200 Push-ups/Sit-ups
23 days of the month alcohol free

This will get me back up to speed.

Haiku of the Day:
Feeding the kitties
their particular foodstuffs
is peculiar work

Today's Drawing (inspired by the word "Emigrate" from MW's word of the day. It's the act of leaving one's home or country of origin, the preamble to immigrate.)

Today's "365" Project (Make a puppet. I took the cork from our New Years revelry and made him a little face!)
"Pop Feldman"