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Life is Like Peeling La-La

It’s sometimes very hard to explain what life is all about. It’s about, to me at least, being happy and alive. Being in the now. In order to achieve what we have set out to do, we have to work hard and smart. Why am I being so fuggin’ serious here today? Because of this!! It happened some days ago but this is what happened. I wanted to eat LaLa. It’s clams….the small type, we called it LaLa over here but if you make a search on Google for LaLa, you might find something very interesting. Quite edible but not for gals. :-) Anyway, here’s what happened. I wanted only the meat, so, I quickly put it in boiling water, remove it and then peel them open one by one. It’s tedious work. One by one by one…. Life is tedious work. I had a couple of options:-
  1. Forget the stupid LaLa for crissakes! This is sooooooo not worth it.
  2. Take a break and come back to the LaLa a little later
  3. Soldier on!!! I WANT LALA!!!!
To make matters worse, sometimes life throws shit at you. Funky, huh? Your hand reeks now. I hope none of THAT got under my nails. I smell my hands. PHE-YEW!!! So, do I go on? Or am I so turned off that I give up the whole thing? Who the hell NEEDS to eat LaLa, anyway, right? But you’ve come so far, refer to pix number one. All those shells, you’re so near!!! And if you soldier on, here’s what you get… I get to eat my LaLa which I cooked, enjoyed and loved! So, which one is it for you? Gonna sit there on your laurels waiting for someone to peel your LaLa for you, pretend you don’t need LaLa or are you going for it?? Wow. I’m inspired already! How did this whole LaLa story get to be inspirational? Hahahaha!
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