Not it!

Ok. So I claimed it. I'm not it. Because I don't want to be it. "It" means I was last to react to being 'it' and now I am suffering the consequences of my fast reaction.
So I am not it.

That means more than just claiming the right. It means doing.
So what am I 'doing' to be "not it".
Well right now as I type I am waiting for my milk to convert to a curds. And soon enough to become cheese. Chedder to be exact. That is my way of being not 'it'.
I also just finished bottling my own home brewed beer (Honey Brown Lager) - in 2 weeks I can drink it - I've been waiting 3 months already.

What or who is it? 'It' is the person paying 4 times the price for groceries in a couple months. 'It' is the person who is still eating contaminated foods grown by people who don't care what you are eating or if it makes you sick or not (because they grown food for their own families separate from what they grow for you)
'It' is the person waiting for someone else to save them when times get tough or even if they don't.

So this is me. Saving myself. Being 'not it'. How lucky.
Now I have to deal with the responsibilities and workload it entails.
Lucky me; I am on my 3rd beer. They cost me $0.18 a can compared to $3.00 for store bought. Mine tastes better. How lucky.

It is part of my chore. Being not it is a lot of work. But it can also be a lot of fun. Cheers to that.
I decided several years ago that I needed to keep learning new things. That developed and evolved into a need to support myself.
To become more.

So now I choose 3 new skills to learn every year and I keep working on them till I... well I just keep working on them.  Last year I wanted to learn how to brew my own beer and I did. Now I am learning how to grow my own grains and hops to brew my own beer from scratch. Growing everything I need in my yard to brew beer. I will get my cost down to $0.10 a can, I think. Maybe less. And it tastes so good! I enjoy learning and brewing it!!!

But being 'not it' is a lot of work. It means you understand you are better than you thought and can produce for yourself more than you thought. It is a lot of work. But it is worth it.
If you stop, give up, take a break than... you are it. And when life sends trouble your way then you have to beg and look for someone else (who isn't it) to help you. To give you scrapes.

Bummer.

Well I am not it. And the cheese i mentioned when I started this; it's looking really good. 25 hours from now it will be shredded on a pizza.

Well. I'm not it. My pregnant wise isn't 'it'. We are here to help ourselves and others not be it.
And I am starting -this year- with Pizza.
Pizza to save the world.

1 of my 3 goals this year is to make pizza from scratch; from my own property (minus the pepperoni). I'm already making my own cheese. I have started a garden last year for a lot of the veggies. I am also starting my own mushroom's. and growing my own grains. Milled wheat for pizza and 2/6 row barley for beer. If I can make my own pizza I can make a lot more.

But that is just the start of the journey and this is my introduction.

Thanks for reading.

TAG!!!!
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