LunaSea and the costs thereof...

December, January and February are the best working and dreaming months for LunaSea. Why, you ask? There are significantly more opportunities to be snug, near the wood stove and indulge in all manner of activities with fibre on dull winter days or during snow storms. Oh, and of course daily amounts of scribbling. I love it. I do of course prefer to be storm-stayed at home where all my toys are, but that's a given.

LunaSea is having a few concerns today about affording her preferred life path over the coming winter months. It's all well and good to have a life philosophy such as LunaSea espouses, but the problem always arises over cash to support the damn thing. LunaSea has stuffed the pantry with as much as she could to keep interesting options for meals available for the duration. There's not enough booze of course; then again, how could there be? 

Anarchy reigns in the pantry (it is no more organized than the rest of LunaSea's world) and of course the compost freezer. Let me explain that last term. Everything below the top layer in the freezer is compost, the further down we venture in our archaeological digs, the older the strata. It may be the only known historical kitchen midden separated by plastic freezer bags into discreet, albeit still gross, lumps. The unmarked packages being of course the most interesting for research purposes. And no, I will not thaw them to identify the contents (however much this may be in the interests of science and my reader), if something gets excavated at all, it gets tossed out, quick.

LunaSea is somewhat attached to the midden in her freezer and considers it an insurance policy of sorts. Everything in LunaSea's world can go to hell but we still have midden surprise from 2005 (or earlier) to heat and serve, if not exactly eat. It is after all three full years until the state pension kicks in, so we may need to indulge yet. That is unless LunaSea somehow manages to qualify for the mad old woman designation and other funding before that. What, in this case, is the difference between prudent and mad?