Today’s a great day to blog, and the Bloganuary prompt is:
What is something you learned recently?
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I learned that the phrase ‘throw in the towel’ was coined from the sport of boxing. The trainer/coach actually throws a towel into the boxing ring when he wants the bout to end.
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What would you title the chapters of your autobiography?
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I came, I saw, I wrote about it. or
Childhood, Teen Years, Married with Children, Travel, Writing & Reading
Today’s a great day to blog, and the Bloganuary prompt is:
Describe your perfect birthday cake.
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My favorite kind of birthday cake has always been a home made orange cake. My mom always made me one. It was always heavy and dense, and then soaked with hot sugared orange juice poured all over it.
I’ve made a few of them myself in later years.
One of my favorite odd kind of cakes was when my daughter made one out of stacked up Krispy Kreme glazed donuts covered in chocolate frosting. It was fun and very good. 🙂
My favorite author is Poppy Z Brite, because I really like her novels, “Lost Souls”, and “Drawing Blood”. I liked the first two so much, I began to write my fan fiction, “Two Souls: Into the Fire”, to continue the stories. This got me to discover blogging and posting my writing online for others to read.
There are a few more favorite authors of which I will buy and read everything they write.
These are:
Laurie Notaro – humorous memoir type stories
Sophie Kinsella – fiction Shopaholic series
Cathy Glass – true stories of her experiences fostering children
Jenny Lawson – humorous & also serious memoir type stories
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What was your dream job as a child?
My first dream job that of course didn’t work out was … archeologist. I wanted to go on digs and uncover mummies and treasures and animal bones. This was when I was like eleven or 12 years old. I told all my friends. I also would go on hikes and whenever I came across some animal bones I’d take them home to examine. I never came across any treasures, but I did see some mummies (they were in a museum).
But mainly my dream job was to be a writer with something published. I wrote stories since I could even print words. I guess you could say I did get my goal of being a published writer.
I publish things on my blog every day and people read them.
I’ve also been published in magazines with my poems.
It’s nice when a dream comes true! 🙂
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What’s a lie you tell yourself?
?? I don’t know about this question. Maybe I don’t lie to myself?
My favorite meal to eat is anything Mexican food. I like enchiladas, chili, tacos, tamales, fajitas, salsa, guacamole, and the tortillas, both corn and flour, also the rice and beans, well, everything including the chips and dips.
We used to make this at home a lot, and we both know how and it always turns out so good.
One other kind of meal I like is Lumpia, which is like an egg roll made from scratch. I learned it from a Vietnamese lady friend of ours, though this may be a regular Asian kind of dish. Anyway I really like it, and it’s fun to make, but it takes so long to make it … like at least 2 full hours with no breaks to get them done. My recipe makes a whole bunch, and they do freeze well, to be heated later in the oven.
What color describes your personality and why?
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Here’s a link to a quiz to see what your personality color is:
I didn’t take the quiz, but I read about the colors, and in my opinion I am green and purple.
I like all colors at different times, but my favorite color to wear is black! All my clothes have mostly black to them. A few things have a little bit of another color, such as white, or orange, or sky blue. One color I do not wear and don’t feel good in is red.
It is funny how certain colors you wear can make you feel good or irritate you. How about being drawn to certain colors? I don’t have much in brown, but my eye is drawn to brown more than most other colors for some reason.
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What irritates you about the home you live in?
I don’t think much irritates me about this house. It’s fine for us, not too big, not too small. We’re used to it after over 20 years living here. We’re comfortable.
Oh, as usual with most of us, we wish we had more counter space in the kitchen, or more closet space, or an extra room for crafts or whatever. But with just us two here, it’s fine.
We have nice neighbors, and we know most of them. Everyone is helpful if needed, and each looks after the other neighbors, especially if someone goes out of town, by keeping an eye on the house.
Today’s a great day to blog, and the Bloganuary prompt is:
Do you have a memory that’s linked to a smell?
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There’s lots of good and bad odors that leave a definite memory, I’m sure.
Let’s see …
The smell of baking bread, which is one of the best fragrances, makes me remember when I was a teen and my friends and I would go roller skating every Friday night. The roller rink was called Fairpark, because it was on the actual site of our yearly fair that comes to town. One of the buildings is used as the skating rink when the fair isn’t in town.
Across the highway was a bakery. Every Friday night we were there skating, we could smell the baking fresh bread. At some point, usually about 9 or 10 p. m. all of us would take off our skates, walk across the highway and go to the bakery. We knew they would sell us hot, just out of the oven loaves of bread for only a quarter (25 cents). We’d each buy some, then go back to the skating rink to continue skating, while eating that wonderful bread. 🙂
I’m trying to catch up with these prompts I missed so here they are, unless I missed some more.
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Today’s a great day to blog, and the Bloganuary prompt is:
What is the most memorable gift you have received? … A surprise birthday party on my 9th birthday. I even have a home movie of it, and I was truly surprised.
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What is your preferred mode of travel? … I like riding in a car if someone else is driving. I really like traveling in an airplane, though. I like watching people at the airport, I like seeing the planes, I like taking off and looking at the clouds and the ground far below, and I like landing, too. It’s exciting to get to where you’re going.
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How far back in your family tree can you go?
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I can’t go back very far in my family tree. I’ve never researched it.
I have a few photos of my grandparents & great grandparents, but that’s about all. One relative on one side wrote some things down as much as she could remember. I have the paper. At the moment I don’t remember what she said, though. It’s in my file cabinet.
At one time I heard stories, or maybe I make it all up in my head ? that on my maternal grandmother’s side we were kin to Alexander Graham Bell. Her family name was Bell.
I also heard we were kin to Billy the Kid, and Daniel Boone! haha – I have no idea if any of these are true.
I do know one of my great – grandmothers was full blood Native American. I’ve visited her grave here in town. She was a member of the Blackfoot Nation.
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Ready to write?
Today’s a great day to blog, and the Bloganuary prompt is:
Write a short story or poem about rain.
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I wrote this poem for my grand-daughter when she was two years old. (she is 9 now) 🙂
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RAIN CLOUDS
I asked her what she thought of clouds
All she said was moon
Pointing to a clear blue sky,
Would clouds be coming soon?
She knows the stars, the sun, the sky,
And the silvery moon catches her eye,
But where are the clouds, the clouds with rain?
She loves the rain, she hopes they’ll be stopping by.
She wants the rain, she loves the splatter, upon
The window pane.
On and on she continues to chatter, her happy refrain…
This book is, “Lost Souls”, by Poppy Z. Brite. I liked it so much, I didn’t want it to end, so I started writing fan fiction about it. I hadn’t really heard of blogs, but I wanted someone to read what I wrote, so a friend let me know about blogs and how to set up one to post my fan fiction story, “Two Souls: Into the Fire”. I spent a very long time writing it (over a year if not more), and I’m proud of the fact that I did it, and finished it.
That started me on to writing more things on my blog, such as essays, observations, poems, challenges, and my true ghost stories. I started in 2013 I think, and have continued to this day, enjoying every bit of it, including making many wonderful blogging friends to share thoughts with.
Today’s a great day to blog, and the Bloganuary prompt is:
Why do you write?
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Why do I write? I can’t remember a time when I haven’t been writing. It’s something I have to do every day. It might be a lot, or it might be just a few jots but I will be writing something.
I wrote stories when I was a kid and a teen. I wrote when my kids were young, and got a diploma from a college writing course I took. I like to write short and long fiction, essays, diaries, journals, poems, observations of things and people, and many notes.
In other writing, I like to use pens, pencils, and markers to write with. I like to practice handwriting and printing and different ways to make it look on a page. I like calligraphy writing and play around with that, too. I like paper and notebooks and have lots of them to write on.
I like typewriting, too. I taught myself to write on an old fashioned Underwood manual typewriter when I was in elementary school. I do the touch typing where I don’t have to look at the keys/letters. I took typing in school for quite a few years, just for fun, first on manual typewriters, then on electric ones. I’ve owned several typewriters. I like typing on my computer keyboard, and the more I type the more I like it, it’s good practice.
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