Fandango’s Friday Flashback – SYW 9-3-18

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First I have to thank ceenphotography.com for all of her hard work on this Share Your World section of WP. I think everyone enjoys it and appreciates the time she has put into it along with all of the other challenges she has. So we’ll miss you, but keep in touch!

Also, a hearty welcome to the new lady in charge: sparksfromacumbustiblemind.com. I love the new colors on the badge! Thank you for accepting the challenge and taking on this responsibility.

A big thank you to both ladies!

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My answers for today’s questions:

1. I tell my grandchildren a lot of stories about growing up a million years ago, on a dairy farm, our family life then and my life with their grandfather and their mom as she grew up. Of course I also tell it like it is, maybe too much?

2. I can’t really think of anything except my first “real” job. Starting out as a clerk and ending up as a secretary to a large group of scientists. The first part was a clerk in a small room with two middle aged good old boys who did their best to embarrass me every day. The next job in the same building but a different section, was great, treated with dignity and respect.

3. This question is funny. Probably I would say, thinking I am funny.

4. Maybe the worst thing I could overhear while going under for surgery would be, “you got this. . .right?”

I appreciated hearing from someone I worry about that they are okay. All quiet on the western front as everyone else was out of town. I finished “Downton Abbey” and made a cup of creme brûlée caramel coffee at home. I even topped it with whipped cream. Not exactly perfect, but I’ll keep at it.

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Eugi’s Weekly Prompt – Journey

It doesn’t take long, in fact it is incredibly fast. You don’t realize it of course until you are sitting by yourself, only seeing your life in fading photographs, but it is a journey all the same.

Children wishing for something exciting, something new, to be older, to be what books promise, living a life with happiness complete. That would have been possibly a pleasant journey, but boring to look back on–for some, some like me who dreamed as a child and imagined an exciting journey.

Would I be Nancy Drew or one of the Hardy Boys’ friends, solving great mysteries? Would I be a teller of tall tales or turn into a mermaid when I dipped my toes into the sea? My favorite dreams of course, were imagined as I watched the Disney castle light up on our small tv. I wished to be one of those girls who ended up a princess with my very own prince.

Then life happens, and the imagined journey turns into reality and even though the journey is interesting and good, it is not what I fantasized.

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MLMM Wordle #255

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Donning her butterflies sweatshirt, the organic one with feathers decorating one sleeve, Marie was ready for the day. Her favorite classes weren’t on the schedule so she had to ply a bluff longing by wearing something ridiculous to compensate. Marie often decided to face the humdrum lectures dressed this way, hoping to inflict a bit of irony on the most serious of professors.

She was just opening the door to the biology lab when a terrible vulgarity met her eyes. The aforementioned professor was looking far from serious when caught in a jostle with Miss Pettigrew, the lab assistant. Marie quickly shut the lab door and started giggling. The day was going to be fun after all.

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Monday Media

“The Painted Veil” is not what I expected, but I had not read this book. Of course “Of Human Bondage” was required reading in school. “The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham. The title is a reference to Percy Bysshe Shelley‘s 1824 sonnet, which begins “Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life”.

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