The Bag Lady

“You always let your emotions get the better of you”. If I had a nickel for every time I heard that—wait, you better make that a dollar…you know, inflation?

If I’m feeling sorrow or anger, you’re going to know it. My feelings go straight to my face and even if they don’t, they’ll be coming out of my mouth.

The only thing sad about it is some of my curiosity’s waning. I always thought curiosity was a good thing. You can learn a lot if you’re curious. But now all you have to do is open your phone, turn on your TV, or open your computer and you are completely inundated. And not in a good way.

Spam and junk emails, texts, advertisements and horrible political ads invade us every minute of the day. And no one seems to know how to get rid of it or stop it.

So I think I’ll keep my curiosity because I like to learn “stuff”. I like to read about “stuff”. I like to research “stuff” and if you’re not curious, you don’t do that. You take all of that crap that they’re putting out as facts, which it is not.

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This week’s theme is EMOTIONS
Your three words today are:
SORROW
ANGER
CURIOSITY

https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2022/10/04/three-things-challenge-m106/

SHE KNEW HE WAS GOING TO GIVE HER A LONG, DEEP KISS, BUT SHE WAS SURPRISED WHEN HE…suddenly whipped off his moustache, ripped off his toupee, letting long black hair down and revealed he was a woman. Oh oh!

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http://fivedotoh.com/2022/10/04/fandangos-story-starter-66/

Favourite horror or Halloween-themed song? Or a song you rarely hear except around a holiday. “The Monster Mash”😵‍💫

Do you ever see figures in your peripheral vision? Yes.🫣

Which urban legend scares you the most? (most countries have such stories – share yours if you would like to) I think some “legends” may be true😳

You’re home alone but you hear footsteps in your house, what do you do? This actually happened to me at my other apartment building. A young man came into my apartment, all dark and started talking to his (friend) saying man, you’ve really changed things in here, etc and then suddenly realized he was in the wrong apartment. I was not scared and he was so embarrassed that he left quickly apologizing. I had stayed in my bedroom and laughed when he left. I had the maintenance men check my lock the next morning.

GRATITUDE SECTION: I am grateful for my health, cooler weather—I love cuddling up in clothing—and always my family. My middle son is 53 today, living in France and I miss him so much. He was always so fun to be around, started working at 15 and steady on till three years ago when he and his wife wanted to get off the treadmill and be farmers in France. I’m very proud of them❤️

https://sparksfromacombustiblemind.wordpress.com/2022/10/03/share-your-world-10-3-2022/

https://rugby843.blog

Now who can pass up a prompt word like that?

Looking for a steam punk costume which they don’t rent here or one in a costume shop which again, they don’t have here, we are actively looking to zhuzh up something we already own. Since this is the fourth activity in October that needs some zhuzching, we are getting desperate😂. So far we’ve seen examples like these:

Trying to achieve looks like this using something we already own 😳😂

And it’s not even Halloween yet😂

http://fivedotoh.com/2022/10/02/fowc-with-fandango-zhuzh/

“Going to the club?” Joe asked Mike on their way out of the office.

“Uh, not tonight, probably not ever again.”

Joe stopped and looked at him, “why not, did something happen?”

“Yeah, well no, well, you know what Joe, they’re just not my kind of people anymore”, as he stood by his opened car door.

Joe motioned for Mike to join him and they bypassed the club and went to a coffee shop to talk.

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https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2022/10/02/wordle-572/

Superimpose? I see what you’ve done
Making it appear you’re number one
I suppose the vast majority
Not the enlightened minority—
These days at least
Refuse to see the beast
The lurking one hiding there
Behind trees waiting, as if a bear
So when elected, the truth is revealed
Showing yourself, your evil no longer concealed.

Weekend Writing Prompt #279- Superimpose

Often used in my family growing up and now with my friends and extended family, this phrase always puts a smile on my face. I know, crazy, but it’s the little things…

Today I looked it up because as kids we said it playing Cowboys and Indians and before anyone tries to correct my PC, I know you may not like to hear it but we were not brought up racist or rude. We grew up with the concept because our father grew up in the west with great respect for Native Americans.

Here are a couple of interesting articles about the phrase from http://www.npr.org. I prefer the second one, how cool is that one? I love words and phrases and their origins.

“The first time “long time, no see” appeared in print was in the 1900 Western “Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains, Or, the Last Voice from the Plains An Authentic Record of a Life Time of Hunting, Trapping, Scouting and Indian Fighting in the Far West, by William F. Drannan. That last part of the novel’s very long title is relevant here, as it gives a good indication of the kind of story Drannan wanted to tell.”

“The second widely accepted etymological explanation is that the phrase is a loan translation* from the Mandarin Chinese phrase “hǎojǐu bújiàn”, which means exactly “long time, no see.””

https://rugby843.blog

Same Same But Different
Your ‘Same Same But Different’ task is to take the five challenge words and NOT use them in your writing. That’s right, you need to dig out your thesaurus and find a synonym for each word instead. Your words are:

1. shoe
2. toy
3. plant
4. rush
5. flame

Your writing form is either poetry or prose.

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“Give me that slipper! Go play with the rubber hotdog, watch out for my hibiscus! You’re always in a run! Oh, you know I love you, such a sweet puppy, but my fiery temper is not to blame. You need instruction from an obedience class. Then maybe can be friends”.

https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2022/10/01/same-same-but-different-saturday-mix-1-october-2022/