It's Thursday .... Already?

Thanks Mama Kat for being our faithful, inspiring teacher! She always helps us with our 'getting to the end of the week and I'm running out of sh*t to talk about' slump.

So, without boring you to tears before you even GET to the boring part....


The Prompts:

1.) Write a haiku about what you see out the window. (if you don't know what a haiku is click here.)

2.) Begin with "I thought I saw..."

3.) If I could live in any era of history, what would it be -- list 10 reasons why.

4.) Write a light hearted piece on how to get along with an enemy.

5.) The first time you...


I've struggled, once again, to pick one.

It's not that I can't decide which one because I'm SO full of ideas. Nope. It's that I'm comin' up empty.

Let's see:

2. Begin with: I thought I saw.... a weird lookin' bunch of teenagers outside my bedroom window at 2:00 in the morning!!! Oh, no wait. That really did happen. I was 13 and they were waiting for me to sneak out and join them. THAT'S not very entertaining! (And, note to my kids .... HAHA! I'm just kidding! That totally didn't happen! Nudge, nudge, wink, wink!)

I've decided on 5.

The first time I:

• tried smoking my friends were disappointed in me. My friend's all had a little more respect for me because I wasn't falling for all the "peer pressure" crap. That sucked. This happened also the first time I said a very vulgar thing, like they all used to. They didn't laugh when I did it like they did with each other. They just .... LOOKED at me. Kind of disappointed. That sucked too.
  
• had to put an animal down, I felt like I was dying right alongside him. Right there on that veterinary clinic floor.
• drove a car, I snuck out with my brother, when I didn't yet have my learner's license, to drive to the store. It was, again, 2:00 in the morning, and my parents were asleep. I drove into someone's fence. And then I drove down that alley like a bat out of hell! I was so scared.  (Note to my kids: This DIDN'T REALLY HAPPEN! Nudge, nudge, wink, wink to my fellow bloggers!)
• kissed a boy, I had NO idea what I was doing and shaved off half of his mustache with my braces. I discovered that my lips aren't supposed to be quite THAT soft and malleable! (Okay, so some people have expressed surprise that the first boy I kissed "had" -lol- a mustache. To clarify, I was 13 (I think) and he was 17. It was a 'truth dare double dare' kind of thing. He didn't have a clue who I was, but I sure had a crush on him!)
• had a coke slurpee, I knew I'd met my match.
• lost weight, I seriously didn't think it was going to come back.  In spades!
• had to deal with a computer, it was grade 12, and I felt so stupid that I didn't even know how to turn it on that I left class and never went back.   And now there's NO STOPPIN' ME!
• got my heart broken, really broken, was when I found out my fiance -at the time - was stealing from my brother. It was pretty awful. But I redeemed my stupid in-denial self by driving him to the police station myself. 
• was a pall bearer was for my Grampa's funeral last year. It was the most emotional thing I have ever done, and it was truly an honour!
• had a baby, I swore like a drunken sailor! Not during the birth. Nope. In the hour or two that followed. Everyone went to watch my baby get her bath, but I had had an epidural and was still dead-weight, so they left me behind. I was not happy! And neither was that nurse by the time I was through!
• celebrated a wedding night (and yes it was my ONLY time) I spent a good part of the night driving around looking for my clothes!

There were actually many others I would love to share with you, and most of them happened at 2:00 a.m., but my kids seriously do read this, and I've probably caused enough trouble!

Head back to Mama's Losin It for some more fun reads! (Not that I am in any way presuming you had fun with THIS one, you understand.  I'm just trying to set the mood....)