Di, of Pensitivity101, is our host for Truthful Tuesday. This week Di wants to know:
What is the best (or worst) fib you have told to get out of going to school/work/or somewhere you don’t want to go.
Except for Di’s Fibbing Friday prompt, I’m not a good fibber and I don’t fib often. That said, when I was a kid I used to fake a cold, a sore throat, or a stomach ache on rare occasions that I didn’t want to go to school.
And I recall once telling a girl I’d been dating but had grown tired of that I had to go out of town for my job to get out of meeting and having dinner with her parents. But she caught me in that fib when she saw me at a bar a few days later with another girl.
I can’t think of other noteworthy fibs I’ve told to get out of doing something I didn’t want to do. Maybe Di should pose this question again for her Fibbing Fruday prompt.
Describe a positive thing a family member has done for you.
Three months ago I fell off a ladder and busted my hip, my arm, and injured my shoulder. It obviously disrupted my life. But it completely turned my wife’s life topsy-turvy. She unexpectedly became the head of our household. We used to split household responsibilities. She’d walk the dog first thing in the morning, I’d walk the dog last thing at night. She’d cook our meals and I’d wash up the dishes and pots and pans after. I’d handle the various maintenance and fix-it tasks around the house.
Suddenly my wife was thrust into the role of chief cook and bottle washer, responsible for doing everything. And she also became the primary caretaker for me, her disabled husband. For the first month after I came home from the hospital, my wife was by my side to help me with virtually all of my activities of daily living, from getting me in and out of bed, helping me get dressed and undressed, assisting me in taking showers, fixing all of my meals and cleaning up afterwards, taking care of our dog, taking out the trash, and keeping the house clean and working.
Now I’m a little more self-sufficient, but still, most of the burden continues to fall on her. She drives me to and from my physical therapy appointments and any other places I have to go to. She’s still doing all of the dog walks, all of cooking and cleaning, and all of the housework.
And she’s done all of this without complaint and without resentment. I’ve got another two to three months to go before I’ll be fully recovered, so her lead role as my caretaker and head of household is not yet over.
I can’t think of a better example of a positive thing a family member has done for me. And she is a daily reminder of what a positive decision it was when I asked her to marry me and how fortunate I am that she said yes.
My theme for this year’s A to Z Blogging Challenge is classic rock songs. Each day during the month (except for the first four Sundays, I will post a classic rock song: a video from YouTube, along with a brief bit of background about the song and the recording artist(s).
This is much more difficult than I thought it would be. For every letter of the alphabet there are dozens of fantastic classic rock songs to choose from and picking just one song for each letter is maddening. But this is what I signed up for.
My O song is “Over My Head” from Fleetwood Mac.
“Over My Head” was performed by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac. The song was written by group keyboardist and vocalist Christine McVie, who passed away at the end of November. In the U.S., the band’s label selected “Over My Head” as the lead single from the 1975 album, Fleetwood Mac, a decision that surprised the band, which believed that the song was the “least likely track on Fleetwood Mac to be released as a single.” Despite that, the song reached number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in early 1976, and its success helped the Fleetwood Mac album sell 8 million copies.
This was the first Fleetwood Mac song to crack the Top 40 in the U.S. The band had been around since 1967 and had released 10 albums, but much of their output was rooted in blues without much pop appeal. That changed when Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joined in 1975 for their self-titled album, released that July.
Although she was married to her bandmade John McVie at the time, Christine never gave any indication that this song was about him. The lyrics, according to Christine, were actually inspired by her relationship with new band member Lindsey Buckingham. “I think that was based on a sort of fantasy about Lindsey, really. I think that was a sort of an ode to the gorgeous Lindsey at the time.”
The single version was reworked to tighten it up and give it more pop appeal. On the album, the song runs 3:38 with an intro that slowly builds from silence; the single is cut to 3:10 with punchy percussion right off the top.
Here are the lyrics to “Over My Head.”
You can take me to paradise And then again you can be as cold ice I'm over my head (over my head) Oh, but it sure feels nice
You can take me anytime you like I'll be around if you think you might love me, baby (over my head) And hold me tight
Your mood is like a circus wheel You're changing all the time Sometimes I can't help but feel That I'm wasting all of my time
(Over my head)
Your mood is like a circus wheel You're changing all the time Sometimes I can't help but feel That I'm wasting all of my time
I think I'm looking on the dark side But everyday you hurt my pride I'm over my head (over my head) Oh, but it sure feels nice I'm over my head (over my head) But it sure feels nice I'm over my head (over my head) But it sure feels nice
It’s time for my weekly Story Starter prompt. Here’s how it works. Every Tuesday morning (my time), I’m going to give you a “teaser” sentence or sentence fragment and your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to build a story (prose or poetry) around that sentence/fragment. It doesn’t have to be the first sentence in your story, and you don’t even have to use it in your post at all if you don’t want to. The purpose of the teaser is simply to spark your imagination and to get your storytelling juices flowing.
This week’s Story Starter teaser is:
I crouched behind the car, trying not to make a sound…
If you care to write and post a story built from this teaser, be sure to link back to this post and to tag your post with #FSS. I would also encourage you to read and enjoy what your fellow bloggers do with their stories.
It’s April 18, 2023. Welcome to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (U.S.).
Today’s word is “age.”
Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.
Once you are done, tag your post with #FOWC and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Please check to confirm that your pingback is there. If not, please manually add your link in the comments.
And be sure to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this prompt. Show them some love.
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