Day: May 18, 2024

MLMM — Story Starter — This Option is Off the Table

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She threw back the glass of wine and stormed out of the room.

“Sharon wait!” Nick called out as he ran after her. He finally caught up with her on the street just outside the restaurant and touched her shoulder.

Sharon spun around so she was facing Nick. Looking directly into his eyes, she said, “What? There’s nothing left to say, is there, Nick?” Sharon tried not to cry but her eyes started to well over. “We’ve been together for almost a year and a half and I was expecting an engagement ring. I was not prepared for you to announce that we need to take a break from each other.”

“It’s not that I don’t love you,” Nick said. “I do with all my heart. But I think the prudent thing for us to do as a couple is to take a few months off so we can make sure this is what we both want.”

“The prudent thing to do? Are you serious, Nick?” Sharon said. “Well, if you’re not sure whether or not you want to marry me, then by all means, take as much time as you need to consider your options. But just so you know, this option,” Sharon said, pointing to herself with her thumb, “is off the table.” And for the second time in five minutes, Sharon turned around and stormed away.

Written for Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Story Starter Saturday Mix. Photo credit: inspirationalblog.com

WDP — Balancing Act

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Daily writing prompt
How do you balance work and home life?
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Easy peasy for me. I’m retired, so there is no work life. There’s only home life. 

For me, a more realistic question is how do I balance my online life (i.e., blogging on WordPress) and my offline life (i.e., real life).

I’m still trying to figure that out.

SoCS — What’s That Smell?

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I was pretty sick last week into the weekend. But by Monday, I woke up, took a shower, got dressed, and told my wife that I was beginning to feel a little better. This was welcome news to my wife because she wanted to make certain improvements in our backyard that had been on hold while I was under the weather, like putting up a new sun sail that had been blown apart by gale-force winds a few weeks earlier, sanding, sealing, and staining the wood swingset we have for our grandkids, and putting together a new, resin storage shed.

We shared the burden of these tasks because I do have certain limitations due to my hip replacement surgery, but we got both the sun sail and the swingset tasks done by yesterday and started this morning working on putting the storage shed together.

By around noon the temperature had reached 80°F and there was no shade where the shed was going up. So I said I needed a break and suggested that we could resume once the sun had moved enough that the shed area would be in the shade.

At around 3:00 we went back out to continue working on the shed and I smelled something kind of foul. I started sniffing around trying to find the source of the smell, and unable to pinpoint it, I said to my wife, “What’s that smell?”

Without missing a beat she said, “That’s you. I don’t think you’ve showered since Monday and you’ve been sweating a lot this week. You’re kinda ripe.”

“Yikes,” I said. “I think you’re right. Well, I’ll take one tomorrow morning for sure.”

“No,” she said. “You go take a shower now. I’m going to put clean sheets on the bed and I don’t want you stinking them up, so go shower now. Dinner will be ready by the time you’re done.”

It really felt great to take that shower! And I smell fresh as a daisy!

Written for Linda G. Hill’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday prompt, where Linda has given us the phrase, “What’s that smell?” and asked us to write about the first thing that comes to mind. Image credit: Bing Image Creator.

FOWC with Fandango — Righteous

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FOWC

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 “righteous.”

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, ÿplease 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.