Sister of Mercy's World

Age Will Give Me a Smile and a Game Face

March 19, 2014


Blog City Prompt

If you could be any age for one week, what age would you choose and why?

Choosing one particular age is hard, but there are three different ages I would choose.

I loved being 13 because I had loads of confidence. I was also beautiful! I had a great figure, and my weight was between 105-110.

I also loved being 21 because I wore a size 3/4 for a little while. My singing voice was top notch. I had such a broad range. I could hit a high G and go all the way down to a very low G or A (depending on the song). I can't go over a 2nd sopranos A now.

Twenty-seven was a good age for awhile too because I was pretty then also. I won several beauty pageants. I was between a size 8-10.

All of these ages came with a price though. When I became thin during those times, I was only able to achieve it through starving myself, abusing laxatives, and taking way too many diet pills (I even took them at 13 because there wasn't a minimum age on them back in the late 80s).

Blogging Circle of Friends Prompt

Smile or Game Face?

It depends on the situation. Sometimes, I rely on my natural smile. Other times, I put on my game face with my beauty pageant smile. Some people think my pageant smile looks fake, so it can't be too bad when I won best smile (twice), best photogenic (once), and best portfolio (twice) in the pageants that I participated in. The game face also works in sales sometimes because it tends to exude confidence.

News In My World!

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I'm working on editing the last chapter of my novel. It's my goal to edit it and write a 1-2 page synopsis of the novel too, but I can't seem to focus on it. My mom and brother keep giving me a honey do list everyday. I've even tried talking to them about it, and how important it is too me to finish this, but they just won't listen. Mom even looks at me and says, "Big deal, I will take you seriously with this when you become as famous as Stephen King." My brother says, "No one will ever want to read it because your book is crazy. No one is interested in reading about cowboys, faeries, and supernatural characters all in one book."

I'm almost finished reading Your God is Too Safe by Mark Buchanan, 3/4 of the way finished with Out of Oz by Gregory Macguire, and 1/2 way finished with Legends of Literature (a book of essays on writing), The Town by Bentley Little, Sleepwalk by John Saul, Small Sacrifices by Ann Rule, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Skeleton Crew by Stephen King. I just started reading Gates of Paradise by VC Andrews not too long ago. Yep, that's right, I read nine books at a time. I tend to get into reading on a daily basis better that way instead of reading one book at a time.

Bye for now!

Sister of Mercy