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My Writing.com experience continues...30 Day Blog Challenger, Andre the blog Monkey's Banana Bar Founder, Aging Baby Boomer. Here you'll find a warm welcome, maybe I'll make you laugh out loud - That's my goal. Thanks for visiting. |
I DON'T LIKE THIS BLOG ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO  MUSE APPROVED ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** Dear Blog The first day of the year 2020 is only hours away. Still no flying cars. I'm excited about making the 30 Day Blogging Challenge a part of my self indulging expression of lunacy for the month of January. So excited, in fact, that I'm cheating by starting early. I first attempted the 30DBC in January of 2012. I was fairly new to the site, my writing was horrible and still is, but I had so much fun and made lasting friendships. The 30DBC, that year, was hijacked mid-month by *MOLLY MUGGINGSWORTH. Details escape my memory, and the memories I retain, make me wonder if things really got that crazy or if I'm over embellishing the facts. She was a right fricken nut job, I'll say that. I did receive third place and a lifetime ban from posting in the 30DBC forum. Nearly two years have passed since I've last competed in the challenge, a lot has changed since then and there are several new changes on the 2020 horizon to write about. So in the words of one of my favorite sports heroes... "Pull those belts tight one more time, we're ready to go racing, boys! This is the 30 Day Blog Challenge." 30 Day Blogging Challenge PROMPT for January 1, 2020 Welcome to 2020! As we start a new decade, take the time in your entry today to look back on the previous decade (2010-2019). Write about some of the major milestones from the past ten years. When you look back on your life over the past decade, what events stand out as most noteworthy and significant? In my preamble, I mentioned an important milestone in my writing journey, joining writing.com and discovering the 30DBC on the site. The arrival of my muse, Andre the Blog Monkey, shortly after I began blogging is another important writing milestone. Andre does a lot of my writing and takes a lot of the blame for the bad ideas, which is fair because Andre gets a lot of the credit for the good ideas. Other imagined entities residing inside my brain are my emotions, which also help in the writing process. For this blog entry Memory is editor in chief. Memory is slow and constantly obsessing over fact, which drives imagination crazy because imagination doesn't care about facts and doesn't spend a lot of time thinking. Yes, I do realize imagination and memory are not emotions, and I have also gone off track a little bit. Other milestones over the last decade might be relocations that took place. We moved from Manitoba to Saskatchewan, and lived in Regina for three years, before moving back to Manitoba. Another move is planned for the year. In 2015 I picked up the guitar one day, determined to learn how to play it, and now I'm told that "I'm pretty good" "Pretty good" is as good as it gets. Sadly, some milestones are people we had to say goodbye to. Memory does a good job of continually, honoring those people. In 2017 we (Leslie and I) joined a Lions Internation Club, The Lac du Bonnet Lions. We met and became friends with a great group of people and help with several service projects which benefits people in our area and around the world. The Lions don't know about Andre the Blog Monkey yet, but a few members have raised their eyebrows in my direction and wondered out loud, "where do you get your idea?" Memory is tired now, and imagination wants to take over. I'm going to stamp this blog entry done, and boldly go into the future which is...The year 2020. Happy New Year! *MOLLY MUGGINGSWORTH is not her real name. I forgot what it was, which is okay because we're not allowed to mention it ever again. She went on these rants of pure jibberish all in CAPS. (Like Donald Trump's tweets) |
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