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My Newbie is Showing...Part 3

by Cheri Annemos

Rated: 13+ · Book · Nonsense · #2050715

Thoughts and takes on the way life presents....

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A Warped Witch I Be

Apr 20, 2018 at 10:24pm
In response to "BC: Things to Change"

Hoping this positive momentum continues for you.

A Warped Witch I Be

Feb 9, 2018 at 12:47pm
In response to "BC: Feb 9. Trudy the Perpetually Late Secretary"

You can't beat originality, Trudy sounds like fun to me.

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Cheri Annemos

Jan 5, 2018 at 12:52pm
In response to "J5: ranting poetic on fun fact day"

Exactly my point! If New York and California and Minnesota were so progressive, why have they not had a woman in an impact role like governor? Instead, Wyoming of all places figured it out long ago. Why don't we have any decent doctors in this frozen tundra. I'd settle for a decent doctor, male or female, when living in this frigid wasteland called Minnesota in the dead of winter.

♥OctOGre tHiNg♥

Jan 5, 2018 at 9:26am
In response to "J5: ranting poetic on fun fact day"

Have New York and California ever had female governors? I know they have had celebrity guys like Linda Ronstadts ex squeeze, Jerry Brown, and of course, who could forget the Terminator, Arnold and now New York has one of the Cuomo Dynasty.

Maybe they have had women in charge and I've forgotten. I am trying to think of one governor in either state or in my ultra liberal home state of Maryland. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (Robert Kennedy's eldest child) ran there and lost a while back. They are great at telling other parts of the country what they should do though.

Have you had a female governor there in Minnesota?

I know Texas had Ann Richards and South Carolina Nickey Haley.

Otherwise, I can't think of many. Arizona, Jan something or other.

My brain is frozen and we aren't half as cold in the state I currently live in where there have been no women governors. Bundle up there up north!

♥OctOGre tHiNg♥

Jan 4, 2018 at 9:50am
In response to "J4: ruling the world"

George Washington invented term limits, too. Awesome founding father to emulate!

Charlie ~

Jan 3, 2018 at 1:28pm
In response to "January 3: brutal truth, so skip if you can't take it"

Everyone is entitled to their opinion! I'm nearly positive the NFL will not be out of business any time soon. All the people I know who are into football are just as into it now as they were before the protesting stuff.

Lilli Munster 🦇 ☕

Jan 2, 2018 at 6:33am
In response to "annoyance - major and minor"

LOL Cheri!! I have a bad case of CRS too! It drives my husband nuts and other times it amuses him because I tend to remember obscure and useless facts. For example I can remember a neighbor's last name that we haven't seen or heard from in over 10 years but I cannot remember that we made actual plans to do XYZ today.

Hey, it's gift. Free entertainment... embrace it.

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Joy's busy haunting

Jan 1, 2018 at 7:20pm
In response to "Good Bye Hello"

All good stuff! Wishing you much success with the business... Happy 2018!

Charlie ~

Jan 1, 2018 at 9:57am
In response to "No more resolutions"

Giving yourself grace in the new year. I like it!

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♥OctOGre tHiNg♥

Jan 1, 2018 at 6:55am
In response to "No more resolutions"

I like the humor and great attitude going forward to be yourself.

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August 29, 2015 at 4:03pm

#858652

52ifbc: Behind the Door

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“Come, my child, the secrets of the universe await you.”
Yet she still hesitated. What was a universe? What was await? Why was this voice speaking to her? So many more questions.
“Why?”
The response from the distance was a door slowly taking form.
“Wow! That’s so cool!” The little girl thought she would like the color red.
The door slowly coalesced to meet her desire.
“Will it be dark on the other side?” She wondered aloud.
A brilliant light broke through the cracks on all sides of the double red doors.
As she advanced closer, she wondered how late it was. It would be dark soon and she would lose her way. Slowly, a lantern appeared to assist with lighting.
She took one look back and thought she heard her mother and father calling her. A moment’s hesitancy and she was off to the see what was behind the door. It was so pretty on the other side. And then it was over.
She awoke to her mother crying and yelling “Lisa! Come back! Please, come back!”
“Mommy, don’t cry. I saw Jesus.”
“Oh, honey, don’t do that to me again. Please.”
“K. Daddy, Grandma said I was just like you.”
“My mom?”
“Uh-huh.”
“Come here, Kitten. You know grandma died in a car crash last year?”
“Uh-huh. Daddy! That’s too tight.”
“Sorry, honey. Did grandma say anything else.”
Lisa shook her as she nestled into her father’s shoulder as he carried her home to be cleaned up. The water in the creek was cold and muddy. She was just happy they did not yell at her for getting her pretty dress all messed up.

[Serious question: This story is missing something, but I can't figure out what. I read an article about vivid particularity, but the penny has not dropped on what that means. If you have any wisdom on how to punch this up, I would appreciate an example or two. Just telling me what I already know without an example of it is kind of pointless and leaves me sitting in this same hole without a ladder.]

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August 27, 2015 at 10:39pm

#858477

Minnesota Smart

I am back from vacation now. You up for a story? (Branson, Missouri -- thank you for asking!)

We had a fairly uneventful trip from southern Minnesota to Branson MO until we hit Des Moines. My sister was a two-lane only driver so when we hit the city driving, she kept saying, "I'm scared." She was doing fine until she figured out where we were, I swear! So I told her I would switch to driving when she pulled over. I should never have said that – it was her cue to pull over and switch drivers, like right now! So at the next Enter lane -- you know the kind that have the long-running enter lane running parallel to the freeway? You know how there is that V where the enter lane merges with the freeway traffic? -- That’s where she stopped and got out to switch spots. We had us a Chinese fire drill on a freeway. Yep, they build us smart in Minnesota.

When she was settled in the backseat, she is looking around and wondering out loud how we would ever get back on the freeway. I just said “Watch me.” I gunned it and merged three lanes over in about a minute and a half. When I asked if she was alright, she said, “Yes, I was under the seat and didn’t see anything.”

True story.

The hubby says I am the kind that has to tell everything I know to whoever will listen. I don't think that's true. I keep plenty of secrets from him, he would have a heart attack if he knew everything.

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August 9, 2015 at 11:02pm

#856962

52-WFIBC DANGER Zone

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“Move in the left flank.”
“Why?”
“Geez, Josh, just do it. The aliens are over the rise.”
“Why do my guys always have to get eaten by aliens?”
“Not all the time.”
“Yeah-huh!”
“You’re spoilin’ the game. You wanna play or not?”
“I’d rather shoot you with a paintball gun!”
“K. Tag. You’re it.”
“Why do I always have to be it?”

[Dialogue only.]

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August 5, 2015 at 7:57am

#856537

Not Happy

Happy Hump Day. Last week I was shouting the praises of Friday because we got everything done. NOT! Monday and Tuesday were like a bitch on wheels. I had to be civil to mean people. I had to tell my boss I can't fit a square peg in a round hole. Everything that I thought was done on Friday was not. Everything I thought I was doing correctly was not. And now i have to go do "training" all over again because what they taught me no longer applies. I will be so grateful for Friday.

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August 1, 2015 at 12:19am

#856029

TGIF

I had such a long, hard, messed up week. If I could have split myself in three parts, I would still have been behind. Just one of those weeks when you say “Thank God It’s Friday! And you really mean it! And people shout Amen because they know it, too. I won’t go into it, but just know that I was functioning on autopilot, because the brain cells were all used up by 10:00 a.m. every day. You see my boss went to a wedding out of state and he looked at me and the law clerk and said, “I don’t want to hear it. Just handle whatever comes up.” Yikes! I still don’t know how I managed to get everything done by Friday 5:00. The weekend is a blessing. Happy Dance!

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