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 PROMPTS FOR: SEPTEMBER 2021: 1. What one thing would you change about your childhood? My parents would be less abusive, and my Dad would have shown more love and interest in me. 2. If you could go back to when you were a child, what would you say to yourself? Seek God early with all your heart. Learn to hear his voice. Your parents voice is not always his voice. 3. What were the good things you remember from your childhood? Christmas time was always family get together and fun. I enjoyed playing with my toys, drawing, and writing. 4. What is your biggest regret? That my parents were not more supportive. 5. What was the best birthday you ever had? When I turned 11. 6. What did you want to be when you were younger? A teacher or a missionary or a foot doctor 7. What is your happiest memory? When I graduated high school 8. What family traditions did you have as a child? Going to grandma's house on the holidays. Christmas traditions were to read the Christmas story, sing a couple of Christmas songs, sing happy birthday to Jesus complete with cake, and then we would open our presents. Presents we're placed around a nativity scene as my parents didn't believe it was right to have a Christmas tree. 9. Where were you, 10 years, 5 years, and 1 year ago? I’d honesty rather not think about where I was 10 years ago. I wasn't in the greatest place. 5 years ago was ok. My parents were still living. I was in a better place. A year ago, covid had struck and we still didn't have the vaccine. Life was very uncertain. Today I am doing better, but not where I want to be. 10. What mistakes have you learned from in the past? I try to learn from all of them, some more than others. 11. What time in your life do you always want to remember? I am still working towards that time and place. 12. What song holds special memories for you? Swing Low Sweet Chariot - My grandma used to sing it to me while pushing me in my swing. My aunt was singing that song to her when she died. 13. What is your saddest memory? I have a lot of these. I try not to dwell on that. 14. What has been the most difficult time in your life? When my best friend’s mom died, my godson was taken away from us just about 3 months later, and we had to go to court to fight for custody of him and lost. Then 6 months after he was removed, I suffered some drama with my own family. I was pretty broken after all of this. 15. If you could relive one day over again, what day would it be? I am not sure I would want to do any of it over again. 16. What has been the best year of/in your life? Probably the year I graduated from high school 17. Who was your biggest influence growing up? My mother 18. Has your family life changed since you were a child? Yes 19. What was your favorite thing to do as a child? Play 20. Have you said anything in the past that you wish you hadn’t? Who hasn't? Lol 21. Did you enjoy school? What life lessons did you learn from your time there? I can't say I enjoyed it, but there were days I’d rather be there than home. I think I learned more life lessons than I care to mention. 22. Did you find it easy to get along with your peers when you were growing up? No 23. Did you ever experience bullying? How did you deal with this? Yes! I would rather not talk about it. 24. What from your past do you wish you could do over? I would have gone to college and pursued my dreams anyway even though my family discouraged it. 25. Have any past experiences shaped the fears and anxieties you have today? Yes. 26. What has been the most challenging part of your life to date? I pretty much answered this on number 14. 27. During your childhood did you ever feel let down by an adult? All the time. 28. What were you doing this time last year? Just trying to figure out how to make ends meet and survive the pandemic. 29. Did you ever witness anything in the past that you wish you hadn’t? More than I care to mention. 30. What smell brings about good memories? Roses 31. What was your favorite family vacation? Going to Florida and deep sea fishing 32. Were there secrets in your family? How did that affect you? Ouch! That one is a painful one. Yes! I would rather not discuss what it was and how it made me feel. 33. Does the way you were brought up influence the way you (will) bring up your children? Yes 34. If you have siblings, how is your relationship with them? Has it changed now that you are an adult? I don't have siblings. 35. What do you believe you deserve in life? Whatever God sees fit to give me and I don't always deserve that either 36. What one thing have you always wished for? To be a traveling singer 37. What skill have you always wanted to have? Play the piano and guitar 38. What would you like to achieve in the next year? Work to write and publish a book and to lose weight 39. What new hobbies would you like to try? I really don't need any more hobbies, but cake decorating looks fun. I would also like to paint on canvas. 40. Where would you like to travel? All over the United States. 41. How could your life be better? I would have married the man of my dreams, had children with him, and actually had a career that I loved. 42. Is anything holding you back? Sometimes I feel like it. My health issues do a lot. 43. What are your goals for this month? "September goals"  44. Is your life what you imagined it would be? No! 45. What small change would you like to make to your life? Don't know 46. What big change would you like to make to your life? Don't know 47. What is your dream job? Gospel Singer 48. What is your vision for the future? How will you get there? I will get there one day at a time. I want to write and publish books. 49. What gives you hope? My faith in Jesus 50. What do you fear most about the future? Not having one 51. Does growing old scare you? Sometimes, but it beats the alternative. I have decided I am going to be proud of my age. I am going to celebrate every birthday. Not everyone makes it to their next birthday. You never know when it will be your last. 52. You have decided to emigrate, where are you going to live? England. Why not? 53. What do you want most out of life? Successful love life 54. What one thing could you do today to help you achieve your goals? What could you do to improve your finances in the future? Keep writing. Pray. 55. Is anything holding you back from achieving your goals? How can you deal with it?my health. I am trying to lose weight and get answers from the doctors 56. Do you embrace the “new”? Yes 57. Do you believe you deserve good things to happen to you? If not, why? Yes 58. What new thing do you want to try in the next year? Painting on a canvas 59. What is your life are you still trying to figure out? Everything lol 60. What makes you happy about your life right now? My faith in Jesus |
Oops, I forgot to finish my blog yesterday. Take UP Your Cross Prompt: Do you believe there are angels present in our world? Why or why not? Have you had a personal experience with one? Answer: I do believe in angels. I have personally seen them on more than one occasion. It makes me look forward to going to heaven even more. We will get to join in with them while singing praises to God. It is a beautiful thing to see an angel worship.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  "Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life." ~― Herman Hesse Discuss this quote or something about a tree you've had a connection to in life. Like one you climbed, or read under. The tree I spent the most time in growing up was the one in which my dad tied my swing to. It had huge branches. It bore my weight for many years. The swing wore out before the tree did. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Prompt: I was cruising the galaxy and Buck Rogers and I defeated the Romulans. They never learn. We found this planet: Schnujo (1625) Read this item:
Write about this in your Blog entry today. All peace is temporary unless it is found in God. Jesus is the prince of peace. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Please use these words in your entry today: Magnificent, foliage, desperate, strutted, pigeon, and peacock. Have fun creating either a poem or story. The magnificent foliage blocked the route of the desperate pigeon. The peacock strutted his beautiful feathers as the pigeon tried to get out of its way.
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 PROMPT September 4th If the Internet disappeared tomorrow, how would you continue to share your love of food? Awe, back to the good old days. Lol There are so many ways even better than the Internet for sharing a love of food. What is better than posting your favorite recipe on social media or emailing it to family you ask? Well, that's easy. First, you cook it. Then you take samples of it to those around you like your neighbors. You make new friends. You invite friends and family to your house to eat and share your favorite foods. When I was a young girl, the way you welcomed a new neighbor into the neighborhood was by cooking them something delicious and offering it to them. That was how you met and made friends with your new neighbors. Social media, texting, instant messaging, and emails have become our norm instead. A personal touch or physical encounter is always better than a virtual one. Virtual one's are great when you live in another state or town far away, but for those closer to you, we should bring physical contact back into play. As far back as I can remember, church fellowships, family get together, and visiting friends involved the love of food. Food was the centerpiece of those get together. I am sure we all have a lot of great memories surrounding food. |
 Day Four: SCARIEST BIRTHDAY EVER What is the scariest birthday? 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 Halloween 👻 Ha-ha! Okay, maybe that wasn't the funniest joke, but I tried. 🤷♀️ What would be the scariest birthday ever? Would it be to have an accident where you are critically injured or a loved one may not live through the night? Would it be to get sick with COVID on your birthday, and have to spend your birthday sick and alone, perhaps wondering if you were going to survive it? What if you were quarantined in the hospital and being put on a ventilator on your birthday? It is hard for me to imagine anything scarier than these scenarios. I remember having two very miserable birthdays of my own. My grandma passed away the day before my birthday in 2001 at 11 pm. On my 16th birthday, I had a friend spend the night. I got sick with the flu the day of my birthday. My friend sat by my bed with me until her mother came to pick her up. She got sick too about a week later, but I will never forget her kindness and compassion she had on that day. For me, the scariest possible birthday I can possibly imagine would be to wake up in Hell, separated from the presence of God for the rest of eternity. You asked, and there you have it. Thankfully, I have accepted Christ as my personal Savior and have a personal relationship with God, daily. So I don't have to worry about that for myself. However, I do have to worry about the next scariest thing. The next scariest birthday for me would be to have a friend or loved one die on my birthday, their birthday, or any day for that matter without knowing Christ, especially if I had not talked to them about it or lived a good example with my own life. That would be my worst nightmare come true. So I plead with everyone reading this to make sure you don't die without having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Accept him as your Savior today, and learn to spend time with him daily. You will be glad that you did. If you need to know how to do that, please email me and ask me how. I would be more than happy to talk to you about it. I am sure my teammates would love to talk to you about it too. Word Count 407 LeJenD' stolenthrones |
PROMPT September 3rd What is the Hardest Part of Your Job? Tell us how you deal with it. Since I don't really have a job right now per say, I will have to approach this from a different angle. I work, but my work is never done. I am a caregiver. Many things frustrate me every day. I would say the hardest part of caring for someone else is it is 24/7. It is that way rather it is friend or family member or a parent with a child. You never stop being a caregiver. You are on call all the time even if you are trying to relax or take a break. It is hard to find time to be completely alone. You are constantly being called on for help or something. Another person relies on you for food and/or medicine. You need to be present for Dr appointments. Before pandemic times, if they are in the hospital, you are too. You assist them with bathing, using the restroom, and getting dressed. Everything is on you. You do all the personal care, cooking, cleaning, bill paying, and shopping. I can be both overwhelming and exhausting. Sometimes I long for just a break, but then there is no one to relieve me. Even if I could work at this point, holding a job while being a caregiver is quite challenging. It takes you away from the home for several hours. When the person you care for is a fall risk, it puts them in a vulnerable position. If they can not clean themselves properly after using the restroom, it increases their risks of infection and skin issues. Plus, after working for several hours, it is like coming home to another full time job. You learn to live one day at a time because you really don't know what tomorrow will bring. Will you be able to get all the housework done or will you spend half the day in the ER because of a fall? COVID has complicated everything. Do you risk going to the ER and exposing yourself to the virus or do you try to hold out to see if you feel better the next day? Even normal things you would go to the ER for, like having a seizure, has changed. You can not get the care you otherwise would. Everything, and I mean everything, is about COVID. It is really quite frustrating. |
Take UP Your Cross Prompt: How much energy and effort am I putting into my relationship with God? Answer: This is a question we should ask ourselves often as this is the most important relationship of our lives. It can so easily get pushed to the back burner. To God be the glory in everything. Unfortunately, we all fall short of his glory often. I put a lot of energy and effort into my relationship with God. Sometimes I wish I could put even more into it. I want to love him and serve him with all of my being. I am in the Word daily. I pray often. I try to live in constant awareness of his presence in my life. Yet, I could put forth even more effort. God knows I fall short. Thankfully, he is still faithful and ever-present. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gratitude List 1. Water 2. Food 3. Dishes 4. Towels 5. Dogs 6. Computers 7. Electronics 8. Internet 9. Friends 10. Family ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Do you have plans for September? Travel? Further your Education? Submit to a publisher? Or maybe catch up on some reading? "September goals" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Prompt: I was cruising the galaxy with Chewbecca and found this planet: Adherennium (5) Read this item:
Write about this in your Blog entry today. Okay? Seaweed is a weed that grows in the sea. 🤷♀️ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.~”― Chuck Palahniuk Do you agree or disagree? I can't say that I agree. If we focus on the negative then we are more likely to remember the negative. However, if we focus on the positive, we are more likely to remember the positive. It might take a little more effort on our parts, but we can learn from peace if we put forth the effort.
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Take UP Your Cross Prompt: Have you ever felt God was silent or distant from you? Describe when. Tell about it. Answer: I think we all experience this at one time or another. I have found that during these times it is I who have become distant. God hasn’t moved away from me. I moved away from him. Even those times when I could hear him to tell me to come out a little bit deeper, he was always right there with me. He is only a prayer away. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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I will be judging September too. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gratitude List 1. Writing 2. Assistance 3. Lay away 4. Quiet time 5. Transportation 6. Understanding 7. Love 8. Hope 9. Forgiveness 10. Life ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Prompt: "We turn older with years but get newer everyday." Emily Dickinson Write about this in your Blog entry today. I don't know about getting newer. Lol The older I am feeling. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Prompt: I was cruising the galaxy with Wrongway Feldman {Gilligan's Island} and landed on this planet. Emily (921) Read this item: STATIC Summer in the Midwest (E) Every self-respecting Midwesterner will understand. #2229277 by Emily (921) Write about this item in your Blog entry today. It must be the midwest around my apartment complex. There are so many grills around here. Some people literally grill just about every day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ “Autumn leaves don't fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.” ~ Delia Owens Use this quote to influence your entry today. I always thought Fall leaves fall during the fall. At least, that's what I was told. 🤷♀️
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PROMPT September 2nd Where do you see yourself five years from now? Be realistic, write about your writing plans, or other plans you may have. 5 years from now? Realistic? Ha-ha. I am not quite what to expect for next year little alone 5 years. 🤷♀️ Okay, I can humor myself and you. I can hope and dream big. So why not? In a perfect world, I would be 100% healthy. I would be working a career that I love. Actually, I would own my own business. I would have the family I could only dream of. I would drive a purple older model Corvette. My house would be beautiful single story, spacious with plenty of storage and an indoor pool. Wait! You said to be realistic. Oh, in that case, we had better tone that way down. Lol Unfortunately, we do not live in a perfect world. Besides, material things do not buy happiness. Hey, I can dream a little though. I honestly don't know if I will be able to work anymore at this point. I am currently caring for my roommate. We are both living on her income because I am currently having health issues. If something happens to her, I don't know where I will be. It is scary to think of it. I think part of my issue is I have always lived my life reactively and not proactively. Honestly, I am not sure I even know how to live proactively. I was raised kind of like that though. I have always been the one taking care of everyone else. I have never had a clear vision of what my life should be. I here people talk about definite plans 5 or 10 years from now and it all seems so foreign to me. How can you be so certain when it comes to your future? On the other hand, I am sure it is better than living your life with no sense of direction. I guess I have always lived life as it comes. I never made any very long term plans. In some ways, my life has been so uncertain, I have been afraid to. I hate failing. It would be easy to beat myself up over not being as successful as I would have liked to have been. However, I have had many different experiences as a result. I think everything I experienced happened for a reason. I still don't know what my future holds, but I know who holds tomorrow and I know who holds my hand. I have given myself some time to think about this entry today before posting it. I think I need to take some time to myself and reflect and really think about things. I am entering, menopause, the next stage of life. I am 44. I still have life to live as long as there is breath in me. Just because I have always lived one way does not mean I have to continue to live that way. I refuse to give up. I know finding my way here to WDC, has been a blessing. I have rediscovered my love of writing. I would love to publish some kind of a book. Maybe that would be a great goal for my next 5 years. Staying alive is definitely on my agenda too. Lol |
| I can hardly believe it is September already. Wow! Is it just me or is this year going by fast? I took some time off blogging in August. I will come back for now and see how this goes again. I enjoy blogging. It is just time-consuming at times and I don't always have the time I would desire to have for it. I think I would be content to get lost in WDC and spend all my time here, but I can not. Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, there is also a real world we must all live in too. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take UP Your Cross Prompt: Which is easier for you: to forgive someone or to ask for forgiveness? Answer: I don't really have an issue with either one. I guess if I had to choose though, it would be asking for forgiveness because that requires swallowing pride and admitting you are wrong. Although I have been accused of saying, “I am Sorry” too much. I would rather be overly nice and considerate then not enough. Sometimes I go out of my way to be nice. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Currently judging August. I will be judging September’s Contest too. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gratitude List 1. Electricity 2. Pain medicine 3. A lock on the door 4. A God who cares 5. Sunshine 6. Birthdays 7. Celebrations 8. Blogging 9. Games 10. Water ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Prompt: "Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears." John Lennon Write about this quote in your Blog entry today. I think it is the idea to remember what is truly important in life. Maintain good friendships and make lots of great memories. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ship took a little damage the other day during the run in with the Romulans. So we pulled into a friendly star base today for repairs. While we were there we explored the planets. Kåre Enga, P.O. 22, Blogville (376) writes
about a person with gray eyes and loopy bangs. Who does this remind you of? Hmmm, that's a good question. I don't know many people with that description. I can relate, however, to the always having a job as long as there are sidewalks to work. For me, as long as there is a job within walking distance, I don't have to worry about transportation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Day 3214: September 1, 2021 Prompt: Words to use: autumn, sapphire, honeysuckle, clouds, golden, peace, serenity, and time. I like it when we have words that make me think of peace, especially on chaotic days like today. I could use some serenity like I feel when I am watching the clouds float quietly by. I am looking forward to Autumn. It is a golden time of year. You can smell the honeysuckle and stare into the Sapphire colored sky.
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Day One: A PANDEMIC-AL BIRTHDAY I could probably write a funny poem about this and still may do it later on for my personal entertainment and amusement. While there is nothing funny about people getting sick and dying, life is full of humor if you just look for it. For some of us, humor is a way to handle stress. Humor is a way to seize the moment. Seize the moment comes from carpe diem, used as an admonition to seize the pleasures of the moment without concern for the future. Our lives are lived one moment at a time. We can't always choose what happens to us, but we do get to choose how we respond to it. The way I see it, we have two choices. We can be miserable and complain about every inconvenience that comes along and everything we don't like with this COVID pandemic or we can choose to make the best out of every moment. Life is too short to be miserable all of the time. I choose to make the best out of it. Okay, we don't like having to spend our days of celebration in quarantine or “social distancing”. This has definitely added a challenge to every day life. Even going to the grocery store has turned into an unimaginable nightmare, little alone trying to celebrate anything. How can we make the best of every moment in these circumstances? We can count our blessings and focus on the positive. We can look for humor and beauty in little things. We can choose to love ourselves and each other. We can take time to reflect on the true meaning of each and everything we celebrate and hold dear. One of the things I hated the most was all the restaurants closing their dining rooms and not being able to attend church. One of the things I enjoy is sitting at a restaurant table away from home to enjoy my meal rather I am alone or with someone else. Somehow, Zoom Sunday School, although enjoyable, just isn't the same as getting together at church. Even though we had to endure inconveniences like this, we have adapted rather nicely. Now we have curbside pick up service. We are able to get restaurant food delivered to our door at home. We all learned new ways of doing things. Zoom and video chatting have become valuable assets as loved ones are dying and quarantined in hospitals. The nurses and doctors on the front lines of the fight against this pandemic don't get enough credit and recognition. They put in a lot of hours, quarantine for weeks at a clinic away from home fearful, not knowing who will live or die, and sacrificing themselves and their family’s well-being. So go ahead and make the most of whatever situation you are in. Go ahead and celebrate every moment you can in the best way you can. Live your life to your best ability and enjoy it while you can. Pandemic or no pandemic, we never know when today will be our last. We never know when we will draw our last breath or our loved ones will draw theirs. Love hard, grieve hard, be passionate about everything you do. You never know what the little things, like a hug, a smile, a greeting card, or phone call will mean to someone else. Leave a positive mark upon this earth, one worth remembering. Happy 21st Birthday, WDC! Word count: 577 |
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