I have discovered what this insomnia thing people speak of is all about. Last night for the first time in many years, I experienced it. And while I was tossing and turning, trying to find that sweet spot where I could settle enough to drift off, it came to me. Insomnia is for people who can choose their own bedtimes!
My kids have been gone since Wednesday and aren’t coming back from their dad’s for another week, so I’m anticipating a few restless nights to come.
Anyway, while I was laying there with the clock mocking me at 4:39am, I came up with what, at the time I thought a brilliant idea. I kept repeating it over and over in my head – not because I wanted to but because it wouldn’t leave me. It was this:
The internet was so vast, she could only end her sentences with commas,
What do you think? Brilliant? Or simply the product of an overactive brain?
August 22, 2013 at 8:00 am
intriguing!
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August 22, 2013 at 10:38 am
Thanks 🙂
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August 18, 2013 at 9:42 pm
Oh, that’s embarrassing! The first statement was suppose to have the word ellipse. I assumed that was what I wrote. The last was supposed to be a play on that. **Face-Palm** Dyslexia!!!!!
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August 18, 2013 at 9:44 pm
I figured as much. 🙂 Don’t worry about it… you’re talking to a bonehead of major proportions here.
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August 18, 2013 at 9:46 pm
We gotta hang together, we boneheads! 🙂
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August 18, 2013 at 9:47 pm
I’ve got your back, my friend. 🙂
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August 18, 2013 at 9:57 pm
🙂
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August 18, 2013 at 9:01 pm
Well… An eclipse might do…
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August 18, 2013 at 9:35 pm
Haven’t seen one of those in a while!
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August 18, 2013 at 9:39 pm
They seem to come with eclipses! 😉
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August 18, 2013 at 8:49 pm
I like (…) than comma, but comma is good (,,,) 😀
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August 18, 2013 at 9:35 pm
They both work quite well 🙂
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August 18, 2013 at 5:21 pm
I love the ideas that come at 3am. Sometimes they’re complete nonsense, and sometimes they’re the start of a wonderful story. I hope you do something with this!
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August 18, 2013 at 8:09 pm
I can’t imagine what I could do with it at the moment, but you never know! Thanks for the comment 🙂
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August 18, 2013 at 5:05 pm
What would become of the poor period?
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August 18, 2013 at 8:08 pm
I’m afraid it’ll have to wait until the end of the internet, 😉
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August 18, 2013 at 11:19 am
I shall dub thee Comma Girl… I chuckled because most comments and emails I don’t write sentences… I write what I call continuation of thought… with a dot dot dot linking one thought to the next… someone once even mentioned to me in an email that they had never seen someone use the dot dot dot thing so much…
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August 18, 2013 at 8:08 pm
Thank you good Sir, and I shall dub thee Ellipsis Man, 😉
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August 18, 2013 at 11:15 am
I like it, 🙂
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August 18, 2013 at 8:04 pm
Thanks 🙂
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August 18, 2013 at 11:01 am
Maybe, since your kids aren’t there, you have a lot of private time and no one nit-picking at you. So, the over-activeness takes over in your brain.
Love yaMOM 2 MOM
Amanda S.
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August 18, 2013 at 8:03 pm
That’s a good point Manda. 🙂
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August 18, 2013 at 8:18 pm
I AM REALLY GONNA MISS WHEN MINE ARE GONE!!
AND IT WON’T BE TOO LONG : (
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August 18, 2013 at 10:59 am
Borders on greatness!
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August 18, 2013 at 8:03 pm
😀
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August 18, 2013 at 10:09 am
They say that if you’re having issues sleeping, after about 20-30 minutes, get up and do something for 30-60 minutes. As for the prompt I don’t know about this one. Needs more context.
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August 18, 2013 at 8:02 pm
Thanks for the advice, Paul. And I agree, it’s a bit broad for a prompt.
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August 18, 2013 at 10:00 am
No I think it would be a brilliant prompt!! 😉
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August 18, 2013 at 8:01 pm
It just might at that. 🙂
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August 18, 2013 at 9:56 am
Go for it! I love commas. Sounds like a fun idea to explore.
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August 18, 2013 at 8:01 pm
Never know where something like a comma can go…
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August 18, 2013 at 9:46 am
Brilliant….. the hook is in – what’s next?
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August 18, 2013 at 9:52 am
Um… serial commas? Haha.
You have some nice comments on your piece on the Community Storyboard! That’s great 🙂
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August 18, 2013 at 1:35 pm
wow…I have to get back to the storyboard…. that answers how this works… wait, haven’t checked email…
Yes, ye old Oxford comma…. I really liked the line…
Here’s something… my daughter, a friend, and I were having lunch with margaritas yesterday. Our friend said “Margaritas and a bologna sandwich is fine by me”. I said, “That sounds like a chapter” but she thought it’d make a good book title.
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August 18, 2013 at 9:39 am
over stimulated brains make the best writers!
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August 18, 2013 at 9:41 am
That’s one way to think of it. 🙂 Thanks.
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August 18, 2013 at 9:37 am
Well thought, it’s better than ending everything with a coma,
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August 18, 2013 at 9:38 am
You have a definite point there. Haha
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