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One-Liner Wednesday – If I didn’t laugh, I’d cry

I just love it when Alex gets hold of my phone and enters holidays into my calendar as events. Like this past Monday morning at 7:30, my phone pinging and cheerfully letting me know “It’s Family Day – you don’t have to wake up early!” 🙄

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As with Stream of Consciousness Saturday (SoCS), if you see a pingback from someone else in my comment section, click and have a read. It’s bound to be short and sweet.

Unlike SoCS, this is not a prompt so there’s no need to stick to the same “theme.”

The rules that I’ve made for myself (but don’t always follow) for “One-Liner Wednesday” are:

1. Make it one sentence.

2. Try to make it either funny or inspirational.

3. Use our unique tag #1linerWeds.

4. Add our lovely badge to your post for extra exposure!

5. Have fun!

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#SoCS – Yes

Do I love being paid to be a stickler for details when I’m hired to edit a story?

Yes.

Yes, I do.

Thank you for asking.

2019-2020 SoCS Badge by Shelley! https://www.quaintrevival.com/

This stream of consciousness post you didn’t actually ask for was brought to you by Stream of Consciousness Saturday. Find the prompt here and join in! It’s fun!


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One-Liner Wednesday – I don’t learn

Every Tuesday after I write my One-Liner Wednesday post, I tell myself I’ll have a whole seven days to come up with something to write for this challenge next week, but every Tuesday afternoon, I sit at my desk and ask myself, “What the heck am I going to write for One-Liner Wednesday?”

If you would like to participate in this prompt, feel free to use the “One-Liner Wednesday” title in your post, and if you do, you can ping back here to help your blog get more exposure. To execute a pingback, just copy the URL in the address bar on this post, and paste it somewhere in the body of your post. Your link will show up in the comments below. Please ensure that the One-Liner Wednesday you’re pinging back to is this week’s! Otherwise, no one will likely see it but me.

NOTE: Pingbacks only work from WordPress sites. If you’re self-hosted or are participating from another host, please leave a link to your post in the comments below.

As with Stream of Consciousness Saturday (SoCS), if you see a pingback from someone else in my comment section, click and have a read. It’s bound to be short and sweet.

Unlike SoCS, this is not a prompt so there’s no need to stick to the same “theme.”

The rules that I’ve made for myself (but don’t always follow) for “One-Liner Wednesday” are:

1. Make it one sentence.

2. Try to make it either funny or inspirational.

3. Use our unique tag #1linerWeds.

4. Add our lovely badge to your post for extra exposure!

5. Have fun!

Badge by Laura @ riddlefromthemiddle.com

Available now! Click the image.


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The curse of the treadmill

No, I don’t mean the treadmill that life feels like sometimes.

I’m talking about my literal treadmill.

You know what I miss?

The fact that it’s so easy to look out the window or glance at the weather online and say nah, the weather isn’t delightful enough for me. I think I’ll just stay in and walk today.

I used to take a lot more pictures. I used to be forced to go outside and get my exercise, even when it wasn’t that nice out.

I used to have a daily paper route!

I had no choice but to go out every day. Rain, shine, sleet, hail, snow, ice, fog, wind, cold, hot … didn’t matter.

Am I going to go back to delivering the paper?

Nuh, uh. No way.

But … pictures!

Could I take pictures when I’m on my treadmill?

Sure I could.

But the neighbours might complain that there’s a weird woman shooting pictures of them out the front window as they walk past my house.

Maybe I just need spring to hurry up and get here.

Some pictures of spring 2013 when I had my paper route.


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A small life

I don’t live a big life. My world is small.

Where once I used to travel to places like the Caribbean and Japan, my trips are reduced to the distance between my house and the grocery store, Alex’s day program, and the pharmacy. And occasionally out of town for appointments.

I don’t fly—I drive or if it’s close enough, walk.

So it’s no wonder that I live much of my life outside the confines of my office by exploring online.

And lately, the world online is nothing to write home about. Or if it is, the letter home is overshadowed with fear.

I know I said I’d try to stay away from talking about politics, and I really do try to avoid doom scrolling, but it’s all getting to the point where it affects me personally. And I don’t know how much longer I’m going to be able to hold out.

I don’t want to be consumed by the news. It’s not good for my health.

The question is becoming whether I want to bury my head in the sand and be surprised by whatever is going to change my life, or if it’s better to see it coming.

Stay tuned.

I’m still trying not to talk about it.


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You know you’re distracted when…

I’m so distracted this morning, I just tried to pour cream into my coffee without taking the lid off the cream container.

Or maybe I just need more coffee.

Yeah. That last one.

Anyway, that was my laugh for the day.


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#SoCS – What I’ve got

The bulk of what I’ve got is time.

And work.

And procrastination.

They take up all my time.

They fill me up until my head explodes.

But it’s weird; I can’t do nothing. I used to be able to do nothing, once upon a time. I could sit and just stare out the window, or listen to music and just daydream.

Daydreaming, I guess, has become my job. My daydreams go on paper to be shared.

Does that mean I keep none of my daydreams to myself?

No.

Because some daydreams shouldn’t be shared.

And some are just too big and don’t feel like they’d fit in the world outside of my head.

They’re way too bulky.

2019-2020 SoCS Badge by Shelley! https://www.quaintrevival.com/

This wildly random absolutely stream of consciousness post was brought to you by Stream of Consciousness Saturday. Find the prompt here and join in! It’s fun!


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Where are you?

It’s been a while—like, a really long while—since I posted anything about social media.

Since I’m everywhere that I have an account every day, why don’t we connect?

Here’s where you can find me:

Facebook page

Facebook personal

Twitter (I rarely post there or go there at all these days.)

Instagram (I want to start using it more.)

Threads

Bluesky (Like Twitter but better.)

I’ve kind of abandoned my fiction blog for the last few years, but I want to revamp it and start posting there occasionally again. Especially since I’m still paying for it. I’ll let you know when that happens.

Anyway, drop your links below or just follow me and I’ll follow you back. If you’re looking for more followers on platforms not mentioned above, go right ahead and post your links for those as well, then look for other people to follow in the comments.

See you around!


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When having a to-do list sucks

This morning I woke up ready to take on my to-do list. I was pumped and raring to go.

I got out to get my grocery shopping done as I usually do every Tuesday morning … and it only took me 20 minutes to clean off the car and shovel it out.

Got back home at a decent time, and after a bit of doom scrolling I took Alex to his program. Great! I had a couple of hours to get some things crossed off my to-do list.

I just had to get gas first. And pick up Alex’s computer from Best Buy. And stop at Tim Horton’s for lunch—gotta keep my energy up for my to-do list. Oh! And I needed sausages from a different store than I get my groceries at.

Finally I got home … just in time to pick Alex up from his program!

Now, at 4:30, I’m sitting at my computer getting the first thing done that was actually on my to-do list (blogging), and feeling a combination of satisfaction at getting so many things done and frustration that only one of them was on my list.

I don’t know if I need a longer list or I should just say to hell with everything else. 🙄

Suggestions welcome.


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Hmm

I’m sitting at my desk in front of my laptop, drinking my coffee and staring at a blank page. Okay, not quite blank, because it now has two sentences on it.

Hmm.

When I’m writing a story, I often launch into it with no idea what’s going to come out. What’s going to flow from my fingertips. That’s why I love stream of consciousness writing so much, I guess. It comes natural to me.

Far more natural than, say, speaking.

If I’m faced with talking about something? If I don’t know what to say, I usually end up saying something stupid. Something that plays on repeat in my head, making me want to slap myself.

Why is it always the stupid things you say that you remember most often?

Or maybe it’s just me.

Hmm.