Showing posts with label Use Your Words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Use Your Words. Show all posts

Friday, May 16, 2014

Use your Words - Ode to Vegas

Today’s post is a writing challenge. This is how it works: participating bloggers picked 4 – 6 words or short phrases for someone else to craft into a post. All words must be used at least once and all the posts will be unique as each writer has received their own set of words. That’s the challenge, here’s a fun twist; no one who’s participating knows who got their words and in what direction the writer will take them. Until now.




At the end of this post you’ll find links to the other blogs featuring this challenge. Check them all out, see what words they got and how they used them. 

I’m using:   Monkey wrench, jock strap, bull whip, corn field, banjo, radiation          
They were submitted by:   The Momisodes 


It is Tuesday. This will post on Friday. Friday I will have been in Vegas for 24 hours. Sin City. Currently, I am BEYOND excited to leave. I will miss the Bug terribly, and his papa, but...sleep! I can't WAIT. I'm sure that when you read this someone will have thrown a monkey wrench into my dreams of sleeping a solid 8 hours. If you've never been to Vegas, it is the only place I have ever gone where I was ready to leave after 4 days. I am going with some of my best girlfriends. The movie "Hangover" could honestly be inspired by our first trip to Vegas 5 years ago. It was quite the experience, but true to the saying, "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas."  

The last time we went to Vegas it was 4 am before I even noticed that I was starting to get tired. 4 AM!!! HOW!? Maybe this time we'll see a guy wearing nothing but high heels, a jock strap, and a bull whip. Last time, we only saw that high heels and the bull whip. Seriously. Anything can happen in Vegas.  

That being said, I present to you, a poem, entitled "Vegas." An original master piece by me! (YOU saw my words, what else did you think I'd write about?!)

Oh Vegas, dear Vegas, how I love you so, 
with your half naked men and their jock straps to go.

You warm my body and heart with your sun and fun, 
but do not like when it is all done. 

Hopefully this time there will be no monkey wrenches,
my suitcase arrives without me sitting on benches. 

There will be no banjo music to lull me to sleep, 
because sleep is for the weak, (I know, this poem's deep.) 

Men with bull whips will make us think twice, 
about the choices we make and how to play nice. 

The sun's radiation beating down all day, 
makes me wish for a gallon of sun spray.

The goal of the trip is to stay safe and come back without skin peel, 
OH, and don't end up dead in a corn field

-Fin 

Best thing ever, right? I'll expect the talk shows to be calling me any day now wanting to interview me....also, if you don't hear from me by Tuesday, someone start a GoFundMe page to bail me out of jail.

**Side Note: Vegas was canceled. Well, my trip was cancelled. Bug started puking at 10:30 as I was loading the car to leave. No Vegas, No warm weather, No friends I haven't seen in a year. Bug's just a baby once. I'll go back, but MAN does this suck. Talk about a monkey wrench.**

Links to the other “Use Your Words” posts:
http://bakinginatornado.com                       Baking In A Tornado
http://batteredhope.blogspot.com                Battered Hope
http://thethreegerbers.blogspot.ch/              Confessions of a part-time working mom
http://www.someoneelsesgenius.com            Someone Else’s Genius
http://fbxadventures.blogspot.com                 FBX Adventures (In Parenting)
http://spatulasonparade.blogspot.com/            Spatulas on Parade
http://stacysewsandschools.blogspot.com/        Stacy Sews and Schools
http://www.outmannedmommy.com                 Outmanned
http://www.eviljoyspeaks.wordpress.com           Evil Joy Speaks
http://www.healingtomato.com                        Healing Tomato
http://themomisodes.com                           The Momisodes

http://www.JuiceboxConfession.com              Juicebox Confession



Friday, February 14, 2014

Use Your Words

                    
Today’s post is a writing challenge. This is how it works: participating bloggers picked 4 – 6 words or short phrases for someone else to craft into a post. All words must be used at least once and all the posts will be unique as each writer has received their own set of words. That’s the challenge, here’s a fun twist; no one who’s participating knows who got their words and in what direction the writer will take them. Until now.




At the end of this post you’ll find links to the other blogs featuring this challenge. Check them all out, see what words they got and how they used them. 

I’m using:  every time you ~ another fine mess ~ the usual suspects ~ Never know ~ Frankly, my dear ~ Heart skipped a beat, then stopped        
They were submitted by:   Just A Little Nutty 

You never know, as far as life goes.  I think that's what makes life funny. I often think about how boring life would be if it came with an instruction manual. What if your bad days had a star, and your good days had a heart? Better yet, what if there were no bad days! 

Before we had Bug, I was really worried about what kind of world I was going to bring a baby into. For the longest time I said I did not want kids. It scared me to bring a baby into a crazy-crazy world. Every time you turn on the TV or the computer there is something bad happening somewhere. There's another fine mess somewhere.  I KNOW that good happens, but good news doesn't sell as well as bad news. 

When I did find out that I was pregnant, my heart skipped a beat, then stopped.  My brain became flooded with all the thoughts of the scary world he was about to join. The usual suspects told me it would be okay and frankly my dear, they were right. Bug's amazing. He's hilarious, smart, and my joy. I hope that by him being in the world that he will help change the world. That his whole generation will help change this world. 



Links to the other “Use Your Words” posts:
Spatulas on Parade