An Ode to A Day in the Life

I finally decided I needed a way to motivate/force myself to blog more often. So, I googled "daily blog prompts" and my first hit led me to this website http://mindbump.com/

The first prompt showing was this: “Remember limericks? Cuplets? Sonnets? Haiku? Choose a form of poetry and write a poem in that form about the day's events.”

Here goes nothing.

Life on 1111
As the sun rose and I awoke
I listened to the beautiful morning sounds
not of birds, nor of falling rain
but of the dumptruck making it's weekly rounds

I gazed lazily out of my window 
and pondered the days events
and remembered what I had left out overnight
one dozen freshly baked pigs in the blankets


The morning was slow
as well was my nap
I spent most of the day
with the computer in my lap 


As the afternoon wore on
I fed the dog and mowed the lawn
Actually, not really
But I had been watching the neighbors mow theirs since dawn.

It was barely 5 o'clock
and Jordan came home early
this caught me by surprise
so I made myself look busy

Now it is a cool fall evening
and the sun has finally set
im sure tomorrow will be busy
but that I have not decided yet.

Ok, so this was pretty boring. I guess I could have just told you what happened today....

But, the original Halloween movie just came on AMC, and since this is the first decent scary movie AMC has played during their "Fright Fest", I'm going to tune in.

Let's hope tomorrow's prompt is a little more inspiring.

- Shirley

Well, crap.

Hi. I would totally blog right now, but I (we) are currently drowning in a house full of crap. All good crap though. So then maybe it isn't "crap" but "stuff" so to say. Ok, we're totally drowning in a house full of wonderful blessings. No, I am not a fan of that cheesy comment. It's more like wonderful crap.

I'll come back when all this is cleared out and I manage to find space in our kitchen for all of our wonderful crap. I do have something to blog about, for once! And thanks to everyone for sending us stuff! We really do love everything. Just not the paper and crap. And I forgot our wedding cake in Houston... Crap.