Tag: Kansas City
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I Am An Adult
There I was, going along with my morning when all of a sudden I had a thought:What if the DMV is open today? In a rush, I opened my Maps app and looked up the DMV and subsequently clicked on the website link.Boom. Open Saturday, 8am-Noon. Since I had put the dogs away to take…
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When Life Gives You Lemons…
More often than not, I wake up with a certain expectation for each day. This morning (or maybe yesterday now that it’s after midnight) I woke up with the expectation of cleaning two houses, checking on a couple of dogs, going to church and then going to be with the dogs for the night. Instead…
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Life Update
If any of you are regular followers, you’ll notice that I didn’t blog yesterday. I was sick. I think it started off as food poisoning and turned into a stomach bug. Either way, it was a less-than-exciting Monday, even by Monday standards. So I thought about doing the last couple Bloganuary posts, but I don’t…
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My Perfect Birthday Cake
Bloganuary Writing Prompt:Describe your perfect birthday cake. Well, we might want to start with the fact that I like my birthday cake to be baked. Moist, fluffy and yummy. I prefer yellow cake for some reason on my birthday. With funfetti frosting, preferably. My birthday is in May, by the way. So don’t go making…
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The Most Apropos Time To Answer This Question (Bloganuary 27)
Bloganuary Writing Prompt:What are the pros and cons of procrastination? WHO DECIDED THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA IN THE LAST WEEK OF THIS CHALLENGE?Because they really deserve a gold star or something. The pros of procrastination are really very few. The cons list is longer. But really, who’s thinking of these kinds of things? “Hmm,…
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Tell Me (No More) Lies
Bloganuary Writing Prompt:What’s a lie you tell yourself? I don’t know that I do. Or if I do, they’re subconscious. There are, of course, the typical day-to-day lies.”I’ll get gas in the morning.””I don’t need coffee today.””I’ll remember what I need at the store without a list.” Things like that. And in some cases, those…
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Childhood Dreams
Bloganuary Writing Prompt:What was your dream job as a child? This is one of those questions that I could answer right away… and technically I did type the answer out already but I want to build up to the answer. 😉 My entire “career” in school (from Kindergarten to 12th grade) I used the same…
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Home Irritations?
Bloganuary Writing Prompt:What irritates you about the home you live in? In an alternate timeline, Erica is writing a laundry list of all the things she finds irritating on any given day. Fun Fact: if you’re not irritated by something/someone in your home, you’re probably not even living. And you’re definitely not doing any growing.…
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The Happiest Day
Bloganuary Writing Prompt:Describe the happiest day of your life. All day I’ve been thinking about this and I’ve come up with very little. Because of the way my brain works, I don’t have a whole day that I would remember as being happy, but I have moments and sometimes longer than moments (like, hours) that…
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Bloganuary 14
Bloganuary Writing Prompt:What is your preferred mode of travel? Honestly this is a silly question for me because if I could avoid “travel” I would. I would just teleport. As it stands in 2023, that’s not really possible, so I like the mode of transportation that gets me safely and successfully from Point A to…
My Social Media-less Life 