Tuesday's Off Day - New Things...

So I've been trying to be more diligent in my writing and blogging... Today's a day of new beginnings toward that quest. A New Look and hopefully more conscientious about my blogging abilities, capabilities, and write-abilities! 
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I will keep my Monday Musings; Wacky Wednesdays; and Fractured Fridays but I will not try to write on each of those days each week... I'm going to try for one of them a week and if that doesn't work I'll hop to every other week.
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One thing though... don't plan on a lot of writing from me for the next couple of weeks because starting this week-end I will be having our family come in for our Smith Family Reunion... consequently I'll be involved with family gatherings etc.
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Therefore you may ask why I'm starting with New Things today instead of waiting - well simply because I have time today and I may not have it in the next couple of weeks and I want to get it going... so after the 6th of July, when they all go home, then I'll be more apt to be busy with this again.  :) 
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Hence once again stay tuned... and be patient with me.
Thanks, Joyce

 

Friday's Fractured Features-

For the past little while I have been saturated with life's adventures... And I have chewed off all my fingernails! Grrr
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Our 50th wedding anniversary came and went with a fantastic man I'm proud to be married to. We spent a wonderful day. We went to the Temple where we were married 50 years ago and felt at peace and saw some old friends there too. We went and did a little shopping then dinner & a movie.
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Next came our son's wedding & me in charge of making the wedding cake... now that was a project. We got to the building and someone was supposed to be there but we found it locked. I had the cake in the hot car! Grrr. The icing was then too soft and when my husband decided to carry said cake into the building un-aided he messed up the whole side of the cake! I was a bit miffed. But luckily I had brought frosting and tubes and tips to put a semi fix on it.
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Wedding over I had all of the huge white table cloths I had borrowed from a friend to try and get all the stains out of from peeps that were careless in their eating - & they had spills of red punch on them too. I ended up washing them in four loads and did those four loads five times counting the pre-wash cycle, adding up to 20 loads of wash, taking the whole day long to get them spotless white again. Whew!
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Then all table cloths clean and folded I needed to move the box away from my bed (which I had used as my folding table) so I could sleep that night and not bump into said box... bad idea! In moving it I hurt my back!!! I've been two & a half weeks getting my back to settle down so I could move around again.  Grrr
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Now I've been back to working on my novel and feeling decidedly unqualified to be a writer/author so I stopped writing long enough to make a mock up cover to help get me pumped up about my writing again. Now I'm wondering if my title is the best title ever. So stay tuned to Monday and we'll see the solution I come up with.  :O)
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Thanks for stopping by,
~Joyce