Writers Workshop – Page 4 – The World As I See It

So Very Thankful Tag

November 24, 2015

Since it is Thanksgiving in the United States this week I wants to do the “So Very Thankful Tag” that is one of the prompts for this weeks Writers Workshop with Mama’s Losin’ It. I haven’t written anything for the writers workshop in months and since for the first time in a long time I had a free day and figured that this was great time to answer these questions.

Name a color you are thankful for. Purple
2. Something your spouse does that you are thankful for. I am not married so this doesn’t apply to me.
3. Something your kids do that you are thankful for. Since I consider my cats my kids they are always doing something crazy that makes me laugh.
4. A food you are thankful for. Potato chips
5. What recent good news are you thankful for? That I don’t have any new or active lesions in my brain or spinal cord.
6. Name a drink you are thankful for. Dr Pepper
7. Name a restaurant you are thankful for. Any Mexican restaurant.
8. Talk about an animal you are thankful for. My cats
9. Name a beauty product you are thankful for. Hair spray
10. Name a cleaning product you are thankful for. Lysol wipes
11. What social media platform are you thankful for? Facebook & Youtube
12. Tell us why you are thankful for the last person who texted you. They always make me laugh which I love.
13. Name a candy you are thankful for. Gummy Bears
14. Name an app on your phone that you are thankful for. Youtube
15. What are you looking forward to that you are thankful for? My birthday and Christmas

Those are all my answers to the questions. If you answer the questions leave the link in the comments so I can check out your answers.

What are you thankful for right now?

Changing Careers?!?!

May 14, 2015

This week for the writers workshop I am going to talk about number 3 which is You HAVE to go back in time and choose a different career path for yourself. What do you choose? As I sit here and think about changing careers the one thing that keeps coming to the front of my brain is that I wish I had finished school and that I was a registered nurse. I basically dropped out of school after I got pregnant and had my daughter. It has been so long since I have been in school that when I think about going back to school now I don’t know that I could or that I even want to go back to school to get my nursing degree.

I remember when I was in college people always said don’t stop going to school because once you stop or take a break you won’t go back. At the time I was in school I always thought that was stupid because I never saw myself not finishing school even if I took a break. Now that I have been out of school for years and years the last place I want to be in the world is back at school with teenagers and people who are younger than me. I am that weird person who loved school and now the thought of going to school again literally makes me sick to my stomach.

The more years I spend at the job I am at now the more I realize that I am probably going to be here forever because at this point I have done it for almost 8 years and it is all I know anymore. I remember starting this job thinking it was just going to be something until I could go back to working at a nursing home and now the longer I am here the more I realize that I don’t mind doing accounting and things like that.

It is funny to me how I have changed and my thoughts on what I want to do when “I grow up” have changed so much. I am glad I have the job I do and I am also glad that I think I am finally okay with not being in the medical field anymore. It will always be something that I love and something that just comes naturally to me but I don’t think I would be able to do the job because of the Multiple Sclerosis and things like that.

If you could change your career what would you want to do now?

Here are all the prompts for this weeks writers workshop if you want to join in on the fun.

1. Write a blog post inspired by the word: guilty
2. Write a poem for your mother.
3. You HAVE to go back in time and choose a different career path for yourself. What do you choose?
4. I know my kids really love me because…
5. Describe a home cooked meal that makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside.

Writers Workshop-Favorite Quote

May 7, 2015

This weeks for the writers workshop I am going to write about #4 which is a quote that I love. I am going to list a few that I love because I have so many that I have used for my Quotes Of The Week posts and I can’t just choose one.

Those are just a few of the quotes that I am loving right now. What quotes are you loving right now?

Here are the other prompts for this week in case you want to join in:

1. An 8th grade memory.
2. Write a blog post inspired by the word: journey.
3. Book review!
4. Share a quote you love.
5. Spring Cleaning! Share a before and after photo of a room you recently tackled.

10 Favorite Songs

April 16, 2015

I haven’t written for the writers workshop in a few months and I wanted to write about prompt number 6 which is: List your top 10 most listened to songs currently. I wanted to write about this one because as some of you probably know I love music and I love to share what I am currently listening to with others.

The first song I am loving is See You Again by Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth. If you click on the name of the song it will take you to Youtube where you can watch the video.
The Sound of Madness by Celtic Thunder
Wake Me Up by Avicii
Timber by Pitbull featuring Ke$ha
Welcome To My Life by Simple Plan
Third Rock From The Sun Joe Diffie
Strawberry Wine by Deana Carter
The Grande Affaire by Celtic Thunder
Big Guitar by BlackHawk
Don’t Stop Believing by Journey

Those are 10 of the songs that I am currently loving. I know I am missing some of them but those are the first 10 that came to my mind. I am always finding new music and I am always looking for new music as well. Let me know what you think of these songs in the comments below.

What are you currently listening to and/or loving right now?

Here are all the prompts if you want to join in:

1. Throwback Thursday: Choose a photo from a previous April and write a poem or a blog post.
2. Easter recap!
3. What’s for dinner?
4. Write a blog post inspired by the word: break.
5. Tell us about a local news story that’s all the buzz right now in your neck of the woods.
6. List your top 10 most listened to songs currently.

8 Things I Am Putting Off

March 18, 2015

This was one of the prompts from last weeks writers workshop that I didn’t get a chance to finish the post so I figured I would post it this week because I still wanted to write about it. I hate that I don’t have the time to blog lately but that is what happens when someone is gone at work and I am left to do try and do their job along with my own job. Anyway lets get on to the the 8 things I am putting off.

Reading books that I have on my Kindle & Nook.
Designing a new look for this blog.
Getting post written that I keep in my rain day file for days I don’t have time to write a post for that day.
Calling & taking my cats to the vet.
Making an appointment to see an eye doctor about my eyes.
Backing up my laptop to my external hard drive.
Printing off invoice copies for the salesmen that I work with. It isn’t hard it just takes time and I don’t want to be bothered by it.
Cleaning my bedroom. I always want to get to it on the weekends but I end up playing and chasing my nephew on Saturday & Sunday so it never gets done.

Those are 8 things I am putting off doing because I either don’t have the time to do them or I don’t want to do them. What are you putting off doing?

Things That Made Me Smile This Week

February 19, 2015

This week for the writers workshop I am going to write about number 2 which is something that made me smile this week. Instead of just writing about one thing I am going to list several things that made me smile so far this week.

The first thing that has made me smile is this stray cat that I feed at work. He eats funny and always makes me smile when I watch him. I am going to include a video & picture so you can see what I am talking about.

The second thing that has made me smile this week is my own cats. They are always doing something silly and they always make the days better because even if I have had a super bad day when I go home they don’t judge or care what happened to me. They always love me no matter what which is nice.
The third thing that has made me happy this week was getting my nails done yesterday. I always love getting my nails done because the lady that does my nails has become one of my best friends so it is always a good time.
The fourth thing that has made me smile is thinking back to Saturday when we were watching my nephew and all the crazy things that he does. It is so fun to interact with him now but it is a lot more work and if I am being honest I don’t have the energy to really keep up with him anymore. I play with him for a little bit and then I go lay down. I just keep seeing over and over that I don’t have the energy to be a mom (I will have an MS update coming up sometime next week).
The final thing that made me smile this week was paying off all of my credit card debt!!!! I am going to wait a few months to see what happens at work but I am hoping since it is all paid off that I will be able to afford to get an iMac by the summer time. Those of you who know me know I love Apple products so I want an iMac so bad it isn’t funny.

Anyway those are the things that made me smile this week. What made you smile this week?

Here are rest of the prompts for this week incase you want to join in:

1. Throwback Thursday: Choose a photo from a previous February and write a poem or a blog post.
2. Something that made you smile this week.
3. Write about something mean you did to a sibling growing up.
4. Write a blog post inspired by the word: red.
5. List 10 things you never knew until you were a mom.
6. Write a 26-line poem using all the letters of the alphabet, where the first line starts with the letter “A,” the second “B,” the third “C,” etc., culminating with the final line starting with “Z.”