Saturday Centus - Week 151

 

Welcome to week ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY ONE of Saturday Centus.

 

We have a guest prompt today!  I shall let her divulge her identity if she wishes.

 

 

The prompt this week is:   "Thank you Beryl!"

 Number of words:  103.   (including the three words of the prompt)

Style of writing: Any

Additional Pictures: Any

The regular restrictions apply: PG, no splitting of the prompt, play nicely and visit the other entries, any style or genre of writing you prefer. Please display my link button or just a hyper-link back to Saturday Centus. Be careful to link your SC URL to the Linky and not just link to your main blog.

E-mail me directly with ???'s or ask your question in a comment and I will do my best to get back to you as soon as possible.

Feel free to link up any time between now and next Saturday...

Code Red!

Here is my little Saturday Centus story linked to week 150 of that meme.  To read other offerings just click here.

The prompt is actually the words 'Code red!' and they are in bold.

Code Red.  Code Red.

Get out of bed!

The children are running around naked.

Code Red. Code Red.

My complexion’s dead!

I throw water on my face to revive it.

Code Red, Code Red.

Dogs and childrens aren’t fed

Can I throw all some dog biscuits in my hurry?

Code Red, Code Red.

My aching head.

Isn’t it Wednesday?  What is she thinking?

Code Red. Code Red.

I am being led

Like a lamb to a slaughter of eye rolling.

Code Red. Code Red.

I know he said,

“My Mother’s not coming until Thursday!”

Code red!   Code Red!

Why did I wed?

A man who can’t read the calendar?

 

Alphabe-Thursday Letter Q

Good morning class.

Welcome to round six of Alphabe-Thursday! Today we will be studying the quaint and quiet letter:



Please link directly to your Alphabe-Thursday URL (if you don't know how to do this let me know!) and please continue to visit the five links before and after your link and leave a comment. Minimum of 10 links visited please. You can visit more if you like, of course.

I also want to let you know that each week I visit every blog. If I haven't been by to visit by the following Friday night, please let me know!

If you have any difficulties with your link, please make sure to include the number of the link when you e-mail me. It is really difficult for me to find you easily otherwise.

If you have any questions about Alphabe-Thursday or problems doing your link just post it in a comment or send me an e-mail. I'll do my best to help you as quickly as I can.

The McLinkey will be live from 1:00 pm MST time Wednesday afternoon in an effort to assist our lovely "friends across the pond" and continue through 10:00 am MST time Friday morning!

And remember.... link back to this post, you need to be registered as a follower of my blog, PG posts only, and you must visit at least 10 other posts...perhaps consider starting from the last posts and work backwards. The links will stay live after the final post deadline has passed so you can even wait and visit over the weekend or whenever you have more time.

Please link your quality "Q" post now:

The honeymoon is over!

It's official!

I've had to wait a few weeks to tell this story because I was so devastated.

Sigh.

AND...

I found out the honeymoon was over in a particularly ugly way so please prepare to read an ugly tale of woe.

It's going to be depressing.

Okay.

Here goes...

Do your remember I told you I had finally gotten a smart phone ?


Well.

The second day I got it, my son and daughter-in-law ended up loading some 'apps' onto it.

As part of the process, my son asked, "Mom, what's your password?"

"Ummmm..." I said.  "I'll just type it in myself."

I tried about 20 times to type it in and finally my son just took the phone and said, "Mom, seriously, just give me your password so I can do this for you."

I mumbled and turned red and eventually told him my password...

...which was quite mushy and involved Mr. Jenny.

Mr. Jenny was surprised.

"Wow, your password is about me?"

"Well, yeah, of course it is," I told him. 

On the way home I asked him what his password was.

He hesitated for a second...

and then told me...

THE MAKE AND MODEL OF HIS FAVORITE CAR!

HIS FAVORITE CAR!!!!!

Seriously.

He didn't use "IloveJenny" or something like that!!!!

HE USED HIS FAVORITE CAR!!!!!

Sigh.

I told you it was an ugly story.

And see what I mean?

The honeymoon is definitely over.

Grrrrr.   His favorite car!!!!   Grrrrrr.

I need to start doing some thumb exercises...

...just in case I misplace my glasses again.

 

It's allergy season here in Arizona.

 

My nightfall my contacts are burning, so I resort to my glasses...

 

...the coke bottle bottom ones.

 

Even with all the compressed blah, blah, blah materials of modern eye-glass technology they are still thick.

 

And I am still pretty blind when I don't have them.

 

I have the habit of reading when I go to bed at night to defrag from the day.

 

And I can't ever, ever go to sleep unless I do read.

 

However.

 

A few nights back I couldn't actually find my glasses.

 

I frantically patted everything around the sink and tub and couldn't locate them!  I involved Mr. Jenny in the catostrophic event!

 

Hey.   He likes it.

 

And that's what husbands are for...

 

Right?

 

After he listened to my freak out for a few minutes...

 

("OMG!  I can't find my glasses!   I can't read!   How am I going to sleep?  OMG!  OMG!")

 

...he helped me look.

 

To no avail.

 

Finally I remembered that I have a basic model, non-touch screen Kindle.   The kind you advance pages by clicking the button on the sides.

 

And it has adjustable font.

 

I let out a sigh of relief and climbed into bed.

 

Mr. Jenny lay next to me reading his own book.

 

I enlarged the font to the maximum so I could read, too.

 

(click, click, click, click, click)

 

After a few minutes Mr. Jenny looked at me in annoyance and said, "What are you doing?   Why are you wiggling so much? And what is that annoying noise?"

 

"I'm not wiggling," I replied and continued reading.

 

(click, click, click, click, click)

 

A few more minutes elapsed and he asked me again.

 

"I'm not wiggling...I'm just reading!"

 

He glanced over at the Kindle screen that I was holding about two inches away from my nose.

 

"Let me see that.  Why are the words so huge?" he asked crankily

.

 

"So I can see them to read them.   Geez." 

 

I resumed reading...

 

(click, click, click, click, click)

 

and after a few minutes I stopped.

 

"My thumb hurts," I whined. "My thumb hurts AND I can't find my glasses! And it is taking forever to get through just a paragraph!"

 

Mr. Jenny took the Kindle from my hands again.  

 

I took it back. 

 

"Just go to sleep," he said testily, "You're not reading a book.  You're reading an eye chart."

 

 

I tried reading a few more sentences

 

(click, click, click, click, click)

 

and gave up.

 

He was right, after all.

 

It was like reading an eye chart.

 

And my thumb was totally exhausted.

 

And WHO put my glasses in the drawer with the toothbrushes anyway?

 

Grrrrr.

 

Sigh.

 

Painted Alphabet - Letter P

I have some pretty little painted P's to share with you this week.

Don't get excited, though.

I didn't, actually, paint any peas.   I just painted some random things that started with the letter P.

Sad, really, because I didn't actually think of painting peas until this exact moment.

Perhaps next round!

Anyway.

In lieu of peas I do have polka dots.

Or a sign about them.

Not sure what I was thinking here but I'll share it anyway.

12" x 12"

 

I wanted to try painting a primitive plaid with this next sign.   That is two extra "P's" for this week.

 

 And I really like this last one.   The peaceful shades of green and pale blue feel like the words to me.

15" x 16"

 

Hand-painted and available in my Etsy shop...you can see the mini link at the top right of my blog or click on any picture for a link!  No stickers...no stencils...my designs.

 

This post is linked to Alphabe-Thursday's Letter P.   To read other P offerings, just click here.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

Saturday Centus - Week 150

 

Welcome to week ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY of Saturday Centus.

The prompt this week is:   "Code Red!"

 Number of words:  102.   (including the two words of the prompt)

Style of writing: Any

Additional Pictures: Any

I think I am totally caught up on reading but there are a few links I can't get onto either through my blog or through linky tools.   If I didn't visit you that's probably the reason why!

The regular restrictions apply: PG, no splitting of the prompt, play nicely and visit the other entries, any style or genre of writing you prefer. Please display my link button or just a hyper-link back to Saturday Centus. Be careful to link your SC URL to the Linky and not just link to your main blog.

E-mail me directly with ???'s or ask your question in a comment and I will do my best to get back to you as soon as possible.

Feel free to link up any time between now and next Saturday...