Elbowglitter

Today’s Holidailies prompt: “Where would you most like to be right now, in this moment?”
When I read that this morning, my answer was “Still in bed, sleeping.  Or reading a book.”
Then the internet broke.  Then work exploded.  Then I just wanted to be anywhere but in the office.
For the most part, I’m usually pretty content [...]

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Today’s Holidailies prompt is simply “Home Alone.”  Of course my mind first went to the movie.  I loved that movie as a kid, as did a lot of my generation, I think.  I mean, what could be better?  A kid gets left alone (scary) and when burglars try to break in, he uses all sorts [...]

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Today’s Holidailies Prompt is “Write the family holiday newsletter that you’ve never dared to send.”
The “never dared to send” part makes me think that this newsletter should be R rated or something.  But that sort of negates the “family” part of it, doesn’t it.  Maybe just add a lot of swearing and some mindless violence [...]

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Today’s Holidailies prompt is “Your Most Memorable Feast.”
I like food.  A lot.  I can’t say that I’ve had any super fancy feasts though.  But the one that immediately springs to mind involves Turducken.
Yes.  Turducken.  Concentric poultry, as my friends like to call it.
During college, Turducken somehow became a running joke among my group of friends.  [...]

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When I was little, it seemed like Christmas couldn’t come soon enough.  Those weeks and months dragged on FOREVER.  This pretty much went on until I went to college, when it felt like Christmas sort of fell on top of me.  Where did the time go?  It couldn’t be Christmas already, could it?
At the time, [...]

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