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My smile:
Last night I had a new aide and she smilingly gave me my shower. Some times I don’t get one at all or if I do the aide is grumpy as all get out. Last night was a pleasure.
Tessa –
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
New Author’s Website – http://www.tessadeanauthor.wordpress.com
Author – Old Writing – http://www.finallyawriter.wordpress.com
About my life – http://www.tessacandoit.wordpress.com
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Here are this week’s questions:
1. Do you have a favourite movie you never tire of watching? I would say there are a few. One of them is “Sound of Music.”
2. Do you have a favourite song or special song as a couple? My ex and I never had a song per se.
3. How do you relax in the evenings? Reading or writing mainly. I rarely watch TV.
4. Do you celebrate special birthdays or anniversaries? My family has pretty much stopped celebrating birthdays and anniversaries. Which is fine with me since I hate shopping for gifts and now I don’t have the money to shop for gifts.
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Tessa –
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
New Author’s Website – http://www.tessadeanauthor.wordpress.com
Author – Old Writing – http://www.finallyawriter.wordpress.com
About my life – http://www.tessacandoit.wordpress.com
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Your three words today are:
JUVENILE
JINX
JAUNT
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The residents here might be in the age range of 62 to 99, but most of them act very juvenile. They are frequently throwing temper tantrums just like children do.
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Tessa –
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
New Author’s Website – http://www.tessadeanauthor.wordpress.com
Author – Old Writing – http://www.finallyawriter.wordpress.com
About my life – http://www.tessacandoit.wordpress.com
Fandango’s Rules For the One Word Challenge
Welcome to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (U.S.).
Today’s word is “righteous.”
Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.
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I felt righteous indignation as I watched the residents who did not follow the rules and come to dinner on our seating. Every day, three times a day, they come to the first sitting for the meals and they are supposed to be at the second sitting. Some of the people don’t feel that the rules pertain to them. And when they are told their response is that nobody told them which is a downright lie. The staff is tired of telling them so they let them get away with it and it really makes me mad. Why have rules if you aren’t going to enforce them? Some of the staff will force them to leave, but when they can get away with it, they do. Watching them get away with it really ruins my meal for me. I believe strongly that rules should be enforced.
Tessa –
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
New Author’s Website – http://www.tessadeanauthor.wordpress.com
Author – Old Writing – http://www.finallyawriter.wordpress.com
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Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “What’s that smell?” Write the first thing that comes to mind. Enjoy!
A recent smell permeating the area of the corridor I live on was rank. It took them a while to pin down whose apartment it was coming from. Eventually, they came across one of the residents who had an accident and was sitting in a pile of her own excrement. She had no idea that it had happened. She was on her way downhill, and that was just one of the things that had happened to her. She had to be cleaned up, and it took a while for the smell to go away. Sadly she passed away a few weeks later. We knew she was slipping mentally, but we had no idea she had physical issues. The staff wasn’t allowed to tell us what was going on.
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Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “loan/lone.” Use them any way you’d like. Bonus points if you use both. Have fun!
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Tessa –
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
New Author’s Website – http://www.tessadeanauthor.wordpress.com
Author – Old Writing – http://www.finallyawriter.wordpress.com
About my life – http://www.tessacandoit.wordpress.com
Natalie’s Guidelines and newest post is here.
Thanks to Natalie, the Explorer, for hosting this prompt.
Grab a chair and something to drink. If you were here, I would tell you that I am working diligently on my prompts that I write and post to my blog. They are slowly getting longer than just a few sentences. I write a lot of flash fiction and short stories. I am spending more time working on the memoir. I don’t expect to publish the memoir as I am simply writing it more as a way to express my feelings in words. It isn’t something that I would like to publish because it would end up hurting my family, but it is real to me and so I need to get it out. There are a couple of people I might let read it once it is done, but it is not for public consumption. I did publish what I thought was a memoir on my blog, but the editor told me that it was more like an autobiography. I have had people read it though and it is still there on my old blog. If you go to www.tessacandoit.wordpress.com and go to the top of the page and select “Government Property – A Memoir of A Military Wife” from the pages up there it will link to the one the editor called an autobiography. It is interesting on it’s own, but doesn’t contain the upsetting part of my life.
The food around here is getting worse. I can’t eat most of it, and I am losing weight, which is a good thing, but not a healthy way of doing it. Our meal the other day was 2 oven fried pierogies that were rock hard and the potato inside was powdery. And we only had a piece of kielbasa, no roll. That was the whole meal. So all I could eat was the meat. That is not even a meal if it had been cooked correctly. They are supposed to work within the different patient’s diets, but that doesn’t happen either.
Mother’s Day I was alone, but the day before, I received a package from my son containing a wreath for my door and then my daughter and granddaughter showed up with my groceries and hung the wreath for me and gave me an Amazon gift card. My other daughter finally texted me at the end of the night. At least I heard from her eventually.
My one and only granddaughter, graduated from College before she graduated from high school. They had a special program where she could take college courses along with her high school courses. She graduated with an Associates Degree and will start in the fall as a Junior. We are definitely proud of her. She worked hard for that degree.
Things are changing around the facility I live in and some of them are good and some of them are not so good. Just have to roll with the punches.
Tessa –
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
New Author’s Website – http://www.tessadeanauthor.wordpress.com
Author – Old Writing – http://www.finallyawriter.wordpress.com
About my life – http://www.tessacandoit.wordpress.com
Here are the prompts for this week’s Writer’s Workshop:
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I chose prompt number 1 and 4.
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Oh No, Not Again!
Tessa Dean May 2024
I stared out the window, trying to ignore what my boyfriend was cooking up. I didn’t want to even see what he was making because I knew it was the same thing we ate every day and I could no longer stand to eat it. I was going to have to tell him and he wouldn’t understand since he didn’t mind eating the same thing everyday.
I turned around from the view out the window and cleared my throat. “I don’t know how to tell you this, but I can’t eat the macaroni and cheese another time. I am sick to death of it. I can’t force it down one more time. I dread even seeing the box because I know how it is going to taste. How can you eat this every day?”
He simply stared at me. What’s wrong with it? I love it and don’t mind eating it every day and it is easy to make to boot!”
I just groaned.
Tessa –
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
New Author’s Website – http://www.tessadeanauthor.wordpress.com
Author – Old Writing – http://www.finallyawriter.wordpress.com
About my life – http://www.tessacandoit.wordpress.com
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Your three words today are:
RIBBONS
BOWS
STREAMERS
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Bridal and Baby Showers
By Tessa Dean May 2024
A tradition, in America anyhow, is at the baby or bridal shower, a hat is made from a paper plate, and all the ribbons, bows, and streamers from the presents and decorations. The the bride-to-be or the mother-to-be wears the hat while everyone takes pictures.
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Tessa –
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
New Author’s Website – http://www.tessadeanauthor.wordpress.com
Author – Old Writing – http://www.finallyawriter.wordpress.com
I don’t know exactly how many years I have been participating in the one-liner Wednesday prompt, but it has been over 5 years or more. A couple of those years I stopped writing completely and the rest were ones I participated in. See below for today’s entry.
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The food served in this facility is awful, so awful in fact, that I have lost 13 pounds in less than 2 months.
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Tessa –
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
New Author’s Website – http://www.tessadeanauthor.wordpress.com
Author – Old Writing – http://www.finallyawriter.wordpress.com
About my life – http://www.tessacandoit.wordpress.com
Rules for the Word of the Day Challenge:
Today’s word of the day is SUMMER.
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The heat is too much for me. I hate summer and my skin hates it as well as I simply fry in the sun. During my honeymoon I had a major sunburn that turned into sun poisoning. I lost layer after layer of skin and it oozed with wetness. It also hurt so bad that I couldn’t even come out in the sun. I spent most of my honeymoon in the room in the air conditioning.To this day I can’t spend more than 15 minutes in the sun and that is with protection of a high degree slathered on thickly.
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Tessa –
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
New Author’s Website – http://www.tessadeanauthor.wordpress.com
Author – Old Writing – http://www.finallyawriter.wordpress.com
About my life – http://www.tessacandoit.wordpress.com
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