creative prompts prompt me to be creative.

i borrowed this from Farmer's Wife cuz what better way to force yourself to write than to answer someone elses writing prompts!? She got these prompts from Mama's Losin' It

1.) Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page and share two "teaser" sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.

"You really can heal," John exclaimed.
"Well, the sniffles are easy," Joshua said. "A little mucus is nothing against the power of the Lord."
"Would -- would you mind?" John said, lifting up his tunic and showing his bare privates, which were covered with sores and greenish scales.
"Cover, please cover!" I yelled. "Drop the shirt and step away!"
"That's disgusting," Joshua said.
"Am I unclean? I've been afraid to ask my father, and I can't go to a Pharisee, not with my father being a priest. I think it's from standing in the water all of the time. Can you heal me?"
(I have to say here that I believe that this was the first time Joshua's little sister Miriam ever saw a man's privates. She was only six at the time, but the experienc so frightened her that she never married. The last time anyone heard from her, she had cut her hair short, put on men's clothes, and moved to the Greek island of Lesbos. But that was later.)

From my favourite book "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal"


2.) What do you aspire to be?

Growing up i only ever wanted to be one thing... A Famous Singer. So much so that i went to school at the university for music, majoring in Voice. I sang in a few Operas, in the chorus, and i was in a band in Calgary for a while, B-rad and i still dabble and the odd time we write a few more lines to a song here or there (in between dirty diapers and naptimes, that is). I still have the dream, although a close runner up is to be a writer. I used to write all kinds of stories when i was growing up and my mom told me recently that she was surprised that i went into music and not english.

3.)Share a piece of unsolicited parenting advice...only I'm soliciting it.

Don't stress the small things. Okay, so maybe he dumped his cereal on the floor for the umpteenth time and pulled everything out of the diaper bag...again... and maybe he is screaming at the top of his lungs for no reason whatsoever... but before you know it he'll be going to school, then one day he won't want to hug you in public or hold your hand, or cuddle, one day he'll go to high school and you may only get one word answers for the next 4 years... and one day he may go to college and meet someone and get married...

enjoy every moment because they'll be over before you know it.

4.)Tell us about your blogline...how long have you been blogging, when did you start, what were/are your goals for your blog, etc.

"the cutest little blog on the internet" ...well, when i was in highschool someone made me a very awesome gift. I was dating someone really awful at the time, who treated me terribly, made me feel that i was ugly or fat, or not worth being kind to. I mostly hid that part of our relationship cuz on the outside we seemed happy enough. Anyway, i was given a drawing. It said: "You are a beautiful person, Laura". I made me very happy. I put it up in my bedroom, next to the lightswitch where i was sure to see it everyday... and over time - reading it everyday, i began to believe it. It slowly built me up... piece by piece until i actually believed that i was worth being treated better than the way Dickface was treating me. Eventually, i ended it - for good. My own personal life line. So, the tag line is to remind me everyday that i'm worth something.

"Saucy Brunettes of the World Unite" is because i'm brunette, and saucy, and it seemed to go with the Pin Up.


5.)If you had 5000 dollars to give away or donate to a charity...explain what you would do with it and why.

I think i would give it to the Children's Hospital fund here in my city, to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, to be specific. The NICU was so great to us, but we were very nearly sent away to either Edmonton or even to Minot, North Dakota, because there weren't enough spots in the hospital we were at. We were extremely lucky that Chewie was born at 12:53 and they happened to send someone from NICU home that day at 3. Not that $5,000 would do a whole lot, but it would hopefully at least purchase an isolette. Or some equipment, or a pumping machine or two.