day 13 writing prompt challenge

cute

I love cute, pink and white are my fav colours, and I love all the cute things you can get in both.

I guess the best thing I can do with this prompt is share some pictures of things I think are cute.

day 12 writing prompt challenge

Pasta

I love pasta, creamy tomato and herb pasta, chicken and mushroom pasta, lasagne, spag bowl, oh the list goes on and on and on.

I could eat pasta every day of my life, and never get bored of it.

my fav pasta meals are:

Lasagne, spag bowl, tuna pasta and chicken and mushroom pasta.

The things I love about pasta, is it is very filling, relatively good for you if you watch the calories in your sauce, and don't add to much cheese, and very quick and easy to prepare.

It's also really nice meal when there weather is pretty hot, and in some cases can be enjoyed cold, such as tuna pasta.

other than that I really don't know what else to say on this prompt, except, repeating that I love pasta lol.

day 11 writing prompt challenge

The good old days

I remember how free, and exciting things could seem when I was younger, I remember running wild in the fields near our homes, building hidden den's, and creating all kinds of fun games with the simple use of imagination.

I often feel sad at all the kids of today are missing out on, so engrossed in TV, and Game consoles, it often feels as if they are missing out on the wonders that are deep within themselves, needing quality graphics and others imagination to get there kicks.

They grow up so fast too, seem to have less interest in books, and outside play, and when they are outside, they seem to have one thing and one thing only on there minds.

Creating havoc.

My son has yet to be allowed to play a game console, he is only 4 years old, soon to be 5 and I don't want a computer game to become his be all and end all, I also limit the amount of TV he watches, so that he spends time learning to use his imagination.

I want my son to enjoy being outside exploring and playing in the same way I did, and not locked away in his room, eyes glued to a TV screen while he battles pix-elated monsters.

Sometimes though I wonder if i am doing the right thing, or if I should just let him follow the norm for his generation.

I'd love to know what other people think.

love and hugs Joss xx

day 10 writing prompt challenge

Things I will never understand...

Wow! this could be such an extensive list lol, so I am going to just list 3 random things that I will never get.

The first of course has to be watching car racing on TV, any kind that involves a track that they just go round over and over again.

The sort of thing my husband is currently watching as I write this, lol. I could get going to a race to watch, because you get the noise, the excitement, and the buzz of the crowd, and I can get actually being into doing it as a sport, but I do not get sitting there watching cars, going around and around a track over and over again, I don't see how this can be exciting, entertaining, or in anyone fun or interesting and sometimes I wonder if my husband finds it any of those things either as the majority of the time he full a sleep watching it lol.

I think it would make more sense to just tune in for the highlights and results, and don't bother with the rest lol.

the second thing I thing I will never understand is people who put things, such as cars, boats, work or even pets, before the own kids, wife or husband. Don't get me wrong I love my pets but if my dog bit my son, I know which one would be going and it wouldn't be my son, but there are people out there who will keep a dog, despite the fact that it has bit there child time and time again, in some cases does so on a daily basis, and although it may just be nips and not serious bites, or snapped warnings, what's to say the next snap won't be a deadly snap.

I will never understand a person who hires a nanny to care for their children, so they can go shop and socialise and climb the ladder of popularity, while never getting to know there own child, or the person who works and works, not because they have to, but because they want to, neglecting the people who love them most in the process.

I think family should always come first, your partner and your son and so people like this, I just cannot understand them.

and finely, I cannot understand single parents who meet a man they barely know and put them before there own kids, to the extent that they turn a blind eye to any abuse that person inflicts on their child.

that is just plain wrong.

what things can you not understand ?

Day 9 writing prompt challenge

Just adding to the problems

Okay, so today's prompt was irritations, and something that has really been bothering me lately, is a man that I have met on the game second life.

Now this person runs a sim on second life, that is designed around a real life place, and all over his sim he has signs asking for people to become vip's, (which basically means, you rent a property with barely any prims, prims are needed to furnish and home, and pray twice the amount you would pay on any other sim) So I decided to become a VIP, because the sim was cute, its was one of very few I had found that represented a place in my country, and I wanted to do something worth while.

On top of renting and becoming a VIP I offered to help him with anything he needed help with. Now the owner of this sim will tell you how bad everything is, and how they need to bring in more money to pay the tier, yet things are out of date on the sim, the guide to the sim have landmarks that are incorrect making it impossible for people to find the things they are looking for, and the biggest killer is the fact that he charges for things that people can get for free else where.

with work the sim could be great and could be bringing people in very easily, but the owner wants people to change to suite his sim, instead of changing himself, in order for his sim to suit others, and the result, people come, but quickly go again.

His current main interest is spending hours and hours developing a new item that A) doesn't even fit the theme of the sim, but is just something that is his own prefrence B) isn't free unless you are a VIP so is highly unlikely to ever be actually used by anyone, and C) needs a bigger space than just one sim to really enjoy it.

in short he is draining more money creating things that will not be used, money that he should be putting towards tier to save the sim, than he is in promoting the sim, and fixing the more important problems.

he also has rules that are keeping people away in the most important way. On second life, for girls a facelight helps make the avatar look a whole lot more realistic, but he has band facelights from his club, this is were the people who do go to the sim can gather together and socialise and is one of the biggest attractions for the sim, but because of his strict rules, people don't want to come, and his only reason for banning them, is that he doesn't want people looking at others facelights, and ignoring his own lights.

I have come to the conclusion that there is no saving this sim, if he can not open his eyes to how badly he is destroying it, and can't bring himself to do the work that needs doing, and relax on the rules.

As a landlord he is terrible also, not being quick to react or giving you away to eject people from your home, meaning your home becomes a highway for anyone who fancies strolling on threw or sitting on your furniture for hours on end.

being on that sim has really been the worst rental experience of my life, and not one I plan to repeat in a hurry.

I guess sometimes, there is just no helping people, not if they can't look past what they want, and see what the people they are meant to be catering too want.

It's horrible to think a sim that could be great will be lost, but what can you do.

ok rant over lol.

day 8 writing prompt challenge

prayer boxes

I was reading a really good book recently called redeeming love by Francine Rivers (brilliant book, one of the best books I have ever read.)

Well in the book one of Angel's friends shows her a prayer box that she has made from an old hat box. She has basically cut a slot in the top and whenever she has something she needs to pray for she just write it down on a piece of paper and drops it inside.

Then ever so often she'll open the box go through select a few at random and if God as answered her prayer she removes it from the box.

When reading the book this really hit me as a great idea, especially because when you were feeling low you would be able to go to the box, and by looking at the prayers and seeing how many had been answered by God, help yourself to feel a little better, and also help remind yourself that God answers all your prayers eventually, maybe not in the way you hoped, but in the way that is right, and that would help you to pray to God with your current problems and be able to feel certain again that God loves you and is watching over you.

So I will be starting my own prayer box as soon as my new, very pink and very cute hat box arrives I can't wait.

Really I think you could use all kinds of boxes for this, perhaps even a cute bag or something like that, what ever you use I think it is a great way to pray.

day 7 of writing prompt challenge (actually its 8 but i forgot to do one yesterday so doing two today lol)

volcanoes of opportunity

Okay, so today's prompt is volcanoes, and reading up about this I discovered that one of the things, many women long for the

most, comes from volcanoes, Yes you guessed it, or maybe you didn't lol, Diamonds.

so lets give you the basics of what happens to make Diamonds, so first of all you gotta drop down through the earth's crust, that what you're stood on. Don't worry, I'm not going to make you dig, just imagine it lol.

so you go down through the crust into what is called the mantle, and your going to want to go down about a hundred miles, maybe even more, into the mantle; (WARNING!! Don't go to deep, cause you'll hit the core, and the surface of the core, is as hot as the surface of the sun and I have it on good authority, that even imaginary people struggle with that kind of heat.) any who, once you are down in the mantle find yourself some carbon, that getting it's atoms crushed, cause when Carbons gets it's atoms crushed it forms into a new lattice like structure. (sounds pretty already doesn't it)

Now make sure your imaginary person has some real good protective clothing on, because it's gonna need to be about 15 hundred degrees for this to work, and make sure they've taken their vitamins too, cause the pressure needed, would feel something like 4000 men standing on your foot.

If you know 4000 men you could give this a try, but it might be better if you let your imaginary person be the test dummy here too. Wow! we're really putting these little imaginary people through a lot today aren't we.

Okay, so if all that went well, then we should, in theory have diamonds that are just waiting to get to the surface.

Remember there like a hundred miles down still.

But that's okay, because with the help of some kimberlite, lets call it Kim for practicality, we can force it to the surface pretty quickly. See, Kim is sat down there under the earth too, but Kim's a type of volcanic rock that doesn't like to much pressure, I know how she feel's, so a bit like us, when it get's too much, and the pressure builds and builds Kim need's to let it out. So she forces her way up through the mantle creating a pipe up to the surface, that's filled with molten rock, mantle fragments and diamonds, and she goes rushing all the way up to the surface, hits the crust, smashes through it and to let everyone know she's there and not happy she violently erupts, spewing molten rock (lava) everywhere, and diamonds, too.

Shame there has to be the whole molten rock part in there, be nicer if it just rained diamonds, actually maybe no,t cause their pretty hard those diamonds, and one of them on the head, especially if it was a big one wouldn't be all that pleasant.

So our diamonds are ready to be dug up, once Kim's cooled down, but they don't look like the picture above or the one below when the reach the surface. cause that would make things way to easy lol.

no they look like the picture below, and this has to be cut into the cute diamonds, in the first picture, and then inserted into jewellery and such like in the second picture above.

So next time you hear a volcano has erupted pray no one is hurt and think of all the new diamonds that might have just been scattered onto the surface of the earth thanks to our friend Kim lol.