One day a great wizard cast an enchantment upon a princess hoping to lure her to his realm. Finally, she arrived. The wizard came down from his tower to greet her with his very best pick up line. Sadly, it was something obnoxious he had picked up from the guy who cleaned the dungeon. So she left.
Once upon a time the charming prince met the beautiful princess. He invited her to the grandest ball at his sparkling palace. He bought a new horse and chariot to pick her up for the ball. Sadly, he was stopped for speeding, taken into the police station for all his unpaid parking and speeding fines and never did get to have that first date with the princess. She did meet his younger brother and they got along well and lived fairly happily ever after.
Your turn. Write a short fairy tale, with a twist.
I feel like I'm not quite living on the planet along with everyone else these days. I'm daydreaming more cause they are such simple things. Instant pleasure, no complications and completely under my own control. (I can do all kinds of things with Keanu and he is quite happy about it all).
In reality... I have bills stacking up (I don't owe anything as of this month but next month they will all slide together and start attacking me). I don't have any income. Which is really bothering me as far as that whole bill paying thing.
Can you believe a Keanu Reeves movie just came on?.. Sure I'm watching the Space Station, have been most of the night. But what an odd coincidence. He always has good timing in my daydreams too.
Anyway, back to reality. I have the option (if I can figure it out) to retrain and have the course paid for. I have to figure out where the course I want to take is and how long I can manage to go back to school. Not just time and money but the fact of being back at school when I'm about to turn 44.
There's another little dose of reality, 44. Not just a double digit but repeating itself. Would be ok if it were 33, that doesn't seem so bad. I can't hide from my birthday now that it is nearly December.
I really don't like job hunting. But, there isn't another way to get another job. I really don't know how I can do another customer service job. I'm so burnt out on all of that. Just makes me cringe to think about doing all that again for another company, another location and through the Barrie winter too. Bus rides are just not that popular when the snow is up past your knees and the bus routes tend to get shut down each time it snows really hard.
In general I'm dreading having to make all these decisions. Still have the excuse of gathering the facts. But that can't go on for much longer.
Whatever happens will happen though and I will be here to see it. Sometimes you can pretend you are just on the sidelines to your own life and look at it with the nice shiny rose coloured glasses. Makes it a lot easier and saves you extra stress. I do that a lot. Keanu doesn't mind.
There are times when he looks pretty scruffy, pretty ordinary or not even that good. There are times when he looks like your brother, nice but a goof cause you know him too well and all the mystery is gone. There are times when he looks like a movie star and a leading man. But, there is something about Keanu and no matter what other manbots come along he is still the main manbot and I still just like something about him, more than just the way he looks.
On Flickr: Keanu Reeves and Loving Keanu Reeves.
You've eaten the wrong mushroom. But, there's another one on the table along with a sign that says "eat me". Do you eat it? You really have no idea if it will kill you, cure you or do something totally in between. How does it end up?
Getting into the paranormal romance genre... if you were a were-creature what kind would you be? There seem to be so many to choose from. The traditional werewolf has gotten a lot of company: werecats, weredragons, werebears... If you were half human and half animal what would your other half be? Once you decide create a world around you. What kind of world does your were-creature live in?