1-Million-Words

And just like that, it's no longer Monday... sorry, folks, but thems the breaks, right? Monday was pretty flat-out with work, and I was on dinner duty after that, and yesterday was no better! The great thing is that I finished one piece of complicated work yesterday - after having it on the go for well over a month (most of my work is 1-2 week jobs, and sometimes only a day)! You can see why I was thrilled to have it done AT LAST. I had begun to think it was never going to end! Anyway, today was supposed to be a nice bit of straight-forward work that I could finish in one day, but there was an unforeseen complication that I needed to get advice on... That has meant there is a bit of a work-around to be completed, which involves another area of my department, and I have to wait for them to do their bit before I can finish my bit, so that's dragging it out to tomorrow at least. Oh well, at least there's a solution that's doable!

And enough of my woes... how is YOUR week going? hopefully "work" (whatever it does or doesn't entail for you) has been productive, and you are getting WORDS in!

I have not done words yet again, though I did manage to make some icons a couple of weekends ago. They are lounging around, unposted, waiting for me to find time to do just that. BUT I will be counting them at least! And no, the count for April is not done yet *sigh*, but I will get to that, and another Original Fic post, soon! That, in case you missed it, is our current long challenge that runs to the end of May! Join us - we're all having fun thinking about original stories, if not actually writing any! ;-)

Big Buddies, you should be at the 22% mark of your monthly goal about now. How is that looking for you? Need any help or encouragement?

The Daily Count challengers need a mention - WOOHOO! You are all going great guns!

Your Flash Challenge for today is: "I could easily change my mind about you." courtesy of Carly Simon (10 points to anyone who can name the song!)

What else? Oh, prompts galore! Check back over the last week for ALL THE THINGS! You know by now what they are, right? All the daily words, the weekly challenges, the weekend challenge! Anything else I missed? Bound to be - so make free with our wonderful comm, and create from any and all of the prompts you like!

And that's me. I'm about to keel over, exhausted, so I think I'd better fall down before I fall down. *waves*

Here I am again, with another Monday on Tuesday (because I know some of you are still enjoying what's left of your Monday!).

The usual weekday posts have all happened, so either check out the tags or scroll back for the last week's worth of delightful prompts! Don't forget we are also but a few hours away from ending our current long challenge, Rare Pairs, so grab those last few ideas and make the muses work!

On the 16th, we start our new long challenge, which is Original Fic, hosted by none other than Yours Truly! Give me a shove if I haven't got something posted on the subject by Thursday!

Big Buddies, you should be at or close to the 50% mark of your goal by now! How are you doing? Let us know if you need some help - be it encouragement, helping paint you out of a corner, beta-reading, or just some general prompts! We are here for you! ;-)

Your Flash Challenge for today is: Balloons! Do with it as you will! Link anything you create here, if you're so inclined, so we can all see how you made our pile of words grow!

I love this time of year, as we get both Friday and Monday off work here, and then in NZ it's ANZAC Day on the 25th (like the Down-under version of Remembrance or Armistice Day), so that's two short weeks in a row, with only having to work for 3 days next week. Joy! I don't actually do anything exciting at Easter, as we are not particularly religious at my place, but we used to always do an egg-hunt, although as my youngest is 22 now, that kind of went out the window a few years back. If my grandson was in the same city, we'd probably spoil him rotten with too much chocolate, but he's not, and at 18 months old probably shouldn't be getting too much of the stuff anyway! We'll still get some choc eggs for the rest of us here though; why not?

ANZAC Day is a day of quiet reflection, and just hanging out with family; I don't go to any Dawn Parades (or later-in-the-day parades either!) any more, but I do enjoy the quietness of not working, and remembering both my grandads - my father's Dad who fought in WWI and Mum's Dad who was was in the military in WWII.

And with my extra days off, I am intending to finish the rework on my Hubby's favourite chair I that started a while back (the covering is all starting to come off and the seat wore out). The upholsterers wouldn't touch it (too 'cheap' to spend money on fixing apparently - so I figured I'd give it a go myself; it's not quite a full restoration, more like the best adaptation of one I could do myself), so hopefully it'll be useable for a few more years! Aside from that, I plan to pull out an Original Fic WiP to work on for the new long challenge, and maybe squeeze in some icons as well. Here's hoping!

How do you intend to be awesome this Easter week? Tell us in the comments!

And remember, let's be creative out there! ;-)

OK, so I am a failure this week, but I will get my act together soon! I promise! The dishwasher has been out of action for a month (one company 3x promised and 3x failed to show to fix it; I went elsewhere), but is (hopefully) fixed now (yes, I'm always skeptical till I actually run these things) - repair man came today and my son supervised (he is 22). Somehow that's my excuse for being slack... gulp, and it's my turn to cook dinner tonight and I have no idea what I'm cooking!!!! I do have some sliced (raw) chicken meat I can use, so just need to throw some things in with it and make some kind of passable meal, I suppose - HAHA! Alrighty, so you get from that how disorganised my week has been.

I throw a flash challenge at you now: Passable! Use it how you will and make words! *throws confetti and sprinkles and glitter in encouragement*

Big Buddies, you should be at about 19% of your monthly goal, so here's hoping!

I have to run for a train now, so please scroll back for all the things! Including our Rare Pairs Challenge, which is the current long challenge! DO IT! You know you want to!

Let's be creative out there! ;-)

So here we are, another week gone by already! I am writing this from the South Office of work on a nice Tuesday morning, although rain is threatening for later - I won't complain as we do need it! The last couple of years we've had plenty of rain, but 2025 is starting out a lot drier and you can tell - the grass everywhere is so brown! I just want it to end by Thursday as my family and I are off to the beach for a few days, so we'd like it to be sunny! I hope the weather is as you'd like it where you are.

How are you all doing, anyway? Our Big Buddies should be at around 39% of their goal for the month - I hope you're all there, or close to it! You still have plenty of time to make up the words, anyway. Our current Long Challenge is the WIP Push, so don't be afraid to dust off something old and start adding words (or stitches! ;-)). It'll be around till the end of Feb, so you still have a couple of weeks to participate. I'll hopefully get a new post up soon with a couple more prompts for anyone interested.

Daily Count challenge people are continuing apace! YOU GUYS ROCK! I love seeing how you're all doing, even if I don't comment!

If you need extra prompts, don't forget to scroll back over the last week's entries, or check out the tags for any of the regular items that you love! We have so many good prompts in amongst them all!

Now, your flash challenge for today is: Big & bright! I'm sure you know it's Chinese New Year (CNY) around this time of year, and we are just going into Year of the Snake - I work with a few people from China and others with Chinese ancestry, so we are being treated to a morning tea by them shortly, and I am so looking forward to all the yummy food! I chose today's flash challenge because if you know anything about CNY, there's one thing it will definitely be, and that is big and bright! You don't have to write about CNY unless you want, but I'm sure you can find a few words about the prompt, or maybe just make some pretty graphics! Link or post your fill in a comment so we can all enjoy! No word/graphic minimum or maximum!

if you haven't checked in on the recent posts with the new Long Challenge (LC) and Weekend Challenge (WC) schedules, please do so, especially if you are hosting, so you can be sure the dates I have given you will work! Even if you're not involved, the LC post will be of interest if any of the upcoming challenges look like ones you want to be involved with! You can mark them in your calendar a bit early so you can start to prep beforehand, if you want, or just so you know when they're kicking off to roll up your sleeves and get into them!

And I think that's all I have! Let's be creative out there! ;-)