Note sure what the folks over at the Daily Prompt were smoking this morning! Today’s suggestion is: Click over to your favorite blog, and pick out the 4th and 14th words (that aren’t “the” or “an”). Drop them into this phrase:
“_____ is the new _____.”
There’s your post title. Now write!
I’ve had a long day. First day back at work after three months leave. No easing back in. I decided the only way to quit the quiet DOMESTIC life of my leave of absence was cold turkey. It’s not as though my job is physically taxing like, say, hanging drywall. But it can be mentally exhausting. Today it was that in spades. You know those days when you aren’t sure you really want to be a grownup? Then I made a dash after work to visit an elderly friend who is in hospital recovering from major surgery. Then another dash to pick up my daughter. And, well, I’m tired.
And now the flying devil creatures in Daily Promptland are asking me to choose my favourite (stubbornly spelled the Canadian way) blog! What next? Are you going to ask me which of my children I love the most? What kind of loser do you take me for?
My “favourite” blog is a moving target. My taste is very eclectic. Maybe I’m fickle. But seriously, I’m hard pressed to choose which was my favourite blog of the last 24 hours, let along my favourite blog period! The options are too luscious, the well too deep!
But in spite of my fatigue, and in spite of my pique over today’s prompt, I won’t put off my next blog post until Saturday. I refuse to be beaten by this devilish prompt! So I cheated. I seeded my post with links to MANY of my favourites-of-the-moment. Not an exhaustive list by any means, but as good a representative smattering as you’re going to get on the few brain cells left at my disposal this evening.
I tend to prefer to write my titles at the conclusion of the writing process, after I’ve figured out what it was I had to say. So yes, I cheated again. I found the title in another of my current favourites, after writing out most of my little snit, and couldn’t believe my good fortune at how apt it was.
Feeling at home in the vast and varied blogosphere. Many is the new domestic.
Muddy River Muse 
Brilliant! Thanks for the nod. 🙂
BB
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Awww thanks for the link! ❤
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I was off work for 5 weeks this summer because of illness and then back for two weeks half time. And it was overwhelming to get back into the swing of things. Cold turkey may be the best way though. The two weeks I worked half time were nice because I could nap in the afternoon, but no one helped me with the work that was piling up while I did that. Be kind to yourself though, putting in a full day and then racing around sounds pretty hectic.
Well yes, it is well established that I am my own worst enemy!
Day two was just as hectic, I’m afraid, but it ended with dinner and theatre with a good friend, so that helped!
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