Fabulous Friday, 2015-12-11

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Gun Roswell

“I understand what’s it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something” Don Cheadle

Fabulous Friday

Leaving the working week far behind
I really have no idea how I ever survived
Fabulous Friday knocking at the door
Awaiting to carry me to a different shore

A glittering sequin dress, a pair of high heels
This is as good as it gets and feels
Leave your sad face and the bad place
Awaited Fabulous Friday is finally here

Prancing, dancing
Singing, winning
There is no stopping us
Well, not at least until the bus
Has arrived to take us home

Black Friday Finland Style (Repost for Quote A Week Tuesday)

Posted on December 8, 2015 by Gun Roswell

Posted in the Fabulous Friday series: “Black Friday Finland Style”
Humour, Dialogue, Poetry
In honour of the month of November

“I hope your Black Friday injuries aren’t so severe that you can’t click a mouse on Cyber Monday.”

Black Friday Finland Style

“Bright light, bright light!”

“Oh my God, what is that?”

“Holy hell, is it a flying saucer?”

The masses had come out from their homes and workplaces staring and pointing up at the unidentified bright light high up in the sky. Some rumours had circulated, stating Finland had fallen under attack by UFOs.

In the corner of the street, a lonesome believer was preaching:

“The end of the world as we know it, is upon us!”
That day, was the first day of the month March.
Several months earlier

It was the beginning of October. The land had fallen under darkness. As if an evil warlock had cast a spell. Sour faces all around, no expressions, as if away blurred. Hardly any sound could be heard. People on the streets, dragging their feet. The lust for life, all sucked out.
First of March

An unidentified source of light had appeared in the skies.

“The sun”, someone said, as the onlookers stood before her, bewildered.

“It is called the sun” she stated again with a smile.

But the other just shook their heads in disbelief.

Still, turning their collective faces towards “the sun”. And, as by a wave of a magic wand, the crowd closed their eyes in unison and enjoyed that sacred moment. A collective sigh of content was the only sound heard.

For who knew, how long this would last…

Fabulous Friday, Ode to my Red Shoes

Posted on December 4, 2015 by Gun Roswell

Posted in the Friday series “Fabulous Friday”

“Shoes are like Chocolate, there is always room for more”

Fabulous Friday, Ode to my Red Shoes

Put on your red shoes
Forget the weekly blues
Listen to your muse
Time for new news
On this joyous of days
On Fabulous Friday

Fabulous Friday or Ode to my Shiny Golden Shoes

Posted on December 4, 2015 by Gun Roswell

Rantings Of A Third Kind

Posted in the Friday series “Fabulous Friday”

“We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be?” Marianne Williamson

Fabulous Friday or Ode to my Shiny Shoes

My shiny golden shoes
No time for the blues
Singing and dancing
In my shoes of fancy

My lovely golden shoes
Act as some kind of muse
They might be flashy
But I feel quite dashy

I may not be Howard Hughes
And I don’t need any booze
With minimal financing
I am out celebrating

Thank Goodness
For Fabulous Fridays!

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Black Friday Finland Style

Posted on November 28, 2015 by Gun Roswell

Posted in the Fabulous Friday series: “Black Friday Finland Style”
Humour, Dialogue, Poetry
In honour of the month of November

“I hope your Black Friday injuries aren’t so severe that you can’t click a mouse on Cyber Monday.”

Black Friday Finland Style

“Bright light, bright light!”

“Oh my God, what is that?”

“Holy hell, is it a flying saucer?”

In the corner of the street, a lonesome believer was preaching:

“The end of the world as we know it, is upon us!”
That day, was the first day of the month March.
Several months earlier

An unidentified source of light had appeared in the skies.

“The sun”, someone said, as the onlookers stood before her, bewildered.

“It is called the sun” she stated again with a smile.

But the other just shook their heads in disbelief.

For who knew, how long this would last…

Fabulous Friday or Ode to my Shiny Golden Shoes

Posted on November 20, 2015 by Gun Roswell

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Fabulous Friday or Ode to my Shiny Golden Shoes

Posted on November 20, 2015 by Gun Roswell

Posted in the Friday series “Fabulous Friday”

“We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be?” Marianne Williamson

Fabulous Friday or Ode to my Shiny Shoes

My shiny golden shoes
No time for the blues
Singing and dancing
In my shoes of fancy

My lovely golden shoes
Act as some kind of muse
They might be flashy
But I feel quite dashy

I may not be Howard Hughes
And I don’t need any booze
With minimal financing
I am out celebrating

Thank Goodness
For Fabulous Fridays!

Writing 101, Day Fourteen: Recreate a single day

Posted on November 20, 2015 by Gun Roswell

In honour of the month November
&
Ordinary Days: A one week series with ordinary day photos and happenings (if any 😉 )
&
Photography and Poetry

Writing 101, Day Fourteen: Recreate a single day

Setting limits on your writing can be both liberating and productive, as you may have noticed in Day 1’s timed free-write and yesterday’s word count exercise. Let’s incorporate a different restriction: write a post that takes place during one single day.

It might seem hard, at first, to tell a compelling story with such a limited temporal horizon: you have no recourse to flashbacks, backstory, or foreshadowing (unless it’s in reference to something about to take place that same day). But the narrow confines of one single day will encourage you to zoom in on rich, telling details.

But remember: recreating a single day doesn’t automatically mean describing every detail. This assignment is very much about editing — and focusing on the right details.

How will you use 24 hours as your story’s canvas? Here are examples:

* Start in the middle of the action, then zig and zag through time, from the moment you woke up to the last thing that happened before you retired for the night.

* Structure your story as a play-by-play (or hour-by-hour) account, complete with precise time markers.

* Zoom in even further, limiting yourself to just one hour of your chosen day.

* Ignore these instructions and reveal one day’s significance indirectly, through focusing on its aftermath

“Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary” Gerard Way

Writing 101, Day Fourteen: Recreate a single day

For this particular assingment, I decided to go with a completely different approach. I have kind of had a head start for the overall idea of “recreating a single day” since Monday.

I am running a trial of posts this under the theme of “Ordinary Days”, where I am capturing the events of the day in few simple sentences accompanied by daily photos taken during each day. The trial itself was a good idea, unfortunately my life, as it turns out is filled with more work than ever! But still, well worth the while the effort 😉

Maybe Friday will bring a change, since it is after, fabulous!

… And watch out for today’s post for Fabulous Friday

Fabulous Friday, 2015-10-30

Posted on October 30, 2015 by Gun Roswell

Posted in the Friday series “Fabulous Friday”

“If you see me on Friday, you’ll see different material on Saturday night” Kathy Griffin

Fabulous Friday, 2015-10-30

Fabulous Friday has arrived
Giving it a big high five day

Early morning, early rise
A gorgeous sunrise
The air cool and crisp
Leaves covered with frost
With the moon peaking out
Time to holler, time to shout

The nature dressed
With colours of red
Sunshine reflected
On each surface
The flaring colours
The autumn odors

The last Friday of October
Truly has been a rock-tober

Absolutely Fabulous

Posted on October 23, 2015 by Gun Roswell

Posted in the Friday series “Fabulous Friday”

An homage to the absolutely hilarious TV comedy; Absolutely Fabulous,
starring Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley

 ”Darling, if you want to talk bollocks and discover the meaning of life, you’re better off downing a bottle of whiskey. At least that way, you’re unconscious by the time you start to take yourself seriously.” Patsy

Absolutely Fabulous

Absolutely fabulous laughs
Absolutely fabulous cast
Absolutely fabulous show
I watched it several times or more
So, I really should know!

From a fan’s point of view
Of us, there are quite a few!
And we all are
Utterly sensational
Positively radiant
Happily glorious
And Abso-freaking-lutely
Fabulous too