Well, my mom sounded like maybe she'd respond to the Pet Peeve challenge, but I haven't heard yet, so I guess I'll just keep checking it as we move on. I wonder what pet she was going to come up with? The only animals I remember at their place in recent years are squirrels and birds in the yard.... But they've probably got some peeves to share about them!
Thanks for all the great responses... most real, one imaginary. You all did a great job!
Let's see how you do at this.... Pretend for a moment that you ARE your pet. And that the assignment has just been reversed. Pick a pet (it can be the one you wrote about but doesn't absolutely have to be) and tell what about your owner (this would be YOU, of course, or a member of the owning family) -- you (the pet) find very annoying. What do you wish they'd do, or not do , or consider, to make your life easier? What are your, uh, Human Peeves?
If you don't have a pet, you can always use your imaginary one again. (This assignment will require some imagination anyway!) Or you can reach into the past and give voice to a former pet.
Your response might look something like this:
I am Stormie, a poodle, and I belong to Dee Dee and her family. I just wish they'd let me sleep on the bed. Everyone else around here gets to!
Okay, pets ..... it's your turn. Tell your masters what to write ......
Okay, we'll switch gears a little. All those of you who have been ducking your heads under water until the poetry is over, you can come up now!
But before you read this week's challenge, can you please do us a favor? if you will look around the upper right corner of the page, you will see a place where you can let us know what kind of writing challenges you kind of prefer. Can you go vote on that and then come back? Blogmarm, and the young Blogglings who help her out, will wait right here.
Now that you've given us your vote (or at least tried to.... if cyberspace or your computer doesn't want to cooperate with you for some reason, you are excused), .....
I'd like to hear about your pet peeves.
Wait, it isn't that easy. Your PET peeves. In other words, what does your dog do that drives you NUTS? How does your goldfish act that makes no sense at all? Be sure you tell us your pet's name, what kind of animal, and what the baffling habit is.
Oh, and don't worry if you have no pets. Or if your pet is perfect and simply never peeves you. You're not off the hook. (Thought you were, huh?)You get to tell us about an imaginary pet. It might be your pet - oh, I don't know - walrus. Picture the big fella, name him, and decide what strange or irritating behavior you might have to contend with, if he were really yours. Consider it a very-mini-novel for us to read.
And if you just feel like picking an imaginary pet instead of your own trusty-true Fido (maybe you don't want to publicly embarrass him : ), that's okay, too. Hopefully we'll be able to tell the difference between the non-fiction reports and the works of literary art. (So if you go fictional, you might as well make your pet far-fetched, to help us out!)Okay, peeves, anyone?
It can be .....
a declaration of love or some other feeling or state of mind...
a marriage proposal...a math or logic problem...
an observation... a poem or song, or neither...something that rhymes, or doesn't....
a question or riddle...
long or short....profound wisdom....
sheer fun....But it HAS to contain 4, 8, 12, 16 (multiples of 4) lines....
It HAS to be original (except where it obviously isn't, if that makes any sense)...,
and It HAS to start with these two words:
"Roses are...."
Have fun.
Oh, and Happy Heart Day.
Okay, thanks to both of the history buffs.... : ) In case that rather academic assignment scared anyone off, here's another easy one. Answer some of these questions: 1. Did you watch the Super Bowl?
2. If so, with whom?
2b. If so, did your team win?
3. If not, what did you do instead? (You can also tell who you did that with, if you want.) Easy enough to get you to write? (And in case you are even LESS into football than I am, the Super Bowl was Sunday afternoon, the 3rd of February : )
