Celebrate the Small Things and Fast Five Friday

Celebrate the Small Things is a fun bloghop where we share things, big or small, that are important to us. It can be anything from writing, to family, to organizing, whatever you want to share. CTST host's are: Lexa Cain, Kidbits, and Writing Off the Edge.


Celebrations...

**My son came in 11th place at Regionals for Cross Country and set a personal record. In fact, six of the runners set PR's!!! The team is headed to Semi-State tomorrow. So happy for them!

**Played Phase 10 with my family. We had so much fun-- no TV, no phones. Just us and a deck of cards! LOVED it! We used to do family game night, but with everyone's schedules, we got away from it. We're back at it. Woot!

**My sons had fall break so we had some quality time at the bookstore. I loved seeing all their different interests in reading!

Fast Five Friday is a weekly bloghop created by Cover Girls. Revolving around lists of five, its purpose is to connect with writers, readers, viewers, and bloggers, to share a little about ourselves through lists.

Oct. 21st - Name 5 sci-fi/horror books/movies that scared the crap out of you

The Fourth Kind (movie)

The Seed (book)

Salem's Lot (book and movie)

Jeepers Creepers (movie)

Paranormal Activity (movie)

And don't forget to sign up for Spooktoberfest! We can't wait to read your flash fiction pieces and divvy out some prizes!

Celebrate the small things and Fast Five Friday

Celebrate the Small Things is a Friday blog hop where we share things, big or small, during that week, and then hop around to other blogs to see what they've shared. 

Hosts: Lexa Cain, Writing Off The Edge, and Kidbits.

Celebrations:

**Dani, from Entertaining Interests, & I took our littles for our annual Starbucks/Fall Shopping event. It was a much needed time for all of us. 

**My 16-year-old son made 1st team All-Conference for Cross Country. So excited for him!!!

**What started out as editing on my current manuscript has turned into a revise... I hadn't planned on that, but I'm just going with it. 

What celebrations do you have for the week that you'd like to share?

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Fast Five Friday is a weekly blog hop created by Cover Girls. Revolving around lists of five, its purpose is to connect with writers, readers, viewers, and bloggers. 

Oct. 7th - 5 horror movies you love to watch this time of year

*Halloween 1 (1978 version)

*Halloween 2 (1981 version)

*28 Weeks Later

*Dawn of the Dead (2004 version)

*30 Days of Night

Do you watch horror movies? Are there any you like to watch around Halloween time?

Celebrate the Small Things and Spooktoberfest

Celebrate the Small Things is a Friday blog hop where we share things, big or small, during that week, and then hop around to other blogs to see what they've shared. 


Hosts: Lexa Cain, Writing Off The Edge, and Kidbits.




My celebrations...

** We've created puppies out of flowers for a few years, but now we have cats! I can't wait to make more of these! 

** It's finally Autumn! Yay! I love this time of year! 

** The 5th annual Spooktoberfest is up and running! 

It’s that time of year again - the 5^th Annual Spooktoberfest is here with your hosts from Cover Girls!

We cannot believe it’s been 5 years since we started this whole adventure of Spooktoberfest. And to celebrate, we're taking it back old school. If this seems familiar to you, it’s because we are bringing back the original Spooktoberfest requirements, with a few minor tweaks here and there.

Requirements:

1.) Follow Jax at Bouquet of Books, Dani at Entertaining Interests and Cover Girls if you don’t already. We do follow back, and if we've missed you, please let us know so we can follow your blog.

2.) Your Flash Fiction piece cannot be any longer than 400 words. Sorry… that’s part of the challenge.

3.) You must use the MANDATORY 5 words listed below or any version of it. Please highlight them in a way so we can locate them faster within your post.

Black

Machete

Magic

Skull

Tombstone

4.) Post your Flash Fiction piece any day from Monday Oct 24^th thru Friday, Oct. 28^th.

5.) You can tweet us, if you'd like, @Covergirlsdj to let us know when you've posted your entry.

6.) Display the Spooktoberfest badge on your blog.

7.) It’s a blog hop, so… hop around to other participating blogs and leave them some awesome comments.

8.) Have fun!

Your flash fiction piece can be scary, comical, romantic, or whatever you choose, just be creative! And, yes, this blogfest is International!!

The winners & runner-ups will be posted on HALLOWEEN! That’s right, Monday, Oct. 31^st.

PRIZES:
Winners - $20 Amazon e-giftcard

Runner-ups - A book of our choosing 

Sign up below.

Fast Five Friday - New weekly blog hop!

Fast Five Friday is a new weekly blog hop created by Cover Girls. Its purpose is to connect with writers, readers, viewers, and bloggers. With that aim in mind, we'd love for you to join us! 

We're suckers for lists, so we thought it'd be cool to do a weekly blog hop where we list things. We've provided the topics for each week below, with five being the focus. 

You're not required to post every week. You can pick and choose which topics you'd like to participate in. 

Whatever topics you decide to do, please include the link to your Fast Five Friday post in the comments section of our FFF post each week, so we can stop by and show our FFF love to you!

FAST FIVE FRIDAY TOPICS

Jan. 2:  Five Favorite Novels Read in 2014

Jan. 9:  Five 2014 Adored Book Covers

Jan. 16:  Five Most Anticipated 2015 Novels

Jan. 23:  Five TV Character Crushes 

Jan. 30:  Five Favorite Authors

Feb. 6:  Five Novels You Wish You Wrote

Feb. 13:  Five Romantic Movies You Love

Feb. 20:  Five Book Characters You’re Crushing On 

Feb. 27:  Five Top TV Shows

Mar. 6:  Five Book Characters You Relate To

Mar. 13:  Five Books You Recommend

Mar. 20:  Five Best Writing Songs

Mar. 27:  Five Movie Character Crushes

We post Fast Five Friday topics quarterly, and plan to have the new list for April - June ready to view in March.

We hope you'll join Fast Five Friday, starting January 2nd! 

Spooktoberfest '14 - Home

It's the 3rd annual Spooktoberfest hosted by Dani and I at Cover Girls. For details of this fun contest, you can go HERE for details.
Next year, I hope Dani and I will go with a 300 -500 word count... Getting my piece down to 300 words took forever! Of course, if I wouldn't have procrastinated in the first place, then it might not have been so difficult. :(
Anyway, thanks to all who participated in Spooktoberfest, and I look forward to reading your stories!

Home

     My morning routine consisted of switching off coffeemaker, checking locks on doors, and watching the garage door close. So, why is that door open now?

     I park my car and pocket my keys. Inside the garage, I pick up a baseball bat I used in college. Funny. My dad wanted his firstborn son to play major league ball, but my dreams were of the music variety.

     I turn the doorknob. It’s unlocked, and even though a chill crawls up my spine, I enter.

My furniture’s rearranged and seated on the sofa is my ex.

     “What are you doing here, Lisa?” I sigh and lean the bat against the chair, thankful it’s her and not an intruder.

     She stands. “I came to say goodbye.”

     “We already did that.” Or at least I did when I broke things off with her last week.

     “Oh, Drew.” She tugs on my shirt and kisses my cheek. “Let’s not fight.”

     I back away and fall on top of the coffee table that isn’t in its rightful spot.  

     Lisa kneels. “Are you okay?”

     “Yeah, but why’s my furniture—” I’m cut off by the prick of a needle against my skin. Cool liquid pumps through my veins. “What’d you do?”

     “It’s a cure for your virus,” she says. “If only you’d continued your meds.”

     I try to let out a string of curse words, because I’m not sick, and I’ve never taking medication, but my voice won’t cooperate. My vision blurs, and my eyes grow heavy until they close.

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     Commotion stirs me awake. I’m on a cot, in a small room. Dr. Vex, Lisa’s psychiatrist, stands next to me with a smile.

     “What’s going on?” I writhe in the cocoon-like-blanket I’m wrapped in. “Where am I?”

     “Home,” the doctor says. “We’ve missed you.”

Thank you for reading, and thanks to the wonderful Spooktoberfest participants! 
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Top Ten Movie Countdown Blogfest, a joint-blog reveal, and Express Yourself Meme

It's time for Ninja Captain Alex's Top Ten Movie Countdown Blogfest. 

List your top 10 favorite movies then visit other blogs to see their choices. Click HERE for more details on this fun blog hop!




My top 10 fave movies (as of now):

10. Step Brothers
9.  Ratatouille
8.  Gladiator
7.  The Ref
6.  Reality Bites
5.  Titanic
4.  Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
3.  Dawn of the Dead (2004 version)
2.  Tombstone
1.  The Notebook

What are your top ten favorite movies?

Also, today is the reveal of a joint blog with *drum roll* please ... Dani @Entertaining Interests. I mean, who else would it be? *shows a devilish smirk* 
Please venture to our joint blog, Cover Girls. We participated in Alex's blogfest over there, too! 

It's also Express Yourself time! The question that Danielle and I came up with this week is:

Do you have a lucky charm or lucky ritual?







Well, I have three "lucky" rituals...

1. I LOVE Lucky Charms... no, not a certain charm. I'm talking about the actual cereal. When I eat it, I make a wish on the last green clover marshmallow in the bowl. LOL Typing this out, I know I sound so stupid! But to each her/his own, right?
2. When the time on a clock is all the same number, I make a wish. Always. Like if it's 12:12, I think of something in my head and hope it comes true. 
3. Prayer. No it's not "lucky" ... there's no luck involved. But I'm listing it here because it works. Period. 

Do you have any lucky charms or rituals? Check out other bloggers who participate in the Express Yourself Meme. If you'd like to join, you only need to sign up once and post your answer sometime that week. And if you miss a week or two, no biggie. Make sure to visit other participants and have fun with it!