Counting my words again.
Today my fellow Word Counters and I are sharing our monthly group post. Each month one group member picks
a number between 12 and 50. All participating bloggers are then
challenged to write something (or a few somethings, as the case may be)
using that exact number of words. Today we all share what we came up
with.
This month's number is 18.
It was chosen by Mimi of Messymimi's Meanderings!
As
I've been doing in these Word Counters posts, I've chosen a theme and
am using my word count multiple times in keeping with the theme. This
month I've chosen the theme Word.
~ To say I chose the theme "word" is misleading, I didn't. In retrospect, I should have chosen . . . something.
~ Mind blank, I turned to College Boy, eating his breakfast. "Look around," I said, give me a word.
~ He'll pick something, nature based I assumed, "I'll write about it in eighteen word snippets," I thought. Easy.
~ "Word," he said.
"What kind of inspiration is that?"
"You said to pick a word. I did, word."
~ "I meant to pick a word I can write about, like (looking out the window) green, or sky."
Blueberry Cinnamon Rolls with Cream Cheese Icing
~ "I include recipes in my posts so you could even have picked "blueberry" or "cinnamon" or "breakfast" or . . ."
~ "Using words and writing about them are two different things," I whined, continuing to make my case.
~ But once he's got me, he knows he's won a game he wasn't even aware he was playing.
~ "I quit. You beat me at my own game. Word? I can't write a whole post about word."
~ "Word," he responded.
"So, wait, are you saying "word" meaning okay? Or "word" meaning word's still the word?
~ Walking away laughing, I shouted after him "you're evil."
"I Learned from the best," he replied, winking.
"Word."
Here are links to the other Word Counters posts:
Blueberry Cinnamon Rolls with Cream Cheese Icing
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Ingredients:
1 tube (8 count, 12 oz) refrigerated cinnamon rolls
1/4 cup blueberry jam
1 TBSP brown sugar
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 cup blueberries
2 TBSP cream cheese, room temperature
Directions:
*Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Grease an 8 inch pie plate.
*Set aside the icing that comes with the rolls.
*Cut the cinnamon rolls in half lengthwise. Set the tops aside. Place the bottoms in the pie plate.
*Whisk together blueberry jam, brown sugar, and cinnamon, then mix in the blueberries.
*Dollop the blueberry mixture into the centers of the rolls in the pie plate, then add a cinnamon roll top to each.
*Bake for 20 minutes.
*While the rolls are baking, whisk the icing with the cream cheese.
*Once cooked, remove the rolls from the oven, drizzle with the cream cheese icing.
My last word and my first word on the subject will be my word,this is a tempting recipe.
ReplyDeleteI like your you choice of words.
DeleteSo do the rolls seal back together as they bake?
ReplyDeleteYes, with the ooey gooey blueberry filling in the middle!
DeleteWhy does this post remind me of the song "Surfer Bird"? Is it because everyone knows the bird is the word. (Actually, I learned "word" from my then teenaged son. Nice that it's still in use!) Alana ramblinwitham.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteI don't know that song, guess we know what I'll be Googling tonight.
DeleteWell played, both of you!
ReplyDeleteI think he got the better of me this time!
DeleteHahahaha! Yep. They learn from us. Despite our best efforts...
ReplyDeleteWord.
Word!
DeleteWords here there and everywhere
ReplyDeleteRight where we need them.
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