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FOWC with Fandango — Intermission Plus The Three Things Challenge and The Writer’s Workshop

Tessa

Rules For the One Word Challenge

FOWC

Welcome to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (U.S.). Today’s word is INTERMISSION.

I am also using the Three Things Challenge for today #M710.

Your three words today are:
LEAK
SEEP
FLOOD

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I also used The Writer’s Workshop by John Holton.

Here are the prompts for this week’s Writer’s Workshop:

  1. Write a post based on the word “aunt”.
  2. Write a post in exactly 12 sentences.
  3. Describe your favorite shopping mall.
  4. Book Review!
  5. List your favorite YouTube channels (no more than 5).
  6. Write about the most humid place you’ve been.

I chose numbers 1, 2 and 6 (#6 is non-fiction with a sprinking of fiction to round it out)

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I can’t stand humid weather. It gives me a headache.

My husband and I planned to go to the Bahamas, but I discovered they have humid weather all year round, and I could not avoid it unless he went without me. I wasn’t about to let him go on a nice vacation without me, so I prepared to spend a lot of time in the room with the air conditioner.

We arranged for Aunt Martha to watch the kids for the week and boarded the plane while the snow was still on the ground. When the plane landed in the Bahamas, we shed our winter coats and lugged them around with our suitcases.

Upon arrival at our resort, we saw signs of a recent flood due to the plumbing leaking into the resort and the water was still seeping out of the pipes and into the lobby. To our annoyance, we learned that the lobby wasn’t the only place it flooded as it just so happened our room was flooded as well. The room wasn’t useable, and we had to wait while the staff called around the island looking for a room in one of the other resorts due to a last minute cancelation. 

While they located a room for us, they told us to go watch the matinee show that was happening at the moment. When we got to the room where they were holding the show, we found out that it was just in time for the 30-minute intermission. It seems we couldn’t win.

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Tessa – 

Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses

New Author’s Website – http://www.tessadeanauthor.com

Author – Old Writing –  http://www.finallyawriter.wordpress.com

About my life –  http://www.tessacandoit.wordpress.com

Published by Tessa

My name is Tessa Dean and I am an author and blogger. My writing styles vary and I love writing using prompts. I am also writing my first book, a Memoir entitled "Government Property - A Memoir of a Military Wife".  This is being published on the blog rather than the traditional way. I am putting up chapters as I go along. I keep my blog filled with useful content, stories, and poems. Plenty to keep you busy. I have also been interviewed by blogs and had other posts published on many different blogs. I also wrote a series of articles on Bipolar Disorder for IBPF (International Bipolar Foundation). I am in my 60’s and disabled which allows me plenty of time to write to my heart’s content. I live in southern New Jersey and have 3 children and 5 grandchildren. My oldest grandchild is a Sargent in the United States Marine Corps.

10 thoughts on “FOWC with Fandango — Intermission Plus The Three Things Challenge and The Writer’s Workshop”

    1. I can tell you that our vacations never were boring. They were like Chevy Chase’s Vacation movies. We had similar vacations to those movies. My memoir talks about some of them.

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    1. Isn’t that the way of things? LOL! That wasn’t all true, but my life is not boring. We can’t go on a decent vacation. There is always something that happens to make it really unforgetable.

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    1. I fictionalized some of it, there was no flood, but that was the only way to include your 3 words in the piece. I spent the whole time alone though as my now ex-husband was there simply to scuba dive and I didn’t dive. I don’t even like being outside so it wasn’t much fun for me anyhow although I preferred the heat to the snow and ice we had at home at the time. We went during our winter season and it is summer there most of the time.

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