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| Friday September 30, 2016 Blog City Curiosity killed the cat. Write about what the cat was investigating... Bessie, the tuxedo cat, stared into a long, kind of rectangled shape object. She saw a man on the screen and could hear singing coming from it. Her eyes grew big as she watched the man sing and play something he held in his hands. She reacted again by squinting her eyes at the screen as he sang. The tuxedo cat reach up to try to touch his face but only felt the glass screen. She began to pur and rub her head against the object. After a few minutes, her owner picked up the object and pat Bessie on the head. "You're a Waylon Jennings fan just like your mama!" This really happened, no joke! I had YouTube pulled up on my iPad, and she started at it watching Waylon Jennings. Every time I play any of his songs, she will come running and sit down in front of the iPad. She often squints her eyes then opens them up really big. It is known as a cat's look of love. She really loves his cover of McArthur's Park. Blogging Circle of Friends Describe a typical day in your life as if it were a legendary epic. Here's your moment to wow us. This is really funny! I wake up and let the Josette and Rocky outside. Then I clean Bessie's litter box. After that, I go into the kitchen to fix a cup of coffee using my Keurgic (however that's spelled, all I know is I love it!). I drink my coffee and plan my day out. I often spend my day testing out skin care and makeup. In between doing housework that it, depending on what has to be done that day. Sometime between 11-noon, I will check the mail to see if I've received a new product to try. Then I will have a quick lunch. Around 1 pm, I will get ready to film my YouTube episode if it's during Tuesday-Friday. If not, I'm either reading, doing more housework, or catching up on watching all of the stuff I recorded on the DVR. At 4:30 pm, I will feed the fur babies and start supper sometimes depending on what mom and I have planned. On Wednesday nights, we eat at the church. On Sunday mornings, I go to Sunday school and church. Often after church, Mom and I will eat at KFC/Taco Bell or the buffet at the Mexican restaurant. This is definitely not a legendary epic, but I do like testing out products during the week and making the YouTube videos. I like to think I'm providing a service to those who use beauty items. I've also started testing health items like health foods, vitamins, and supplements. My Life I gained 7 new subscribers today for a total of 57 subscribers in all! I need 43 more to reach my first 100 subscribers. I think the giveaway I'm holding is going to help out with that. I've received good feedback on my giveaway so far. I know as a channel gets bigger there will be complainers, but that will be okay because you can't please people all of the time. You just do the best you can and move on. I've got to go and try out some Victoria's Secret body spray that a friend sent me! I will leave y'all with this video to watch! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0nmHymgM7Y Bye for now! Penny |
| Thursday September 29, 2016 Blog City What is your best recipe for a fall weekend outing? I don't really have one because I don't leave the house much except for going to church, my cleaning jobs, and once a month grocery shop trip. I guess what I look forward to the most is drinking specialty coffees and teas that come out in the fall. Well, I wouldn't mind going to Ulta next week and seeing what's new items have come out this fall. Blogging Circle of Friends The New York Times series "36 Hours" provides profiles and thirty-six-hour itineraries for must-see sights and spots in cities all over the world. Write your own "36 Hours" piece about the city you live in now, or one in which you became well-acquainted with in the past. Include main attractions, little-known locales, shops to browse, and places to eat or find entertainment, connecting each of your recommendations to a personal anecdote or memory. My town wouldn't have enough in it to fill 36 hours. I basically live in a one-horse town. We don't even have traffic lights. We have one grocery store, seven gas stations, two Mexican restaurants, a home cooking type restaurant, McDonalds, KFC/TacoBell in the same building, Subway, Bumpers, a florist, an over priced boutique that sells grandma looking clothes, and four dollar type stores. There is one thing we don't have a shortage of and that's churches. We have one in just about every neighborhood. My Life I reached 50 subscribers on my YouTube channel. I will announce the giveaway I'm planning in tomorrow's video. The prizes so far will be Luxe Botanicals skin care, Pacifica cosmetics, Honeybee Garden cosmetics, a false eyelash set, and a copy of my novel, Bloodshed on the Setting Sun. The giveaway will last a month before the winner is announced, and for every 50 subscribers I get during this, I will add another prize to the prize package. I filmed another video today. It featured Pixi by Petra cosmetics. Here's the link! You may have to copy and paste it into your browser. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpxNLDsxC4Q Bye for now! Penny |
| Wednesday September 28, 2016 Blogging Circle of Friends September 28 is National Good Neighbor Day. Write something about a good neighbor or how to be a good neighbor. I don't really know any of my neighbors. I kind of know the couple who lives across the street and the lady and her granddaughter who live on the other side of me. There is also an elderly lady who lives 4 houses down from me whom I've known all of my life basically. A lot of new people have moved into my neighborhood in the last few years, and that's why I don't know too many of my neighbors. None of them bother me, and they all mind their own business. I would have to say I live in a drama free neighborhood. To me, that's a good thing. Blog City Jane Austen was one of the first authors to examine the effects of socioeconomic pressure on personal relationships. Do you think the same socioeconomic pressure may still mess up personal relationships in our day? I've never read any of Austen's works, but if I understood the movies correctly it's where one is from a rich family and the other is from a poor family basically. If that's the case, yes it can still mess up personal relationships in our day. I grew up poor as dirt, and I'm still lower middle class. My soulmate is is from the better side of the tracks, a way better side. He's around educated people who have money and social status. I only have an associates degree, and I'm probably considered one of the crazy village idiots where I'm from. No wonder, he gets upset with me if I don't act like a very refined woman. That maybe my problem! My life I do have some good news! I'm in talks with a big company to start doing reviews for them on YouTube. I can't say what company for professional reasons. I have to write a proposal describing my channel, my demographic audience, site traffic, number of subscribers, and the traffic I get on my other social media pages too. If y'all would, please check out my channel and subscribe. It's completely free to subscribe! I need to make my proposal sound very strong. Here's the link! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn51tNdXerlWBtOETsDnIfA I'm also on instagram @pennycockrell, twitter @Sistershops, and Facebook under Penny Cockrell. Bye for now! Penny |
| Tuesday September 27, 2016 Blog City Do you remember your first car? What kind of car was it? Did you give it a name? I got my first car when I was 16. It was a dark green 1984 signature series Lincoln town car. I didn't give it a name, but it was a big sucker and got awful gas mileage. It was a pretty car though, and I thought I was worth a million bucks in it. That shows it didn't know a darn thing about anything back in 1993 when I was 16. Blogging Circle of Friends Once a year you switch bodies with a random person who is best in the world at a certain skill. The wrinkle in this scenario is you can't change back until you discover what the skill is. You've been this random person now for a month, are you worried yet? What's your game plan? This is an interesting prompt! I would just start trying to go all kinds of things until I figure it out I guess. I would really suck if this person wasn't good at anything conventional, and it ended up being something like competitive eating or something like that. My life I filmed another episode. I had some difficulty with my iPad and got cut off at 15 minutes, so I'm filming a part 2 tomorrow to finish up. I haven't figured out how to edit yet, especially not with using an iPad. If y'all have time, go check it out. I will put the link down below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RIQAczuU34 Bye for now, Penny |
| Monday Sept 26, 2016 Blog City Cryptomnesia is a certain type of a memory bias where a memory is mistaken for imagination. It is said that this happens to writers quite often. What do you think about this memory quirk? Have you ever written something that you didn’t know at first if it was a memory or a derivative of it or totally your imagination? I've never heard of this before, but it does sound quite interesting. Sometimes I wonder if my memory and the novel I wrote blur this line a good bit. Of course, there haven't been any faeries, demons, vampires, werewolves, zombies, phantoms, ect, in my life, but there have been some strange incidents and people in it. Things that make you go hmmm....... Blogging Circle of Friends "Write a thank you note to a friend who gave you onion and garlic-flavored chewing gum." Dear friend, Thank you for thinking of me! I've never received something so unique before. This gum definitely livened up my senses and left a memorable taste in my mouth. Don't forget to share it with others! Your Friend, Penny My life The prompts were very interesting tonight, and I enjoyed writing my responses. Not much happened today except for finishing up a cleaning job and doing research for my YouTube channel. My table and tablecloth came in today, so I can start setting up my makeup area in my room to film my videos. I may even film an episode that give a tour of my vanity when I finish setting it up. Two cute pairs of shoes I had ordered came in too. One was a pair of flats and the other some very stylish pumps. I can't wait to wear them. I'm up to 42 subscribers on my YouTube channel. After I get 58 more subscribers, I plan on holding a small giveaway that will include beauty products and a copy of my novel, Bloodshed on the Setting Sun. Here's a new Leonard Cohen song that just came out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0nmHymgM7Y Bye for now, Penny |
| Saturday September 24, 2016 Blog City In Washington Irving's story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," Ichabod Crane attends an autumnal harvest feast, where he listens to local townspeople recounting ghost stories. Later that night, on his fateful ride home, he encounters the Headless Horseman. The ending of the story is left open to interpretation: Is the Headless Horseman a ghoulish spirit, or is it actually Crane's rival in love, dressed in disguise and further exaggerated by Crane's haunted, overactive imagination? It's your blog, have fun. The Headless Horseman could have been a manifestation of Crane's guilt over not being man enough to stand up to Crane to win the lady he loved. In other words, the Horseman was the brave side of Crane, trying to get him to man up. Just a thought.... Blogging Circle of Friends Pine, oak, cedar, birch, aspen, fir, maple. Joshua, jacaranda, palm. There are thousands of species of trees in the world; some are found in many regions and some in only one place. There are trees that grow fruits and nuts; there are desert trees and tropical trees but there is only one special one. Weave us a story about the one in your life. I can't really come up with a story about a tree, but in my book, Bloodshed on the Setting Sun, I have a scene where there is a tree with a huge significance to it. It was the tree that was a portal from the Faerie realm to Deacon, Mississippi. It was how both Queen Morganna and Cydia got to Deacon and met Lucifier. In a nutshell, that tree caused a whole lot of trouble between mother and daughter. My life Today was boring. I didn't do much, but clean a church and use a leaf blower to blow leaves off a walkway and driveway. I did receive a nice skin care sample kit from a company out of Australia called Luxe Botanics. I plan on including it in my review video on Tuesday. I'm up to 39 subscribers on my YouTube channel. I think I may do a giveaway when I reach 100 subscribers. I've seen that work for many of the other YouTubers to increase subscribers. Here's a video for a song that mention trees. Y'all should watch it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgWIj7QHyEY Bye for now! Penny |
| Friday September 23, 2016 Blog City "Success is not final, failure is not fatal:it is the courage to continue that counts."~ Winston Churchill Agree or Disagree ? Discuss a recent success or failure in your own life. How did you handle it? This is hard for me to talk about because I feel as if I've had a life full of failures. I know I haven't handled it well either. I tend to give up and become very depressed. I guess failure isn't fatal since I haven't died from it yet. Waking up to live another day is success to me at this point. Blogging Circle of Friends Okay, the prompt is to create something with these words: malediction, hounds, clarity, spell, obstacles and purple. The hounds howl the malediction with clarity as the purple spell creates obstacles in the lady's path. My life I filmed my 16th episode on my YouTube beauty channel. I've been discovering some neat beauty products these days. I still only have about 37 subscribers, but it takes time to build a name for yourself on YouTube, so it's okay. I'm thinking about doing a giveaway to draw in more subscribers. I'm thinking about giving away a copy of my books along with some hot beauty items. I have several copies in a storage tub that are just taking up space, and one of my goals is to clear out the junk room (kill two bird with one stone you know). I've been on a new musical kick. Here are some the videos by the artist I've started liking. Y'all might have even heard of him. He kind of reminds me of Johnny Cash. Watch them and find out who I'm talking about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chF244LWWqg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chF244LWWqg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqhOVY58zIo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahr4KFl79WI (Johnny Cash did a cover of this. Check it out too! Bye for now! Penny |
| Thursday September 22, 2016 Blog City You go to an antique store and find items that belonged to a famous person. What are the items and who did they belong to? Do you buy them? Do you feel a connection to them? Write about this. I could imagine myself going to an antique store and finding an item June Carter Cash owned because she was known for being into antiques. She would often go to lower end antique shops, clean up the items, and decorate her home with them. It was also reported she would then sell some of them when she felt she had too many of them and give the money to charity. I would feel a connection to the item because I've been a huge fan of hers since I was seven years old. I know I would definitely hang on to whatever it is and cherish it. Blogging Circle of Friends What are the significant differences between two-dimensional and three-dimensional characters? Is it more difficult to write two-dimensional characters or three-dimensional characters? I had to google this, so I would have an idea what this is talking about. I think my characters are somewhere in between, depending on what character I'm writing about. The reason this question is difficult for me to answer is that my characters are not your run of the mill character you find in novels. In fact, they are all rather crazy in their own unique way. Maybe it's one of the many reason my book didn't sale besides it not being worth "a hill of beans" as my mother informed me tonight. My life Tonight was crap. I hate it when family members think they have the right to question everything you do like it's their business. I feel if it has nothing to do with you then keep your mouth shut. I know it's just my opinion, and we all have them. However, I feel a person's personal life is his/her business, and it shouldn't be questioned unless it's affecting anyone else. Enough of that, next topic! I filmed another video for my YouTube channel today. I showed how I did my makeup in high school. It's a popular makeup challenge on YouTube. I have close to 40 subscribers now! My first goal is to hit 100 by the end of the year. Anything is possible you know! I finished reading Twilight's Hour by VC Andrews. I'm now reading the fourth book in the Cutler series called Midnight Whispers. I've also been watching American Horror Story. This season looks promising! I couldn't watch all of last season because I wasn't as good. I do plan to watch it when it comes out on Netflix. Bye for Now, Penny |
| Wednesday September 21, 2016 Blog City October, the extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest tapestry for her grand reception. Oliver Wendell Holmes Autumn is beautiful. What are your thoughts on this? I'm not a fan of fall colors like orange and brown. I prefer the jewel tones of winter, reds, greens, silver, royal blue, ect. I do love October as in Halloween and slightly cooler weather in Mississippi, but I wish the colors weren't so drab. Blogging Circle of Friends September 21 is World Gratitude Day. Write something about gratitude. If you have a favorite quote about gratitude include that in your entry. At this point, I'm just grateful to be alive. I think we should all start there. If you have a pulse, be grateful and happy then go from there. Don't even concentrate on what you don't have, be happy for what you do have, and you'll see you have a lot more than you realize. My Life I know my blogs are short right now. I'm just focusing on writing daily no matter what it is. I have a blog on Bloggit called Southern Charm. Right now, I only have my YouTube videos posted on there, but I plan on writing articles on beauty products in the near future and post them on that blog. My YouTube channel is growing, slowly but surely. I have 29 subscribers. I'm hoping to have 100 by the end of the year. I've been working on getting healthier. I've lost a little over 17 pounds in the last 2 months and have almost reached my 2nd weight loss goal. I'm three pounds from meeting the goal. Bye for now, Penny |
| Tuesday September 20, 2016 Blog City Henry Wadsworth Longfellow liked the month of September. Does any part of the year feel more inspiring to you for your writing? I usually feel inspired more in October and March-May. October inspires me because of Halloween. I write horror and dark fantasy, so naturally, I'm attracted to that month. March-May is because it's spring during that time. Spring makes me think of faeries for some reason.I love writing about faeries. I guess it's because of those little wild flowers that are everywhere during those months. I tend to imagine little faeries running and playing in those wild flowers. Blogging Circle of Friends Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius."~ Benjamin Disraeli Do you agree or disagree? Who is the most patient person in your life? How do they accomplish it? I believe patience is necessary in every part of life. Without patience, a person tends to give up too easy. I know this for a fact because I've given up on things because of not being patient and missing out on good opportunities as a result. My mom is a very patient person for the most part. I think she's learned that she's had to over the years just like I have. My life I made another video for my YouTube channel. My subscriber count has gone up to 28 now. It's been said that a channel really starts to take off after hitting 100 subscribers, so my first goal is to get that many subscribers. My mom and I have a small cleaning service on the side, and we've had it for almost a year. We clean two house and a church on a regular basis. We've also cleaned a few other places here and there. That's the other thing keeping me busy these days. Bye for now, Penny |
| Monday Sept 19, 2016 Blog City Miracles are thoughts. Thoughts can represent the lower or bodily level of experience or the higher or spiritual level of experience. One makes the physical, and the other creates the spiritual.” The Course of Miracles What are your views on thoughts being miracles? I don't know if I believe in miracles anymore, especially during this past year. I've had too many disappointments and betrayals to believe miracles happen at least not for me. Blogging Circle of Friends Use the following words for inspiration: spirit, dust, paradise, phoenix, cage, fruiting, love I wrote this last night. I haven't written anything in over a year, so it won't be good but here goes. A long way from paradise, an empty spirit, turning into dust, looking above to find a phoenix in a cage, fruiting love the spirit so desperately needs. It popped into my head after reading the prompt. Update on me! I know I haven't been around much. A whole lot has happened to me! I no longer have any friends around me. I'm pretty much alone. I'm still with my soulmate of 16 years, but we are having problems. I'm really alone most of the time. I still live with my mom, but she works, has friends, and a companion too. I'm glad she's happy and has people who love and care about her. I only wished I had the same... I have been doing a few things to brighten up my life. I've started reading on a regular basis again. In fact, I've read 3 books in the past two weeks and have almost finished reading another one. Here are the books I've read. Nathaniel by John Saul Dawn by VC Andrews Secrets of the Morning by VC Andrews I'm almost finished reading Twilight's Child by VC Andrews. I also have my three fur babies Josette, Rocky, and Bessie. I've only had Bessie since July 2015. She's a tuxedo cat. I've had Josette (my min pin) and Rocky (my golden retriever) for several years. They keep me from going bonkers most of the time! I've started studying makeup too and have always had a fascination with it. It's something I didn't talked about for quite sometime because most people think it's stupid or tell me I'm not pretty enough to be in that type of field. I've decided not to listen to people like that since I turned 40 in April. In fact, I now have a YouTube beauty channel dedicated to my passion. Here's the link to my channel if any of you would like to check it out! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn51tNdXerlWBtOETsDnIfA I do hope to start writing again. I sometimes hear the characters from my first novel whispering to me that there story is far from over. It's crazy I know. LOL! That's all for now. I just wanted to say I'm back and plan on writing in my blog on most days to get back into writing again. Bye for now, Penny AKA Sister of Mercy |
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