Nothing like being inspired to be creative when you are home fighting a ‘bug’. I strolled out of my room in my pink camo jammies to make some soup. As I was settling in to watch reruns of NCIS and eat my soup, I checked my Twitter account and saw that Word Press published a writing challenge. (BIG SMILE) It’s on writing about your lunch break. If you want to give it a try, here is the original link: http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/01/20/weekly-writing-challenge-lunch-posts/ . My post for Day One of the Lunch Writing Challenge.
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Challenge accepted, I scan the room. The dog is asleep to my left and a cat asleep to my right. I look out the window and the trees are shiny with fog ice. The horses are casually enjoying their progressive hay breakfast. A bald eagle soars past the window. Nope. Not much happening here. I think to myself, ‘How will I compete with stories of New York cafes and Jersey boardwalks?’ Then I smile, snuggle into my blanket, and say, ‘Thank God for sick days!’
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Here are some Lunch Challenge contributions from other WP bloggers that you may like. This list is only a portion of the entire collection. With each of my entries this week, I’m adding some additional from other bloggers. Reading through them all reminded me of that film “Life In A Day” … which was amazing. I think that’s why I enjoyed this challenge so much … we all got to experience a little ‘life in a day’ through meal times around the world. (In this first group, some have the same title, but they are different stories. I added them from the comments section of the main challenge page, as I’m not sure that they all made the ‘pingback’ list that follows. )
1. The Best Sandwiches Around …
2. Theres No Peace (A Short Lunch)
3. Graduate Student Lunches
4. Penalty That Working Moms Pay
5. Weekly Challenge: Lunch – thatonegirlsblog3
6. A Chaos At My Place
7. Dinner Time – Writing Challenge – 101challengesin1001days
8. Zoned
9. Monday Lunch Post – giselacarmona
10. Transcendental Pizza
11. Weekly Writing Challenge: Lunch Posts – theheathercoy
12. The Baon Chronicles: Sugar-free Lemon Chicken
13. Tuna Fish In The Morning
14. Weekly Writing Challenge Lunch Posts – thewonderthoughts
15. Weekly Writing Challenge: Lunch Post – thunderroadtoglory
16. My First Great Office Robbery
17. Breath
18. Weekly Writing Challenge: Lunch Posts | MythRider
Below are the first 50 entries in the pingbacks and trackbacks list.
- Lunch | The Magic Black Book
- Random Bits of Conversation Overheard Over Time | I’m a Writer, Yes I Am
- Weekly Writing Challenge: Lunch Posts | Finding Life
- My Darling | Broken Light: A Photography Collective
- DP Challenge Weekly Writing Challenge: Staring Off Into Space | Sabethville
- A veteran’s fondest memory | From One Crazy Life To Another
- Knowledge Insults My Intelligence | Bumblepuppies
- Weekly Writing Challenge: Lunch Posts | khaula mazhar
- Weekly DP Challenge – Lunch posts | Its all about a bit of this and that.
- Weekly Writing Challenge: Lunch Posts | The Solidarity Ramblings Of A Wisdom Seeker
- Lunch: Fantasy Vs. Reality | Write Through Life
- Lunch Day One/Weekly Writing Challenge | standinginthestorm
- Blue Monday | Stories from aside
- Today I’ll defer to the dog | Life is Unfolding
- Lunch, Day 1: Too Quiet « there’s this book i’m reading.
- Lunch Break, Day 1: The Distant Banana | Stealing All the Sevens
- DPchallenge: Lunch break…or not | Mindful Digressions
- Weekly Writing Challenge: Lunch Post | lifethoughtenergy
- Daily Post Challenge: Lunch Posts | Flooding August
- Lunchtime | Living and Lovin
- lunch, anyone? | the REmissionary
- Free Time? | The Backwords
- Break Time Blogging | Lyme. Autism. Alzheimer. Oh my!
- Lunch Post #1: Purple Scholars | Rescued Insanity
- An Innocent Affair | living my life
- Weekly Writing Challenge: Lunch Posts – Monday | Musings
- Google + | Happy Sushi Belly
- Lunch Post | Heart Soul and Mind
- Lunch Time. | Babbleogue
- Lunch on Martin Luther King Day – Evelyne Holingue
- Lack of dialogue | Never Stationary
- Daily Prompt: The Luckiest People | A Room of One’s Own
- Weekly Writing Challenge: Lunch | Picayune Pieces
- The Diner Lunch | Harmless Propaganda
- Weekly Writing Challenge: Lunch Posts | UBeCute – Follow the child inside of you…
- The Writer’s Lunch – Weekly Writing Challenge: Lunch Posts | I am S(t)ri…
- Lunch Posts (Weekly Writing Challenge) | Icezine
- All the Coolest | The Seeker’s Dungeon
- LUNCH IS MOOT IF YOU DRINK ENOUGH COFFEE | SERENDIPITY
- Lunch With the Birds | Cat Over Clock
- Weekly Writing Challenge: Midnight Shift | perksofacharlie
- Weekly Writing Challenge: Lunch Posts | A mom’s blog
- It’s a race! | Quintessence Of A Daydreamer
- Weekly challenge: Beach at noon | helen meikle’s scribblefest
- Weekly Writing Challenge: Lunch Posts Day 1 | Reflections and Nightmares- Irene A Waters (writer and memoirist)
- Day 1: 9am – waiting. | Abstractions of Life
- Sing a Song for Sixpence | litadoolan
- Weekly Writing Challenge: Lunch Posts | The Wandering Poet
- Weekly Writing Challenge – Lunch Posts | Joe’s Musings
See the complete list on Lunch Writing Challenge page listed under Trackbacks & Pingbacks. Also come back and visit this blog, Running Brook Reflections, as we’re accepting the week long Lunch challenge.
Running Brook Reflections 
I’ve lived in the big city and I’ve lived in the wide open spaces.
I’d take your lunch day over a city lunch any day.
Get better soon. ;0)
Thanks so much! I rather like country living myself, although I do like to visit the city from time to time.
Well, for now, I live in the city, and from time to time, am blessed with a visit to the country.
lovely and interesting post. Thank you for liking my blog.
Thank you. I enjoyed yours as well. On some level I think I can relate. 🙂 thank you for sharing.
I would just love to have lunch with a view like yours!
We are blessed. I was not raised here, although I think I was meant to be here. My husband and his family have been great stewards of the land. I’m grateful that they made it possible. Thank you for visiting my blog. 🙂
That sounds like a beautiful lunch (except for the being sick part). Your view sounds completely relaxing.
It is a nice view. Something about animals and nature really brings a calm.
Lovely discription . Love the way u capture the details …. Thanks fr liking my blog 😀
Thank you. 🙂 You are very welcome. 🙂 Keep up the good work.
you dont have to compete with New york cafes and Jersey’s boardwalks as your post totally gives us a different feel of being cozy at home! And thank you for linking my story in yours. as a newbie here, yes I did not know how to generate a ping back like others did! 😦
Thanks so much for your post. 🙂 It’s not too late to add a link to your post to create the pingback. Let me know if you need some instructions.
it would be very helpful if you could teach me that spell xD I just posted the permalink of my post in the comments section which did not create any magic!
I would be happy to. First, go back to your post and click the edit button. This will bring up the original screen you had when you wrote your story. Somewhere in the text add the link to the Lunch Writing Challenge page, which is : http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/01/20/weekly-writing-challenge-lunch-posts/. You can put it at the top or the bottom or where ever you like. You can post it like this. Or you can type the words ‘Lunch Writing Challenge’, then highlight those words, then click the link button (which reminds me of a link of chain or a paperclip) and insert the above link in the form. It will automatically attach the link to the words. When you are done, click the update button. This creates what is called a pingback. Likewise, anytime someone puts a link to your page on their page, you see a pingback in your comments.
Thanks alot brooks 😀 *bows*
Love your take on the lunch time posts as a ‘Day in a life of’. Love that perspective and also your view! It’s amazing to see what you are looking at as you write. Great job.
Thanks so much! 🙂
Hi,thanks for dropping by.