The Rules:

Each player answers the questions about themselves. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5-6 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they've been tagged.

1. What I was doing 10 years ago:

Enjoying being a stay-home Mum, attending my writing and poetry groups and just starting to get published. Gearing up to re-enter the workforce and making the transition from laboratory work to administration, better for the family.

And so began the drought – 10 years of wordlessness, just work-work-work and no writing. Was miserable, hated being earthbound. Started writing again two months ago when my husband’s hours changed, giving me some me-time for the first time in years - picking up where I left off and making lots of lovely writing friends all over the world through my blog.

2. What five things are on on my to-do list for today (not in any particular order):

1) Get up at six, have quick shower and breakfast and check what emails and blog replies have come through from my UK and USA friends overnight.
2) Do the work of two in my clinic manager/medical typist/Director’s Support/general dogsbody job because we're so short-staffed.
3) Do the usual mumsy things – pick up son from school and take him to football training, cook dinner, do dishes and laundry, pay bills, feed parrots and scrub cages.
4) 9.00 to midnight – Yay!! Internet time – husband no longer hogging modem for work so can check blogs, emails and play with my new global Facebook Doctor Who group (30 new members in a week!!)and network with friends all over the world – research first novel - throw something together for this writers’ challenge!!
5) Midnight-ish – Try to get some sleep and consider cloning myself.

3. Snacks I enjoy:

Crisps
Chocolate/sweets
Peanuts
Cheesecake
Icecream
(Mmm, must remember to fill that script for my cholesterol medication)

4. Things I would do if I was a billionaire:

Pay off mortgage
Buy houses for all family members (happy to keep my own little house, love it)
Visit relatives I’ve never met in Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania and Germany
Write full-time

5. Places I have lived:

Australia

I tag the following:

the-real-linda
jenray
prydwen
playwrite27

And now for the very short story (100 words, not one word more or less)

Another funeral. Another eulogy. Déjà vu.

Rain beat a listless tattoo on the roof of her car. Different to Dad’s send-off, standing room only there. Two vehicles in the car-park today, hers and a green Porsche 911, she wondered who the moneybags was.

Bracing herself, she made a dash to the chapel, but slipped and crashed to the ground. She was dazed, but strong arms were lifting her and whisking her to shelter.

Jake!! Where had this wonderful man been five years ago? Her body tensed.

Time to bury her partner and his vile alcoholic memories, once and for all.