Wordzzle Challenge

This is my 5th

Raven, at Views From Raven's Nest, has created this word puzzle, Wordzzle, for us to have a challenge and write to. The words to work with this week are:

Main Challenge: Netflix, mortgage, skunk, flagrant, the New York Times, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, perpendicular, geometry, crabby, shoveling snow

Mini Challenge: pragmatic, crystal ball, laundry, safflower oil, Gregorian chants

My Mega Challenge (15):

Crystal Ball entered Netflix Mortgage & Loan at 3pm sharp. She had an appointment to see the crabby old skunk that was the manager of the company. Crystal was doing free lance journalism work for the New York Times & the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. A very pragmatic woman, Ms. Ball intended to interview Mr. Snodgrass, the loans manager here. Yes indeed, and she intended to air his laundry, with flagrant disregard for his feelings or livelyhood, in the two afore mentioned publications. By 3:30 she walked out again, with the intended interview safely in her briefcase.

Crystal had majored in math in college, planning to be a geometry teacher, then when that didn't work out she had turned to journalism instead. She was determined to make a go of this career, no matter what it took. Passing a man who was busy shoveling snow, Crystal continued on for 2 blocks before making a perpendicular turn and heading south on Western Drive. She went into the small grocery store on the corrner of Western Drive and Saloon Street, picking up a bottle of safflower oil, reconsidering, then returning it to the shelf. She picked up a bottle of Extra Vergin Olive Oil and a few other ingredients she needed for her dinner tonight. After paying for her purchases, Crystal left the store and got into the car she'd left parked out front, driving east on Saloon Street, heading home to do her Gregorian chants, then prepare her dinner.

My Main Wordzzle Challenge (10):

Granny Tubman sat watching her movie, a western that she'd just gotten in yesterdays mail, straight from Netflix. She loved watching western movies with all the good looking cowboys in their nice tight jeans, and all the horses. She so loved horses... and cowboys. Scattered on the floor around her lay the packaging from the DVD she was so engrossed in, along with the New York Times from earlier in the week, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy & an old geometry book. She had been in a crabby mood this past week and had flagrantly disregarded the latest notification that her mortgage was past due. She knew she should be out shoveling snow, but the movie was more important to her just now. Granny Tubman's pet skunk, Sniffles, layperpendicular to her armchair, sleeping as his owner enjoyed her movie. He knew that, now she was getting to watch her western, she would soon be in a good mood and all would be well again.

My Mini Challenge (5):

Poinsettia sat at her table, staring into her crystal ball. She was a very pragmatic woman who believed to the depth of her heart that, when you did Gregorian chants, it helped to make the vision of the future appear more clearly. She knew this for a fact as she had been a fortune teller all her life, and the predictions she made always came true. Now, in the crystal ball, she say a bottle of safflower oil, laying half empty and with the lid off in what had been a basket of clean laundry. Now to figure out what this meant. That was one of the problems with fortune telling, sometimes it was a challenge to understand the images she saw.

Next Week's Ten Word Challenge will be: chopping block, reading list, bangles, oracle, plan, fandango, spelling bee, calendar, utilitarian, flower pot

Mini Challenge: Siberia, citrus fruit, roofer, shamrock, twinkle twinkle little star