prompts for july 2026

What’s a song that you can relate to?

After days of my laptop threatening to restart, this morning it decided it could not wait another five minutes so it interrupted me and did just that.

I had this great idea though, as you’re sitting there waiting for it to restart, maybe it could tell you jokes to help pass the minutes?

Like “please keep your computer turned on…it will restart in 17 minutes…why did the chicken cross the road?”

Lame? Yeah maybe a bit.

My answer to this prompt is lame too.

So when I was seventeen-ish and first discovered Eagles’ music, (don’t ask me how I went seventeen years never hearing of them, I guess the rock I lived under was that large), I led a bit of a boring life. When I heard the song “Lyin’ Eyes”, I became obsessed with it.

My young and very naive self thought, what a cool scenario. Young girl marries an old man so she can live comfortably and have not a care in the world but she has an actual true love, (guy her age), who she sneaks out to be with.

I still think the opening lyrics are so cool:

City girls just seem to find out early

How to open doors with just a smile

It was this whole revelation to this country bumpkin, wow, yeah that’s absolutely true, girls can magically open doors with just a smile.

Anyway, nobody would actually want to find themselves in the situation this song describes, but in my teenage brain, bored on the farm out of my mind, I really thought it would be cool.

Here it is in case you want a listen, I was only one year old!