25 Crazy Excuses To Get Out Of Work

Something ridiculous and unexplainable has occurred this morning. There's no way way you'll make it into work--but your boss will never believe the truth.

Still, you have to try. So you pick up the phone and you say,

"Good morning boss. I'm afraid I can't come in today because..."

1. I didn't escape the dragon.


2. I've been whisked out of time and space by a mad man in a blue box.


3. I'm buried in a mountain of popcorn.


4. The kidnappers are fixing to push me off without a parachute.


5. I'm caught in a fairy ring and they won't let me go.


6. In 30 seconds the Dark Lord destroys the world and only I can stop him.


7. I was eloping and fell off the ladder.


8. The werewolf moon strikes tonight and its having a stronger effect than I anticipated.


9. My secret experiment exploded all over my apartment.


10. Aliens crash landed in my backyard and are holding me hostage for our worlds secrets.


11. My toe is caught in the faucet.


12. I got sucked into the computer and now I'm trapped in a virtual game world.


13. I'm holding off the vampires with garlic, crosses and holy water.


14. An angry earth goddess is threatening to turn me into a tree if I don't comply in the next ten minutes.


15. Giant spiders have surrounded my home and all I have to fight them off with is a frying pan.


16. My Muse and I traded places this week and now she's refusing to do boring things.


17. A jealous witch put a sleeping curse on me.


18. I ran into the door-frame and broke an elbow. Don't ask.


19. My bedroom is swamped by tiny blue people and they refuse to leave unless I give them cornflakes. Unfortunately I ran out of those yesterday.


20. An Elf riding a flying unicorn took me away to Fairyland. They're in need of some Unlikely Heroines.


21. I let Mr. Darcy out of the book and I have to get him back in before Lizzie marries Wickham.


22. I found a genie lamp and I'll be sending in my resignation.


23. I'm trapped inside the Mona Lisa. Da Vinci it seems was something of a magician.


24. A fortune teller says this is the day to find Prince Charming. And no offense but I'm not looking for him at the office.


25. I'm calling from the Underworld.

In need of more silly work excuses? Here's the story behind this fun game.

Comment below on your favorite excuse. And share three of your own silly work excuses! Or you could write your own blog post and put a link in the comments. :D

April Goals and Camp NaNo

I had some grandiose plans for this month. I was going to do Camp NaNoWriMo and finish a Cinderella retelling...and hit a 50,000 word goal. After all, I hit 70,000 words last NaNo. Piece of cake, right? Despite the fact that I've never started in on a Camp NaNo session yet and finished. Most of them I didn't do more than a 1000 words.

One reason I never finish Camp NaNo is that there's a lot of building anticipation while waiting for November. Plus I have at least one friend who always Nano's with me. And the dreary fall weather probably helps too. Yeah. April's too nice. I want to be outside. With the daffodils and the redbud trees, watching the trees leaf out, and enjoying the warm weather and the lovely breezes.

I should finish this and then get outside!

Anyway. I have scaled back on my writing goals. At least for Camp NaNo and Cinderella. Just 15,000 words (500 a day. Thats doable). And I will focus on other writing work I need to get done.

For one, posting to this blog regularly. And doing a weekly email (though I've only a handful of people so far....mostly loyal friends. Or family). And getting snarktales revised and published (I'm finally back to work on Beauty and the Beast. Hopefully will have it published in a week or two...).

I'm trying to read and learn about marketing my books. Jeff Walker's book about Product Launches (Its called, quite simply "Launch!") is very helpful. I'm planning to experiment and see what I can come up with, based on the advice in this book. Should be fun!