A V kind of Day - Verklempt

It's what I have been of late...

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xoabb

expect anything!

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Added 9:55 am: P. S. Such a wonderful Yiddish word - I love the way it rolls off one's tongue. I've always used to mean "I'll all done in - have nuthin' more to give - simply verklempt!"  Just looked it up and its definition is  "overcome with emotion".  Basically what I thought it meant - and definitely what I've been of late...

Favorite Word of the Day...

Lament:  A song or poem expressing grief, regret or mourning...

Oh noooo....

YUM, I'll eat this up...

Thanksgiving food left alone!

Oh! I'm discovered!

Curses! A feast foiled!

They have caught me in the act!

My humans are baaaad!

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Miss Stella-Bella spent a good many hours outdoors on the days following Thanksgiving. Suffice it to say, her  Turkey-day food haul was astoundingly ginormous and we really didn't want to know the end of that particular story...

Do excuse her ET eyes...cameras should come equipped with not only red-eye erase ability, but pet (green)-eye erase ability as well. Someday!

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xoabb

expect anything!

P.S. - That tilted thing in the photo is a disposable pepper grinder I bought at Costco (wonderful, by the way). Must warn you, if you have a shelf above your cooktop, it is not a good idea to put disposable plastic pepper grinders on said shelf. They will soon take on a shape all their own. 

Word of the Day

Plethora:

pleth·o·ra:  A superabundance; an excess.

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[Late Latin plthra, from Greek, from plthein, to be full; see pel-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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As used in a sentence: "I'd been given a plethora of roses for my birthday. While in and of itself, that was simply lovely, I do wonder why I wasn't given a plethora of 3 carat diamond stud earrings, one for each ear, instead (sigh)."

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xoabb

Word of the Day

Dearth

dearth
(dûrth)

n.

1. A scarce supply; a lack: "the dearth of uncensored, firsthand information about the war" Richard Zoglin2. (obselete, rare) Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly.


While I didn't pen the example of using ~dearth~ in that first definition, I certainly agree. (There I go - being "political" again).

Below is my attempt, after the photo, of the second definition...

In this old world of ours, there truly is a dearth of roses
whose aroma is as beautiful as their appearance.
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Behold the Bonica rose.
She breaks the mold.
Dearthness begone!

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xoabb

P.S. Head on over to Mental Mama. I have it on good authority that she has used this outstanding word in her post today as well.

P.P.S. Our high today was a cool 89 with low humidity! Hurray!

Word of the Day

Regal

re·gal (rgl)

adj.

1. Magnificent, splendid.

2. Belonging to or befitting a monarch: regal appearance.

3. Of or relating to a monarch; royal.
4. Stella, aka Baroness Stella Von Foofle-Poofle(she is a German Shephard, ya know)

well.....

unless she happens to be celebrating

her feather

then she just dances....

and prances!

Goofy, silly, wonderful dog.

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xoabb

Quietude

Quietude

a state or quality of being calm, quiet, silent, or in repose; resting.

tranquility.

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xoabb

Word of the Day

Obsequious

1. fawning or subservient

2. excessively eager to please or to obey all instructions...except when the tv remote is involved

3. obedient, dutiful


As used in a sentence:

Upon observing my husband's obsequious behavior of late, it suddenly occured to me that 1. He had a really big favor to ask of me and he wasn't at all sure I'd be happy about it, or 2. He had a really big golf trip with his buddies planned and he wasn't at all sure I'd be happy about it.

Word of the Day

Cathartic - as an adjective

Adj.	1.	cathartic - emotionally purging psychotherapeutic healthful - conducive to good health of body or mind; "a healthful climate"; "a healthful environment"; "healthful nutrition"; "healthful sleep"; "Dickens's relatively healthful exuberance"
	2.	cathartic - emotionally purging (of e.g. art) releasing artistic creation, artistic production, art - the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully" emotional - of more than usual emotion; "his behavior was highly emotional"

"It was cathartic for me to be able to finally tell my husband that he just had to stop bringing me a dozen roses every week....it had become so mundane."

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xoabb

Word of the Day

Superfluous

superfluous \soo-PER-floo-us\, adjective:
More than is wanted or is sufficient; rendered unnecessary by superabundance; unnecessary; useless; excessive.

For Example:

There seems to be a inordinate (another favorite word) number of superfluous politicians in the United States.

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xoabb

Word of the Day

And it's one of my favorites:

Cantankerous

Dated from: 1772

Definition: difficult, irritating to deal with

You could also simply imagine my hubby, GB, who is the walking definition of cantankerous...at times ;-)

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P. S. an "Oh Bother!" update:

Antibiotic
Eye drops. Conjunctivitus
It's gone! Thank you!

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xoabb

Word of the Day

PERSNICKETY
~it's one of my very favorite words~
~I just love the way it rolls off the tongue~

per·snick·e·ty

(pr-snk-t)

adj.

1. a. Overparticular about trivial details; fastidious.

b. Snobbish; pretentious.

2. Requiring strict attention to detail; demanding: a persnickety job.

Origin: 1885–90; orig. Scots, var. of pernickety

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xoabb