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(2024) Bad Kitty…

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Daily writing prompt
Write about a time when you didn’t take action but wish you had. What would you do differently?
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The first thing that popped into my mind, when I read this prompt question, was the time I ate a piece of chocolate cake that the cat had peed on! I wish I were joking, but alas, there is nothing made up about that event.

What would I have done differently? I would have made the cat live outdoors much sooner than I did. The peeing on things had begun about a month prior. I’d been attempting to correct the cats behavior, rather than evicting her from the house… until that day!

Why on earth would this be the first thing I came up with, as I read the daily prompt?

As a general rule of thumb, I do not look on past decisions as something I would change. I stay away from the whole woulda shoulda coulda mindset, not only because it’s done and gone, but because our past makes us who we are now. Mess with one eensie weensie past decision and who knows what might be affected, here in the present.

So, for the most part, there isn’t a great list of things I would venture to safely change… aside for the cat and the cake… that I could un-remember!

Here, have a piece of cake… I’m sure it’ll be fine! This cutie wouldn’t dream of being naughty…

Wednesday Words…

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Eustace has taken it upon himself to collect all the new images needed for our springtime site maintenance.

Hey, hiring a professional photographer is ridiculously expensive, so when the camel volunteered… well, I didn’t have the heart, or the pocketbook, to argue with him. In all honesty, he’ll probably do far better than I could.

God speed, Eustace!

Oh, and watch out for tics and sand fleas… they can be real buggers (get it? Bug-errrs)

(2024) Nervous… Me?

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What makes you nervous?
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There was a time when I could say that I was the poster child for Anxiety! My nervousness was my very own survival mechanism of choice!

Not much of my life went the way I’d wanted, leaving me traumatized and wounded for many, many years. All of the life interuptuses I’ve endured, some from my own making, have landed me with two nervous roommates that never leave… IBS and Fibromyalgia.

While you may be wondering why I’ve allowed them to stay, to me, they are more like helpless children, needing constant care and supervision. In good conscience, I could no sooner evict these two, than I could my own children. By loving and tending my roommates, or scars if you will, God allows me to manage my own nervous anxieties, with grace, compassion and understanding.

Assigning a specific culprit to hold responsibility for making us nervous, seems rather silly. As WordPress is not leading a support group or therapy session, by asking everyone what makes them nervous, the only thing this prompt will successfully do is make everyone nervous about answering what makes them nervous.

Did they even look up the definition of the word, before they thought to ask the question? I did!

According to Google, which the world seems to think knows everything, the definition of nervous is this:

easily agitated or alarmed; tending to be anxious; highly strung.

“a sensitive, nervous person”

It seems rather ludicrous to ask a nervous person what makes them nervous! It quickly became apparent to me that the idea of being nervous is a mannerism, or a trait that has long since been established. Once I read the definition, I began thinking about how hard it would be to just randomly come up with an easy answer, over a cup of coffee in the morning.

If it were that easy for all us nervous folk to discover what makes us nervous, there would be millions of spare dollars floating around, that no longer need to be paid to the professionals who spend years learning how to become a therapist!

Just sayin…

Here, have a cookie…

They were supposed to look like pins and needles, but as the AI art generator reflects, it was much easier said than done! The closest it could come to what I wanted, was cookies stabbed by a decorative paperclip… go figure!

Who’s a Gorganizer?

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How do you use social media?
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Ok, so I was bored this morning. If I’m to be honest with you, there was nothing in my think box that would be fitting for our normal literary investigations. It just wasn’t happening.

Out of desperation for a topic, I reached out to good ole Mr. McGoogle, in the hopes that I might find something useful to discuss.

But, what to ask? How does one come to find a useful topic, without the right query to pose, right?! That was an Interrobang, by the way. You’ll never guess how I know that?

I went out on the web and typed,

Words not often used in the English language

This was my result,

AI Overview

Rare and underused words in the English language often serve to describe specific feelings, sounds, or actions with intense precision. Many are antiquated, regional, or highly niche in their application, leading them to be replaced by simpler, more general terms in modern conversation.

Forgotten and Archaic Words

  • Twirlblast (n.): A 1700s term for a tornado.
  • Groaning-cheese (n.): A medieval term for a celebratory cheese marking the birth of a child.
  • Pilgarlik (n.): Someone who is bald, once thought to resemble peeled garlic.
  • Snowbrowth (n.): Freshly melted snow, a term from the 1590s.
  • Sooterkin (n.): Originally a deformed fetus, later used as a term of endearment.
  • Overmorrow (n.): The day after tomorrow.
  • Agelast (n.): A person who never laughs. 

Highly Specific Descriptive Words

  • Crapulence (n.): Sickness caused by excessive eating or drinking; a hangover.
  • Callipygian (adj.): Having well-shaped or beautiful buttocks.
  • Swullocking (adj.): Humid, hot weather.
  • Chasmophile (n.): A person who loves nooks and crannies.
  • Scurryfunge (n.): The act of hastily cleaning before a guest arrives.
  • Groak (v.): To watch someone silently while they eat, hoping they will invite you to join.
  • Elflock (n.): Tangled, knotted hair.
  • Acnestis (n.): The part of the back that cannot be reached to be scratched.
  • Gorgonize (v.): To have a paralyzing or mesmerizing effect on someone. 

Words That Deserve Wider Use

  • Ultracrepidarian (n.): Someone who gives opinions on subjects they know nothing about.
  • Snollygoster (n.): An unprincipled but shrewd politician.
  • Nibling (n.): A non-gender specific term for a niece or nephew.
  • Apricity (n.): The warmth of the sun in winter.
  • Petrichor (n.): The pleasant, earthy smell that accompanies the first rain after a long dry spell.
  • Anemoia (n.): Nostalgia for a time or place one has never known.
  • Anecdoche (n.): A conversation in which everyone is talking, but no one is listening. 

Obscure Adjectives

  • Catawampus (adj.): Askew, awry, or diagonally positioned.
  • Jentacular (adj.): Pertaining to breakfast.
  • Crapulous (adj.): Ill from excessive indulgence in food or drink.
  • Sybaritic (adj.): Accustomed to great luxury and pleasure-seeking.
  • Agathokakological (adj.): Composed of both good and evil. 

Whimsical and Odd Words

  • Interrobang (n.): A punctuation mark that combines a question mark and exclamation point (‽).
  • Bumbershoot (n.): An umbrella.
  • Flibbertigibbet (n.): A flighty, excessively talkative person.
  • Taradiddle (n.): Pretentious nonsense or a petty lie.
  • Skedaddle (v.): To run away quickly. 

Words for Specific Situations

  • Lypophrenia (n.): A vague sadness without a known cause.
  • Limerence (n.): An intense, almost obsessive romantic infatuation.
  • Treppenwitz (n.): The perfect witty comeback that occurs to you too late (literally: “staircase wit”).
  • Zugzwang (n.): A situation where a person is forced to make a move, but every option is bad (often used in chess).
  • Resistentialism (n.): The belief that inanimate objects display spiteful behavior.
  • Librocubicularist (n.): A person who reads in bed.

If nothing else, this was an incredibly entertaining bit of research. I had no idea that I was a Librocubicularist. I think my autocorrect just had a seizure!

Which one is your favorite? I’m torn between Skurryfunge and Treppenwitz, probably because I’ve found myself doing both, often enough.

If society readily continued with the use of most of these, I think it would really spice up many of our conversations, don’t you?! See how easy it is to do. You too can become a successful Interrobanger!

Preferably when I’m asleep…

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What’s the most fun way to exercise?
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Some of the best things that happen to us, happen while we are dreaming. Granted, some of the worst things to happen, also occur while we’re sleeping. But, let’s focus on the good ones.

Why, I can ride horses with the best of them, without getting kicked, bit, or trampled. I can run fast enough to either catch the bad guy… or maybe just get away! I can be the most athletic, beautiful, and charismatic heroin, or be the best art thief never captured!

My point here is that we do our best, act our most capable, and accomplish more in our dreams than in the real world.

I’m not saying that people don’t exercise, as many do. It just seems that since jogging hurts every internal organ I own, and most exercise takes far more expendable energy that I wish to offer up, on a daily basis… sleep yoga is far cheaper, more fun, and you can do it for as long as you feel like it. I haven’t yet woken up feeling tired from my workouts. Well, most of the time, anyways.

Have a cookie…

(2024) Depends on Who You Are…

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What animals make the best/worst pets?
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I’ve a list longer than my arm, filled with the names and breeds of differing pets living under my roof, at one time or another. My life began in the country, so early years hold memories of horses, dogs, cats, mice, and a few birds.

Parenthood brought forth tanks of fish, hamsters, bunnies, snakes, rats and a number of additional birds. Most parents are familiar with raising and caring for their children’s pets. If the animal didn’t live in our home, it lived in one of my kids friends homes.

I’ve worked for a veterinarian that owned a menagerie of differing rare species, dropped on the clinics doorstep. I sometimes wonder how many ill prepared families offered up their pets to the nearest vet, neighbors barn, field, stream or toilet?

My point here, is this… there is no perfect answer, as to the best and/or worst pets to own! Only three things come to mind, in choosing the right or wrong companion for your family. Can you afford to provide it a healthy and safe environment, will you be prepared to love and care for it throughout its entire lifespan, and does it belong in a home or in the wild? Outside of those things, pet owning experiences are open to interpretation, if you know what I mean.

My personal favorites are, of course, dogs cats and horses… but I also boast a large barnyard of crazy adorable babes that I wouldn’t trade for the world!

Here, have a cookie…

Egg hunting should be an Olympic sport…

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What Olympic sports do you enjoy watching the most?
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Tell me you wouldn’t binge watch videos of children’s antics during an Easter Egg hunt, but you’d be fibbing.

Watching one child take eggs out of the basket of another who isn’t looking, or following another child around, only to steal his or her egg find? You’ve never watched? It’s a riot! I’d binge watch that Olympic sport for hours, if I could.

An egg hunt is the best place to determine whose going to be the next pastor, and/or who will be the next politician… just sayin!

How bout them cookies?

(2024) Let’s Dance…

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Daily writing prompt
If you could have something named after you, what would it be?
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I think it would be absolutely fantastic if we could come up with a dance move called “The Wiwohka!”

Basically, it’d be the name you can give to people when they question your style of dance. The stranger, the better! Preferably, you can form your style into that of an inebriated surfer, riding the waves of the music, as if you’re being stalked by a great white!

Try it! It’ll be fun for the whole family!

Here, have a boogie cookie…

Thursday Thoughts…

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How come grown-ups smile when they’re sad, but cry when they’re happy?

Why do we always have to clean our rooms? It took me hours to mess it up.

How come grown ups say “eat all your vegetables”, which are sometimes yucky, but they say “don’t fill up on sweets” when we eat fruit? We need both, I’m thinking.

Will I be allowed to ride the bus to school with Tommy, next door?

Surely, people have met trolls before. Miss Wiwohka doesn’t think it’s a good idea, because some folks can be sort of mean about the whole ‘pointy’ ears thing.

If I climbed those rafters with one of Wiwohka’s pillow cases, I think I might be able to float down without getting hurt. Maybe I’ll spread some hay on the floor, just in case.

I wonder if Pumpkin would be willing to give out rides across the pond, this summer…

If you’re wondering why today’s Thursday Thoughts are brought to you by me, Peanut, it’s because I never get to write for our barnyard, because Lilly and Eustace always hog the computer. It’s not fair, I say.

Well, things are about to change!

Today, this troll got here first!

And, I’ve been writing my thoughts out while she was taking her shower. Don’t judge! A troll’s gotta do what a troll’s gotta do, right?!

Pssssstttt! (whispers the troll) I’m getting out of here before she comes out… (Wiwohka’s voice can be heard in the background) … hey, what have you been up to, Peanut? … nothin (an adorable little red headed troll peeks out from the bedroom doorway).