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Monday, October 09, 2006
can you feel the love?
Jennifer (who gets the dubious honor of being the subject of two posts in a row) tagged me for a meme. I'm supposed to do some sort of word association with four words of her choosing. Fun times. :)
OK, here goes.
encumbered: Oh, great, already this word has done that thing where it becomes the weirdest possible collection of sounds and letters ever, know what I mean? And I'm going to have to type it again. Honestly, the first phrase to come to mind is "self-loathing". As in, I have gone through my life encumbered by self-loathing. Not today, though. I'm pretty chipper today. And, well, pretty much every day. My whole life.
lofty: What my ceilings are not. Neither are my ambitions. Or my plans. Wow.
exaggerate: When I was a kid I used to exaggerate regularly, like it was an addiction. I would tell a story and then embellish it. Frequently this meant that (because I was only a kid, and while I was book-smart, I was life-stupid, thank you Edewaa Foster for that completely apt description of me; bet you didn't know I'd still be using it twenty years down the road) at some point someone would look at me, all nuh uh, that is totally impossible, and I would be stuck choosing whether to stick it out or backtrack. By my teens I had learned that the exaggeration just plain wasn't worth it. Although I still have a few of these stories come bite me in the butt from time to time, and I get to admit that I was being an idiot and I made that up.
Now you all don't like me anymore and you won't come around. Fine.
And, because Jennifer loves me SO MUCH*, I get the word bowel. Thank you. Um. It's been better, thanks for asking. (begin glowing, flame-hot blush.... now.)
*Speaking (again) of Jennifer, I have been contemplating the friendships in my life and thinking about making a blog post about them, but like most of the blog posts I think about, it hasn't happened. I'm having a super busy week (baby shower present to crochet, zoo date with Debi tomorrow, far far behind on librivox stuff, just got a transcribing job, plus all that school/dishes/laundry stuff that keeps repeating itself) so it's not going to be happening anytime too soon, either. But I'm thinking about it all the same.
Edited to add: I completely forgot to tag anybody.
Um, Michael, Debi, Valerie, and Susan (in my comments since you deprive the world of so much of your wonderfulness by not having a blog, even though with only four kids I know you have all kinds of free time), you are IT. And your words (I'll be nice, unlike SOME PEOPLE I KNOW) are:
desperation
clever
fractions
flirt
Comments
I will get to as soon as possible!! Right now I have much cleaning before dh gets home. =)
Posted by: debi at October 9, 2006 04:00 PM
I did it! Oh, and I left a comment on your book thing a few days ago...it never showed up? Maybe it got eaten? I'm reading your friend Jen's testimony - awesome stuff. I will leave her a note soon, too. Thanks for that link. I love, love LOVE inspiring stories about our Daddy.
Posted by: Valerie at October 11, 2006 12:58 AM
Agh! I've never been cyber-tagged! I can't do it right now, but I will get to it as well, probably after the kiddos are in bed. I know I always say this, but life is nuts right now. I'm excited though - it sounds fun. And I will resist the urge to go peek at everyone else's answers first! :)
Be back later! :)
Posted by: Susan at October 11, 2006 01:15 PM
Aw. I'm sorry. I tend to forget that not everyone is as open about poo as I am :-). I never claimed to be socially acceptable. I miss you. I know you're busy and not trying to just completely avoid me ;-). I love you and I suppose I should get onto posting, I've been lazy. And I'm supposed to be writing a business plan. Blech.
Posted by: jenn at October 12, 2006 07:10 PM
Aw, this was an exceptionally nice post. Taking the time and actual effort to produce a top notch article… but
what can I say… I hesitate a lot and don't manage to get anything done.
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