- Otis can be trusted off a leash. This is a really wonderful discovery that M still doesn't trust.
- S is destined to become a world-famous dancer. She has watched my sisters' dance recitals non-stop since Monday. We're all getting a smidgen sick of it.
- I love Dickson County. We went to downtown Franklin on Tuesday, and there are some awesome shops there with some awesome stuff, but I really, truly love the lack of attitude in Dickson. I refuse to purchase anything from a store where no one speaks to me (unless they are super busy). It's like Drum Eatenton says, "an ounce of pretension is worth a pound of manure."
- My sisters' have the world's greatest book sitting above their computer. It's The Words You Should Know by David Olsen. It's a little dictionary of "1200 essential words every educated person should be able to use and define." It's crazy cool. Most of the words are words that you know, but today I learned the meaning of the word "bugaboo." It's an object of fear. Something that causes worry or dismay. Okay, so now I have to wonder who the genius is that named Bugaboo strollers. And, um, would you buy one knowing the literal meaning of the name? I don't think I would.
That is all.
1 comment:
1. Thank you for the vocab lesson! My favorite one like that was realizing that while "la esposa" means "wife" in Spanish, "las esposas" means "handcuffs". Hmmm....
2. I love that you quoted Drum Eatenton (and that I know who that is).
3. Here's hoping my mother never figures out how to turn our old school play videos into DVDs. I would never hear the end of it if my children saw me in my first grade play.
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