Word of the Week
pyknic \PIK-nik\
adjective: 1. Having a rounded build or body structure.
noun: 1. A person of the pyknic type.
xI don't know about you, but the older I get, the more pyknic my body type gets! And that's no picnic! LOL
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Of all the letters of the alphabet, I have always thought the letter "c" a bit superfluous. After all, the letter "k" can take over for words with the hard "k" sounds as in: kite, kind, kindred and kitten so why not use it for "kalorie, korner, kandy and kopy?" The letter "s" can pinch hit for words with "s" sounds as in: sound, sign, silly and senses so why not use it for "sylinder" and "sytoplasm?" If we laid off the letter "c," kindergarten kids would only have 25 letters of the alphabet to "kopy." Weight watchers would "kount kalories" and kids would eat "kandy korn" unless they didn’t eat their "serial" in the morning. Oh, I know what...
What’s a comfort zone? I think I forgot again. I'll have to go look that up. Let's see...Comfort zone, noun, "the level at which one functions with ease and familiarity." Hmmm... I grew up all over the U.S.- always the new kid on the block. When I was 2 weeks old, I moved from Colorado to Florida. We lived in too many places to count there and, in just two years, we moved again after my sister was born. Settling down in N.Y. for eight whole years, we lived in an apartment and two different houses. I went to two of every school except for college. Every time my father's company needed a volunteer to move across country, my father's...
10 Things People Would Rather Do Than Speak in Public…
1.Count the blades of grass
2. Eat Liver
3. Sit in rush hour traffic
4. Listen to nails scratching on a blackboard
5. Babysit Tommy the Terrible
6. Pay their taxes
7. Have root canal
8. Jump out of an airplane
9. Snuggle with a grizzly bear
10. Eat worms
What about you?
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I posted this several years ago, but I felt it was worth repeating lol...and I have some new additions. It all started a while back when I found an Abraham Lincoln quote: “People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.” It sounded so close to something my dad always says: “This is the kind of thing you like if you like that kind of thing.” I posted them on Facebook and began getting responses that were such great fun like this one: “Where ever you go, there you are!” -I have no idea who originally said this, do you? Which reminded me of a funny message my sister and her family had on their answering...
