Listening to: Meat Loaf- Bat Out of Hell (1&2)
Reading: The Reef Nora Roberts
Weather: foggy in the morning, but sunny and 68 later on
Trivia: A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called a "epithalamium."
Cool word:fuddy duddy [n. FUD-ee DUD-ee]
A fuddy duddy is an old-fashioned person with fussy, hyper-critical ways. Example: "Professor Higgins is such a fuddy duddy, he won't even let his boys play in the yard on Saturdays." The origin of this phrase is uncertain. It seems to have first gotten started around 1900 in Maine, a place and time of puritanical, straight-laced attitudes. Some dictionaries suggest that the phrase is related to "fuddled," an old word meaning "drunk or confused," but that theory seems unlikely because a fuddy duddy is not the kind of
person who is likely to get drunk. A more intriguing theory is that it emerged from the letters sometimes found after the names of clergymen who were also professors, something
fairly common in those days. Someone known as "James Witherspoon, Ph.D., D.D." might have been called "James Witherspoon, fuddy duddy" by those with little respect for his credentials.
No Point
There is literally no point in posting today, as I have done nothing worth writing about!
I’ve spent the day working on the clothes and closets, and feel as if I’ve only been spinning my wheels. I’ve got most of it done, at least as done as it can be until my brother fixes the bar in the closet. There is of course the mess that remains in the closet in the other bedroom, but I’m denying that exists. I really do need to pare down on this stuff. I have so much that I don’t even know what I own,
I spent too much time on the computer and playing on the web, just exploring sites. I was specifically looking for clip art that has a November feel to it. I can’t do Pilgrims all month, especially images that have them with buckles on their shoes and hats. The Pilgrims didn’t wear those.
It’s way too easy to get absorbed into the internet.
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