el·e·phan·ti·a·sis [el-uh-fuhn-tahy-uh-sis, -fan-] n. 1.Pathology . a chronic filarial disease resulting in lymphatic obstruction, characterized by marked enlargement of the parts affected, esp. of the legs and scrotum, transmitted by mosquitoes. 2.Untoward growth or development: bureaucratic elephantiasis. [Origin: 1575–85; < L < Gk elephantíāsis, equiv. to elephant- elephant + -iāsis -iasis] The first thing I [...]
My friend Alana occasionally emails me forwarded jokes she gets while she’s in the salt mine better known as the bank where she’s employed. This joke was one of those where you had to scroll down like two mouse rolly ball rolls so you could get passed all of the junk and get to the joke. [...]
dac·ry·on [dak-ree-on] –noun, plural -ry·a [-ree-uh] Anatomy . The point of junction of the maxillary, lacrimal, and frontal bones. [Origin: 1875–80; < NL < Gk dákryon a tear (var. of dákry ); see dacryo-] To be extremely blunt, if you have this your face doesn’t fall off. You don’t have this, you won’t want …
Everyone has their favorite foods. Tucker could live on ice cream and pizza. When those two things are placed in front of him, he eats it all no matter how much is there. My weakness is meat. If I were an animal, I would be an alligator or something. All that meat just heading on [...]
cru·ci·ver·bal·ist [krs-vûrb-lst] n. 1. A constructor of crosswords. 2. An enthusiast of word games, especially of crosswords. [From Latin crux, cruc-, cross + Latin verbum, word (translation of English crossword).] I’m horrible at crossword puzzles. I love words, I love playing with word, I love making up words. However, the ADD tends to kick in [...]
birth·day [burth-dey] n. 1. The anniversary of a birth. 2. The day of a person’s birth. 3. A day marking or commemorating the origin, founding, or beginning of something. 4. The festivities or celebration marking such a day or anniversary. [Origin: 1350–1400; ME; see birth, day] Last night I thought I’d make this a weekly [...]
al·bu·men n. 1. The white of an egg, which consists mainly of albumin dissolved in water. 2. See albumin. [Latin albmen, from albus, white; see albho- in Indo-European roots.] Let’s use it in a sentence, shall we? The albumen was very viscous and reminded me of snot. Class dismissed. Image
I mentioned I’m doing yoga now and since starting, I’ve missed two days: Saturday and Sunday. But Saturday doesn’t count since Tucker, the kids, my mom and I all went to the local nature center and walked around for three hours or something and I sweated off half of my body weight. Sunday? Sunday I [...]
What did I do this weekend? Tucker and I trekked to Arkansas and picked the kids up. And the kids missed us. Which was cool. We got home last night, the kids went to bed with little fuss and as I’m typing this, Tucker’s fixing them lunch [Note: I've been writing this all freakin' day.] and the [...]
I get to see my kids today. Yay! And I can type that without being sarcastic. Sure the house is really clean and tidy. Sure the kids’ rooms look like they have been set up for a photo shoot or something. Dinners have been eaten later than they’ve been eaten in almost four years. We [...]
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