Autism is fun!

For reasons of a crazy work schedule I'm going to have to put Thesaurus Thursday on hiatus for a couple of weeks. I'm just not going to be at the computer reliably to put it up. I appreciate your patience, and I'll let you know when my schedule evens out...sometime after Labor Day. In the meantime it's up to YOU to keep your brain and funny bones in shape till T-T returns.

The Thesaurus Thursday answers and winners for last week are:

attelet - –noun
a small, thin, top-ornamented skewer used decoratively for serving sandwiches and hors d'oeuvres.

zein - –noun
1. Biochemistry . a soft, yellow powder of simple proteins obtained from corn, used chiefly in the manufacture of textile fibers, plastics, and paper coatings.
2. a synthetic fiber produced from this protein.

Our ONLY player was Roger last week, so Roger, you're the silliest of gooses, thank you for playing!!

His silly definitions were:
Zein - What happens while bowling(drunk of course), as in "I be zein the zone..."

Attelet - The first word in that commonly used phrase: "Attelet you know when I find out."




I've been very entertained by Sonshine this week!

One evening when talking about his day at school, Sonshine told me the following story:

"I found a finger in my first grade classroom! It was broken with the bone sticking out. There was a broken fingerbone and it had a hole in it. I stuck my finger in the hole in the broken fingerbone!"

This was soo funny I emailed his teacher to see what he was talking about! Here's her response:

"As soon as I read the third sentence of your email I knew exactly what he was talking about- I will put your mind as ease about first grade!! ;) Last year as part of our reward bucket we had little plastic fingers that fit over the finger like a thimble. They had only the finger nail part of the finger with a long painted finger nail. My girls loved them because they got to foo-foo themselves with a fake nail. I thought I had them all collected and put up but I guess not!! :)

To be perfectly honest... Sonshine's story is sooo much more interesting than what really happened!! hee hee"


Then, the other night I made some passing comment that Daddy was losing his hair....when Daddy walked in the bedroom to tuck the boys in Sonshine told him (all in one breath!)

"Daddy, you're losing your hair. Someday you're going to wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and say "Oh NO! I don't have any hair! It's all gone! I've gone bald!' "

THEN, this morning, I was trying to get Sonshine to try a bite of the new apple banana muffins Daddy'd made for breakfast. He took A bite under duress and said he didn't like it. Then Dad came up and said,

"These are Green Eggs and Ham muffins! You do not like Green Eggs and Ham muffins? Try them! Try them and you may! Try them and you may I say!"

TWO EATEN MUFFINS LATER.....Sonshine tells me, "Excuse me, Mom! I like the Green Eggs and Ham muffins!"

To which I could only reply, "You do? You like Green Eggs and Ham muffins? You like them Sam I am!"

many days in one.

You ever get that feeling like your days are all running together?

Well, here's proof!

This is a Thesaurus Thursday, and Fitness Friday, post on Saturday.

Ready?



Welcome to this week's belated edition of Thesaurus Thursday!

If you're new to Thesaurus Thursday, the T-T scoop can be found here.
Please take a second or two to get the scoop before you leave comments entries!


Last week's words:
busticate - verb (used with object), ‐cat·ed, ‐cat·ing. to break into pieces.


attar - –noun
1. Also, atar, athar, ottar, otto. a perfume or essential oil obtained from flowers or petals.
2. Also called attar of roses. rose oil.


Winners:

No Smarty Pants Winner this week.
Our Silly Goose Winners are:

Stephanie, SherryTex, Jungle Mom, Abornepoppa, and Roger! Y'all all cracked me UP with the busticate definitions!!

Don't forget to pick up your award on my sidebar before you leave.


This week's words are:
attelet

zein


Now get out there and exercise your BRAIN and your FUNNY BONE at the same time!!

Speaking of exercise!
It's Fitness Friday!



I sat in the waiting room of the dealership Friday morning and voila! I have HEADLIGHTS!! Yippee!!!

So, to test them out I went to the gym! My plan was to try and bike 7 miles. Since it'd been a MONTH from my last trip to the gym I thought I might need to take it easy and work back up to my usual 10 miles.


However, I ended up catching the last 1/2 of the Bengal vs Eagles pre-season football game! Anyone out there watch this game??
what a fun game.
interceptions....fumbles....incomplete passes....terrific tackles....penalties.
Plenty of opportunities to yell at the guys on the screen! (fortunately the gym was almost deserted...)
it was great to watch, but I'd hate to be on EITHER of these teams Monday when it's time to review the game films!
Bengals won 22 to 9.

And by the time I looked down at the bike....I'd gone 10.3 miles!!!

My goal for next week is 20 miles.


In other news I've been feeling punky a lot the last few days. Wednesday -Thursday I stayed up for 30+ hours and I really haven't slept longer than about 5 hours at a stretch since, so it might be plain old sleep deprivation. But whatever it is I'm ready for it to be gone!

I've worn the easytone shoes for a week now, and have yet to feel sore at all. I'm thinking that when you have a 9 1/2 WIDE foot, it takes more than those little ovals to put you off balance enough to change how you walk!! As my Grandpa would say, My feet are so big "all Hell couldn't trip me up"!

Had the ARD for Gator-boy. I'm very very excited about this school year! Gator will have the same teacher that Sonshine had last year! Sonshine's 1st grade teacher is also the Gifted & Talented teacher, who has a son with ADHD!! And, Sonshine will get to keep the same aid from last year!! It's going to be a GREAT year!!

I asked Miss Ladybug the kindergarten teacher WHY 6 boxes of crayons. She told me that she rotates them out at the beginning of every 6 weeks. Seems many of the kids really like the pointy crayons. She then will send the used crayons home or keep them till the end of the year. This does explain the big bag of 1/2 used crayons that I got last day of school!! It's nice to know the reason for the supply list!! :-)

Here's to a good week! And don't forget to play with those words!

Thesaurus Thursday 2010 #3

I just LOVE quick and easy and super cute projects! These baby blankets take about 2 hours to make each. They're soft and sweet and the perfect size and weight! Makes me feel so PRODUCTIVE!

This one's for SherryTex's January baby girl.

This one's for Jill's January baby boy.

Now, let's see, last week our words were:

chebec - A small grayish bird (Empidonax minimus) commonly inhabiting fields and groves of eastern North America. Also called least flycatcher.

cheddite –noun Chemistry .
an explosive for blasting, composed of a chlorate or perchlorate mixed with a fatty substance, as castor oil.

NO SMARTY PANTS WINNERS THIS WEEK!

Winners of the Silly Goose Awards are:

Roger with: Chebec - a liberal version of Glen Beck, he's all the rage in the jungle.

and Lori with: cheddite---a religious group similar to Hutterites and Mennonites. They worship cheddar cheese, wear cheese hats, eat cheese curds, and carry a cheese slicer at all time. They milk goats to make and sell cheese.

Congratulations Roger and Lori! Thanks to all of our players for the laughs you gave me this week! Please pick up your award from my sidebar before you leave...


This week's words are

busticate

attar

If you're new to Thesaurus Thursday, the T-T scoop can be found here.
Please take a second or two to get the scoop before you leave comments entries!

Now get out there and exercise your BRAIN and your FUNNY BONE at the same time!!

Thesaurus Thursday 2010 #2

If you're new to Thesaurus Thursday, the T-T scoop can be found here.
Please take a second or two to get the scoop before the game begins!

Are you ready to exercise your BRAIN and your FUNNY BONE at the same time??


Our words for last week were:
heu·cher·a   /ˈhyukərə/ Show Spelled [hyoo-ker-uh] - –noun
any of various North American plants belonging to the genus Heuchera, of the saxifrage family, having clusters of small, cup-shaped flowers, esp. the alumroots.

queachy - Queach"y\, a. Yielding or trembling under the feet, as moist or boggy ground; shaking; moving. "The queachy fens." "Godwin's queachy sands." --Drayton.


And the winners of our two HIGHLY VALUED AND SUPER FABULOUS prizes:

No Smarty Pants winners this week!

Silly Goose Winners are:

Molly said...
heuchera - expletive uttered by Chihuahuas and various other small breeds of dogs

Roger said...
Queachy - The noise that emanates from a thirteen-year old girl that has a large spider/mouse/rat/fuzz ball dropped on her lap unexpectedly. Has also happened to forty-plus year old men on occasion.

Congratulations to our Winners!!!


Now, for next week, see what you can do with these words:

chebec

cheddite

Remember, you can enter as many comments for each word as you like!

I'll post the REAL definitions and the winners next Thursday along with new words to play with. So tune in NEXT THURSDAY to see if you won!!

Thesaurus Thursday

Every once in awhile....NOW, being one of those times......I feel like I move about in a bubble.


I feel like the things I say aren't listened to, the things I write aren't read.
And my funny bone is MIA.

And then, just when I'm getting a real good pity party going, I find out that dictionary.com has a FREE iPHONE APP!! This is waaaaaay exciting to a girl fascinated with dictionaries!! :-)

So, I'm going to bring back what has been the MOST FUN thing since I started this blog.

Yes, that's right.

Thesaurus Thursday has returned!!
If you're new to Thesaurus Thursday, the T-T scoop can be found here.
Please take a second or two to get the scoop before the game begins!

Now, the point of Thesaurus Thursday is to increase our vocabularly so I only pick words that I don't already know the meanings of! Don't go thinking I'm some super big smarty pants!

Are you ready to exercise your BRAIN and your FUNNY BONE at the same time??


Our words for this week are:
heu·cher·a   /ˈhyukərə/ Show Spelled [hyoo-ker-uh]
queachy


Don't Forget! you're competeing for these two HIGHLY VALUED AND SUPER FABULOUS prizes!!




and you can enter as many comments for each word as you like!

I'll post the REAL definitions and the winners next Thursday along with new words to play with. So tune in NEXT THURSDAY to see if you won!!