TOTALLY GEEKED!

I totally understand. I miss mine when he's gone too.

VOR I am married to my best friend so I totally understand. I miss having him around to talk to when he is gone.

My elf was really really really naughty last night. I so want to wake SS up so he can see!

We doped up the dog with Benadryl because she is itching and scratching all her hair off. Maybe she'll sleep tonight.

OK, I give up. What is/are Widdershins or Widdershins Wednesday??

Wednesday afternoon here. Got my hair cut, paid the December health insurance at the city office branch, did some shopping. Enough for today.

Up! And that is all I have to say.

SB, that's so sweet.

flan

Yay Widdershins day! A day to go the opposite way. Good for lefties.

Rain again here. Very glad it's not snow.

Yesterday was a monsoon. If it had been snow, we'd have been Buffaloed.

Have a great day kiddoes! I'm planning to, despite my insane workload at work.

Will not let it get me down, will not let it get me down  .  .  . 

 

Hang in there, Blankie!

flan

Good morning.

Have a great day Ya'll.

flan327 wrote:

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LL, you were the one who suggested vocab words on the Daily! LOL

flan

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 I know.  I appreciate learning the new word.  But the dictionary actually said - left-handed, wrong, backwards, counter-clockwise.  One of these things is not like the other.....One of these things just doesn't belong.....

Btw, my dictionary has one word for the definition....counter clockwise. It's a fun word.

-- Edited by voiceofreason on Wednesday 10th of December 2014 07:34:22 AM

I'm fairly ambidextrous. My writing is legible regardless of what hand I write with. I can also read upside down. That skill has come in handy!

It's 5 am. I've been up since 3 because Z-Dog just HAD to go outside. He's back in bed snoring and I'm on TG. Grrr.

Widdershins (sometimes withershins, widershins or widderschynnes) is a term meaning to go counter-clockwise, to go anti-clockwise, or to go lefthandwise, or to walk around an object by always keeping it on the left. i.e. literally, it means to take a course opposite the apparent motion of the sun viewed from the Arctic Circle, (given the centre of this imaginary clock, is the ground, the viewer stands upon).[1] The Oxford English Dictionary's entry cites the earliest uses of the word from 1513, where it was found in the phrase widdersyns start my hair, i.e. my hair stood on end.

The use of the word also means "in a direction opposite to the usual", and in a direction contrary to the apparent course of the sun. It is cognate with the German language widersinnig, i.e., "against" + "sense". The term "widdershins" was especially common in Lowland Scots.


Just some interesting facts...the corpus callosum (the connection between the two hemispheres of the brain) is larger in left handed individuals (also in women as compared to men). There is some evidence that left handed individuals have an advantage in recovering speech after a left hemisphere stroke.

LOL!

I was up at 7:30. The apocalypse is hitting.

I just cleaned all my baseboards. And vacuumed the bedroom. And cleaned out the medicine/junk closet. I found 4 bottles of pain reliever, 6 bottles of tums, and 1,000,000 hair clips. At least a million. They breed and then hide when you need them.

-- Edited by voiceofreason on Wednesday 10th of December 2014 09:18:17 AM

That's a good point JPT. I sprayed down the back door yesterday because there was a cacoon of spider eggs in the corner. Thankfully it was outside otherwise I would have had to burn my house down.

voiceofreason wrote:

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That's a good point JPT. I sprayed down the back door yesterday because there was a cacoon of spider eggs in the corner. Thankfully it was outside otherwise I would have had to burn my house down.

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 Gawd, we actually drove by a house in West Seattle last August when we were visiting DS, DIL and grandsons where the renter did just that...burned the house down trying to kill a spider.

Am I the only one here that doesn't get all freaky about spiders, snakes and such?

JPT wrote:

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voiceofreason wrote:

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That's a good point JPT. I sprayed down the back door yesterday because there was a cacoon of spider eggs in the corner. Thankfully it was outside otherwise I would have had to burn my house down.

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 Gawd, we actually drove by a house in West Seattle last August when we were visiting DS, DIL and grandsons where the renter did just that...burned the house down trying to kill a spider.

Am I the only one here that doesn't get all freaky about spiders, snakes and such?

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 Snakes are fine.  As for spiders, I think it's just you and Vette.

I can handle one spider at a time. Spider egg thingys? Oh **** no.

flan327 wrote:

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voiceofreason wrote:

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That's a good point JPT. I sprayed down the back door yesterday because there was a cacoon of spider eggs in the corner. Thankfully it was outside otherwise I would have had to burn my house down.

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 There are 17 million cocoons of spider eggs in our garage...

flan

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 Uhm yeah let me repeat..OH **** NO!!!!!

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I don't mind most spiders, but those wolf ones really freak me out because they will attack. And you have to use a sledge hammer to kill them.

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 And they carry their babies around with them, so you have to be really careful b/c if you squish mama, the babies will go EVERYWHERE.  *shudder*

FNW wrote:

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I don't mind most spiders, but those wolf ones really freak me out because they will attack. And you have to use a sledge hammer to kill them.

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 Years back, we were installing a small pond liner shell, and a wolf spider was trapped in it, couldn't climb out.  I put my hand down near it, and it climbed up onto it, and I slowly pulled back and "rescued" it.  It kind of looked at me, tapped it's front foot, then kind of "waved" it at me, then crawled off.

Never have been bitten by a spider, or a snake (and I've handled both).  I actually will talk and tell the spider when I have to take down their web for either a bad location (blocking the door to our shop), or if the web is just full of detritus of former meals.

 

Yeah, I guess I am just weird that way.

When I was young a spider laid eggs somewhere on my nightstand. I never saw them, but one day, there were tiny baby spiders on the tablecloth. I wouldn't let my mom kill them, as they became my pets. They started dwindling in number, so I suspect she did the deed when I was at school. But she left one or two that I "raised". I have not yet been bitten either.