Floccinaucinihilipilification
Posted on April 11, 2008
Filed Under Random thoughts and inspirations
Since I haven’t written a new post in…oh…two months (shame)…I thought I would kick this off with an intriguing bit of useless knowledge for you. The word of the day is floccinaucinihilipilification. It’s a word. I swear! You don’t believe me? Go look it up on www.dictionary.com (tip: copy and paste the word into the site - don’t try to spell it on your own - unless you are a genius or something)…well, go ahead…I know you don’t believe me….I’ll wait here until you return…it’s 5am and raining so I’m not going anywhere soon. Are you returning with a look of shock on your face? See I told you! And did you see that it’s the longest word in the dictionary? You’re impressed aren’t you? Yeah, I thought so. 
I understand why you didn’t trust me - I broke a promise to you that I would update this on regular basis and then I left you hanging for two months. I’m sorry I have been m.i.a. I do have many reasons/excuses of why I haven’t written. Please hear me out. Let’s start from the beginning: My last post was on Feb 13th. That was very near the time-frame that I was leaving on a secret trip to Wisconsin to throw my Dad a surprise 60th birthday party. I couldn’t tell you about it because my Dad reads this every once in awhile. And I knew if I said anything about going out of town that he would call and ask about it. So you see I simply could not write you! What’s that? You say you want proof? Still don’t believe me huh? Okay, here’s proof:
There now, do you believe me? Are we friends again? Okay good. 
Why are we wearing those crazy clothes? What do you mean by that?! Don’t you wear a tie-dye shirt or an American flag shirt to birthday parties? Oh. That’s not normal? Huh. (It was a sixties/hippie theme party) ;-) I had a GREAT time and really enjoyed visiting family and friends. And I really, REALLY enjoyed seeing all the snow! Wisconsin had record breaking snow fall this winter so it was awesome! But I have to admit it was nice to return to warmer weather. I was getting close to being sick of snow by the time I left. Close - but not quite. So I’ll still be excited to see snow again…but not until next winter!
I kinda giggled when I review the last post - so much has happened since then. Definitely not snowing here anymore. Yesterday it was 79 degrees and all spring flowers have bloomed.
Shortly after I returned I was preparing to go to Mississippi with a couple of gals to visit a friend and be in an open-house sales party. I wanted to make a lot of jewelry with spring colors before I left so I put my blinders on and just focused on that. Had a really great time despite low attendance at the open-house. That was my first visit to Mississippi and I really enjoyed it! On the way my good friend Sharonda took me to Tuscaloosa, AL to see the University. Very, very pretty campus! I was quite impressed! Here we are …kinda funny picture…we are posing kinda funny because we wanted to have a nice shot of our heads with the Alabama “A” over our heads…Charlotte took the picture and focused on our bodies..oh well.
My next big, fun adventure was working on the dreaded TAXES. Ugh! DOUBLE UGH! I hate doing that stuff. Fortunately my very good friend Angela helped me with inventory by entering my purchasing receipts into a spreadsheet. She is a saint. No, seriously. Amazing how much she helped me! Thank you Saint Angela!
What else? Oh!…
My very amazing friend Daryl Woods has been helping me with life/work balancing skills…oh yeah, I majorly need that! He is a Life Coach and owns his own company called Fearlessly Me. Daryl is amazing! I’ve met with him only twice so far and I already learned so much about myself, how to balance my schedule and work toward my goals. I HIGHLY recommend him and his coaching skills. Check him out! www.fearlesslyme.com
There, I think I have you all caught up now. This week I’ve been working on switching out computer systems, plans for hosting an open-house in the near future, sprucing up the back yard, and sewing. I hope you enjoyed the update to the site. I will try to be better about updating you more frequently and not repeat Floccinaucinihilipilification on this site.
Sending much love!
P.S. I’m sure you are wondering how I am familiar with the word Floccinaucinihilipilification. Don’t be impressed. I’m not a genius. And I’m certainly no word savant (I hate Scrabble! But I’ll play Uno anytime!). I just saw it on this very funny website - under the “Help - I am dumb” section. Very amusing site for me to peruse at 5am - couldn’t sleep due to the storms….and I was thirsty…and I was hungry. So I grabbed some milk, chocolate chip banana bread, and started clicking away. I recommend you check it out the next time you need a little amusement. Maybe right now… ??
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