Word of the day and happy Thursday

Word of the day from Dictionary.com:

juju \JOO-joo\, noun:

1. An object superstitiously believed to embody magical powers.
2. The power associated with a juju.

And for those of us on an Monday-Friday work schedule, Happy Thursday.

Family word cloud

Wordle, second try

These were just some words I threw out and scrambled.

A new toy

Thanks to Waterfall at A Sort of Notebook for pointing me to Wordle.

2 tips:

• I can’t get Wordle to work in Firefox.
• Click on the words to go to my Wordle cloud.

To generate this cloud, I just put in my blog address.

Word of the day

Gumption:

n. Informal

1. Boldness of enterprise; initiative or aggressiveness.
2. Guts; spunk.
3. Common sense.

[Scots.]

From Answers.com.

I prefer guts, spunk, and common sense.

It took me a long time to learn how to stand up for myself, and I don’t see that as agressiveness.

It’s just common sense, and sometimes it takes a great deal of courage to speak up for yourself.

Word of the day

Relaxed

Being free of or relieved from tension or anxiety: in a relaxed mood

Definition from dictionary.com.

I cleaned the venetian blinds this morning, and now I’m tired.

I intend to play for the rest of the day by finishing My Neighbor Totoro, and reading my book, People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks.

TTFN.

A lazy post

I’m too tired to manage an ambitious post tonight, so I’m going to offer The Bee Gees singing ‘Words.’

Vacation is coming!

Travel!

Woot!

My battered Roget’s Super Thesaurus lists these synonyms for travel:

Journey, take a trip, tour, voyage, cruise, globe-trot, sight-see…

You get the idea, I’m sure.

What interests me about this entry in my thesaurus are the antonyms:

have an armchair adventure, stay put

I’ve had lots of armchair adventures in the last ten years, my friends.

Staying put has been routine for me, but no longer!

My vacation in June is my first in a long, long time.

I’ve had little weekends here and there, but not the type of vacation where I actually get a chance to travel!

I’ve already started to pack!

It’s true, I’ve picked out the two books I’m taking, airing out my suitcase, and spending a lot of time on the TSA website.

The TSA website is interesting, and fun in its own way–did you know you can have a cattle prod in your luggage (but not a carry-on). I’ll leave mine home, thanks all the same.

I’m going to buy a new pair of sneakers, and make sure that I have clean socks on.

White socks, of course, because warm weather is finally here and it’s time to push those black socks to the back of my sock drawer.

I’m digressing, I know, but as it gets closer to vacation, I’m as giddy as a 16 year-old girl on her way to her first dance (I’m sure young girls go to dances before the age of 16, but in my day we were lucky to get to a dance at 16!).

Anyhoo.

b.burcroff signing out for now.