1. Tell us anything you want about your January.
OK, since you asked: I have a new book out. Getting there was pretty much my January. Also a good chunk of my December.
2. Lake Superior State University posts a list each year of words they think should be banished from the Queen's English for misuse, overuse, and/or general uselessness. The 2023 list includes GOAT, inflection point, quiet quitting, gaslighting, moving forward, amazing, Does that make sense?, irregardless, absolutely, and it is what it is.
Which of these words/phrases do you use regularly? Which of these words would you most like to see banished from everyday speech and why? Is there a word/phrase not on the list you'd like to add?
GOAT? I had to look that one up. Greatest of all time? I guess that goes along with "amazing," unless it's amazing grace.
Irregardless...yeah, that one's been argued about for years, irregardless of its non-meaning. (And as I'm typing this, my spellcheck is red-lining the word, it doesn't like it either.)
Moving forward, I'm going to quietly quit my stoicism, because it is what it is.
3. February 2nd is Groundhog Day. What's something that feels repeated in your life right now?
I have about three CDs sitting near the small player near my computer, and I keep forgetting to take them downstairs and switch them out with something else, so I just keep listening to the same three over and over again. At least they're not Sonny and Cher.
4. What's a food you love that's named after a place?
Nanaimo Bars.
5. What's the best season of the year to visit your city or your part of the country? Tell us why.
Living in an Oktoberfest-happy region with lots of beautiful maple trees, you might think I'd say fall. But if you were coming to visit, I might say summer, because there are music festivals and flea markets and buskers and all kinds of free things to do.
6. Insert your own random thought here.
This is a difficult day, because it's a year since the passing of my blogging/reading/homeschooling/believing friend Wendi, usually referred to here as the DHM, who was also a great fan of Nanaimo bars. This is what I wrote about her then. She gave us a great deal to remember her by. Wendi, if there were any flowers out there today, I'd go enjoy them for you, but it's freezing cold and snowy, just like it was this time last year. I'll just have to appreciate the icicle hanging by the wall instead.
Linked from The Wednesday Hodgepodge at From This Side of the Pond.
3 comments:
Congratulations on the book release! That's very exciting. I will go check it out. I'm sorry too for the loss of your friend. These anniversaries are bittersweet as it sounds like you have lovely memories but also sadness for the hole left behind. Take care.
Losing a sweet friend is so hard. Sorry for that. That's a huge accomplishment, to complete a book, congratulations. I had to look up GOAT, too. Hope February is kind in your corner of the world.
Congrats on your book. How exciting.
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