The word 'awesome' means extremely impressive or daunting; inspiring great admiration, apprehension, or fear..........breathtaking, awe-inspiring, magnificent, wonderful, amazing, stunning, staggering, imposing, stirring, impressive...........mind-boggling, mind-blowing, jaw-dropping, excellent, marvelous; literary wondrous; archaicawful.
It should NEVER refer to how you are enjoying your lunch.
"How's your lunch?" asks the waitress
"Fine." customer
"AWESOME!."
NO! THAT IS NOT THE WORD TO USE! This has to be the most over used word in the English language and it is time to take a stand people! I am tempted to have a card printed up with the meaning of the word 'awesome' and hand it out to people who use it all the time......but then, like, you know, I would, like, you know also have to, like, you know, start on some other words....and that would maybe NOT be so...totally......awesome!!!!
As my dear husband says: "Stevie Wonder driving a car would be awesome. The Dead Sea Scrolls are awesome.....but not my lunch or ordering popcorn at the movie theatre."
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We were sitting around the fire the other night (without thinking and perhaps after a little too much wine as we didn't even think that fire restrictions are on - a HINT would be the smoke in the air from the raging fire twenty miles north)....anyway....as we sat around the highly illegal fire, we got on the topic of State mottos.........don't ask why, because, to be quite honest, I don't remember.
There are some pretty strange mottos out there - a lot have religion thrown in, or ode to the government, but Louisiana stood out for us:
Come as you are - leave different.......... Is this the sex change state or something??
Out came the Google and I can pass all this along to you, because inquiring minds want to know....
Kansas: To the stars through difficulty.........and beyond!
Colorado: Nothing without the deity..........this from 'the higher state.'
California: We're Great - You Suck!.....okay I made this one up, but it applies.
Oregon: She flies with her own wings.......??
Massachusetts: By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty.....sort of depends on which end of the sword you are on!
West Virginia: Mountaineers are always free.......and goat herders are $2.00 bucks!!!
And of course whatever state is smack dab in the middle of America can always use:You're In Continent!
Things I learned this week:
When you buy 'soft' cookies in packages then leave them unwrapped in the pantry for a week they are still 'soft.' How come??
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You can add a cat to just about anything and make it better:
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We are having Viking withdrawal after finishing watching Season One and awaiting Season Two..
So, for your amusement, here are some Vikings who never made the cut:
Peter the Piqued
Andrew the Annoyed
Larry the Lisp
Bob the Bouyant
Carl the Clash Dresser
I KNOW....Season two can't come soon enough in our house! Ragnar, Ragnar, he's our man...if he can't plunder and pillage....no one can!!!! GGGGOOOOOO RAGNAR!!!!
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It CAN actually get too hot outside!
Back to the North country on Sunday....where it was 32 degrees Celcius yesterday - good grief.
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