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matrilAfter my soul-baring entry yesterday, I'm fortunately it a more buoyant mood today. I felt like jotting down a little amusing lexicon of the made-up words my husband and I have use around each other; their meanings have just kind of sprung up without ever being explicitly defined, and it's like a little mini-dialect that only our family shares. Whee! (I'll probably add more as I think of them.)
glurk: noun, used to refer to any sort of detritus or residual filth on one's face, tabletop, or floor. Spoken with extreme distaste. What's all this glurk? Didn't I clean the table just an hour ago? Variants include glunk. adj: glurky
gooble: noun, distress or temper tantrum; verb, to be distressed, to throw a tantrum. What's the gooble, Luke? or Emma, what are you goobling about?
shlurky: noun, the aspirator used to remove the glurk from a baby's nose. I need the shlurky now! Luke's nose is running all over the place and I can't remember where I put it! May also be used as a verb. Oh, you need to be shlurkied, don't you?
sweetling: noun, a synonym for Emma. Oh, you little sweetling! Even when you're goobling I can't stay mad at you.
We read a lot of Dr. Suess here, you know.
So Luke is still coughing today, but I think it's not as bad or frequent as yesterday. Perhaps he'll get in one more day of school before the weekend. He'll be missing school on Monday, but for a nicer reason - my husband is graduating! :D
In other news, my father-in-law called up to wish my husband a Happy Birthday on Saturday, and ended up helping to fix whatever was wrong with our computer. Not only that, but when my husband mentioned in passing that I'd really enjoy Photoshop, his dad said they had a bunch extra copies lying around and he'd be glad to send one to us. Consider it a birthday present for both of us, he said...my birthday's not till July, but never mind. :D It came yesterday, and as soon as I get it installed I'm going to be in trouble. If I don't practice self-control I'll spend hours making icon after icon after icon...
glurk: noun, used to refer to any sort of detritus or residual filth on one's face, tabletop, or floor. Spoken with extreme distaste. What's all this glurk? Didn't I clean the table just an hour ago? Variants include glunk. adj: glurky
gooble: noun, distress or temper tantrum; verb, to be distressed, to throw a tantrum. What's the gooble, Luke? or Emma, what are you goobling about?
shlurky: noun, the aspirator used to remove the glurk from a baby's nose. I need the shlurky now! Luke's nose is running all over the place and I can't remember where I put it! May also be used as a verb. Oh, you need to be shlurkied, don't you?
sweetling: noun, a synonym for Emma. Oh, you little sweetling! Even when you're goobling I can't stay mad at you.
We read a lot of Dr. Suess here, you know.
So Luke is still coughing today, but I think it's not as bad or frequent as yesterday. Perhaps he'll get in one more day of school before the weekend. He'll be missing school on Monday, but for a nicer reason - my husband is graduating! :D
In other news, my father-in-law called up to wish my husband a Happy Birthday on Saturday, and ended up helping to fix whatever was wrong with our computer. Not only that, but when my husband mentioned in passing that I'd really enjoy Photoshop, his dad said they had a bunch extra copies lying around and he'd be glad to send one to us. Consider it a birthday present for both of us, he said...my birthday's not till July, but never mind. :D It came yesterday, and as soon as I get it installed I'm going to be in trouble. If I don't practice self-control I'll spend hours making icon after icon after icon...
