I come by this naturally, I can remember as youngster my Mom and Diana sitting around drinking wine and playing Scrabble (no doubt making up some of their own words as they played). Much of my childhood memories of my father include him sitting in 'his chair' reading the newspaper. One of my grandmothers would kick your @$$ a Trivial Pursuits without blinking an eye. My other grandmother, who never graduated with a high school diploma used to proof read my term papers for me. A phrase I heard all to much during my childhood, "Look it up in the dictionary". I was destined to become a wordie. My sister is a wordie too, it could not be helped.
My sister inadvertently started a word game. She used the word pygmy in her href="Midnight'>http://knittinggeek.blogspot.com/2005/03/midnight-madness.html">Midnight Madnesspost on her blog. Well like a pygmy duck to water, my mom blogged away about pygmy horses and what all, and I managed to work 'pygmy' into my blog as well. This has resulted in a wordie, word off, if you will. My mom has chosen the word of the week and Shannon and I are going to try work it into our blogs. Here is where you come in...
Should you chose to accept the challenge, I will be using the word in my blog at some point this week. I challenge you, the reader, to guess Mom's chosen word. Next week it is my turn to choose the word (and here comes the carrot for any of you pygmy rabbits, horses, deer, and other
It is cheating to go to Mom's blog to learn the word. She posted it loud and clear, with photos even. Sorry, Mom, I am not linking you today, but I am going to try to put my favorite reads on my blog here one of these days. You will be linked soon I promise.
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My link is not as pretty as I wanted it to be, but it works. To much "MOMMY, I need you!" Being yelled at me while trying to think and blog at the same time.
LOL, point taken,the word is not carrot. The word is not a word you would expect to hear in everyday conversation. I should have been more clear. You can have as many guesses as you like, you can also check my sister's blog she will use the word this week too (the link should take you to her blog). I did not use the word in todays post.
Kelly, you're cheating. Mom told you, that you yourself had to come up with a new word by Sunday. It's not fair to recruit your readers in picking a word for you.
I've never thought of myself as a wordie but I guess I am. Only once in a while do I come up with a really good word and get the nod. I knew exactly what you meant by the nod. You explained it very well.
Dear Daughter, it's not fair to ask people to guess a word that you didn't even use in your blog! They could guess forever and not get the word. And, yes, it's cheating to get someone else to pick your word for next Sunday. It's time you used THE WORD in an ever so cleverly disguised fashion in your blog.
Sorry about the confusion. I tried to post a comment and it wouldn't let me. Then when it decided to post it decided to post the same comment four times. Ah..machines.
tee, hee, see Shannon, the trick to all my comments, have mom post the same comment on my blog 4 times (blogger did that to me on mom's blog last week, irony?)
And now for my next trick, I have posted 2 comments on my own blog. Clever girl!
I clearly stated that the word had to be posted this week, I never said it was in today's blog, it clearly isn't.
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