I've been so busy lately that I've failed to do a lot of blogging. To be fair, life has been moving at light speed. To provide the very, very bare Clif Notes:

Things have been going quite well with whymc, to the point that we have decided to combine households and proceed with the really being a fer realsies couple thing. We found a house we like (just ( Read more... )

http://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/home/index.php?DRIS_ID=MS58_003v

Gods, I love the OED

nippy sweetie, n. - A drink of spirits, esp. of whisky; whisky.’
Pronunciation: Brit. /ˌnɪpi ˈswiːti/, U.S. /ˌnɪpi ˈswidi/, Sc. /ˌnɪpi ˈswiti/
Forms:  19- nippie sweetie,   19- nippy sweetie.
Etymology: < nippy adj. + sweetie n. In sense 1 perhaps after nip n.4
It would seem likely that the word was first used in sense 3, ( Read more... )

So, I have all good intentions of doing the A&S 50 thing. I'm always busy. I even sometimes DO make stuff for me, I swear... I'm just miserable with my official count documentation. :P I really should go back and retroactively add a few things I made but never listed to give me any plausible chance of passing this thing ( Read more... )

This one actually came across while back, but I am behind in updating...

wordhoard, n. -‘ A store of words; (in later use esp.) the vocabulary of a person, group, or language.’
Pronunciation: Brit. /ˈwəːdhɔːd/, U.S. /ˈwərdˌhɔ(ə)rd/
Forms: see word n. and hoard n.1
Etymology: < word n. + hoard n.1
orig. poet.

A store of words; (in later use esp.) ( Read more... )

The four family Christmasses all went pretty well - the kids were loud, my brother was late, my grandpa insisted on talking about things that made my grandma crazy - you know, quality family time. The only really unexpected thing was that the usual suspects were not the most appalling at the Hetzel family Christmas. Instead, my aunt's brother in ( Read more... )

Ugh. I want to reduce the stupid and lazy in my world by about 98%, but setting fire to the offenders or even my work building is not really an option. The selfish, lying bullshit is getting to me.

As if I did not already have enough of an issue with shoes, there is a very delicious historical shoe merchant I just found out about:

http://www.american-duchess.com/

Om nom nom...

Ugh. I am generally in favor of holidays, at least in principle. In practice, however, each holiday equals two days of hell for me - the before-the-holiday panic from all the people who didn't plan far enough ahead to get their meds in time and the after-the-holiday panic of all the people who REALLY had not planned or who had some sort of incident ( Read more... )

I realized that I have been keeping up with posting words of the day and little tidbits here and there, but I really have not done much for actually reporting on what I have been up to since I got back from Iceland.

CoronationI got back to the States on Friday the 13th, cleared customs at Minneapolis, and was scooped up by Their Excellencies ( Read more... )