Spring Break

Really, why do they call it Spring Break?  I'm certainly not getting a break and I am sure millions of other parents out there are mocking the "break" idea.  So what if the money suckers are on a break from school because they need a rest from the measly six hours a day that they go there to socialize and eat their lunches.  I think this should be called "Good Luck Finding Daycare" or "Mom, I'm Bored" weeks off.  I would as well like just a teeny, tiny bit of time in a room alone with the Short Sighted Loser who decided that Spring Break needed to be two weeks now instead of one because it saves the school districts money!  Really Mr. Loser!  I'm going to guess you don't have kids or they have long since graduated and you have forgotten how much fun it is to have them home for two long, painful weeks!  We are now into this fun and wonderful "break" for three days and I am ready to run off and join the circus.  Someone please come up with Spring Break Boarding School for Bored Boys.  I will write my check now!

When words can make you smile.....

I recently loaded a Dictionary App on my phone that gives me a wonderful word of the day.  It also tells me how to pronounce the word verbally and phonetically, which is a much needed tool even though English is suppose to be my first language.  I do love words, but yesterdays word of the day was so awesome I actually wrote it down so that I could share it.  Here it is:

 

Cockalorum (kok-uh-LAWR-uhm)  - definition: a self-important little man. 

 

Oh my goodness!  This one’s a keeper!

What's Wrong?

I recently read an article in O Magazine that changed my life!  It was so poignant that I thought I better write it down just in case I forget and need to reference the wisdom.  To start off I am well aware that I appear to be a “not gonna take your crap”, bitchy kinda gal and I do not proclaim myself to not be either of those things but I do, however have a serious facial deformity that sometimes gives off the impression that I am a cranky person all the time.  Facial deformity?  Yes.  Really.  It’s called a “Bitchy Resting Face” (I am totally not lying and I swear I did not make this up!)  Honestly when I read this I almost dropped the magazine!  All these years people have been asking me “What’s wrong?”  (Mostly people who haven’t figured out my facial expressions yet.  Those who know and love me have it all figured out and I don’t have to pretend to smile around them all the time just so they leave me the eff alone!)   In all honesty I call it my “Thinking Face” because for the bulk of my waking hours I am thinking about so much stuff my brain forgets to tell me to put on a smiley face for the crowd around me.  I take an awful lot of harassment when I watch tv.  I tend to really focus (if there is an actual story line to follow) and by the reaction I often get my tv watching face is more akin to “I Effen Hate You Face”.  Huh, who knew?  Apparently, according to the article, I am not the only one who has this issue.  Michelle Obama has been slammed for her glowering and the recent inductee into the Cullen vampire family, Kristen Stewart, has been trashed repeatedly for her unsmiley face.  So now that I have a name for my “affliction”  I am going to spend less time worrying about whether or not my facial expression is bothering people and more time trying to solve life’s little mysteries.