TrashCan: Things that make me happy. Part Three.

Trash Towers Dictionary

a/c - art crap. CK's fond term for the means of assuaging my addictions.

BSD - Been Seen Done. Devised while travelling the Great Ocean Road on CK's first Australian trip. Every lookout point was as fabulous as the previous and we got a little bit magnificenced out so rather than pull in we would shout BSD and keep driving.

Now general usage for when a situation is over or beyond repair.

bob - noun. Princess Curly- Wurly's word meaning all sweets, chocolate and yummy things.

blurry - (pr. to rhyme with hurry) Sth African/Zimbabwean term and my favourite polite swearword. Means kind of like bloody but usuable in mixed company. See 'Feck' & 'Eejit'

eejit - Irish term meaning 'idiot'. Suitable for use in polite company. Used by my Aunt Marion.

feck - Irish term used by my Aunt Marion so it cannot be rude!

ho-ho -(pr. with a short o). Zimbabwean word for bugs.

lani - (sp?) Sthn African word - means posh, expensive, elegant, stylish.

La Villa de Lamaca - (translates from Ital. as The houseof snails. My 'green' house out in the garden with all my a/c (ref: above) stuff in it. Built by CK and Babyman for me. CK lost his fingerprints over it. I cannot actually get in there at the moment!

lubbard - derived from 'beloved'. Devised by my then two y.o. son b/c unlike his sister he could not say 'Mother Beloved'. Usually prefaced by a noun.

OfStEd - Office for Standards in Education. Bossy civil servants who would like to see every child in formal, full-time education from birth.

Q.I. - Quite interesting.

terence - sobriquet applicable to all small children. Originated with one 'borrowed' child who could not pronounce ' terrorist' .

TG - exclamation. Thank God! An interesting choice for the dictionary of a recovering Catholic but is a phrase used by my Irish family and is now deeply fixed in my conversational repetoire. (reference also PG - Please God).

TGTH - The Great Trip Home. Alt. known as 'How I spent Christmas and N.Y 2008.

Monday, 4 January 2010

Things that make me happy. Part Three.

Part Three of what makes me happy. Must mean it is up to the letter 'C'.

Cheeriness. Children. Chatting.

Christmas. Crackers. Carols.

Colour. CK. Coke (not the illegal version obviously).

Collies. Cheap International Calls. Cuddles.

Craft. Cleverness. Creativity.

Computers. Cloth. Cushions.

Communication. Countryside. Cities. Cooking.

Creatures. Cotton. Clean sheets.

Comfort. Ceramics. Cake tins.

(CK suggested Iadd carbohydrates. Cheeky bugger!!!)

Do you love the beautiful quilty wreath? It ws made for me in the 2008 Chookyblue's Secret Santa Swap by the lovely Charmaine. I didn't get to blog it last year as by the time it got back the UK CK was ready to put anything seasonally related straight up into the loft. As I was busy dealing with the fally-over old man dog I let him just get on with it, buty you really should go visit her as her work is beautiful.

15 comments:

Jodie said...: You forgot Crazies (you do seem to attract them you know); 4 January 2010 10:23 pm
Moogsmum said...: Too right Jodie - a C list is incomplete without us crazies!!

xxx; 4 January 2010 10:28 pm
quinn said...: This post was very Cheery!

(Did you make that wreathy-quilt or quilty-wreath?? It is lovely!); 4 January 2010 11:46 pm
Joy said...: He he ... you're a crack-up!!
Ooh .. Ooh .... there's another "C"!!!!
Hugs,
Joy :o); 4 January 2010 11:59 pm
Thimbleanna said...: Fabulous C's -- I love this series. And those tights are fantastic!; 5 January 2010 12:49 am
6p00d8341c3b1153ef said...: I must inform you that I now have Cookie Monster's song, "C is for Cookie" stuck in my head.

:); 5 January 2010 1:29 am
so NOT cool said...: I don't know what is up with my typepad account today, but it is supposed to say "Jodi Anderson" for my name with a link to one of my blogs. In the words of my daughter, "blaargh!"; 5 January 2010 1:30 am
Mary said...: I lust over those cool tights!; 5 January 2010 5:36 am
Mistea said...: Lots of cheerfulness - especially in those tights.; 5 January 2010 8:37 am
Gina said...: I love those tights and skirt combination and wish I was young enough and daring enough to wear them! Froma another crazie...x; 5 January 2010 9:14 am
Stomper Girl said...: If you didn't live on the other side of the planet I would totally come to your house and STEAL those tights.; 5 January 2010 12:28 pm
wonderwoman said...: those tights are real chic!!! such a hippy chick your girlie!!!! i love being part of the crazies!!!!

xxxx; 5 January 2010 5:23 pm
Lucy Locket-Pocket said...: Great tights! I want some!!!

Locket xxx; 5 January 2010 8:10 pm
lauren said...: yeah, we CRAZIES are definitely a bit miffed. but other than that, i think you've covered the c's quite COMPETENTLY! :)

(ps: i LOVE the tights and love♥LOVE♥love the quilty wreath...or wreathy quilty...whichever...it's STUNNING!!!); 6 January 2010 1:53 pm
Michaela said...: I need some of those tights!; 7 January 2010 9:09 pm