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vocabulary list

In honor of school starting next week (in Walker County Alabama, at least), here's your vocabulary list:
  1. Yard Saling - a verb, meaning to go shopping at yard sales
  2. Deflated - when all your energy is gone and you feel overwhelmed by too many projects staring you in the face
  3. Over-inflated - that can do attitude adopted by people who think "little by little" I can conquer this mountain. This emotion is usually followed by deflation in a day or two.
  4. Biddie - a baby chicken, NOT an old woman who talks too much
  5. Boggled - the feeling when half the thoughts in your brain start rotating at the same time
  6. Unbiased - when you cut your material the wrong way and it's too stretchy and the seams aren't lining up correctly
  7. Loopy - the way the thread looks on your material if you don't have the sewing machine tension aligned correctly
  8. Delusional - a matter of opinion on a person's expectations, thoughts, and goals
  9. Boxed In - when your calendar is so full you can't schedule anything else and keep your sanity
  10. Left-brained - an adjective describing the person who has left everything he/she learned in his/her brain and cannot retrieve it correctly, if at all
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Lydia said…
LOL!! Those are great:) I admit to feeling almost all of the above most weeks:)
August 8, 2010 at 3:57 PM
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