So, I’m still kinda down for the count, and have been encouraging the monkeys to play far away from me, so I haven’t taken many pictures and don’t have many stories to share today.
Not wanting to let my loyal readers down, however, I decided that it was time to run another contest!
This time, we’re not naming a photo…we are writing definitions for some words.
As much as I enjoy writing this blog, I also enjoy reading the blogs of others. You can go through my blogroll to see what I enjoy. I love blogs about life in the country, about creativity, from quirky people, and about people doing things I wish I could do, but just don’t know how quite yet.
I try to comment when something they’ve written touches me, because I know how much the feedback I get here means to me.
As I make my comments, I’ve found a funny thing. Used to be that when you would comment on a blog, in order to make sure you weren’t spamming the site with a computer program, they would make you type in a combination of letters and numbers. You know, like “eom54LY8.” You’d have to type it in before your comment would post.
Well, these days, most of the blogs that I read have a bit of a different take. You have to type in some nonsense word that they show you. I can’t help but wonder, who made up these words and phrases? Some of them sound like real words. They aren’t. I’ve checked.
There’s nothing I like more than making up definitions for words. People will say, “What does this mean?” and I’ll say, (with authority), “It’s a word that means the sound of the rocks crumbling and falling into the canyon below as you stop yourself from almost stepping off a cliff.” And they say, “There’s a word for that? Wow!” And I say, “I know…I know” and bask in my psuedo-intelligence for yet another moment.
However, I don’t want to have ALL the fun, so, I thought I’d pick three and ask you to define them. Rather than choose which one I think is the most creative (because how can you define creativity?) I will choose randomly. I don’t have a snazzy computer program to do that for me, but I do have the ability to choose through the age old method of writing the comment numbers on a slip of paper, folding the paper, tossing them in a hat and then, voila! We have a winner.
The winner of this contest will get a $10 Walmart gift card. The holidays are coming…could be a great teacher gift or a way to knock off a few bucks from a holiday gift you’ll be buying for someone else.
Contest will run until Sunday evening, 8 pm, so that all of my weekend-only blog readers have a chance to participate.
So, please, participate! I’d love to see what you’ll come up with!
Here are our nonsense words: (Just like a vocabulary test, please make sure you write the word and then the definition, in your comment, so I know what definition goes with what word)
Brink 44 ¼
Pilopse
Unmatin
Oh, and here’s a little something to inspire you:
Couldn’t resist.
