Learn something new

So I truely hate allergy season. I think this is the worst one that I have ever had to handle. I'm ready to cute my face off cause it hurts everywhere all the time. I have a constant headache, my one nostril won't stop running and the other one won't run at all. Damn nose. I have started the process of getting my sinuses drilled to make the cavities bigger, thus, having more places to put my excess snot. Okay, enough of being gross. I'll keep you updated on the process, but if you know anything about the military I'm going to be waiting a while to get this done.

Another note: Do you know how words are chosen to go in the dictionary? I was working with my friend the other day and him and I talk about very random shit and he is very well versed when it comes to words. Often times I give him the dumb look and he tells me what the words mean but for the most part I do okay when it is used in a sentence. So anyways, his wife showed up at work and we were telling her about all of this and she is really bored in her job so she said that she would look it up when she goes back to work. (She is also very good at research, which I really suck at).

She called and said that there are a group of people that sit around all day and read different articles and look for words that are used very often that aren't in the dictionary. Then once a year all these people get together and put their suggestions forward for what should be a new word. Very interesting huh? So let me tell you some of the new words that were chosen last year for the new dictionary.

Mouse potato - one who sits at their computer for long periods of time
Home page - the page typically encountered first at a World Wide Web site that usually contains links to the other pages of the site
Uniabrow - a single continuous brow resulting from the growing together of eyebrows
Aquascape - a scenic view of a body of water; an area having a natural or constructed aquatic feature (as a pond or fountain)

There is another one, of course I can't remember the word, but it means the little patch of hair that grows under a man's lower lip. It was stupid name but whatever. So the reason that these words are in the dictionary is because there a group of people that sit around and think that other people would look these words up.

Now this got me thinking to what other words in the dictionary are there that well you would think that most people would know. Here are some that I found interesting in my dictionary (which is a 1997 version, can only image what a new one is like): couch potato, shell out, black sheep, lazy bones (a lazy person), and white sale (a sale on white goods).

Seriously, is someone really going to look up couch potato or lazy bones? This has got to say something about our society. We really must be getting dumber. I mean I thought the dictionary was for semi-intelligent words. Ya know, words that you look at and have no idea what they mean. But anyways, enough of that. Just thought that I would teach you something different for the day. Hope you learned something.


On other news, we go home in about a week. We have nothing ready. The house is a mess, well kind of. I have been doing a decent job keeping up with stuff all week but my damn allergies have been kicking my ass so I'm not up to where I should be. So anyways, I'm off, got shit it do and not enough time to do it in. Talk later....