I’m starting to bore even myself. Wondering when the last time I did or said or thought anything interesting at all and not coming up with an answer. And rather than dwell on it and get all depressed, I decided I would try NOT to answer that. I’d just do something different. Like, fast.
Belly Dancing class at 5pm today.
It’s not that interesting, but not bad given the short notice I’d given myself and various restrictions. (I never want anyone to have cause to say, “She’s good with small children; oh, and I hear she’s had experience with a pole.”)
I’m not terribly excited about this prospect, but that’s not the point. If I were the sort to BE excited by doing odd or interesting things, then I wouldn’t be forcing myself into these sorts of things in the first place.
See? Boring. Above paragraph = all the proof we need.
The good news about the boringness is it makes me desperately want to write. I’d forgotten that. When I feel my most boring, and as if I am the very least intriguing person on the planet… that is when I most want to escape by creating characters who actually ARE interesting and who then inspire me to be as well. Their thoughts can be ones I don’t allow myself to claim as my own. Their words can be funny or insightful in a way mine aren’t. And their conflicts can be explored without restraint because they can always be written into neat endings if necessary. This is what always pulled me to writing fiction – the escape to where the imaginary, interesting people live.
Sure beats belly dancing.
But whatever, I’ll try that, too. Although, ‘belly’ is a horrific word. Don’t you think? Oh, how I hate that word. If you say it, I will cringe, I just can’t help it.
LaLa and I once sat and wrote a list of all the words we detested. We referred to it ever since, simply as The List. (yeah, I was probably a boring child too, and just proved it, shut up, I KNOW.) I don’t remember if ‘belly’ is on The List, but it should be. It’s not okay with me, not when pregnant, not when dancing, not ever, I hate it and recommend we delete it from the English language.
Also on The List: ‘penal colony’ (for obvious reasons), ‘fig’ (for reasons only obvious to me but I hate it) and ‘moist’ (ew, it just SOUNDS revolting, right? and not like chocolate cake.)
What else is on The List, LaLa? I forget.
And y’all please feel free to make your own contributions to The List. I’d try to remember more, but I’m off to try Core Dancing.
I totally just pictured a dancing apple core. That doesn’t really substitute well, does it?
I love you.
3:50 pm
I seem to recall you mentioning once that “spatula” was on that list. That word doesn’t bother me, but “moist” and any related word make me absolutely cringe! “Soil” is another one I can’t stand. And “lover”. Eww. I think I need to go take a shower now.
If I’m suddenly inspired with any brilliant replacements for “belly” I’ll let you know.
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6:51 pm
I use belly all the time… I wonder if that will hurt our friendship?
I despise the word supper. Yes, like when you have your evening meal. I call it dinner. I’m aware that in the dictionary dinner is actually lunch and the evening meal is that other word, but not in my house it isn’t…
When I was in highschool my best friend and I made a list of all the things people couldn’t be in order to be friends with us. Yes we were kinda mean. But looking back most all of those things still apply. The #1 thing was stupid people (totally clueless, lacking not only intelligence but basic brain power and common sense). Very vast, but it made us feel better to have that not so subtle list. I love making lists. I could never make a list of words I didn’t like though because I would have to acknowledge them, write them and maybe even share my reasoning why, and that might require those words to be used more than absolutely necessary.
6:51 pm
Oh and I prefer television over TV.
7:35 pm
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10:33 pm
Geekwif,
You really GET it! Spatula just sounds NASTY. “Utensil” is definitely on The List and always has been. “Lover” just sounds painfully pretentious, right?
JS,
No one is more allowed to use ‘belly’ than you. go ahead. I will cringe, but don’t mind me at all. You’re right about The List making you more aware of what words you actually don’t like. I can hear a word and think, “that’s on The List, but it’s a word that only bothers LaLa and not me.” or the reverse.
i’ve NEVER kept it straight which is supper and which is dinner and use them interchangeably or not at all and no one tries to correct me anymore because they’re too busy thinking, “Oh. She cooked. Ew.” and that takes precedent I think.
5:52 am
This made me giggle a little bit! I migrated over here from Sweet Tea & Sass. I’m going to start reading through older posts to catch up.
2:26 pm
I am SO glad to know that other people have issues with certain words. I am not going to share my list, because I don’t even want to think about those words–they make me shudder, make me feel ill, and make me want to go take a couple of hot showers with lots of lathery sweet-scented soap.
On the other hand, I love the word fig, because it reminds me of the fig tree we played in in my grandmother’s back yard, and the dark, thick, sweet, slightly crunchy fig preserves she made, and let us taste still warm from the cooking pot on fresh bread with lots of butter.
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2:47 pm
Mother T,
you are a mystery to me, but i’m on the case.
Jan,
YEP, don’t make that list and tell me, because you worked in the F word THREE times there, girl! HA! Awesome.
3:26 pm
I found the original list right before I moved. When I find it again, I’ll let you know…
I never did understand your objection to fig.
I think ‘heinous’ was on the list, mainly because I overused it in college and you never wanted to hear it again.
10:41 pm
LaLA,
i don’t want to discuss the f word. i really don’t. but YEAH you overused heinous. Like, that doesn’t even BEGIN TO COVER IT, you KILLED that word. I STILL don’t want to hear it, and when I do I think of you and that’s just not right!!