The Opposite of ME!

laconic - what it means

someone described as laconic uses few words in speech or writing. the word often implies brevity to the point of seeming rude.

 

EVEN MY CREATIONS ARE WORDY!

Death of a Wordsmith

My Wordsmith Skills died a Sudden Death.

3 days ago, it took its last breath.

I started 6 posts for next week,

My thought ran hither and thither, Words I did seek.

I discussed with myself, a break for this coming week,

I sat and stared at the photos and each thing I thought was too weak.

I decided to use PicMonkey to bury my skills, as you can see.

Then suddenly an idea came to me.

I can Bore you to death with a word from this week

because it came in my email, and I did peek.

Fiasco . complete failure.

synonyms:

failure · disaster · catastrophe · debacle · shambles · farce · mess · wreck · ruin · ruination · blunder · botch 

The story of this word involves the original Italian word fiasco, which means "glass bottle."

According to one theory, when Venetian glassblowers realized a beautiful piece was flawed, they turned it into an ordinary bottle.

When that happened, a would-be work of art was downgraded into a mere fiasco - which is, according to the theory, how that word came to mean "complete failure."

YAY! I managed to do a Fiasco of a POST that is all of the above!   If I don't post tomorrow, you will know the fodder folder has folded.

Happy Birthday to My Baby Brother David, who may need a dragon to blow out 74 candles on his cake today. No photos allowed, if you search the internet, you will find no photos of him.

shhhh he will never know

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day

 

Searching for different meanings of wordsmith, I found I liked Merriam-Webster's definition

Noun: a person who works with words, especially a skillful writer

I clicked Yes to receive the Word of the Day, by email.

Instant Reply to welcome me and introduce me to what they have available appeared

and the first thing I saw was 

TIME TRAVELER

and with a wooo hooo I dove into 1944, the year of my birth.

Shocked, I say shocked to find out I was born the same year as the word babysit

Next I read through, Understanding Conjunctions because I could not even remember what one is or was in 1944 or now or any other year.

My brain fried as I read, Understanding Conjunctions and I quickly moved to Words Commonly Mispronounced and as I stumbled through/threw I found this comment.

English is famously difficult to spell!

The state of English spelling is partly due to the mongrel nature of the language (it’s essentially a product of Anglo-Saxon aka Old English, Latin, Old Norse, and Anglo-French), and partly a consequence of longevity;

English is more than a thousand years old. 

?????

Does this mean in Biblical Times there was no English Language?

I got to primer/primmer and the things went 

awry which looks like awwwry but is pronounced 

                                      uh-RYE

Since I was happy with the uh-Rye because that is how a bonafide Southerner says it

I left Merriam and Webster to come tell you

HERE

Now if creating, reading, emailing, posting and commenting, is not enough, I can always Read About Words.             Plus look at cool looking cats with glasses.  Remember, You Are Never to Cool To Learn Something NEW!

Wordsmith Wed

 

While chatting via email with my long-time blog friend Cecilia, she mentioned my way with words. I replied in a joking manner, I am a wordsmith, a word remembered from hearing it on America's Got Talent said by Simon Cowell to a Poet.

Research found wordsmith has many definitions. 

I am not an expert with words,

 I am not someone who uses language well,

 I am not a fluent professional writer. 

I am not a writer of poems

But I AM a skilled user of words.

I can tell a story in rhymes or tell a tale and make it fun to read by using my wordsmith skill.

I have a gift for words, I can use them to make the ordinary things 

interesting or funny or both.

I have yet to find a way to Stem the Flow. Or stop them from spewing before I think. 😉

 This post is to my Inner Self! 

I was a miserable child, teen, wife, mother, employee.

Give me a compliment and my mind turned/turns it into the negative. 

A simple, I like your shirt, and I think, "you did not say I LOOK good, you just like the shirt"

Your hair looks nice, turns to "most of the time it doesn't"

My own worst critic!  Constantly comparing myself to others.

I can't sketch, or play an instrument, or paint, or do crafts. ON AND ON.

Since the day I learned to talk, I have been guilty of badmouthing myself and seeing only the things I am not skilled at. 

Compliments given when I sang in a trio at church, were lies people told me to make me feel good because I was the pastor's daughter. 

This Site 13 Struggles of People who are hard on themselves, is a list of everything I felt as I grew up and still to this day feel those thoughts.

Today I say

Hello, My Name is Sandra, and I Am a Wordsmith!

To Be Continued and continued and continued