Some WACKY WILD Stuff

Dearly Beloved Bloggers,

All this talk about CCD and funny word verifications got me thinking about how WILD & CRAZY we are about speaking in code to each other. You know exactly what I'm talking about. We all do it and we do it so well.

Shall we begin with the expression of laughter. Of course, you've got the tried and true LOL. What would we do with out it? Sometimes I just have the slightest little {giggle} on the inside and, somehow or another, LOL still manages to sneak up on me. How does it do it? Are y'all seriously sitting there at your computers engulfed with a crazed, uncontrollable laughter? I always wonder about that. That would be GREAT if that were the case COS,I gotta tell ya, I LOVE making people laugh.

Sometimes that truly is the case for me and for those moments I like to use a more intense version of LOL. It's called ROTFL. Now, if you ever see ROTFL in one of my comments then yes, picture me on the floor rolling around with my feet up in the air, holding my belly and LOLing like a mad monkey. It's true! I wouldn't lie to you. Well, except for the times when LOL wants to sneak up on me and I'm NOT literally LAUGHING OUT LOUD.

Oh and then you also have the sound effects that we all just can't get a nuff of. Yes, it's the {hahaha}s and the {hehehe}s. It's so GR8 to actually be able to hear your laughs. Hmmmm...ironically, y'all all have the same laugh. When y'all read those comments, do y'all really read them with a {hahaha} and a {hehehe}? I do. Makes me feel a little silly and giggly (on the inside.)

There also comes a time when you want to express some sort of disbelief or excitement. You know what's coming. It's the good o' OMG! If you ever need to give a comment a sense of WOW, then OMG is the code to use. I guess you could just simply say WOW, but I think the "G" in OMG trumps the whole wow-ness of WOW. Am I right?

When something makes you wonder, it makes you just wanna say hmmmmm. And when something makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside you just can't help but say Awwwww. And then you've got the creative use of colons and parenthesis to draw the cutest little faces :0) Aren't they just adorable! Don't forget about all the body language too {wink} {wink} & {HUGS} {HUGS}. Yes, you can really let your personality shine through with all these sound effects and crazy codes.

Or, could it be that we just LOVE to use these codes cause we're just a tad bit lazy? JK. Yeah, that's just me JK-ing around with y'all COS I love to JK every now and then too.

By the way, did I mention the BTW. It's a classic. There's all sorts of acronyms that make the comments grow fonder, but BTW is one I LOVE COS it makes the comments grow longer. Yes sir-y, the longer, more full of personality your comments are, the more I love them!

So keep on
LOL-ing
OMG-ing
JK-ing
{wink} {winkin'}
{huggity} {huggin'}
hm hmmmm-ing
and
OOOO and awwwwww-ing
Til the cows come home!!
WELL.....THEY'RE HERE!
GOTTA GO!

Word Verification Wednesday

Ah, already on the 2nd week...

my how time flies when word verification is throwing out some doozies!

Outsnot (Out-Snot)

Boys tyically try to Out Snot each other. I mean have you ever seen a boy that WANTS to wipe away his snot? No. The reason being....his older brother hasn't wipped his off his face either....its just the beginning of that competitive nature. Of course, it works with girls as well, only with them, we are talking about eye rolling! Sheesh.

Lets see who I can Out Snot this week

(insert eye roll).

This lovely number was submitted by Tamela...thanks so much for allowing me to rack my brain endlessly to only come up with something that is HIGHLY lame. Its not my fault it is word verifications fault. He wants to see me fail..I am certain of it! So, here we go:

Bedupsyn (Bed UP Syn)

This is something that you might hear at say about 3:30 in the morning when your toddler waddles into your bedroom and mentions that they might need a little medicine BEDUPSYN.

Of course that little fever and head cold has you completly woken up and feeling miserable for that poor thing!

Pansag (Pants Sag)

The word verification man is hard at work at his little keyboard this week. Last week he mocked me for not having a core and this week he is noticing that my Pants Sag.

TRUST ME on this one....I'm flattered (even if he is a liar and it should really read PANTSWAYTOOTIGHTHONEY)! What Ev.

Fortstu (pronounced Fort Stu)

Well.. this is obviously a little competition for the lovely blog Fort Thompson!

You should really head over to FortStu and check her out!

I hear she is a really funny lady who need LOTS of followers!

Slappens

Now that I have tricked all of you onto clicking on FortStu, you might want to administer some virtual Slappens. This is also word verifications way of letting me know the he is still boss...

YES SIR! I hear you loud and clear!

Till next week......

Tarah

YOU AND ME AND THE DMV.........

I know that all states don't list a person's weight on their driver's license anymore but, for the sake of today's post, please remember back in the day when they did.

Because. It's. Confession. Time!!!! 'Fess up people. Does anybody actually weigh the weight listed on their driver's license?

I'm just wondering because when I first got my license I was pretty skinny. Not my fault, just couldn't gain weight (Sadly I seem to have overcome that problem now, however, sigh.....). Several years and children later it still showed me at the same weight. So how come the people at the DMV (Dept. of Motor Vehicles) didn't call me a liar? Clearly I am not the weight of a teenaged child anymore.

How come the people didn't laugh in my face and say "you have GOT to be kidding me" when I went to get my license renewed? How come they didn't reach across the counter and grab me by the neck and squeeze until my eyes bulged and forced me to tell the truth? How come they still gave me a license, knowing they couldn't trust me to tell the truth????? How come???

They know I'm a liar. It says so on my driver's license. Right under the part that says "weight." Still, they believe that they can trust me enough to allow me to have a license. Talk about putting their faith in me........I promise I won't let you down, DMV.

Still, the guilt. Oh the guilt of it all!!!!! Every time I tried to correct it and tell them my true weight the lady behind the counter kept telling me "Oh it doesn't matter....You'll lose it eventually...." and she never changed it. Giving me eternal hope.......and eternal guilt.

In my defense I had good intentions. I figured I probably would never get down to that weight again, since I was pretty underweight to begin with, but I figured I might at least get in the same zipcode or ballpark, or state, or country, or planet, or solar system......

That's kind of the theory behind buying a pair of cute jeans in a smaller size. In theory, you have every intention of being able to fit into them. They are the catalyst, the inspiration, the motivation for your desire to lose the "last five-ten-twenty pounds of baby weight" you gained recently.

So what if your baby is 20? There's still hope! Don't tell me you've never done this, or if not done it, you've at least thought about it. I know you have. Haven't you? You mean you never have? Not even once? You mean I'm all alone in this? Bummer.....

O.k., maybe one person hasn't, and you know who you are, Erica!!!!!! Ahem. So people, if you're not sure about where you stand in all this, go weigh yourself and then go check your driver's license. Make sure you're sitting down first, you wouldn't want to hurt yourself when you pass out. Not trying to accuse you of lying of course, we all forget things.....

I wonder if the people at the DMV are trained for this. I wonder if they are put in a little room and forced to watch hysterically funny shows and not be allowed to laugh outloud or even twitch. I wonder if they are forced to have people lie to their faces all day long and learn not to blink an eye. I wonder if they lie on their driver's license?

C.C.D. = Comment Conversation Disorder

Do you have it? I know I do!

You don't know what it is? Oh boy, then let me try to explain!!!

Do you ever find yourselves getting to know people, like me, via comment boxes? Okay, so it may start off by visiting their blog itself, but then you leave just one little comment. Later that day, you'll get a new comment from them back on YOUR blog. But somewhere in their comment there's a question or a funny ----and you feel the need to respond or reply?!

Oh you know you've done it, too!

Sometimes someone asks a question via comment and how else do you respond but to hop on over to their blog and leave them a comment. Before you know it, you're in a comment conversation! This past week I found myeself doing that very thing with Vanessa. I think she found me first, and then I hopped over to visit her. She hopped back, and before we knew it, we were in a full-fledge conversation via comment boxes. Now we didn't go to the same post each time, but worked our way down through various older posts.

Now this is truly not abnormal for me. It's how I've made many a bloggin' friend! It's how I met the "other four moms" on here, along with Tiffany, Sara, Carrie, Aileigh, and the list goes on and on. The only PROBLEM with these type of conversations would be that as my readers scroll through my comments, there's suddenly these totally random comments that really make no sense to THEM whatsoever?! They would probably think "What the heck is THAT about????" But I'm hoping that if you're leaving a comment, and see one of 'those' comments you just think, "Oh there goes Erica in one of her comment conversations again," and move on.

Now how many of you are SO addicted, so nosey, and so obsessed that you then feel the need to jump back and forth and try to piece these weird conversations together and make sense of them all? Oh... you don't? Well, then good....cuz I...uh... would never do that either. NEVER!

(((Yes, I can deny it! Afterall, this is Monday--- and I always play "NOT ME MONDAY!" with MckMama over on my blog. I can't help it it overflows slightly over to this blog, too!)))

So anyway! Take care, Happy Monday, and feel free to Converse via Comment anytime. I have C.C.D. and I can admit it!! And as you know, admittance is the first step to recovery! {wink}

"Hi. My name is Erica and I have C.C.D."

PS - Happy Memorial Day!

Closed for Business, Open for Prayer!

As we mentioned on our Grand Opening Day blog, we will be CLOSED on Sundays. HOWEVER, we will be hosting a Prayer Request Sunday where we welcome comments in the form of PRAYER REQUESTS or PRAISE!

We Bloggers can PLAY together, so why not also PRAY together?!

We Five Moms are spending our Sundays with our families and will not be responding to all of your prayer requests, but just know that we can ALL view them and we can ALL take the time to pray for one another's requests. Join us if you'd like!

Things That Make Ya Go "Hmmm?"

EVER WONDER........

• Why sour cream is yummy but sour milk isn't? ~ Nan
  
• Why "W" is the only letter in the alphabet that has more than one syllable & it's got THREE? ~Erica
  
• Why when someone puts on a "pair" of pants they are really only putting on one set and not two? Yet it's still called a pair? ~ Nan
  
• Why people wear fanny packs on their pelvis & not their fannies? ~Mimi
  
• Why Mimi's name is very similar to the word meme, which she loves to do? ~ Nan
  
• Why sheep don't shrink up when you put them in the dryer? Oh wait... nevermind. ~Erica


• Why Erica is obsessed with putting sheep in the dryer?????? ~ Nan


• What Tarah's nickname was growing up? - Tarah


• What Mimi's nickname was growing up? - Tarah


• How often do you change your bed sheets? - Tarah


• Why some people say Pop and some say Soda? - Tarah


• How did we meet our spouses? - Tarah


• Why the light always changes just as you are halfway across the street and then you have to run? ~ Nan


• Why women shave their legs and underarms and men don't? ~ Nan


• Why I am always to full to eat another bite of dinner but I always have room for dessert? ~ Nan


• What 2 mints are in double mint gum? ~Mimi


• What I will do to Tarah if she tells my nickname from childhood? ~Mimi


• Why people want to know secrets so badly? ~Mimi


• What kind of toothpaste the fifth dentist recommends? ~ Nan


• How much money it will take to bribe Tarah to tell us Mimi's nickname? ~ Nan


• Why children can't hear you calling them from three inches away but they can hear the words "Do you want to eat at Mcdonalds?" from three blocks away? ~ Nan
  
• Why eating asparagus makes your tinkle smell? {P....U!!!} ~ Miti
  
• Why birds suddenly appear every time you are near? ~ Miti


• Why tight rolling your jeans was ever cool? ~Miti
  
• If it's still cool to say cool? ~ Miti


• Why monkeys have bare bottoms? ~ Miti


• Why monkeys like to pick their bottoms? ~ Miti


• If zebras are black with white stripes or white with black stripes? ~ Miti


• What Mimi's nickname was growing up? ~ Miti


• Why the chicken crossed the road? ~ Miti


• Why can't I stop asking why? ~ Miti


• Why do some people like to count sheep and others like to dry them? ~ Miti


• Why Goofy talks and Pluto doesn't? ~ Miti
  
• Why the phone only rings when you're in the bathroom? ~ Nan


• Why somebody came up with a game about hitting a ball with a stick and running around in a big circle and people pay to watch them do it? ~ Nan


• Why chocolate isn't a food group? ~ Nan

Now it's your turn!

EVER WONDER.......

Free For All Fridays!

ADMIT IT...You clicked on here because you thought it was a Giveaway!

To put that wild fire out right away...FREE FOR ALL FRIDAYS IS NOT A GIVEAWAY. I will leave that to Heidi.

I just liked the catchy title.

This Par-tay just got started on Monday & guess who already has Blog Block? Seriously! Who gets Blog Block with their first post?

Why you ask? Because I am the Queen of Memes! If you have been to my blog, you know that I do a Blog Meme everyday except Sunday. Therefore the title Queen of Memes...so, without a Meme to guide me along...I am terrified & lost.

I would love some help to get this Free For All Started...please leave me any topic (silly or serious) and I will attempt to come up with an entertaining post. OK, maybe not entertaining, but definitely a post. If there are no helpers out there...then Fridays will be Fly By The Seat Of My Pants Day.

This could be fun...or N0t!

Who will be the first to leave an idea in that little comment box?

Don't make me start dropping links here & call you out by Blogs...

Cause you know I will!

Throw me a Bone...Help a Sister out. I repeat, this could be fun.

I'll be here waiting...right here...waiting...while you think of something for this crazy girl to post about. *sigh*