I haven’t blogged over here for a very long time. I shouldn’t mention it and go ahead as though I am returning from a long, strange trip or I am meeting you for the first time.
“Hello, I’m Sally and believe it or not, I have been writing regularly over at the Writers Chatroom.”
During this world-wide pandemic, I have picked up a new hobby. I have been making miniature houses. Seriously. I’ve made over 15 or close to 20. I have the habit so bad, I actually keep an unfinished kit on hand and one or two in my cart on Amazon.
A college friend, Jan Wilber Kitzing has begun dropping hints about my new obsession. She may not know, I am taking her questions and very encouraging Facebook comments as hints, but I am taking a break, just the same.
The break isn’t so serious, considering the kit sitting near my art station and the 2 in my Amazon Cart. If I get too fidgety I’ll open the kit. The kit has a Rumba. A few kits ago, I built a treadmill.
I have taken my watercolors and equipment out and have them on the work table I used for those mini house kits. (I am giving the kits away and wish I could figure out how to package them to send out to my internet/college friends.)
It is also blog month at the Writers Chatroom adding another hint for me to put the kits aside and use my words.
I have been trying to think of what to write to break my silence at Life is a Story – Tell it Big. There is so much going on in the world, too many things to choose from, it reminds me of the Toothpaste Aisle at Walmart. Too much.
This morning I was watching something on tv and I’ve noticed lately that even full grown journalists are prefacing their answers with these two little words – I mean.
I mean, it has gotten so bad, you’d think I was stoned and obsessing over the word mean and what it means.
I looked it up. I looked specifically at its use as American Slang Language.
From the Urban Dictionary, I found this..
Depending on its position in a sentence or cluster thereof, a clarifying statement, a conversational stall, or a slightly apologeticamplifier. Rarely used in formal written communication, but common as a conversational particle in early 21st-century American English.
urban dictionary
Here are three of my interpretations of the words “I mean.” Bless my heart, I used the Urban Dictionary examples as a guide.
- I mean, I don’t want to be starting something that is going to get me unfriended or otherwise banished from my circle of friends and potential readers.
- My favorite movie of all time is Rear Window, a 1954 film, I mean, gosh, that one about the mashed potato mountain, Close Encounters, has music so awesome, I use it as ringtone on my cellphone.
- This is an excellent mini house making kit. I mean, if you can read Chinese and don’t mind building a bunch of flowers leaf by leaf.
I think I’ll end my post right here..
Never forget – Life is a Story and Don’t Touch Anything Sharp!