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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Hello, I’m Sally and believe it or not, I have been writing regularly over at the Writers Chatroom<\/a>.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is also blog month at the Writers Chatroom adding another hint for me to put the kits aside and use my words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mean, it has gotten so bad, you’d think I was stoned and obsessing over the word mean<\/em> and what it means. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I looked it up. I looked specifically at its use as American Slang Language.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the Urban Dictionary<\/a>, I found this..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Depending on its position in a sentence or cluster thereof, a clarifying statement, a\u00a0conversational<\/a>\u00a0stall, or a slightly\u00a0apologetic<\/a>amplifier<\/a>. Rarely used in formal written communication, but common as a conversational particle in early 21st-century American English. <\/p>urban dictionary<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Here are three of my interpretations of the words “I mean.” Bless my heart, I used the Urban Dictionary examples as a guide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n