Must have been someone who looked like me.
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Here we are, the evening of February 28th, and I’m so damned tired I don’t even feel human. I want to be positive, and happy tomorrow is Friday, but all I can think is whaddya mean it isn’t already Friday?
*Nothing to do with this post, but there was just a crash and thud outside. I’m wondering if someone lost a flowerpot from a terrace, or if I’m soon to hear sirens. Life in the big city, always an adventure*
So, tonight I’ve got boogers on the brain. Flower Child is still sick. Not bad, and able to go to school, but still sick. Lots of sniffling and snuffling and blowing. This makes me nervous. March is generally an iffy health month for her, and I was hoping she’d be back to baseline before it started. On the positive end, Parent Teacher conferences went very well. The adaptive technology she’s using has been incredibly helpful. The math teacher’s a little confused as to why she answers every question and interaction with him, “live long and prosper,” but hey.
Star Trek TOS Cutting Room Floor Clippings (Photo credit: The Rocketeer)
I’d like to explain it to him, but can’t. Her thinking can be…circuitous. For some reason she associates the math teacher with Nerd Child, which in turn connects her to the phrase. I’m guessing the teacher regrets his surprised laugh the first time he heard it from my girly girl. Poor man. Still, an excellent, creative teacher and I’m grateful for the fabulous team working with her this year.
Seeing as it’s the 28th, I feel I should report on how the writing went this month, since I announced I would be making an all out push, producing as much as possible. Turns out that between Flower Child’s illness, the passing of my father in law, and life, this might not have been the best month to choose. Between the morning of February 1st and this evening, I got about 12,500 words added to the WIP. I also wrote that short, about 3800 words. Not a wasted month, just not quite the momentum I had started with and hoped to continue.
Speaking of the short, I’ve got a reference in there to snot, connected to the main character, a woman in her late sixties. The reason I mention this; super interesting to me to find that a few people strongly and specifically associated snot with children, and not older adults. Is it the word or the mucus itself? I’m no gerontologist, but I am and have been around a good number of older people. Boogers don’t disappear when the AARP card arrives. And someone who would use the word snot at thirty is likely to still be using it at sixty or seventy. One of my mother’s favorite insults was to call someone snot-nosed. She had other, more colorful insults, but that one was always used to great effect, with much power behind it.
A man mid-sneeze. Original CDC caption: “This 2009 photograph captured a sneeze in progress, revealing the plume of salivary droplets as they are expelled in a large cone-shaped array from this man’s open mouth, thereby dramatically illustrating the reason one needs to cover his/her mouth when coughing, or sneezing, in order to protect others from germ exposure.” (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Gesundheit, and happy almost Friday, fringelings!
mrsfringe 
Gesundheit to you and FlowerChild as well and may you both live long and prosper. ❤
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Ah. Didn’t realize it was a goal month! I’d say with that word count you did pretty well. But goal months do seem to go like that, I believe I had a goal month in January, something about replacing lost income. Ha!
No comment on the snot issue. I don’t understand it either! 🙂
Hope your household remains in good health.
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Thanks Kyla! I’m actually pleased with the word count. It isn’t what I’d hoped, but I kept plugging, if slowly.
Perhaps a shot of Bailey’s to keep the dr away 😉
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My Grandma used the term snot. You could be a snot, you could have a full snot-locker, you might need a snot-rag. Snot is timeless and ageless.
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Oh, the dreaded snot-rag, gives me a shiver just to hear you say it 😉
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LOL – my nana used to wash and iron a stack of them every week – ick
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Have I ever mentioned how much I ❤ Kleenex? 😉
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I use snot all the time, my husband has all year hay fever, a fact he hid from me till I married him, there is a lot of snot in my life, he manages it badly, plays fast and loose with food prep after sneezing, washing his hands rarely includes soap, I best stop I am feeling ill.
Snotty, snot monster, snot face.
He probably won’t live long and prosper, I predict a frying pan to his head any day now 🙂
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And so, another circuitous mind makes a connection 😛
PS: If I ever make it out your way, let’s meet at a restaurant 😉
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Good idea 🙂 sans snot.
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🙂
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Yay for good parent teacher conferences. 🙂 I’m so glad that school has been going well for her this year. Now to get her feeling better!
Snot, eh? I have an entire repository of terminology for that stuff, given the ever present role it plays over here in our lives. Ha.
Good for you writing all those words. You have had an awful lot going on and still accomplished a lot. 🙂
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I thought of you and yours while writing this, wanted to both laugh and cry, certain you would be able to create your own thesaurus entry for boogers. :p
Forward, I am determined to move forward this year in whatever ways I can. 😀
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