Thursday, March 1, 2012

Clarity is definition of an explanatory premise

And the fear of any writer is turning off a potential reader, i.e. customer with not consuming their product, therefore their words with intent to draw them in to read on...
Last night I am afraid my title of the blog turned some possible converters to becoming followers with a metaphoric slight of hand, off.
Let me try to explain, trying to entice your attention to my blog I utilized a title that if not understood may have been considered rather provocative in its word usage, you decide, “Intercalary or bissextile year”?
Now if you did not get passed that title perhaps you would have been confused bewildered or even insulted with not knowing the true meanings of those words…
‘Intercalary’: simply means a year with an addition, a Leap Year is an intercalary year, that’s all!
Now the more perfunctory word bissextile: meaning: having the extra day in the year that makes it a leap year!

And so with not as big of a bunch of responses as many others’ of my blogs… I think those who know me as a rated G or at times a PG hacker with wholesome fun and occasional information might have been confused by the title? I hope they will go back and re-read the whole blog;
that’s all I ask for is a second chance, okay?

The death toll rises from those horrid tornadoes that went through our heartland’s tornado alley yesterday and we all send our prayers with our heartfelt concerns to all of you who may have lost loved ones or even homes and businesses.
Devastation is something that takes time to come through and hopefully with the support of others somehow it does help make it not too difficult to recover; as best anyone can in these situations.

It brings back chills just hearing it on the news since our own experience back in 2004 with Hurricane Charley and its direct hit on us in our home…so we get it!
Wish no one had to get it.

Makes us all wonder why we have so much control in our lives, but still not the weather, hmm?
Frustrating and extremely upsetting.
Being of the type A persuasion and I am not talking blood type although, now that I think of that, that too, but I digress…
Type A people need to be in-charge, therefore always in control of a situation and some may even call us control freaks!
And when we find something that we cannot control like the weather, we feel as if we have failed… well, not really failed more like we get angry at the fact that it is something we have no power over.

But I must admit over the last several years I have not had control over very much, and by that I mean my health issues. Even the most ornery of us who used to feel that power when we would deal with any ill when we first find out, we check all the newest and the latest to know how to help ourselves and to try and make it better and then we may even go through denial that we have anything wrong and lastly we resign ourselves that it could be out of our hands to control and that we may have to depend on people more educated in the fields of expertise than our selves…Gosh, what a let down; knowing that you cannot do something the best by yourself for yourself!
Tormented and frustrated is how many feel, me included at times and so… We try to put on a brave front or complain in secret like I do here, oops, you mean to tell me this isn’t private, ha, I know that!

Sadly many women to me are not dissimilar to men in the fact that they close up when something bothers them and let it fester to grow bigger and who knows then could BURST!
Those gals feel it is better not to share any of these most personal ramblings and that any who do tell all, like their age and even their weight, gosh is nothing sacred? HA to you dear Joy Behar and I truly do love you as a View person and an entertainer with your insults equally to everyone.
And yes, I do share and have found some/many can relate and it builds online families with commonalties…
PS Dear sweet Joy, I still don’t tell my current weight anymore, since I refuse to get on a scale and I really don’t know because of that. I do have an inkling, but not a good one and you would be shocked and so would I; and so really, what or who would that help, ya know? I only tell the weight I was when I was thin about seven years ago, by the way, so there!

Jargon is terminology, slang, lingo, argot, language or gobbledygook, and being not a school teacher by profession or an English major either in college, or even a secretary, my grammar may make some cringe at times, especially all you Grammar Nazis, and for that I do apologize. Just thought I would throw that one in since I recall about a week ago when they, Barbara Walters (who I have an equal fondness for, or is that whom?) and Joy Behar were picking on Lisa Kudrow on the title of the show that she produces, “ Who Do You Think You Are?”
telling her that it should be, “WHOM DO YOU THINK
YOU ARE?” to be grammatically correct!

Any-who, I was surprised that Barbara confessed at that time that they; meaning herself and Joy were grammar Nazis! And I do know that Barbara is a Jew, like me and that Joy is on her second husband whom is Jewish too!
Kidding, or am I?
Who knows, who cares, but poor Lisa, who I also believe belongs to the tribe…that’s all.

On that bit of oddity and exploiting the Joy of Joy and Babs too, allow me to be one of the first to wish you all a very good night and to ask you all to count those blessings and to ask you to kindly to share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

PS You do know that it all boils down to lousy or excellent editing anyway, right?

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