And Loki is in an annoying mood. Seriously, after I yelled at him for knocking over the birdseed container, her started knocking things off the counter and when I scooped him up for some diversionary aggressive affection, he put his paw on my nose and bopped it. Hard. Deliberately. Twice.

He's also being an obnoxious toddler to Pumpkin (we can hold our own, but damn, this cat and his moods.)

All because I won't let him go outside in the rain. Well, I'll let him, it is just that The Rain is my fault, apparently.

Descriptivist unless it annoys me personally is a real thing, right?

Not only is this a thing, the beauty part is we can make up a word for it.

I've been at my current job ten years. If I'm filling out a formal job application that wants me to list every job I've ever had, I can leave the starting and ending salary blank on all but my current one right? Because without going to my old tax returns, I honestly can't remember.

Joey Lawrence is outside my experience.

I decided I was too tired to make dinner and made do with a hard-boiled egg and leftover soup, but tomorrow's lunch is supposed to be leftovers of the dinner I didn't make. Not sure how I am going to deal with that.

I vote sara can have a flamethrower.

Oh, hey, I just got notified that I've been at my current job for 15 years, and here's a catalog from which I can pick a gift for myself! They weren't bad gifts overall. I got myself a Fuji Finepix camera. If I don't like it I can always sell it.

15 years. That's not only longer than I've been at any other job, that's longer than I've been in any relationship. And longer than I've lived in any state at one stretch, except for when I was growing up. Wow. I guess I'm good at committment after all, if someone's paying me to stay.

I'd usually leave the salary questions blank anyway!

Sara, I hear you. I'm so full of rage at people who have no consideration of my time or effort. And somehow even though I said I wouldn't I ended up agreeing to do this thing on Friday and I STILL don't have any info on it. Yet somehow it will all be my fault when it doesn't go perfectly. Grrrrrrrr.

Oh, hey, I just got notified that I've been at my current job for 15 years, and here's a catalog from which I can pick a gift for myself

Congrats!!!

My company used to do something like that for multiple of 5 year anniversaries. I got a set of pots and pans for my 20th. But they discontinued it 1-1-15 and they haven't said what the new program will be. They have about 18 months to figure it out before I hit 25.

I would swear that I've seen woah since at least the 80s and honest to god up til now assumed that woah and whoa were completely different words. Whoa means "hold on, stop, wait a minute:. Woah is spontaneous expression of being flabbergasted.d Ok, that is embarrassing.

Is woah actually recognized as a real word?

The thing that always makes me teeth-clench with aggravation is "persay". Sometimes "pursay." If you don't know how to spell it, don't use it.

Also, idioms from archaic practices: toe the line, jump the gun, a tow-headed child. The first two are from foot races, the third means white-blond. Tow was jute, hemp, or flax fiber, very pale, dry, and messy, so a child with pale flyaway hair was called tow-headed. Not toe-headed. But when people didn't grow up in circumstances where such things were common knowledge, the meaning is lost, and it's easy to drift to guessed spellings and meanings.

It's natural and good that language evolves, but I do think if someone has no idea what an idiom means, maybe they should't use it.

It's natural and good that language evolves, but I do think if someone has no idea what an idiom means, maybe they should't use it.

I've seen "on tenderhooks" too many times. bonny recently said "tenterhooks" and I wanted to kiss her for it. "Persay" makes me nuts, too. People hear a thing and just transcribe the sound, without any idea of what the word or phrase actually is, and apparently no curiosity to find out.

Hi everyone.

I wanted to let you all know that ita passed away. We found her this evening in her apartment. The authorities believe that she passed away over the weekend, possibly Saturday. Her parents have been notified but that's all the information we have at this time. I will let you know more as we learn more.