You know how you can talk about your brother, but Nellie-bar-the-door if anyone else does 'cause you're gonna have to put a hurtin' on 'em? That's how I feel about my Southern brethren…and sisteren, I suppose.
"Flustrated" is a word I've heard many a country boy use bless their hearts when they're…well…frustrated, and though the Word Police in me wants to inform them of their linguistic transgression, I know better. The same way I know it does NO good to tell an adult–Southern or otherwise–that "irregardless" is not (and never has been) a word.
Fingernails screech across the board and I'm done with it.
Funny, though…this week I am now embracing the word….
Flustrated. I. am. flustrated!
I've been juggling thorny-clawed-cats and blistering fireballs and razor-edged knives while running in headless-chicken circles; which taught me experiencially the definition of flustrated, which is surprisingly different from frustrated.
Mea culpa, Country Boyz. My bad.
Anyways…
I'm workin' on a Big Event which is requiring my time and full attention during the day, and blogging is taking a back seat–no, a TRUNK seat!–to that, especially when you throw in the ol' family with it. Please note, I'm not complainin', I'm just explainin' why I'm not writing much lately.
WHICH IS DINGDANG FLUSTRATING WHEN YOU HAVE and CLIFFHANGERS HANGING and VERY IMPORTANT and $ TO SHARE and to complete and a lot of THANK YOUS to extend to other bloggers!!!
The cool thing is I'm missin' writing more 'n chocolate (but just less than coffee) which feels good! My uber-secret Big Event will done at the end of the month, but until then thanks for remembering to visit Chez Pensieve. I will post, it'll just be sporadic.
To thank you for stickin' around, enjoy this mind-blowing video (borrowed from Baby Bloomr). I cannot imagine the set up for it or thinkin' it up in the first place! While you might be tempted to stop watching before it's over, the conclusion will make you glad you stuck around.
{p.s. I'm really fine but I've had a few "concerned about you" emails
so I figured I'd explain :)…thank YOU to those who were
sweet enough to ASK!! xo}
Yikes! I hope things start to go more smoothly soon!
I found your blog today after seeing it on (in)courage… I saw this post and couldn’t help to link by to my page because I have that same sentiment about flustration (http://lifetimemm.blogspot.com/2010/03/overpronunciation.html)
There’s some other entries, all tagged with Talk Southern that may ring true for you to!
Anyway, enjoyed visiting your blog!
Robin, I just gotta tell you that one of the biggest arguments I had with Greg (prior to us having children, which has spurred a whole other level to the term “argument”) was his use of the word irregardless! I even went about it from the logical, and intelligent way saying “the letters irr- are a prefix meaning NOT! The letters -less are a suffix meaning NOT! The root word is regard which means to take notice of! When you say IRRegardLESS you are saying you are NOT NOT taking notice!” I then went on to employ the “two negatives make a positive” rule such as “you can’t say never never, because that actually means always!” Then my husband looked up the word in the dictionary!!! AND IT WAS THERE! Arrrrrrggggghhhhhh!