The Bigger They Get

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What I learned today…

July 10th, 2008 · 7 Comments

Two things:

1. The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

This is good to know because that happens to me all the …..

Oh, damn.

2. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

Hey, cool. I guess I do exercise!

My day was not wasted.

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Tags: Lessons Learned

7 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Trudie // Jul 10, 2008 at 5:11 am

    Found your blog by way of Jenn At Juggling Life…
    Letholigica - I suffer from it. All.The. Time. It drives my SO nutty because every second sentence out of my mouth sort of just trails off into the sunset, never ever finished.

    Trudies last blog post..Family Holiday, 60’s Style

  • 2 Alice // Jul 10, 2008 at 6:18 am

    Love the word! I couldn’t remember the word ’smuggle’ yesterday and went up to Babycakes…’what is it when you try to sneak drugs into the country..hmmm…hmmm…tell me…’

    What the HELL happened with my brain?

    Alices last blog post..My 6 Feet of Wall

  • 3 nutmeg // Jul 10, 2008 at 9:26 am

    How is it we are just meeting?

    Off now to bang head on wall - too much icecream for breakfast!

    nutmegs last blog post..Hiatus

  • 4 Jenn @ Juggling Life // Jul 11, 2008 at 9:57 am

    What is it called when you’ve finished your sentence in your head, but not out loud? It leaves my family staring at me with mouths gaping all the time!

  • 5 laurie // Jul 13, 2008 at 8:03 am

    ouch!

    lauries last blog post..Sometimes I wish that I’d had Riley from the start

  • 6 Jennifer H // Jul 14, 2008 at 4:16 pm

    Thank god there’s a word for that problem. Not that I’ll ever remember it. :-)

  • 7 RuthWells // Jul 14, 2008 at 7:54 pm

    Oooh, #2 is going to come in verrrrrrry handy. No way am I going to remember #1, though.

    RuthWellss last blog post..Signs

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