My New Favorite Past-Time

Okay, so I just had an epic moment in my insignificant existence. I needed to double-check the meaning of the word brash, for curiosity's sake. I went to dictionary.com and dutifully typed the word into the search engine. As always, the website provided a quick and precise answer.

Satisfied with my results, I decided to go back to the main page to look at "The Word of the Day". Today's word is lacuna which basically means an empty space. Hoping to remember the word again, I decided to use it in a sentence quickly before it escaped my mind. I looked at my husband and said, "Honey, your head is a lacuna". He responded by pretending to punch me across the face. I don't think he appreciated my correct usage of the word. He especially didn't appreciate that I made that incident my Facebook status. Oops.

On the right-hand side of the screen it gave guests the option for to look at previous "Word of the Day"s. I was proud of myself when I knew the definition of one already: pallid. I chuckled at some words and found others to be interesting. However, my all time favorite of the night and the one word in the dictionary which describes me perfectly was flibbertigibbet (pronunciation FLIB-ur-tee-jib-it). To quote the website directly it is, "A silly, flighty, or scatterbrained person, especially a pert young woman with such qualities".

So, I would like to end this blog by saying, thank you dictionary.com for providing me with educational and fulfilling entertainment. I now plan to make this a daily habit. I hope I stumble across words that are equally as great or maybe greater than flibbertigibbet (I highly doubt it). Good night all and I hope this blog is a presage of what all my followers will be doing immediately after reading this post (Oh yeah, by the way, a presage is defined as a prediction or a prophecy).