LOTS OF STUFF ABOUT NOTHING

The way I fuss about a hangnail, you would think it was a nuclear war.  And a jagged fingernail makes me know I have some issues.  I fixate on it and can’t get anything completed until it is smooth.   I don’t like rough or jagged.

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If I ever get my hip replaced, I’m going to have a computer put in it to be able to read mind waves.  It seems like a handy thing to have.  Anyway, that’s what that the Grandma told me was wrong with me....I needed to listen to the voices.  

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If something looks easy, that something has been practiced a long, long time.  Watching basketball players sink free throws is an example.  Watching a kindergarten teacher getting her students ready for the end of the day and dismissal.  No one gets ahead without practice, hard work and experience.  Beware those folks to have a meteoric rise to stardom.....it’s a hell of a trip down.  But, I usually watch.

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Lordy, I love people who just blurt out foolishness.  Nothing makes me laugh harder than a Freudian slip....especially if it’s me who did it.

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Let retired be retired.  I love volunteering.  I love writing.  I loved waking up this morning at 7 and not have been at school, up for two hours, and listening to why EVERYONE is tired.  The Monday after the time change should be a school holiday.  I don’t know what I’d call it.  I did have a wonderful pal suggest that we ease into daylight savings time 15 minutes at a time over a span of four weeks.  It would be a nightmare to implement, but my sleep pattern would thank you.

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NIT....NOT IN TOUNAMENT.....it really stands for National Invitational Tournament.  I am still laughing about MY guess for what NIT really stands for.

Tiny Dancer: Sally’s in the House

Sally and I enjoy each other’s company.  We are about on the same wavelength most of the time.  She’s 4 and I’m 66.  I really do enjoy visiting with her.

Sally is a dumpling.  The world is her oyster and she just loves a good visit.  (Note:  I can’t understand Sally speech most of the time.  She gets excited, talks fast and doesn’t say her /s/ sound unless prompted by her mother.)  But, she got the Malloy gene for talking and getting along with people.  I am one of the members of her fan club.

I remember my own mother coming to Georgia to visit and saying, “I know why God gives children to young people.”  Yes, I am resting today.  Laughing.  AND thinking the same thing my mother said!

In the past 24 hours, the following quotes came out of my tiny dancer’s mouth:

1.  Hey, Nana, do you have You Tuber on your phone?

2.  It’s the chocolate milk that makes a great lunch.

3.  I just love a pink lipstick.

4.  The kitty is resting up in the big bed.  Get ready.  He eats toes.

5.  Now, what shall we do.

6.  Let’s get Uncle Dan involved.

7.  You be the patient.  I’m going to write your diagnosis.

8.  Don’t you just love new underpants?

9.  Can you say your alphabet?  Do you know it?

10.  You stay here.  My teacher doesn’t need to know my momma didn’t bring me to dance class today.

11.  I need to borrow a glass of water to take outside. (Said in very clean, clean clothes and a twinkle in her eye)

12.  Let’s go to your house and eat pot pies.

13.  If we pretend it’s Christmas, you can hide the presents and I’ll be the little girl that finds them.

14.  Girl Scout Cookies?  Alright, but I don’t like Thin Mints.

15.  What will we do if mommy doesn’t come back?

16.  Daddy said I couldn’t talk to you until you opened your eyes.  (I woke to find a sweet face staring at me.)

17.  Watch out.  Watch out.  Here come the unicorns!

What's in a Nickname?

I like reading the obituaries of strangers when they have a nickname in the headline.  The Macon Telegraph featured a “Bonehead” one day and I still remember it.

I was called "e” (and am still called “e") by my family.....I have been called Doc, Weezer, and MamaWeave (I have also been called some choice words by wayward youth who might have needed to have had to have a little attitude adjustment, too.) Because I have a niece named Erin Malloy, she is known as Little e....thank goodness my brother has sense enough not to call me Old e....or Wide e......or Old, Wide e.

"Little Mama” was a common nickname in many of the classrooms I visited in Central Georgia.  These were the little girls who had hearts of gold and took care of everyone.   I always wanted to know the whys behind the nicknames.  That’s what makes the story interesting....the why?

I had a little fourth grade girl come to Lakeview Elementary in Centerville, Iowa.  On the first day of school, she sasshayed up to my desk and annoounced that she had changed her name to "Go Go.” I told her that I needed to call her by the name on her birth certificate until her momma told me different.  That child had quite an imagination.  I thought of her as Go-Go the entire year.....this was in the late 1970’s and I still think of her as Go-Go.

Nicknames are one of those “let’s look in the underwear drawer” things in life.  Most of the time the bestowing of a nickname just happens.  It is a serendipitous moment when a nickname sticks forever.  And stick they sometimes do.

Coach Anthony Hines was the best nickname giver of anyone I have ever known.  I swear, Coach had a great nickname for all of us.  He never slowed down.  Those names were part reality, part fantasy.  We loved hearing the nicknames of the new freshmen.  He was the king of the nickname givers! Anthony had the gift of discernment.

So, I have an assignment for all of you.  I want you to tell me about YOUR nickname and how you got it.  I kind of promise I won’t use it in a blog unless it is a really great story.  Nicknames make me happy....nicknames are bits of love that are scattered by circumstance or happenstance.  Just let me know your alias. Please?

Ray Ray

Rockhead

Kitty

Cheeseburger

Di Di Chi

Boogie

Termite

Smitty

Beave

Pets

Spot

Smiley

Cooter

The Mullet

Buster

Real Ron

Bo

Cindy Lou-Who

Mo

Little Weave

Girly-girl

And the list goes on.....comment on your nickname and how you got it.....or even better, tell me nicknames and how they were earned by others.  Talk about March Madness.....