New Years Resoluation:

[Ferrus]

Words to add to my active vocabulary:

ab ovo
agrestic
apprise
badinage
bedizen
booboisie
cap-a-pie
claque
cockaigne
concupiscence
congeries
copse
crabwise
deipnosophist
defeasance
deformation
detraction
discomfit(ure)
discommode
discountenance
discursive
disinter
disjunctive
disobliging
disport
dispraise
dissemble - dissimulate
disservice (ill turn)
distingué
distrait
donnybrook
dormer
dubiety
eleemosynary
embonpoint
eremite
equable
etiolate
exculpate
exsanguinous
fatidic
favonian
flaneur
flummery
foist
foofaraw
gable
gambol
gastronome
gull
hugger-mugger
indelicacy
indite
inhere
inspissate
interstice
impute
imprimatur
improvident
irrefragable
jollification
labile
lineament
ludic
louche
macerate
maculate
manse
melange
mewl
misprize
motile
mulct
natorial
nebbish
ne plus ultra
neoteric
nugatory
obiter dictum
objugate
oblation
olla podrida
ogio
oneiric
outre
peccant
pensile
pied-a-terre
Potemkin village
preciosity
presentiment
pronunciamento
Promethean
proximal/proximate (close)
pule
punctilio
recherche
ripparian
robustious
ruse de guerre
rodomontade
sequacious
simpatico
somatic
subfusc
superlunary
supernumerary
surcease
supposititious
starveling
stupefy
tatterdemalion
tintinnabulation
titivate
uberty
ukase
undulant
velleity
virtu
Vitreous
vulcanian
winsome
woolgathering

[Perry]

Great resolution. Here is a challenge for you. How many of the words on your list can you pack into one sentence?

[Bailey]

Oh dear no!!!! you'll sound like a nutcase.

mark welcome-to-the-nut-place, chief-macaroon Bailey

[Sunny]

I was just planning to try harder to be a more patient person. Now I have to rethink this, add some words to my active vocabulary, lose 5 pounds, excersize more, eat less junk, eat more veggies, aim for a glass of red wine each night, walk the dog more often, and dust on a semi-regular basis.

I am exsanguinous, it is just too much!

I need a drink

[skinem]

...just so long as it's red wine...

[Bailey]

I have to exercise, UGH, and just working hard is not good enough they say, it's gotta be a boring sitting on a bike looking at a wall kinda exercising, or walking on a treadmill staring at a wall. I like to do at least three things at a time or I get bored, hairgo [sic] I will have to be bored for 40 MINUTES A DAY, EVERY DAY!

mark hair-gone Bailey

[bnjtokyo]

Well, you could pedal the exercise bike, read a book or magazine, listen to music with the television turned to an all news channel and drink red wine at the same time.

How's that for multitasking?

[Bailey]

But I'm still stuck on the bike, no walking away to get me a dagwood, And it's hard to reach my ashtray from the bike. [as if]

mark gotta-lotta-vices Bailey

[gailr]

After a bohemian friend of mine turned 50 she showed up for our annual resolutionfest with an unusual list. She was grimly determined to go an entire year without: giving up chocolate; reading self-help books; joining a gym; eating more vegetables; cutting back on her drinking; going to church regularly; deepening her meditation practice; working on her relationships; bleaching her whites; or doubling her stock portfolio.

I can only hope to live up to her example someday.

-gailr

[Perry]

No doubt you will, once your head is out of the clouds.

[sluggo]

No doubt you will, once your head is out of the clouds.

I believe that's snow. Remember the Colorado!

Some states have all the luck, grumble grumble... (Rod Stewart)

[Perry]

Well I missed the news and the other thread (until later). But like you, I am feeling all of this cold rain. Stay warm Sluggo, Gail, and one and all.