Zazzy,I’m sorry to read your blood sugar levels are up ! DS’s blood sugar levels are affected by moods,emotions and illness.How is your mom doing ?One day I like to share my emotional reactions when DS’s blood sugar levels go too low.It’s something very painful for me to watch and cope with.I have kept it bottled up for decades.Also,it’s not something discussed very openly as far as I know.
Eve,I looked up “Snookums” it’s like…baby or sweetie,only more common in cold places…like Eskimos ! LOL… I live not far from them either.The Howell’s used the word snookums on the TV show “Gilligan’s Island” too.It is a term of endearment for smarmy spouses,I read.
Smarmy ! I learned another new word today.Definitions of smarmy on the Web:
unpleasantly and insincerely flattering, friendly, or groveling
encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861615188/greasy.html
buttery,unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech;”buttery praise”; “gave him a fulsome introduction”; “an oily sycophantic press agent”; “oleaginous hypocrisy”; “smarmy self-importance”;”the unctuous Uriah Heep”; “soapy compliments”
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webw
So,I rather like to be called a fancy Schnucki !
Schnucki, I think it’s important for us to hear from the people in our lives about how the D affects them too. Sometimes we think it’s only us who suffers or has feelings about it. You feel absolutely free to talk about your feelings here!
Part of my high sugars is my fault, part is my body changing. I seem to be producing less insulin as well as not being able to use it easily. We’ll see what the great and powerful endo says.
As for smarmy – don’t you love words? I like that word because it so sounds like what it means. Thwack is another word that is just exactly right for what it means.
By: Zazzy on August 28, 2007
at 6:35 pm
Oh, I love words, too. When I was growing up the favorite kind of humor in our family involved puns and playing with words. And we used lots of words everyday. My sister and I were both accused of using too many big words, but for us it was just part of normal speach. We come from a long line of people who love words – the sounds they make, the meaning of the roots and prefixes and suffixes, the different ways you can use them, etc. And, apparently, we had somewhere in our background someone who spoke Yiddish. I have since learned that some of our favorite family expressions have their origins in Yiddish. One of my fondest memories (because it was so funny!) is of a service project we were involved in as teen-agers. One of the young men in the group had been standing, leaning on his hoe, while the rest of us had made a round in the field of beans we were supposed to be weeding. I had stopped at the end of the row to talk with a few others who had also stopped for a short break before starting another. I looked at this young man and asked if he were going to join us in weeding the beans or just stand there kibbitzing all day. He got a really funny look on his face, turned to my sister, and asked, “Did she swear?” That’s when I first realized that my family used words others had never heard. lol And kibbitz is one of my favorite words – I love the sound of it.
By: adamswife on August 29, 2007
at 9:58 am
Oh, I forgot. I love Schnuckiputz, too. I like the way it feels in my mouth when I say it out loud and the way it sounds. It’s a fun word.
By: adamswife on August 29, 2007
at 10:01 am