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Posted
​ February 3, 2023


It's The Journey That Counts!
Life's journey is not to arrive safely at the grave in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting, "Wow! What a ride!"
Anna-grams 
● Survived the Christmas Holiday. On to Tax Day.  Whoopee!

●  For Christmas, the toilet backed  up. It cost us a bundle to get tree roots out of our connection to sewer in the street.
Also, the dish washer went belly up, and rain made the roof leak.


●  Currently Reading 
Title: The Recipe for a
          Perfect Wife
Author:  Karma Brown


Anagrams 
● Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata = Long item... not the Bossa Nova, eh?
~ Rick Rothstein (2005)

● Composer Ludwig van Beethoven = Have proved - belong to new music.
~
Aronas Pinchas (2007)

● Beethoven's Piano Concerto Number Five = O, can the Emperor vibes connive to be fun?
~ M.Mesterton-Gibbons  (04)

● The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden = Hear our 'Tosca' proved elegant, honey? ~  Mick Tully  (2003)


Quotes
● "A lot of my friends didn’t know what to do with their lives. But I always had this very strong idea of what I wanted." ~ Nicola Benedetti (violinist)

● "I don't need the money, dear. I work for art." ~ Maria Callas (Opera Singer)

● "If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong." ~ Sir Simon Rattle (Conductor)


● “I'm on my way to Windsor to perform at the royal wedding. I'm really looking forward to that, to getting there and having a really great day.” ~ Sheku Kanneh-Mason (Cellist)
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Weekly Literary Term
That You  May Never Need To Know
I'm not writing this any more undless there is a demand for it L.O.L. 
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​             CELEBRATE BLACK
                     HISTORY MONTH


​​Observation Days

● Black History Month
● American Heart Month
● Library Lovers Month
● Senior Independence Month
● Children's Dental Health Mo. 
● National Time Management
   Month

● Canned Food Month
● Great American Pie Month

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February 3 is:
● National Golden Retriever Day
● National Carrot Cake Day
● National Women Physicians Day

● Optimist Day
● Doggy Date Night
● Cordova Ice Worm Day


New Dictionary Words in 2022-23

● ICYMI  = Acronym for “in case you missed it.”

● MacGyver (n or v) = (n) A person (particularly a guy) who gets out of a jam using random tools and articles lying around (v) The act of MacGyvering one’s way out of a jam or problem.

●  cringe (adj)  = The word “cringe” was first introduced in the 1570s to mean “to bend or crouch, especially with servility or fear.
Recently, it has become popularly used as an adjective to describe something so embarrassing it makes one perform the act of cringing.
Kids might use this, as in, “Mom’s dance moves are so cringe.”


● adorkable = people who are endearingly socially awkward are “adorkable.”
​Eg:  “Those writers are so adorkable when they hide in their corners and refuse to join the rest of the company for happy hour.”
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Source:
https://www.peoplefirstcontent.com/blog/7-new-words-added-to-the-dictionary-for-2023



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