A Saying You're Known By?

Some years ago an elderly lady came into my gift Shoppe and you could tell that she was really in pain and was walking with a cane. Her hands were disfigured and red. We started talking and had a nice conversation. As she was leaving I told her to have a good day and hoped that she would get some relief. She looked at me and said, " Oh, this is just a minor inconvenience."
I have never forgotten her and use those words many times when I start feeling sorry for myself.
Or want to remind myself how lucky I am!!! Meems

Good for her!

Meems:

WOW, what a neat lady! That is an additude I'll have to remember and try to adopt whenever I get down about my "minor inconveniences." =)

Tir Na Nog, I'm going to remember you said that around........ oh, October? LOL. How is it going?

*How your baby's growing:*

This week, your baby measures about 16 inches long. He weighs a little over 3 pounds and is headed for a growth spurt. He can turn his head from side to side, and he's beginning to accumulate a layer of fat underneath his skin in preparation for life as a newborn. As a result, his arms, legs, and body are filling out.

This is what DD sends me. This is for 31 weeks.

Thanks Billy! I am about week 26 now I think? I forget all the time so I've marked it on a calendar downstairs! People will ask me, "So how old is your baby?" once she's here and I'll have to say..."Oh....about 6 months I think......" and later, "Oh....about a year...." =) I don't know HOW moms can keep up with aging them in WEEKS until they are about 2?!

I've gained 13 pounds total.....she's bopping around in there all the time, nicknamed Ka-Pow! Still hurting my left side ribcage for some reason, down low. It feels better when I raise my arm over my head so I try to lay down like that when I can.

And ROFL...yeah, I'LL have to remember not to grumble about my "minor inconveniences" come October!!!! I imagine it will be the most pain I've ever had in my life but I can relax some in knowing it will be over soon. =) Thanks for asking!

Ka-Pow, that is so adorable!!!! Sure it's a girl, or are you thinking positive?
Her nickname must go in the baby book!

They ASSURED me during the ultrasound it was a girl. She even made the girl symbol on the ultrasound shot right between the legs and gave us that copy! She says, "Do you know what you're having yet?" I said....."uh....(I'm seeing lots of round things and blobs soooo...) a BOY?!" She laughed and said no. She said she was 100% sure. And it matches my nasea symptoms I suppose. Lost 2 pounds in the beginning and gained it back once I got on the best medicine ever for nasea. Anyone needing to know more on that, just dmail me.

Awww, How wonderful, cute clothes, lots of kisses and a very happy Daddy!

I wanted to know how you were myself, but wasn't sure to ask in a thread...cool :-).

I'm glad all's well, A.

4paws: Oh thanks for the consideration! I always give more info in dmails than on threads but am happy to answer a question!

I was hoping you didn't feel you were putting too much info out, but we've talked baby on other threads, so I'm glad you were ok with it. (I'll d-mail more often!)

No prob, I'd never go over what I felt was "too much info" and don't mind anyone asking!

Hi - I was told that I should post some of my
mother's sayings, ones we still laugh about today.
You have to imagine these being said by an older
lady from Europe, with a heavy northern European
accent.

When she would be angry with us for not showing up
to help with some chore, or we stepped out for a bit
in the middle of a job, when we returned she would
angrily say:
"You like blister - show up AFTER work finished."

If she thought you were being gulible and believed
something naively, she would say:
" You see your ears?" or "You believe on Santa Claus?"

She was raised on a farm, so she worked hard and
spoke plain. I had never heard her snore, and didn't
know that she did, or any women did, for that matter.
I said to her:
"Ma, you were snoring last night."
She gave me a disgusted look, and simply said:
"Work like horse, sleep like horse."



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What a wonderful Mom! I can say I've never heard any of those before. I loved them!

When I went to kindergarten, my mom said my sister followed her so close she couldn't sneak a fart past her!

Funny!

This one's simple like the rest of mine, but I always say ''Better safe than sorry'' too.

...when asked how I am: "...pretty good, not bad, can't complain...". It's from a song by John Prine.

Jan

If I'm ever late to work or anywhere else actually, I say don't pay the ransom, I escaped.

Brenda

That's funny!

It is funny!!!

Very good thread. I often say a few things that my will kids will remember me by whether they want to or not. LOL
1 Watch what you say, words DO hurt and leave scars.
2 Don't sweat the small stuff. And it's ALL small stuff. (the 2nd part usually has them chiming in with me. mockingly, mind you. LOL)
3 WHATEVER (usually directed at DH. It annoys the snot out of him. hehehe)


I also loved the part about mispronouncing words. My husband & I were walking out of a basketball game once and there was a group of people ahead of us and they were on the lawn. There were snails all over it and the man said
"Hey, lets grab up some of these and eat us some of them there key largo's" LOLOL 26 years has not dimmed that memory.

Mahnot, your mama sounds like an admirable woman. :~)

Love this thread.
My dad said "warshrag and he was from Northeast Ohio. His people were from Southern Ohio miners, though...

I often cringe at the misuse of language nowadays. What grates on me the most is mistaking "bring" and "take". It seems to me we are excluding "take" from the language! It makes me crazy to hear people say they'll bring something with them to work. It's TAKE something with you to work, or at least it used to be.

I am known for yelling at the TV when this happens. It really irritates me when we dilute the meanings of words because it's easier.

And yet I have to watch myself because it's easy to fall into the trap of colloquial speech and suddenly one day realize you "brought" something with you to work, too! LOL

I am known to say, "Geez Louise!" and "Criminy Dutch" and "Groovy!"
Also, "No one ever accused me of being normal."

Love these bits you have shared.

Janie, I'm glad I'm not the only one who yells at the tv! I've also sent emails to a tv personality and a local attorney who advertised his availability for class action suits against the manufacturer of faulty "defibulators."

It seems I work with a lot of negative people and I am constantly trying to uplift them with positive thoughts!!

One is, "Don't say don't forget, say Remember".

It's funny, if you tell someone "don't forget" often that is exactly what they do because forget is the word the brain caught.

And some say a lot, oh, this is going to be a long day. I say, don't tell yourself that, instead tell yourself how quickly this day will go.

The power of positive thinking. That's not to say I am up all the time cause I have to keep talking to myself too. In fact I used to say I am an optimist with pessimistic tendencies.

I just hate for folks to drag you down with being so negative. It's all in your perspective of things, right?

Brenda

Brenda - I agree with you. Most of life is about attitude and perspective.

I'd rather die an optimist than live as a pessimist.

This is not a saying but rather about nicknames. I ran the county's archives here, on a strictly volunteer basis for some years. I helped a few people research books. One of them gave me mention in her acknowledgements where she called me Ms. History. But the other nickname I got was The Ferret. That's because I can ferret out information; it's kind of a detective mindset when someone is dead-ended finding historical information. I've done it long enough now to know a lot of resources, both here and throughout the region.
Luckily, the archives merged with the new library and I now work there part-time, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. It's funny but when I come back after being off 5 days, there are a lot of little notes and questions waiting for me.

when I have an unpleasant chore to do I whisper to myself "just do it"... and things I can do nothing about I "Whatever" those..........my dad used to say " I gotta go make a living" and mom used to talk about "come here people" We got a kick out of mom because more often than not she was talking about someone who had moved into the neighborhood from twenty miles away...

shirleyt, you made me remember one I say all the time, "Hey, the pay's the same" when folks grumble about work they have been given. I guess I should add I am a shop steward in a union environment with the feeling that the company and union should work as a team and not antagonistic as some oldtimer's feel.

Hence, "we (company and union) should be a team as a divided house falls."

Also, "If we are not willing to accept change and move forward, we will be left behind".

Okay, off the soapbox for now. LOL I might add I was on my way to the union meeting this morning and stopped in at Kohl's super sale with a 15% off coupon and no sales tax. I went hogwild and shopped too long and missed the meeting. Oh, well!!

Brenda

There are a couple that I say

#1 a quote from a song."If you want to hear God laugh, tell him your plans." Meaning we can't do it ourselves so why try,

#2 I has PMS and a 44 rugger. any questions?

#3 to my kids, And you are telling me this WHY?


~Dayna

I remembered another one I say when things are going awry, of course I did copy it from a title of a book, "Just hand over the chocolate and no one will get hurt."

I told you a funny one from my mom but here is one I remember from her that everyone should take to heart......."If you can't say something nice about someone....don't say anything."... Dad most remembered words were. " Don't just stand there......DO something even if it is wrong." Those were the words he said to me when I was supposed to be helping him pen a cow. She came at me an I just stood there terrified. I told dad when he was fussing at me for letting the cow go by, that I did not know what to do. And those were his words of wisdom to me. They work in all phases of life don't you think? shirley

By the age of two my kids and grandkids could quot this back at me .
"look with your eyes not your hands
there are no eyes on your fingers "
They love to grabe my glass from china cabinet so they had to stand with hands behind back and look at the things and quote this
When i was 5 a neighbor lady in her ninety's had about 8 china cabinets in her home , she would invite me in for tea and cookies and then i had to stand and repeat this while i looked at her pretty things .LOL

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I don't think there's a saying I'm known by, but I bought a great bumper sticker for my first car, when women's lib was just revving up: "Adam was a rough draft."

4paws, I would never get upset with you for saying "Spaceway" because my sister and I never called Woolworth's anything but "Werewolf's."

Biv, a friend of mine once went skydiving and broke his leg when he landed in a tree. He was taken to the local hospital, where a doctor was talking to him as he prepared to set my friend's leg. He started one of his sentences with "irregardless," and my friend immediately refused treatment from him. He couldn't trust someone who'd had at least eight years of higher education and still used fictitious words to set a leg properly.

Janiejoy, I yell at the TV too, especially when newscasters don't know the difference between "if" and "whether."

Oh, Zuzu, the story of your friend with the broken leg is sooo funny. When people ask why correct language is important, I'll cite this as one more example! I also talk back to the tv. Frustrating, isn't it?

Last week a radio broadcaster was speaking of the murder of a teacher by a neighbor: In Glen Cove the neighbor of a retarded school teacher....... .

The teacher was not retarded. She taught retarded children. They did use "retarded" even in newspaper stories.

Sometimes you'll hear the wrong word stressed in a sentence; and that, too, can change the meaning. There's a local tv commercial for mattresses that had a voiceover which stated they had "Amish builtwood frames." I thought it sounded so funny that "builtwood" came out as one word, with the accent on "built." Someone must have brought it to their attention, and they surprisingly took it to heart. The voiceover later became: "Amish-built wood frames."

okie dokie

pronounced ... o - gee dough - gee

I inadvertently created some of that word-order confusion myself when I told a gardening friend about a local flea market, my favorite place to buy dirt-cheap Cloissone. I told her they sell plants and Cloissone dirt cheap. She said she had never heard of Cloissone dirt but was eager to try it in her garden.

Another thing that makes me yell at the TV: Why are so many people suddenly pronouncing prenuptial as "prenup-chew-al"? Have they never seen the word in print?

:D