A list of 53 words by ruzuzu.
- lunchwas added by ruzuzu and appears on 48 lists
- solitonwas added by ruzuzu and appears on 11 lists
- cedar waxwingswas added by ruzuzu and appears on 2 lists
- fbharjo's punswas added by ruzuzu and appears on just this list
- Pro's taste in musicwas added by ruzuzu and appears on just this list
- going for the rainbow-colored mustachewas added by ruzuzu and appears on 2 lists
- peonieswas added by ruzuzu and appears on 12 lists
- yarbarmwas added by ruzuzu and appears on 2 lists
- buttermilk skywas added by ruzuzu and appears on 5 lists
- roseate spoonbillwas added by ruzuzu and appears on 3 lists
- repunitwas added by ruzuzu and appears on 2 lists
- liriodendronwas added by ruzuzu and appears on 6 lists
- █████was added by ruzuzu and appears on 13 lists
- butter sculpturewas added by ruzuzu and appears on 3 lists
- dontcry's hahorkwas added by ruzuzu and appears on just this list
- triple word scorewas added by ruzuzu and appears on just this list
- H.W. Fowlerwas added by ruzuzu and appears on 3 lists
- plinthwas added by ruzuzu and appears on 140 lists
- possibleunderscore's underscorewas added by ruzuzu and appears on just this list
- chained_bear's underscorewas added by ruzuzu and appears on just this list
- reesetee's bird callswas added by ruzuzu and appears on just this list
- mantis shrimpwas added by ruzuzu and appears on 6 lists
- parentheseswas added by ruzuzu and appears on 15 lists
- Picardy thirdwas added by ruzuzu and appears on 2 lists
- chickenswas added by ruzuzu and appears on 16 lists
- spacewas added by ruzuzu and appears on 86 lists
- timewas added by ruzuzu and appears on 134 lists
- people who type statue when they mean statutewas added by ruzuzu and appears on just this list
- fuflunswas added by ruzuzu and appears on 23 lists
- the p at the beginning of pterodactylwas added by ruzuzu and appears on just this list
- Wordnikwas added by ruzuzu and appears on 25 lists
- wordiewas added by ruzuzu and appears on 67 lists
- the santa foxwas added by ruzuzu and appears on just this list
- bilby's poetrywas added by ruzuzu and appears on just this list
- the musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayerwas added by ruzuzu and appears on just this list
- jaunty scarveswas added by ruzuzu and appears on just this list
- cattlewas added by ruzuzu and appears on 34 lists
- The Summer Trianglewas added by ruzuzu and appears on just this list
- hummuswas added by ruzuzu and appears on 43 lists
- illustrated dictionarieswas added by ruzuzu and appears on just this list
- paintbrusheswas added by ruzuzu and appears on just this list
- yawning catswas added by ruzuzu and appears on just this list
- crocus bulbswas added by ruzuzu and appears on just this list
- youwas added by ruzuzu and appears on 95 lists
- cloudswas added by ruzuzu and appears on 36 lists
- minnowswas added by ruzuzu and appears on 3 lists
- long swas added by ruzuzu and appears on 3 lists
- postcardswas added by ruzuzu and appears on 6 lists
- African violetswas added by ruzuzu and appears on just this list
- broccoliwas added by ruzuzu and appears on 28 lists
- fields full of daisy fleabanewas added by ruzuzu and appears on just this list
- hernesheir's variationswas added by ruzuzu and appears on just this list
- mollusque's exactitudewas added by ruzuzu and appears on just this list
mollusque commented on the list things-that-make-me-happy--1
*blushes*
June 12, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list things-that-make-me-happy--1
Postcards? Are you on Postcrossing too?
June 12, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the list things-that-make-me-happy--1
Both of my grandmothers had postcard collections. I'm working on my own collection, but I'm not on Postcrossing (yet).
June 12, 2011
bilby commented on the list things-that-make-me-happy--1
I'm on Postcrossing. But I don't collect postcards. Why am I there?
*has existential moment*
June 12, 2011
sionnach commented on the list things-that-make-me-happy--1
The Santa Fox assures me, his Parisian representative, that he is honored to be on this list. Indeed, he is deeply honored. He is currently a wee bit exhausted, having spent far too much of the night out dancing with the sweet tooth fairies, and some of their less reputable brethren.
By an amazing twist of fate, tomorrow and Tuesday turn out to be two of the four days a year that the Santa Fox sets aside for such "old media" activities as "sending postcards to friends". By today's loose definition of "friend"ship, pretty much everyone on Wordnik is my friend and eligible to receive a lovely postcard from Paris. Some of you even met the older, more demanding, criteria for friendship, in my humble opinion. You know who you are.
Anyway, if anyone wants to receive a lovely Paris postcard from the Santa Fox (which could be worth millions to your children after his demise), all that is required is to send him the necessary information* care of my e-mail address on gmail. This takes the form myfirstnamemymiddleinitialmylastname followed by the usual gmaildotcom ending. My middle name is Michael.
*: this would be your name, your address, and whether or not you would like your lovely postcard to include the Eiffel Tower. Feel free to send me a private message on Facebook with the information, if you prefer, but given Facebook's general laxness about privacy, gmail might be the better option.
June 12, 2011
sionnach commented on the list things-that-make-me-happy--1
This sentence is also true for our family, if you replace the word "postcard" with the word "grudge".
June 12, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the list things-that-make-me-happy--1
Ruzuzut alors! I've sent my message to Santa. :-)
June 12, 2011
PossibleUnderscore commented on the list things-that-make-me-happy--1
Awww... this list makes me happy.
June 13, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the list things-that-make-me-happy--1
Prolagus, I added postcards to the iroquoisy list. Not long after writing that bit about my postcard-collecting grandmothers, I got word that the second of the two had passed away. It's one of those bittersweet things where we're all glad she's not in pain anymore, but it's brought up a lot of stories. A couple of years ago--when my grandmother was first starting to lose her memory--I had gone to visit her and my grandfather. I was saying something about looking through my other grandmother's postcards, and my grandfather said, "Oh, you like postcards? I just threw a bunch of old ones away yesterday." The garbage haulers hadn't come yet, so he let me sit at the kitchen table and sort through the coffee grounds, egg shells, and used Kleenexes to find what remained of my grandmother's collection. There were some my father and uncles had sent from trips to camp, some from my great aunt's trips to Barcelona or Paris, some from each new daughter-in-law, some with colorful scribbles from me and my cousins, and even some from people I didn't know who'd written just "I know how much you love getting cards, so here's another one for you." Yesterday my grandfather was saying none of us should worry about sending flowers or cards: "I already know that she's dead." I might still write one last card for her--if I feel compelled to mail it, I can just send it to my own address.
June 13, 2011
sionnach commented on the list things-that-make-me-happy--1
'zuzu: I'm sorry to hear about your grandmother's death. Your last comment below reminded me of this wonderful poem I came across, shortly after my own mother had died of cancer. I think the link below should still work (it's to a Word document, with the text of the poem, on my website). Mary Jo Salter, the author, is one of my favorite American poets (her husband, Brad Leithauser, is also a poet, and a fiction writer). I hope that the link works, and that you like the poem. It was first published in "The New Republic", probably around 1986.
Dead Letters
June 13, 2011
hernesheir commented on the list things-that-make-me-happy--1
Had I such a list, ruzuzu and her playful Weltanschauung would be the first entry.
June 13, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the list things-that-make-me-happy--1
@hernesheir: As you can see, you're already on this list of mine. :-)
@sionnach: Thank you. I've gone through a couple of stages when it comes to reading poetry--I'm back to being able to appreciate the poems that are capable of encouraging deep personal meaning in the reader. That one's a doozy. Some of the details are different--a couple of years ago I lost my own mother to something more like an aneurysm than cancer--but somehow I still feel that I understand exactly what's going on in that poem. It was helpful to read it now. I'm sorry for your loss, too.
June 14, 2011
reesetee commented on the list things-that-make-me-happy--1
Thanks for the list, ruzuzu, and for including me in it. Thanks for the poem, sionnach.
June 18, 2011