IrisAlthea
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Nice! Hope you’ll feel better soon.
No broken bones - incredibly lucky. It’s crutches and pain pills for a while, but it will be fine.
What made you smile or laugh today? Part IV
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No broken bones - incredibly lucky. It’s crutches and pain pills for a while, but it will be fine.
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Listening to my kid play happily. I am soaking every minute of this in. He won’t live with me forever. I will miss him soooo much but we all grow up.
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Getting a really lovely message that made me feel proud and tingly and drippy at the same time.
Spotting a golden oriole. They’re not at all common here, but now I heard and after much trying finally also saw one really close to where I live. Like 5 minutes away kind of close.
Smelling flowers. Finding Slovakian wine in the store for the first time ever (fingers crossed it’s good - of course I had to buy it, will open soon!). Lovely lightly pickled cucumbers. Looking into Melbourne as a possible travel destination next year. Googling platypuses once again.
Been a really good day, you guys!
Spotting a golden oriole. They’re not at all common here, but now I heard and after much trying finally also saw one really close to where I live. Like 5 minutes away kind of close.
Smelling flowers. Finding Slovakian wine in the store for the first time ever (fingers crossed it’s good - of course I had to buy it, will open soon!). Lovely lightly pickled cucumbers. Looking into Melbourne as a possible travel destination next year. Googling platypuses once again.
Been a really good day, you guys!
IrisAlthea
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Getting a really lovely message that made me feel proud and tingly and drippy at the same time.
Spotting a golden oriole. They’re not at all common here, but now I heard and after much trying finally also saw one really close to where I live. Like 5 minutes away kind of close.
Smelling flowers. Finding Slovakian wine in the store for the first time ever (fingers crossed it’s good - of course I had to buy it, will open soon!). Lovely lightly pickled cucumbers. Looking into Melbourne as a possible travel destination next year. Googling platypuses once again.
Been a really good day, you guys!
Sounds great!
The golden oriole has the most beautiful name in swedish - sommargylling.
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The Finnish name means “pikeperch cooker” because apparently, a long time ago, someone decided the four syllable song sounds like “pikeperch is boiling”. I don’t hear it. Another thing people have heard in the song is “is the farmhouse maid feeling cold”. I can’t hear that either. I just thought the song sounded a little eerie.
But it’s a cool looking bird! Exotic for Finland.
Sommar is pronounced much like you would in English, but the O is really an O and not just a vague schwa and kinda linger on the M a little, it’s long so it’s two letters. I think the R can be pronounced in a thousand ways depending on your dialect.
In gylling The gy is kinda like “you” and the rest is just ling, but once again linger on the L because there are two of them.
And yes, Iris, it’s a beautiful name.
But it’s a cool looking bird! Exotic for Finland.
Oooh, I wanna try to explain this! It’s so hard to explain pronunciations without resorting to phonetic alphabet, but I like it anyway! Iris can correct me.
Sommar is pronounced much like you would in English, but the O is really an O and not just a vague schwa and kinda linger on the M a little, it’s long so it’s two letters. I think the R can be pronounced in a thousand ways depending on your dialect.
In gylling The gy is kinda like “you” and the rest is just ling, but once again linger on the L because there are two of them.
And yes, Iris, it’s a beautiful name.
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Thanks.The Finnish name means “pikeperch cooker” because apparently, a long time ago, someone decided the four syllable song sounds like “pikeperch is boiling”. I don’t hear it. Another thing people have heard in the song is “is the farmhouse maid feeling cold”. I can’t hear that either. I just thought the song sounded a little eerie.
But it’s a cool looking bird! Exotic for Finland.
Oooh, I wanna try to explain this! It’s so hard to explain pronunciations without resorting to phonetic alphabet, but I like it anyway! Iris can correct me.
Sommar is pronounced much like you would in English, but the O is really an O and not just a vague schwa and kinda linger on the M a little, it’s long so it’s two letters. I think the R can be pronounced in a thousand ways depending on your dialect.
In gylling The gy is kinda like “you” and the rest is just ling, but once again linger on the L because there are two of them.
And yes, Iris, it’s a beautiful name.
I read quite a bit of Nordic crime/mystery fiction. The names of people and places completely flummox me.
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I went to breakfast with some extended family. Lots of little people with no table manners were there. It was kinda fun to slip into grandma mode and love them all while enjoying my meal.
Karma at work!!! Finally!!
Guy agead of me in a monster truck pulls into the last TWO spaces reserved for curbside pickup, climbs down and walks into the store. Leaves the truck running--straight pipes, lots of noise. I park way down the row, then move next to him when another pickup spot opens up. While I'm waiting, he gets back with a case of beer--can't get his door to open. Turns out he locked his keys, and cell phone, in the truck. HeHeHe. And nope, sorry buddy, don't have my cellphone with me. Hope you've got plenty of five and a half dollar gas in the tank!
Not proud of myself for it, but I grinned all the way home!
Guy agead of me in a monster truck pulls into the last TWO spaces reserved for curbside pickup, climbs down and walks into the store. Leaves the truck running--straight pipes, lots of noise. I park way down the row, then move next to him when another pickup spot opens up. While I'm waiting, he gets back with a case of beer--can't get his door to open. Turns out he locked his keys, and cell phone, in the truck. HeHeHe. And nope, sorry buddy, don't have my cellphone with me. Hope you've got plenty of five and a half dollar gas in the tank!
Not proud of myself for it, but I grinned all the way home!
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Someone "replied all" to a "do not reply to this email " email. Now it has a life of it's own".
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I saw this online and had to share here.
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It was okay. They played some dumb games, which I expected. Would have been better with beer, barbecue, and rock and roll.
