Today was flu shot day. All the news outlets have been mentioning that they are seeing cases of the flu already, so we all might as well go and get our shots. Jody and I get flu shots every year. If there is any other kind of shot we can get, we get those too. We are both personally lucky because neither of us get sick very often. Me, once every couple years, but you can guarantee that I am NOT a good patient. I do not care for any part of being sick. For the past several months, I have been ingesting that Emergen-C stuff every day as well, this is getting to the season that I will be travelling for this conference or that conference, and I would just as soon be prepared. We got nine eggs yesterday, which means there is a possibility that three of the girls are still holding out. We won't really be able to tell for sure if all the girls are laying until the day that we get an even dozen. And I think the eggs are getting a little bit bigger, too. The first egg I cracked open this morning was a double yolk, too, and that is not very common at all!
Flibbertigibbet -- Noun. a silly flighty person. She plays a
flibbertigibbet on the sitcom, but off the set, she is a no-nonsense woman in full control of her career and family.
Did You Know? Flibbertigibbet is one of many incarnations of the Middle English word flepergebet, meaning "gossip" or "chatterer" (others include flybbergybe, flibber de' Jibb, and flipperty-gibbet). It is an onomatopoeic* word, created from sounds intended to represent meaningless chatter. Shakespeare apparently saw a devilish aspect to a gossip; he used
flibbertigibbet in
King Lear as the name of a devil. This use never caught on, but the devilish connotation of the word reappeared when Sir Walter Scott used
Flibbertigibbet as the nickname of an impish urchin in the novel
Kenilworth. *Using or related to onomatopeia**. **The formation of a word from a sound with what is named (e.g. cuckoo, sizzle). Good grief.
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