Gad! Now they’ve got arcane words from sub-sub-sub strata of science. . .never heard of most of them. . .and when I listen to the national spelling bee, then look up the words, they’re not even words I can use at cocktail parties!
Spelling bees were always rigged against me. The other students would get words like ‘horse’, ‘because], or ’focus’. My word would always be something like ‘psychiatrist’, ‘occasionally’, or ‘lavatory’. Then the next kid would get a word like ‘fox’.
We are taking apart the family home to sell it as mom at 90 cannot manage alone any longer and has found an assisted living center she likes.
It would have been much harder for me if Hurricane Sandy had not happened. There was one closet of my stuff in the house – and most of that was empty Cabbage Patch Kids boxes. I did find two of the 5 things I want and no one has found has the other 3 – and stuff that I did not know that was there and we took 3 bags of. But what would have hard was all of my toys in the basement – a dollhouse that husband and I built me before we married, my books from when I was young, my games (left stuff there so when we had children – which we did not have – there would be things for them to play with as there was at my grandparents houses), etc. My electric trains had been brought to our house when we did a layout in our basement a couple of decades ago so they are safe. All there had to be tossed after Sandy by the company that came in. Worst of all a good chunk of it was replacement items I had bought with my allowance after Hurricane Donna flooded the basement and the originals had to be tossed out.
The Pro from Dover over 4 years ago
A promise cup
Tentoes over 4 years ago
Spelling bee trophy? Not something I would ever have!
BearsDown Premium Member over 4 years ago
Gambol. G-A-M-B-O-L.
1953Baby over 4 years ago
Gad! Now they’ve got arcane words from sub-sub-sub strata of science. . .never heard of most of them. . .and when I listen to the national spelling bee, then look up the words, they’re not even words I can use at cocktail parties!
patrickab7 over 4 years ago
I’m neurotic so I remember the words I lost on.
P.S. It’s not “calender”.
theincrediblebulk over 4 years ago
Spelling bees were always rigged against me. The other students would get words like ‘horse’, ‘because], or ’focus’. My word would always be something like ‘psychiatrist’, ‘occasionally’, or ‘lavatory’. Then the next kid would get a word like ‘fox’.
bakana over 4 years ago
Very Young division of the Spelling Bee.
Rose was an early bloomer.
mafastore over 4 years ago
Attic good place to keep things.
We are taking apart the family home to sell it as mom at 90 cannot manage alone any longer and has found an assisted living center she likes.
It would have been much harder for me if Hurricane Sandy had not happened. There was one closet of my stuff in the house – and most of that was empty Cabbage Patch Kids boxes. I did find two of the 5 things I want and no one has found has the other 3 – and stuff that I did not know that was there and we took 3 bags of. But what would have hard was all of my toys in the basement – a dollhouse that husband and I built me before we married, my books from when I was young, my games (left stuff there so when we had children – which we did not have – there would be things for them to play with as there was at my grandparents houses), etc. My electric trains had been brought to our house when we did a layout in our basement a couple of decades ago so they are safe. All there had to be tossed after Sandy by the company that came in. Worst of all a good chunk of it was replacement items I had bought with my allowance after Hurricane Donna flooded the basement and the originals had to be tossed out.