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My husband packs things.

When we need to do a clean up in our apartment, his idea of cleaning involves packing things into boxes, and then cramming them into the closet.

We now have little portable drawers on wheels with three drawers to put glues, paints, papers, pens, and pencils. What does he do? He crams things into boxes and I have to tell him that it is not the right thing to do when we have the drawer cabinet.

Frustration is getting him to put things into their proper location instead of cramming. OY VEY.

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Yes, you did just read that title of OLD WORDS.

Have you ever hear of girdles? How about the word corset? There are also such things as crisping pins. Also, I used to see certain types of cookies in the store that no longer appear.

It makes me feel old.

I remember wearing a girdle when I was much younger. I used hair pins (crisping pins). I never used a corset. Would you believe that there are still such things out in the world?

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Have you ever noticed how different people in different parts of the country have a very distinctive way of talking?

Each part of our country (USA) can almost have its own unique language. Now, if you put those circumstances into effect for other countries, it is no wonder that people do not always understand what someone is talking about when they compare notes.

When I was back in high school (no, I will not tell anyone how long ago that was), I used to take the city bus to get to and from where I needed to go. I heard two men talking and getting louder and louder. One was obviously from the Bronx, the other was a deep south Cajun. They were both speaking English, but could not understand one another. I ended up translating for both of them. My bus came and I wondered what had happened.

Speaking English is no guarantee that you will communicate with others without errors.

Put in your mind all the difficulties that come about when you add in the variances from other languages in addition to the variations that happen in English.

Now, do you wonder why there are wars? No worries mate. HUHN

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I am not talking gibberish here.

Finger speak is another name for the deaf alphabet. I know that American Sign Language is made of gestures that will create sentences. Using finger speak or Finger Spelling , there are only 26 gestures to learn. Each gesture represents a letter in the alphabet. This will work for many English speaking people, if you know how to spell the words in other languages like German, French, and so on, it can help there too.

I do not know any of the gestures in ASL, except for the one that says I love you. You use your hand - hold out your thumb, pointer finger, and your little finger. It almost looks like the gesture that is used by surfers.

If you are ever in a place where you do not understand what people are saying, you can understand how lonely that can be for someone who is deaf. You never know, it might come in handy someday.

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Yes, that is how I want to start this one.

Where we live, it is apartments on half of a street that has no end, just a circle. A lot of the people care about what is going on and about each other. One of our neighbors care, but doe not always get the information correct. (I wonder if I could use pressure washers and wash out his ears so he could get the information correct.)

Anyway, he gave us some startling news last night. Today we found out that he was all wrong in what he thought had happened. We really do love him, he is in his late 70’s, I just wish that he would listen carefully and get his information correct.

We have learned over the years, that when he says something, we should listen, and then look around to make sure that he did not misunderstand. He is not a trouble maker, just hard of hearing.

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Here I go again.

I heard something that had me laughing and giggling. My husband was talking to a close friend. They were cutting up and having a blast and telling jokes. The next thing I heard is what got to me.

I talk to both sides of myself.

Yes, it does read that he talks to both sides of himself. I laughed, then finally when I could get my breath I asked him what he meant. He told me that he has a serious side, and a funny side. I am not sure which one is the one that said that phrase.

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Just thought of a couple of other things. My niece in Iowa was talking to me the other day and told me of a couple of funny things that came out of her mouth.

She was moving from one place to another and a friend was helping her. Questions were going back and forth about different items, neighbors were listening and watching. Afterward, she and her friend had a good laugh when they realized what had been said. She later wondered what those neighbors thought.

Anyway, she has a black cotton duffel bag that stands 3′ tall, she also has her dad’s ashes with her after his funeral. When making sure every item was taken care of properly her friend asked her, “Where is dad?” Her reply was, “Dad is in the trunk.” The next question might have ended up with the cops being called. The friend asked about the duffel bag, unfortunately the bag has earned the nick name of ‘The Body Bag’. So of course the question was, “Where is the body bag?”

So here they were 2 questions, 2 answers - Where is dad? - In the trunk. Where is The Body Bag? - In the car. I also wonder what the neighbors thought.

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Have you ever been in a conversation, said something, and then realized that it really sounded bad or weird? If you haven’t done this, then you must not talk much at all.

Just yesterday I found myself saying.” I can’t get on the back of the couch, but you can.” Now that might seem like a strange thing to say since the title of this blog lets you know that I am not skinny. My cat wanted me to empty a chair that she has claimed and the only place to put the stuff was MY chair. She of course talked back. Don’t tell me that animals do not alk back, it happens all the time. Frontline news, animals also talk back, just like kids do. I have even heard the other cat we have mutter under her breath as she walks away from being told off about something. Kitty cat cussing would you believe. Amazing.

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Did you send out a lot of Christmas cards? If you do, did you use a custom rubber stamp? It would have saved you the need to sign each one, or to put on a return address sticker.

I cheated. Yup, I call it cheating. I called a lot of the people that I care about. Our phone has a lot of minutes on it and we do not have to pay for toll calls. It was nice to hear each person talking, it seemed to me to be more personal than just a piece of paper that could be sent. When I was young (I won’t tell you how long ago that was, ahem.) I would try to make individual cards to those that I wanted to send a card to. These days there is also e-mail that can be sent out to people. Most of the people that I know do have a computer, not always hooked up to the internet, but still a computer. E-mail does not seem so personal. After all I do like to talk. If you have read some of my blogging articles, it is rather obvious.

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Everywhere we look these days we are being surrounded by words. Promises from politicians, words from the media, words from advertisers. About the only place you don’t see flying words is in the country side when you’re alone. I mean COUNTRY, too, not just going along the highways because of billboards.

Billboards have the highways, even the city streets cornered. What ever happened to the idea of the beauty of nature?

Turn on the TV and words will come at you constantly either by being spoken or crawled across the screen on the bottom of the picture.

When people gather together, rarely do they gather in quiet little groups, people like to talk.Humans are very rarely quiet. We are mostly sociable critters. It also seems that where ever we go we traces of our presence, notices that we have been there. (Even on th moon, we left stuff behind.)

Thee are times when I wonder if all of the words flying around are really needed. Have you had a chance to notice that there are times when words are NOT necessary? A smile, a frown, raised eyebrows, giggles these are just a few ways that words are not needed. Have you ever just sat and watched people and what is going on around you, all without talking? Look at faces in a crowd, people are still using words to communicate, talking or not. Words are everywhere. I guess they are very useful things even though when not used properly they can be annoying.

What words do you use?

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