Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Lesson from Audrey
"Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others." — Audrey Hepburn
"My Horizontal Life" by Chelsea Handler
Book 1 out of 50 Down!Great GREAT book! I started reading Handler's books because I saw her new release of "Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang", and so I bought those two plus her second novel "Are You There Vodka? It's Me Chelsea"
Make's me remember my moments "between the sheets". She's a wonderful writer and her stories and experiences are hillarious & I love her for sharing them!
"At some point during almost every romantic comedy, the female lead suddenly trips and falls, stumbling helplessly over something ridiculous like a leaf, and then some Matthew McConaughey type either whips around the corner just in the nick of time to save her or is clumsily pulled down along with her. That event predictably leads to the magical moment of their first kiss. Please. I fall ALL the time. You know who comes and gets me? The bouncer." — Chelsea Handler, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
"There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers." — Chelsea Handler, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
I'm starting to read the Vodka book now, and then the Bang Bang soon after.
Word of the Day 6/2/2010
Nidifugous (adjective): leaving the nest soon after hatching
Example Sentence: "Little is known about the mortality of nidifugous shorebird chicks."
Did you know?: "Nidifugous" hatched from the Latin words "nidus," meaning "nest," and "fugere," meaning "to flee." Its contrasting word "nidicolous," meaning "reared for a time in a nest," combines "nidus" with the English combining form "-colous" ("living or growing in or on"). Another relevant term is "precocial." A precocial bird is capable of a high degree of independent activity as soon as it emerges from the egg. While all nidifugous birds are also necessarily precocial, some nidicolous birds are also precocial -- that is, they are capable of leaving the nest soon after hatching, but instead they stick around. Other nidicolous birds are "altricial," which is to say they are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition and require care for some time.
Merriam-Webster Word of the Day
Example Sentence: "Little is known about the mortality of nidifugous shorebird chicks."
Did you know?: "Nidifugous" hatched from the Latin words "nidus," meaning "nest," and "fugere," meaning "to flee." Its contrasting word "nidicolous," meaning "reared for a time in a nest," combines "nidus" with the English combining form "-colous" ("living or growing in or on"). Another relevant term is "precocial." A precocial bird is capable of a high degree of independent activity as soon as it emerges from the egg. While all nidifugous birds are also necessarily precocial, some nidicolous birds are also precocial -- that is, they are capable of leaving the nest soon after hatching, but instead they stick around. Other nidicolous birds are "altricial," which is to say they are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition and require care for some time.
Merriam-Webster Word of the Day
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
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