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to iron
planchar
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I never «plan» to «char» my clothes when ironing… but sometimes it just happens.
“I have to iron my shirt.”
“Tengo que planchar mi camisa.”
cousin
el primo, la prima
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• I’m ashamed to go to family celebrations, my cousins are so «primitive»! (imagine you cousins acting like Neanderthals: can’t speak, eat with their hands)
• I have a «prime» number of cousins. (like: 2, or 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23,.. )
“One of my cousins lives in a cave.”
“Uno de mis primos vive en una cueva.”
Original picture by Jennifer
WOTD - Seiko Core SNE343....which Imported from Japan.
- Solar, powered by light energy
- 10 month power reserve
- Japanese-quartz Movement
- Case Diameter: 43mm
- Water resistant to 330 feet (100 M): suitable for snorkeling, as well as swimming, but not diving
7.9.2011.
WOTD: camera.
my camera is a Canon Rebel T1i named Darcy.
also, i painted my nails pink today. this makes me ridiculously happy for some reason.
Today's word is Scheherazade, named after Scheherezade, the wife of a king in One Thousand and One Nights.
In One Thousand and One Nights, a collection of stories from the Middle East, the king Shahryar discovers his wife being unfaithful. He learns that his brother’s wife is unfaithful as well. He kills his wife and decides to take revenge on all women by marrying a virgin every day and executing them the next morning so they never get an opportunity to cheat.
One day it’s the turn of Scheherezade, the vizier’s daughter, to be the bride. She asks the king if she could say farewell to her sister Dunyazad first. The king agrees and the sister, who has been prepared in advance, asks Scheherezade to tell a story. The story is engrossing and the king is awake listening. Scheherezade stops the story just before dawn saying there’s no time left to finish. The king spares her life to find out what happened. The next night she finishes the story and starts another, even more captivating story. And so it goes for 1001 nights and by that time the king has fallen in love with her beauty and intelligence and makes her the queen.
Sheherazade is the patron saint of television script writers, who decide just where to put commercial breaks in a TV show.
Learn more at: wordsmith.org/words/scheherazade.html
serious, severe, weighty
grave
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Think about a burial: people tend to be very serious when standing at a «grave».
“My friend’s condition is very serious.”
“El estado de mi amigo es muy grave.”
wotd is my new personal abbreviation for "want of the day"
that is unless other people out in the world are already, unbeknownst to me, are using WOTD... in which case, i guess it's not my own personal abbreviation.
seriously, i'm the most possession-obsessed person on the planet.
must have this bag. i've been hankering for a new every day bag.
i was not so secretly lusting after a pewter balenciaga thanks to a certain person... but, that's just not going to happen.
this will cost me like 1/4 of what the balenciaga would...
and, that's how i will justify buying this too expensive bag... by telling myself it could be even more too expensive.
even still, i've gotta wait another 17 days.
hopefully my preferred dealer still has it in stock at that point.
ps. flickr thinks unbeknownst is NOT a word.
morons.
it is SO a word.
and, a good one at that.
18.8.2011.
WOTD: flower.
we're here!: orange.
my shower curtain is still better than your shower curtain.
#wiwt #omega #watch #leangarments #shirt #stockmann #jacket #herrainpukimo #scarf #redwood #chinos #menswear #menstyle #fashion #style #tyyliniekka #wotd
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to put on
ponerse
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Imagine putting on a South American «poncho».
“Paul put on gloves before going out.”
“Paul se puso los guantes antes de salir.”
#Artistic #image of my #wife "new" vintage #Certina #watch #timepiece with #leather #strap #kelloniekka #kellofoorumi #peräkonttikirppis #löytö #wotd
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to leave, go out
salir
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Imagine going out with «sailors» (boys or girls in a sailor outfit, use you imagination), and you end up in a «saloon» bar, full of cowboys.
“Father, today I’m going out with some friends.”
“Padre, hoy voy a salir con algunos amigos.”
173/365
possibly one of my favorite photos of all time, and wouldn't you know it, it was captured on the spur of the moment with my crappy flip phone.
Day 217 of 365: a year in songs and photos
Song: Clutch, Green Buckets
I was completely apathetic today, thanks to the soul-sucking heat and humidity and wondered how I would ever think of anything to do for tonight. Thankfully, the word of the day - which I've been neglecting of late - came through for me I think there's only three of us in the group anyhow. ahem).
Today's Word of the Day: surfeit \SUR-fit\, noun:
1. An excessive amount or supply.
2. Overindulgence, as in food or drink.
3. Disgust caused by overindulgence or excess.
4. To feed or supply to excess.
I have a shopping problem. I like to buy in bulk.
It's not even one of those Costco/Price Club bulk binge problems. Because I don't buy the bulk all at once. I just collect items until they become bulk quantity.
I've been this way since I was little. I was a hoarder. I would take canned goods, candy bars, those little boxes of cereal and put them under my bed. I once packed a suitcase full of silverware, napkins, canned fruit and, of course, a can opener. I hid it in my closet, sure that one night a hurricane or earthquake or tidal wave or alien invasion would necessitate my having a suitcase full of sliced peaches ready to go. I was always prepared for the worst, ready to stave off starvation by just reaching under my bed. Eventually my mother realized what I was doing and took all my supplies back, muttering something about therapy.
This quirk persisted into high school and beyond, when I would buy pot in mass quantities and store it away in my nightstand in case there was a nuclear war and I was the last one standing and needed to spend the rest of my lonely days in a hazy oblivion.
Eventually my pack rat sensibilities crossed over into other areas. I saved months worth of Creem magazines to read when I was under quarantine when the inevitable plague arrived. I bought loose leaf paper by the box, sure that I would need it all to write down my memoirs when I was the sole survivor of an asteroid disaster. At some point, I was able to keep my hoarding impulses under control and I stopped collecting things for future disasters.
You can never keep a good quirk down. A few months ago, I opened the closet and stared at the shelves in horror. When did the uncontrollable urge to buy unneeded items in bulk strike me again? I didn't even realize it had started up. But there lining the shelves was the evidence. 6 packages of hot cups. 4 packs of Styrofoam bowls, 100 to a pack. Enough paper plates to take down the entire rain forest. I walked around the house in a daze, opening cabinets and drawers and cupboards. 4 Economy sized boxes of Fruit Roll-Ups. 12 - yes 12 - cans of coffee. 5 lbs of butter in the freezer. 7 boxes of Success white rice. And somewhere along the line, I must have developed a soup/broth fetish without realizing it. I took out the calculator and did a quick survey. All together, in a myriad of cans and those stay-fresh-forever boxes, was 293.5 ounces of soup and chicken broth.
The sad thing is, the compulsion to overbuy doesn't end with food. I have 3 100 count boxes of CD-Rs in my closet. 6 packs of blue Sharpies. 10 marble notebooks. And tampons. I could plug up the Mississippi River with the amount of tampons I have.
Am I subconsciously getting ready for a nuclear winter? Am I preparing once again to be the last person standing on earth? Or do I just have really bad buying habits?
I think I know what it is, why this obsession with overbuying has come back. It's the coming revolution. Don't look at me like that, you know it's coming, too. There's going to be a billion people yelling out their windows that they are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore and before you know it, they'll be dumping tea in the harbor and firing shotguns at government buildings.
I'll be in my house, making an impenetrable fort out of soup cans. Start the revolution without me.
Tonight's song: I've already gushed about my love for this band. So just enjoy the song.
www.fasterthantheworld.com/music/clutchgb.wma
Won't you come over and stay for a while?
Take a seat, have a drink, we'd have a nice time.
Turn on the TV I believe it's prime time.
I'll make you chicken cacciatore in five.
There's a woman down at 314
who can't keep the stains on her kitchen floor clean.
And there's a man who's been knockin' on his door
for three years, or has it been four?
I don't wanna spend the winter in this house all alone.
Those neighbors of mine keep coming on over and playing with my mind.
I would like to love you,
I sure would treat you right.
We could take the trash out
every Thursday night.
Here in my neighborhood there is the strangest thing -
green buckets every Friday at every driveway.
They're filled with glasses, plastics, and newspapers, too.
They say they recycle and bring them back to you.
I would like to love you,
I sure would treat you right.
We could take the trash out
every Thursday night.
We could be a family,
consume many goods.
We could be the pillars
of the neighborhood.
Ah babe, I'm a real hard worker
with the proper tools, I'll make you anything you yearn for.
The barbarians are at the gate,
come in before it's too late.
I have food enough to last the two of us about a year.
A thousand cans of chowder and a thousand cans of beer.
I love my neighbors like I love my own brothers,
but every year they're getting odder and odder.
I would like to love you,
I sure would treat you right.
We could take the trash out
every Thursday night.
We could be a family,
consume many goods.
We could be the pillars
of the neighborhood.
sand
la arena
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• The word ‘arena’ is derived from the Latin ‘harena’: a particularly smooth sand used to absorb blood in ancient «arenas» like the Colosseum in Rome.
• Competing clowns get into a real fight in the circus «arena». After throwing their (big) shoes at each other, and not finding anything else, they start hurling sand.
“We made a sand castle.”
“Hicimos un castillo de arena.”
floor, level
el piso
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Imagine people sitting on the floor sharing a «pizza».
Note: in Spain it also means ‘flat’ or ‘apartment’
“The staircase joins the first and second floors.”
“La escalera conecta el primer piso al segundo piso.”