Chillaxin.......Totally.

Wanda bakes the best zucchini bread on the planet. This is in honor of her.

August 8th is National Zucchini Bread Day.

Zucchini bread first became popular in the 1960s. The hippie movement was in full swing, and hippies sought healthier foods. As an alternative to the sugary frosted layer cakes and sheet cakes of the time, sweet quick breads like zucchini bread and carrot cake became popular, modeled after banana bread. As with bananas, the high water content of the zucchini adds moisture to the cake.

FOOD TRIVIA: Zucchini is not a vegetable but a fruit. It carries its seeds on the inside, like all other true fruits. Strawberries are an “accessory fruit” (previously known as a false fruit), a category where the fruit’s flesh is derived not from the ovary of the plant, but from some adjacent tissue.

In Animal House Mrs. Wormer said people were sensuous a zucchini was sensual and she called it a vegetable.

They say you should learn something new every day.

Zucchini is a fruit, I didn't know that. And strawberries are an "accessory fruit." Luna Lovegood knew what she was doing when she wore strawberry earrings; or were those Dirigible plums?

A mother in South Carolina called 911 to report her son had been watching porn.

Lucinda Comrade said when she came home with a client to work on a project she turned on the television and was mortified to see pornographic images flickering across the screen.

The 40-year-old said that her son "has been having behaviors issues" and that he is having problems with listening and talking back.

The adults quickly shut off the television and called 911. Comrade's 15-year-old son, the person behind the porn, was up in his room the entire time.

She requested that a police report be filed to document "her son's behavior."

Lady, the kid is 15.....he recently discovered the capabilities of his penis.

Starting a new job can be upsetting and make a person very, very nervous.

A newly hired public school teacher was booked on a public intoxication complaint after she allegedly showed up to school drunk and without any pants.

Two other teachers found the 49-year-old and called police.

The suspect admitted she had been drinking and an empty cup was found in her car. Although she was recovered her pants were not.

Elijah Ellison, a 29-year-old Pennsylvania man was charged with retail theft after he was caught with four logs of Swiss cheese crammed in his pants. The suspect allegedly swiped the logs, which are valued between $52 and $55 each, from a Giant Food Store.

A store security officer reported seeing Ellison "waddling when he walked" and followed him outside. When the officer confronted him about the cheesy contents in his slacks, he responded, "What cheese?"

After he was taken into custody, officers were able to link him to a previous Swiss cheese theft at another Giant via a store surveillance video.

During the earlier theft, Ellison could allegedly be seen with "visual bulges in the legs of his pants." Which in and of itself can be reason for arrest in several countries of the world. 

ZARF

Merriam-Webster's Official Scrabble Players Dictionary has decided to get with the times by adding 5,000 new words including "selfie," "bromance" and "chillax."

Many of the words are slang or 21st-century vernacular like "vlog," "texter," "frenemy" and "chillax." Others are foreign words that have become more common among English speakers like "qigong," which is a Chinese exercise routine.

"[It's] a bit of a balancing act for us," said John Chew, co-president of the North American Scrabble Players Association. "We don't have any issue with slang, we just want to make sure the words are going to be around in the long run."

Scrabble players will benefit from taking a look at the new dictionary. The word "quinzhee" -- which is the Inuit word for a shelter made out of settled snow -- can be played for 401 points if the tiles are lined up correctly.

Play it? I can't even pronounce it.

I rarely played Scrabble before I met Wanda. She taught me word placement and board strategy. I didn't know the difference between a double word and triple letter score. And the Q, forget about it. It'a hard enough to make a Q word but you need the U as well. I get fidgety while my opponent plans his move. 

I am a terrible Scrabble player. I never made it to the second round of a spelling bee.

Aglet: A metal tag or sheath at the end of a lace used for tying, as of a shoelace.

Zarf: A zarf (plural: zarfs, zuruuf, zarves) is a holder, usually of ornamental metal, for a coffee cup without a handle (demitasse or fincan).

I wanted to share a couple of my favorite words with you.

I may need to drop the thinly veiled pretense that this voice of mine encompasses unseen entities. Of course I need to write from my point of view but I always try to leave my deep emotions buried. So I write with (hopefully) a touch of mystery. When you read the blog I ask you to question the stories. What's truth and what's fiction? I also ask that you question how much of this is actually me.

Talking is so much easier than writing. 

I freely admit there have been more than a few times I've said things before engaging my brain. Though upsetting to me the person on the other end of my verbal in delicateness has not been overly concerned. Is it because the spoken word lasts for such a short time? Or could it be because no one really listens?

I know I've used words incorrectly when speaking. I said, "Irregardless" until I was twenty-eight. I've never been guilty of malapropisms like Leo Gorcey but once I uttered declamatory incorrectly in mixed company. But I can't do that, or won't that in writing. Verbally my error lasts a nanosecond, in cyberspace it's forever.

I work very hard to get the proper word in the proper place. It's very important that I use the correct word meaning and context.

Now that the North American Scrabble Players Association has sanctified the use of 21st century words like bromance and frenemy I can chillax about my writing. I can make up words, if I do it here on the blog I won't even need to supply a definition.

You can do a Google. I'm sure you'll find something.