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Discombobulate

Posted in Musings, Travels, tagged , on July 19, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Can't we all use a little recombobulation from time to time?

Word of the Week: Discombobulate

dis·com·bob·u·late

[dis-kuhm-bob-yuh-leyt]

–verb (used with object), -lat·ed, -lat·ing.

to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
I just returned from the first-ever Willow House conference and let me tell you, I’m plenty discombobulated. My head is filled to overflowing with information. But the nice folks at the Milwaukee airport tried to help all of us conference-dazed consultants out by offering a recombobulation area. I thought it was pretty nice of them to be so thoughtful.
Seriously, though, I loved this sign that hung just past the security check point in Milwaukee. What a fun way to give people a place to get their shoes back on, their belts back in place and their belongings gathered.
I think, maybe, I need a recombobulation area at home. Do you think Hubby would go for a sign like that hanging above my office door?

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Kidnapped

Posted in Musings, Travels, tagged , on May 24, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Word of the Week: Kidnap

<kid-nap>

to steal, carry off, or abduct

Most Wonderful Hubby and I managed to have a weekend off together so I took the opportunity to kidnap him Friday afternoon.

We went to the North Pole where we were nearly eaten by this  fellow. He was a bit on the cranky side and didn’t have a great sense of humor.

Ok, so it wasn’t the North Pole. But we did spend time with some odd animals.

Like Laughing Elk. He thinks everything is funny.

And Moose Stands in the Water. He needed to cool his heels a while.

What we really did was escape Friday afternoon to a city much bigger than ours where we went out to dinner. They served deliciously wonderful things like chocolate mousse cake.

Then we stayed here.

It was across the parking lot from a mall.  I was in a complete state of bliss!

Then we got up the next morning and went to one of Most Wonderful Hubby’s most favorite places on the planet.


And while he wandered around the store drooling, I hung out with these guys.  See the javelina in the center of the photo? When I lived in Tucson, a javelina had it in for me. He had my number, all right. So I had a hard time warming up to this character. He looked too much like his evil relative in Arizona.

These two got into a heated discussion over a clearance sale item. What ill-behaved shoppers! I didn’t stay around to see what happened.

And before we could head for home, we had to stop here because the “fresh, hot, melt-in-your-mouth” sign was on. Goodness knows, we can’t pass that up.

I highly recommend kidnapping your spouse sometime. Just stay away from the cranky polar bears.

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