I said we'd call her bad days turnip, cause she hates turnips. But we couldn't think of a word for my dad, cause he likes most foods. He said: "Well I might not like monkey brains, like that Indiana Jones movie." So we call his bad days monkeybrains.
This has become an excellent code word, requiring no further explanation. For example...
Last night I couldn't get to sleep til 9 AM cause I was upset about something. When my stepmother got up she looked into my room:
SM - Why are you up so early?
Moi - I couldn't go to sleep. Pineapple.
SM - Ah. (She nodded understandingly.) I couldn't fall asleep cause I was in so much pain, so I'm...
Moi - Turnip.
SM - I'm turnip today. How about your dad, is he monkeybrains?
Moi - I don't know.
Feel free to adopt your own Hate This Food Off Day Label.
12 comments:
I'm having a boiled onions day.
Yesterday was definitely a sweet potatoes day. Hopefully today will be much better!
To be complete -- we need an analogous word for those Really Good Days! For example, I once knew a professional bee keeper who told me that on a really bright, sunny, long summer day, his bee hives could produce 10 lbs of honey each. So now, a Really Good Day to me is a "ten pound day!"
We have the - feeling all 'thing' times, and we both understand quite clearly what that means.
Love BB's 'boiled onions' day!
Oh, pine nuts! I've had two of those days in a row. Totally pine nuts.
I love honey, so a ten-pound day sounds wonderful.
I don't like fish. Fishy has other connotations but still I like it. Today I'm far from fishy, though. Last night my gkids and I saw Brave and Madagascar 3 at the drive in. It was a fun, funny time.
Far from fishy.
I just realized that all these foods would make good swear words.
"Oh pine nuts!"
"Oh boiled onions!"
"Oh monkeybrains!"
Going around catching up with all of my FROGS, you understand, and this post made my day! I love it! And, am very sorry that you were all pineapple.
Am immediately adopting "a ten pounds of honey day" to mean GREAT, and will now begin saying that I'm feeling oh so onion & banana when crap goes sideways in my wee head.
Thank you!
This is an awesome post. I'm trying to think about what my day would be... must ponder.
I might have to start saying "Oh Pine Nut!!" What an awesome cus word.
I don't like Chicken legs or thighs (it a bone thing) Or stinky catfood (not to eat, to feed to the cats. Really!!)
I have sooo got to start something at work.
@Julie Thanks for the pineapple sympathy. I'm sure since the loss of your friend you've had lots of banana-onion. Wishing you much honey!
@Judie - I think you should go with Chicken Bones. Also a good swear word: "Oh chickenbones!"
As for cussing, don't forget "Baby cheeses!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG1ra_-Wg-k&feature=related
What a great idea. Hmm, we will have to adopt this.
@Carol Well hopefully life's a little more even-keel for you these days. Less chicken-boney.
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