My Friend Rachel Writes, Too!

And she guest blogged here: How To Have A Positive Attitude in 4 Simple Steps.

I met Rachel in a game. Recognizing each other for the cool people that we truly are, we at once became friends. And then I found out that she enjoys things like Dance Moms, creating art from things headed to the trash, and painting her nails.

Stay tuned -- hopefully she'll be guest blogging here one day, too!

Lost Word of the ... What? 500 Page Views?!

And none of them were mine! I'm pretty chuffed about this. (But I'm also pretty hungry, so I'm going to try and keep this short. I tend to ramble, and I also have ADD, so it could really go either way.)

Here are some lost words that have to do with food:

• Abligurition - Excessive spending on food and drink, like last month when my family of four spent $160 on a Seafood dinner, knowing that one of the four wasn't going to eat hardly anything on the buffet and the other was limited to prime rib and mac & cheese, due to being allergic to seafood. (But you can bet your bottom that I ate my weight in prime rib and mac & cheese and got my money's worth!)
• Cleptobiosis - The act of plundering food. One time when I was dirt poor, young, and stupid my roommate and I went into a restaurant because we were still several hours from home and very, very hungry. We'd mismanaged our vacation money and I was GOING TO DIE if I did not get some food. So we went into a restaurant where she assured me that she "had it covered". When time came to pay, she told me to go out to the car because she had to go to the rest room. When she got to the car she sped out of the parking lot and didn't admit until way up the highway that she walked out without paying. I was paranoid for weeks afterwards.
• Farctate - This sounds almost dirty. It means being stuffed with food, or overeating. Last week while in North Carolina we picked up some pork barbecue. Whatever was left we froze and brought home. I just microwaved it. It smells wonderful. I'll have a difficult time not farctating through lunch.

Don't you feel smarter now? And for those of you who love barbecue, we went to a place called Frontier BBQ in Banner Elk, NC. It's not cheap, but it's very, very tasty.