;Posted on 11/18/2013 5:17:01 AM PST by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 11/18/13
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
preemptory; adj.
\pə-'rem(p)-t(ə-)rē\ adj *1: barring a right of action, debate, or delay 2: expressive of urgency or command 3: marked by arrogant self-assurance : haughty *The manager’s peremptory rejection of any discussion on improving office efficiency did little to inspire our confidence in his ability.
Etymology:Origin: 1840–50, Americanism; back formation from preemption
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LOL He is sweet, too!
Sounds like a good place to store the Christmas cookies you’ve started baking for Christmas. LOL I used to use the patio for that. Leave a couple of windows open and it was a great freezer. Soda and beer stays cold out there, too.
10 day forecast shows rain on Sunday and 40 degrees. it will be mid to upper 50s this week.
I had to go to the computer to search out MSNBC on my tv, as I never watch it, didn’t know where it was. OMG, it is AWFUL tv. Not sure I can watch, even to see Janet. She isn’t on till after 11:30, but this is killing me to wait for her to be on.
I gave a dinner party Sat. night for 8 and got ALL the good stuff out for the first time in years. (One of the guests is a State Rep and another is on the local School Board.) But, I used the garage to keep the beer and white wine cold and to keep the salads cold that I had made earlier in the day, as well as the pheasants that my husband had cooked the night before and the wild rice that I prepared that morning.
An hour before the guests arrived, I popped the pheasants into my “Nesco” to bring to serving temperature and put the wild rice into the slow cooker to reheat. I only had to slip the glazed arrots into the microwave, make the rolls, and pour the wine and water while guests were enjoying appetizers and drinks in the living room, and we were all ready to eat.
It would have been easy peasy, except for all of the silver and crystal polishing the week before and all the hand washing afterwards. My husband left to go hunting in Missouri first thing the next morning (after helping me with a lot of the clean up and locking the silver back into the safe in the basement) but I feel like a ton of bricks has fallen on me after putting away everything else. Every muscle aches from the hundreds of trips to and from the kitchen returning the crystal and good dishes to their regular homes.
I just have to iron the napkins we used and figure out how to salvage the table cover which suffered candlewax and berry jam stains. Luckily, the table cover really is a beautiful, elegant, polished cotton, quilted bedspread that I bought very cheap on a super sale a few years back. It has two sides, and the damage did not go all the way through. So, if I can’t get the wax and the berry stains out, I’ll just turn it over and use the other side.
I have more pheasants in the freezer and need to do this all over again before that crystal needs washing again and before the silver tarnishes. I think there is still food out in the garage.
I’m just saying that we’ve had awful rain for nearly 2 days, and it generally moves east. Yesterday was particularly bad. Rain and high winds. Started warm and turned very cold by 6 pm. My husband left later than usual for his annual trophy hunt in MO, and he fought the storm all the way south. He saw 4 overturned semis just off the highway in Illinois. Generally he arrives around noon, but he didn’t get in until almost 7 pm. He’s a speed demon, and he had to drive 40 mph all the way.
we are a good bit south of you though, so it’s not a direct correlation.
I even ordered a special flower arrangement for the party. I took the extra care to take a sample of my dishes (which have little cornflower blue flowers all over to them) and the linens and the candles and the silver centerpiece (where the flowers would eventually go) down to the florist and asked him to design something — any color but with touches of blue to pick up the dishes.
I might have well skipped that trip. The flowers were gorgeous, but by the time we dimmed the chandelier and lit the candles you absolutely could not see the blue flowers (delphinium, I think). They faded to black under candlelight. Luckily the florist had mixed the arrangement with white chrysanthemums and lilies and little green berries, so it still looked beautiful. But I wouldn’t stress him finding blue flowers again. You couldn’t even notice them.
It was a problem finding blue flowers in the first place because I ordered them just a few days after Veteran’s Day, and the flower mart was all sold out of blue.
I have a daughter in NY (near Albany) and a daughter in Richmond, VA. Our storms generally hit one, or the other, a day, or so, after they wreak their havoc here. This one has been particularly nasty and is headed more south, than north. We were lucky in Wisconsin, although we were on tornado watch all day yesterday. We just had a steady, drenching rain which didn’t let up until 7 pm. People in Illinois and Indiana were not so lucky.
It is 58 here, and supposed to be in the low 70’s this afternoon...
For each insurance screw up,
Obama’s peremptory declaration
Has many fearing income lost,
And gasping in consternation
As he runs to the golf course
To relieve the crushing stress
Of lying to just about everyone
And creating a world-class mess
People who gave the Ocare website
Their personal info and their name-
Got sticker shock and didn’t buy
May get billed as part of the game
Ok, Janet was awesome. She handled the leftist talking head like a pro. I was impressed. Glad I hung in there with the slimey MSNBC. Back to FOX now. Phew, that was an ordeal.
that was fantastic! xshub predicted he would be at that U of MD basketball game last night, knowing his BIL [who apparently sucks and can never be fired, as he is POTUS BIL!]was coaching. did you see the pic of him being BOOED there and how he looked like he was sending out death-rays from his eyes to the boo-ers? i will look for the pic again to post.
don’t think i could have done it! glad you saw her.
Thank you! I did see a brief mention of the booing on F&F this morning on my way out the door-I’d love to send the pic to a coworker.
I love the smell of napalm in the morning...
there ya go!
Thanks! You can almost smell the brimstone...
Our preening Emperor in an empty suit is both peremptory AND preemptory
when it comes to what benefits him vs. the good of the nation ...
Thanks.
I see Janet will be on Megan Kelly’s show tonight. You will all get to see her now, w/o watching msnbc either.
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