Tuesday, With a Closing Date

[aldersprig]

Hey, two dates is closer to a habit.


Important things:
* Irene left us a day of rain, that's it.
* The earthquake shook my work building, just enough to notice it.

Tonight's dinner was what's-in-the-cupboard: pasta with tomato-and-sardine sauce
http://www.amazon.com/Roland-Sardines-Tomato-Sauce-5-5-Ounce/dp/B000UZXSZE/ref=sr_1_17?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1314747354&sr=1-17

We have a closing date on The House! Thursday at 3 EST!


Funky links of the day: One murphy bed, two murphy beds, and Fitocracy, which turns out to be pretty cool.


And vocab:in·vei·gle verb \in-ˈvā-gəl sometimes -ˈvē-\
in·vei·gledin·vei·gling



Definition of INVEIGLE
transitive verb
1 : to win over by wiles : entice
2 : to acquire by ingenuity or flattery : wangle
— in·vei·gle·ment noun
— in·vei·gler noun
Origin of INVEIGLE
Anglo-French enveegler, aveogler, avogler to blind, hoodwink, from avogle, enveugle blind, from Medieval Latin ab oculis, literally, lacking eyes
First Known Use: 1539
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inveigle

For this, I present Winter and Spring from Stranded World:

"Your hair looks really nice that way," Winter's littlest sister told him in her sweetest voice. "Brings out the blue in your eyes."

He smirked down at her. "Thank you, Spring. But it will take more than that."

"But I think it would look nice on me, too," she said, saccharine dripping from her voice, "and I want to be just like my big brother."

"You can't inveigle this one out of me, sweetie," he told her gently. "I'm sorry. It's not my decision."

Comments

[lilfluff]

Hurrah for closing dates.

Ah yes, inveigle is a fun word. :)

[aldersprig]

*dances the dance of happy*

[clare_dragonfly]

Yay closing date!

Huh, inveigle means something somewhat different from what I thought it meant. (I thought it was more like insinuate--like, insinuate oneself into, rather than insinuate something dirty.) Not as confusing as when I discovered desultory meant something completely different from what I thought it meant. (I thought it meant "listless"; it means "random.")

Those beds are awesome. Wow, it solves the same problem as I do with my loft bed, but without having to climb up a ladder to get into bd!

[aldersprig]

(both of those are different than what I thought desultory meant!!)

[lilfluff]

You know, that's the one weakness I saw with that test. It simply asks if you know the word. But you'll get a false positive if you *think* you know the word.

[aldersprig]

Yes. But I think it was passably accurate.

[clare_dragonfly]

XD Now I'm really curious! What did you think it meant?

[aldersprig]

Mildly insulting, lazily insulting.

[meridian_rose]

Glad things weren't too bad for you.

I love inveigle. It always sounds to me like a word that sneaks or wiggles itself into a situation - like a cat squeezing next to you on a chair. I think I've usually seen and therefore use it as such; she had inveigled her way into their plans, and now they'd need more food for the planned picnic.

[aldersprig]

We're far enough from the coast i don't think anyone was worried.

Sneaks and wiggles... that's awesome!

[clare_dragonfly]

Exactly--that's why I thought it meant more like "insinuate"!

[aldersprig]

Hee :-D