I'd call it:  Day of the Living Dead.

Because frankly, that's how I feel when I have a head cold and yes.  I have a head cold.  When I was young getting sick meant being mothered.  Now that I'm the mother, it means I get to mother myself.  Not nearly as comforting.

In addition to being ill, I'm steeped in nostalgia.  I've been working on AspenBlovesKyleT's Etsy store.  So much cool stuff will be coming on-line!  I love the retro-jewelry.  I love the hand-made cards.  I love Aspen's pottery -- it's a love-fest of how she feels for Kyle.  Ahhh.  L'amour.

I've been reading the dictionary again.  I do that sometimes.  So from time-to-time I'll post a cool word or two.  Today:  antebellum.  I started thinking on this one because I like the group, Lady Antebellum.  The word literally means 'years before the war', and is often used to refer to the time just prior to the Civil War.

Hmmm.  Now I'm wondering why they chose that particular word . . . . 

I may as well admit here and now that I've also been reading Practical Synonyms, compiled by John Bechtel, 1908.  I was going to sell this fine little book in Aspen's Etsy store, but I can't bring myself to do it.  For one thing, the lay-out is awesome: art deco fonts and flourishes.  And it's cool to see how the meanings of words, and the use of words, changes as time rolls by.  For example, a synonym for appellation is cognomen.  Yes.  I'm still writing in English.