Monday

[catelin]

A sign of better times...a few months ago, I would have been in court trying whatever nasty felony of the week was on the docket. A few weeks ago, I would have been wandering around the house in tears, wondering if I had made the biggest mistake of my life by moving here. Now I'm sitting home in my pajamas, hair all catawampus, eating spinach dip and corn chips for breakfast, working on the second chapter of my novel. Finally.


And don't go all Simon on me, Nick. I'm no writer. I'm just a person who likes to write. Really. ; - P

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[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

"hair all catawampus"

I have no clue what this means, have never heard it before but *love* the mental image. Yep, you're a writer. Enjoy your dip :)

[catelin.livejournal.com]

It's one of those words that came from your people that my people screwed up as to make it unrecognizable to its orginators. ; )

In the south, we use it generally to mean askwew and akimbo, all messed up and sticking out funny, that sort of thing.

Here's an interesting tidbit about it's origin. (http://phrases.shu.ac.uk/bulletin_board/10/messages/351.html)

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[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

(catching up on old comments)

Ah, catty corner I vaguely recognised... and its definitely more descriptiive than all messed up ;)