Marcia-Ism Dictionary"Train Wreck" n. 1) place of complaint; 2) place where someone complains too much; 3) place where someone complains to the point of being annoying; 4) place where someone complains too much and causing everybody to stop but eventually they move on because if all you do is complain, well, nobody really wants to hear it anyway; 5) a place where all glasses are always half-empty .
"Crawling" v. (n. crawler or webcrawler) 1) a troll of your website by a webcrawler that comes sneaking through your pages; 2) a troll of your website by a webcrawler that comes for the sole purpose of trying to categorize you; 3) webcrawler reads your website and files your information into search categories based on your meta tags and topics of discussion; 4) webcrawler comes through your website and runs up your page count-- REALLY HIGH!!!
"Drive-Thru Viewing" adj. 1) someone stopping for two seconds to watch a part of a television program or movie on their way to and/or from any other room in the house/apartment; 2) someone who doesn't know enough to park the car at a drive-in movie theatre.
"Drive-Thru Viewer" n. 1) someone stopping to watch a part of a television program or movie on their way to and/or from any other room in the house/apartment who demands to know the plot of said movie or television program which, of course, totally distracts the person who really has been watching it so that they miss the next critical plot point; 2) someone riding by the drive-in movie theatre on their way to the local jail for having killed the person who interrupted their watching the movie or television program by demanding to know the plot to the movie or television program.
"Family" n. 1) people you care about; 2) people who care about you; 3) neither of the previous 2 groups of people are necessarily related to you by blood; 4) people who were raised by people, as opposed to people who were raised by . . . oh, say, wolves.
"Word-Economical" adj. that describes: 1) someone who can speak concisely; 2) someone who knows that a sentence doesn't HAVE to have a definitive article to be complete; 3) someone raised the way "Professor Higgins" would've preferred his countrymen to raise their children.
"NOBS" acronym for "Not Our Bed Syndrome" which accounts for us not sleeping well or not sleeping at all when traveling thus feeling tired and worn out at all times during and after traveling for at least a week!!
"Tuesmondays" that day of the week that makes you feel like you're starting your whole week all over again-- only badly!
"Dogter" is the name of my female canine child; if you've ever had a pet, you know what I mean. If you've never had a pet, get one so you'll know what I (and many others like me) mean!!
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