CanadaWrites had a Twitter contest today, Dec 18th for a few hours and I caught the end of it...what a hoot!
The challenge was called Seusstivus and we were to ``to create and define a new Seussian word that best describes an element of your holiday experience.``
Two examples they used were as follows:
Twinkletanglucious: The way
Christmas lights always come out of the box in a knot, no matter how
carefully you put them away #CanadaWrites
Menorahmorph: The bizarre and wonderful shapes created by half-melted cheap menorah candles #CanadaWrites
SO...ignoring my plan of spending my day writing the next best seller, I wrote a couple Seussisms... then became COMPLETELY ADDICTED!
There are prizes, so wish me luck. Here are my entries:
Santasomnia: the inability to fall asleep Christmas Eve
faketreespreadaboriculture: spreading the branches of your fake Christmas
tree to give it proper shape after being squished inside its box.
Fruitcakequitous: finding only boring gifts everywhere you look
while last minute Christmas shopping
Throwthegamenopoly: games at Christmas where parents lose on
purpose to see the joy on their child’s face.
Underwhelmedgivitis: the fake smile frozen on the face of someone
who is pretending to like their Christmas gift.
Falalalalalalalalaryngitis: sore throat condition after singing too many
Christmas carols.
Bluesprucespringsteen: listening to The Boss’s music while
decorating the Christmas tree.
Boxingdaylateralepicondylitis: the
inflamed elbow condition experienced fighting the crowds for the
after-Christmas sales
Chestnutsroastingbyanopenfirehazzard: when your husband stands too close to the
fire after too much eggnog.
Felineornamentaldistress: the
frustration of yet another Christmas tree ornament broken by the cat
Voldemortgage: The bank
loan you must take out to take your kids to Harry Potter World for the
holidays.
Mistletoethreesixtydegreeturnoff: the move
you make when you find yourself heading for an unwanted mistletoe encounter *Yes...I realize that it should be 180 not 360...but I was under pressure man! Give me a break! :)
Gunativity: the culture of putting
guns before religion and children (*I actually left this one out. The Sandy Hook inspired tweet was hardly funny)
Canadposttraumaticstressdisorder: the condition of having suffered the LONG
lineups at the post office before Christmas.
Showgirlsilverfantail: the long pieces of tinsel that hang from the
cats bum, like a dancer from Vegas, after ingesting, but failing, to completely
get rid of it.
Twilightheadedness: headache incurred after a back-to-back,
vampire saga marathon over the holidays
Gangnamstylepotroastsupper: when
your mother’s holiday roast tastes like horsemeat
Bilbobagginskeddadlemania: the unexpected journey teens take when they
hurriedly flee the table and escape doing the dishes after holiday meals.
Ladygagamaggot: how I felt when a half formed chick came out of an egg I was
using for our Christmas morning omelets.
Fivegoldenlordoftherings: after seeing The Hobbit, the inability to
avoid using LOTR references in any and all manners of speech or song during the
holidays.
TheodorSeussGeiselObsessionitis: the inability to stop making up Suesstivusisms
for Canada Writes!
Great way to stimulate the brain. Now to learn how to STOP thinking about it! aarrgghh!
