unexpected words

So I'm sitting here with two different posts spinning in my head, and a page that remains stubbornly blank.  Until I overheard Jim say:  "I just need to give the libation to the dwarf."   A sentence that doesn't even make the list of things I'd never expect to hear my husband say...because, well...who would you expect to drop both  "libation" and "dwarf" in one shot??!  True, Jim is a crazed vocabularian (part of his many-faceted charm),  so "libation" is hardly surprising from him.  Still...

But, it's Wednesday night.  Which means Young Women's for me. And Everquest for Jim.  We sometimes call it "EverCrack"...Jim's silent {computer game} addiction.  Except it hasn't been silent for a while.  Because he now plays with a headset and - once in a while - speaks to other likewise headseted individuals.  It pretty much always startles me as I sit at my side-by-side desk. 

But this comment takes the cake.

Other spinning pre-posts will have to be my bed partners.  Because Everquest night is definitely a late one for my love.  Busy with all those dwarf errands, you know...  

Comments

[Annalisa]

Does it not just melt your heart to have a husband as a crazed vocabularian? I'd make some sarcastic comment about his crack addiction, but hey I talk to strangers online all the time. No need to be the pot :).

[Katie]

Ah, computer games...my husband loves, well, several of them. He has yet to go on-line to play, though. He tries to explain them to me, but that doesn't work so well. So the dwarf comment makes as much sense to me as all of the other game comments I've heard!

[Megan]

Tom's never really gotten into the computer games, his outlet this semester has been fantasy football, ping pong (yes, real life two player ping pong, not on the computer), and foosball (I think that's how you spell it). So thankfully I'll never hear him refer to dwarfs, at least I hope, you know how he feels about them...

[Susan]

Computer games is totally Adam's outlet and he too talks over a headset and multiple time per games and say, "What" because I can't really hear exactly what he said and them I realize what just happened. I understand about the whole dwarf thing. I don't get it, but then I do.

[Mandi]

Boys and their toys - no matter what they may be. Nate goes through cycles of different obsessions and computer games definitely make the cycle a couple times a year.

[Price Cream Parlor]

This made me laugh out loud! I can totally relate!

[Mandy]

that is hilarious! It also made me laugh out loud!

[Shanon]

I want to see your purse cupcakes!! Jared just told me they were good and is telling me about the fondant(sp?) and for him to even know that word makes me laugh. I had no clue. He explained it to me. And i'll have to try your black bean recipes. Jim's vocabulary amazes me and leaves me feeling stupid. Soon I won't be able to understand your children's conversations!

[Barb]

He's getting a dwarf drunk? Ha!

[Melissa]

It is so comforting to know that so many of our husbands are so alike! If it's not computer games, it is some other interest that we will never understand. It made me smile to read your post, as I can relate. My husband isn't really into games, but has these short bursts of interest at times and it always baffles me.

[Kelly]

We don't have computer games going on at my house, but that sentence is one for the books! I love it. Especially just random and out of context.

[Kim]

Too funny. I love it!

[Tiffany]

This makes me think of my high school creative writing class. We were asked to start a "Writer's Notebook" and gather and write down random things like this. Then, you could go back to your notes later and get ideas when you were writing essays or stories. Endless possibilities...

[April]

ooo, Tiff...good idea.

I loved imagining you two at a side-by-side desk...a very charming image.

[jenny c.]

I need a vocabularian person around (one thing we lack around here) I would have to assume this game is much like an obsession to x-box. I have three of those in my house :)

[Jill]

The possibility of such hilarious sentences would be a never ending source of amusement.