Word Nerd

As a collector of words and lover of lettering, I will be bringing you some uncommon, antiquated, or just fun words.

Today's word is...

de·lec·ta·tion /ˌdēlekˈtāSHən/
 n. 1. Delight. 2. Enjoyment; pleasure.
From the verb delectate meaning to please; charm; delight.
In a sentence: She took much delectation in sampling every wine.

I always hear delectable, but never delectation. It's such a delectating word, too!

Pinky lady

Whenever I sit down to paint with watercolors lately, I just want to paint faces and get lost in small details. I really wish I had this lady's hair and necklace. They're all kinds of awesome.

I'm LOVING watercolor. I previously thought that I didn't really know how to paint with watercolors. My knowledge stopped at those Crayola watercolor sets, where if you mixed any of the colors together, you would just end up with brown. Watercolor easily gives depth, dimension, and interest to the painting. You also get a lot of bang for your buck with watercolor paints. I only have a few colors - black, white, red, yellow, blue, sienna, and emerald green. With those, I'm able to mix them together to get so many more colors.

Cheesy Gorditos

Before anything else, I must fully recognize that a "Cheesy Gordito Crunchwrap Supreme" does not currently exist at Taco Bell (but it does sound pretty good, albeit super extreme). Cheesy Gordita Crunch, yes. And Crunchwrap Supreme, yes. 

One of Kyle's many many nicknames for the cats is Cheesy Gordito Crunchwrap Supremes. Gordito in Spanish affectionately means "chubby." We have two fat cats, so gordito is pretty normal. Cheesy Gordito Crunchwrap Supreme takes it to another level.

At the Movies: Somm

Kyle and I recently went on a fun date to O Cinema for a wine tasting and viewing of a new wine documentary, Somm (2013). We love wine and movies, so when I saw this event pop up in my inbox, I knew we had to go.

Somm (2013) follows the crazy hard journey of four sommeliers as they study for the Master Sommelier Exam. If you're not familiar with the work of a sommelier, they are basically wine nerds. They study and aspire to know everything about wine, like the different grape varieties, wine regions, and wine pairings. At a fancy restaurant, a sommelier might come to our table to help us pick a wine that would go well with our meal. That was the extent of my knowledge before seeing Somm.

The Master Sommelier Exam shocked me! I had no idea this level of wine knowledge existed. There are four levels of Sommeliers - Introductory, Certified, Advanced, and Master. The nearly impossible Master Sommelier exam was created by the Court of Master Sommeliers in 1977 and since that time only 202 people IN THE WORLD have reached that level. The exam covers a blind tasting where the applicant has to name every conceivable aspect of a wine, theory of wine such as specific international wine laws, and wine service where the applicant has to service a mock restaurant table.

The guys followed in the film, Brian, Dustin, Ian, and DLynn "bro-out" over wine tastings. Staying up late studying together, getting drunk off tastings (when they aren't using the spitoon), and supporting each other every step of the way. Ian goes days without sleeping, studying thousands of index cards. They are remarkably dedicated to something most people passively enjoy.

I think I'll just stick to drinking it.

Accidental Photobomb

I have a feeling this meme will get old pretty quickly, but I just discovered it in all it's glory. This poor guy, now known as In The Way Guy, accidentally ruined enhanced this couple's proposal shot. The proposee (this isn't a word, but I think we can all agree that it should be), Redditor SpnkyHappy, posted this pic on Reddit and with some Photoshop magic, people have been taking it to the next level.

{Found via: My Modern Met}

The first

I've tried many attempts at blogging, journaling, and the like and it never sticks. Lack of things to say? Hell no! I have a lot to say. So why then? Because I've been too timid to just post whatever I wanted. What a silly thing! This is my blog, my words, my life.

I've been toying with a new life philosophy of just doing whatever the hell I want to do. I want to wear bright orange lipstick and a weird flowy shirt? I'm going to do it. I want to cross-stitch and watch 4 movies in a row? That's my plan then. Obviously, I still have to do life things that suck like laundry and cleaning, but those things make me happier after the fact, so there is a place for that too. This life philosophy is more about doing the things that make ME happy and not worrying about what any one else thinks about it. To embrace that I don't have to be normal, I just have to be me. Because who is normal anyway? What is normal? If there is a normal, it's probably super boring.

The painting I did above (her name is Sassy Lady) perfectly exemplifies this new philosophy. Many times while drawing or painting previously, I thought about what other people would think about it. Would they think its good? Bad? With Sassy Lady, I just did whatever I wanted to do. I told myself it didn't have to go anywhere, it didn't have to be pretty. It just had to be fun. And it was SO much fun! It's so liberating when we stop caring about what others may think. I think that when we stop caring what others think, confidence and happiness come flooding into our lives.