For a special secret project (TBA at this Year's Wishes 4 Whisker's Gala September 18), we need you to post your favorite "Carolisms." What are "Carolisms" you wonder? A Carolism is a sentence, phrase or word that Carol has created and written on her blog. For example: She recently wrote that she is a chronic sufferer of MOP HAND She explains the symptoms and causes ... "today i developed mop hand and it really, really hurts.all of the space between my third and fourth fingers of my right hand are screaming in pain. i cannot grasp anything, i cannot pick up anything and if i do nothing, even the empty air between those two fingers still really hurts. i did not know what was happening, i tried to decipher from whenst the injury came. and it was not until i grabbed the mop for the 675th time today that the lightbulb went on..even bigger ouch…oh, it is mop hand again ... i was in a hurry today to get ready for our visitors and i was grabbing and yeilding the mops like a betty homemaker warrior. i was mopping too hard, i was mopping too fast, i was holding onto that mop handle with an unbreakable iron grip, and now i am paying for it."
Another favorite may be SOGGY FOOT. Defined by Carol as caused by "12-18 hours with a foot stuck in a rubber boot. and it is upsetting to see your poor foot all white and wrinkly and worry if the skin is going to peel off anytime soon. rubber boots are meant to be non-porous…impermeable to water from the outside. they also suck at oxygen exchange which is why “Soggy Foot” occurs ...in any case, “Soggy Foot” is for sure a problem in rescue but i am not sure if it is a risk in farming. but it is something to be aware of so you do not freak out one night when you take off that freaking rubber boot and think that your foot died sometime during the day."
Please submit your favorite Carolisms in the comments and we will narrow it down to the top 20. You can submit as many as you like or simply vote on the ones submitted. Thank you for your help in this important matter.
From the arrival of the Americats, Nov 3, 2007 (and I've been an avid reader ever since):
"...life can be crappy and hard, hell can easily overtake you one day and lucky are you to survive. And maybe by keeping faith and having an open heart, possibly it might get better and happiness will find you again someday."