So all morning long, I have been repeating the phrase, "waxing rhapsodic" in my head. I have been thinking, what does this mean? Why does it sound like a poem, in and of itself? How do you use it in a sentence without sounding snooty? I have said things that sounded too snooty before and I don't want to be accused of that again. (Like when I was in sixth grade and said that someone's party was going to be an extravaganza. Jill and Daria never let me live that down. and I have tried never to use that word again)

So in my mind, I was going to write today about what waxing rhapsodic means and other phrases that get stuck in your head. So I googled it, and do you know what the third or fourth website with that phrase is: the Pioneer Woman blog. Are you kidding? and then, I go look, and she spends a whole blog on the phrase and how she uses it but isn't sure what it means.

I feel so weird about this. Like on project runway when that 50's loving girl who had the tugboat captain for a dad kept making dresses that looked like other current designers dresses, and she thought they were her own original ideas...I sort of feel like I need to read people's blogs more thoroughly so I am not accused of plagirism.

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I still need smoothie and popsicle recipes.

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Exciting news from my herb garden: we have 7 new caterpillers on the dill!

Yes, I grow dill for the caterpillers. It is huge and grows taller than me when I forget to trim it. I think I have cooked with it once. But we have already had 2 coccons hatch this year, and now, maybe we'll get some more. We have lots of black swallowtail caterpillars, and now, some new one that may be a tiger swallowtail... still working on identifying it....and I just now realized how boring this post is today. I will stop now as I have fully exposed my inner-nerdom.