Word For The Day, Monday, November 3, 2003: Salubrious

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary | 11/03/2003 | The Janitor

[VRWCmember]

In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

salubrious \suh-LOO-bree-uss\ adjective
favorable to or promoting health or well-being

Example sentence: "My health and spirits had long been restored, and they gained additional strength from the salubrious air I breathed."
(Mary Shelley, _Frankenstein_)

Did you know?
"Salubrious" and its synonyms "healthful" and "wholesome" all mean favorable to the health of mind or body. "Healthful" implies a positive contribution to a healthy condition (as in French chef Jacques Pepin's _Simple and Healthy Cooking_, which features recipes using "more healthful ingredients"). "Wholesome" applies to something that benefits you, builds you up, or sustains you physically, mentally, or spiritually (as in centenarian Julia Bunch's recipe for longevity: "hard work and wholesome country living" --_Arkansas Democrat-Gazette_, August 12, 1985). "Salubrious" is similar to the other two, but tends to apply chiefly to the helpful effects of climate or air.

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The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.

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Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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[honeygrl]

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention earlier. While techinically I was in bed for 10 hours, I didn't get that much sleep. The girl still thinks my boobs are pacifiers and I'm having trouble breaking her of it. Hubby and I have agreed that this weekend (first one in a while where we aren't doing anything) we are going to bring a sippy cup with water to bed and she's just going to have to scream for a while until she learns that mommy isn't a paci. She won't take a real paci either. Poor girl is having to do a lot of screaming lately. We've made her start crying herself to sleep (which so far hasn't stopped the night time waking) and after a couple weeks (i think) she's still crying for up to an hour before going to sleep. I know she's tired too because she only naps for a half hour during the day. I know it sounds weird but I think a lot of her problem is that she's not getting enough sleep so she's overtired and has trouble sleeping when she does go to bed. Since I went to bed so early last night, Rick stayed up with her and she fell asleep on the floor around midnight before he brought her to bed. (he didn't want to wake me up by letting her cry while i was trying to catch up on sleep I missed over the weekend while my best friend was visiting)

[xsmommy]

don't be defensive about your 10 hours of sleep, i am just J! i am starting to feel the effects of last night's sleep deprivation, NOW, that it's too late for me to take a nap.

[Gabz]

I agree with ronnie!!!

jax wears a helmet - in fact she just got another one from our former across the road neighbors. It's too big for heer right now, but I think by next spring it will be the right size and the one she has now will be too small.

[hobbes1]

if one insists on being on a bike, one needs a helmet!

Yes.

If one is Under 6 years of Age or
A Girl.

[tioga]

Just remember that if they take a tumble and hit their heads, the helmet needs to be replaced, otherwise it is worthless...

[NYC GOP Chick]

Whew! The surgery is over and he'll be fine. There were other things in there that needed to be taken care of -- adhesions, inflammations, blah blah blah. Thanks for being there & listening. :)

[NYC GOP Chick]

The girl still thinks my boobs are pacifiers

Good thing the pets don't think of them as chewy toys. ;)

[NYC GOP Chick]

And what do YOU have against girls?

[SeaDragon]

(I mean, we know WHY you are holding him. We just can't figure out where you are holding him.)

I am holding him in a secret place.............

[hobbes1]

Nothing.Now helmets OTOH.....

[NYC GOP Chick]

Then why did you say that helmets are for girls?

[Robert A Cook PE]

Oh, actually, the story gets worse.

(For Ronnie that is. - Heck, I was out of it and didn't know anything.)

I leave to go the store, she's trying to take a nap when the two boys ( 2 and 4-1/2 ) are down for a while.

I'm carrying two dollar bills, no wallet, no military ID, no nothing else. (Remember, to the store to get a paper and some milk on my bike.)

So I'm laying there on the asphalt out cold and bleeding. Ambulance comes, OK.

Ambulance takes me to local civilian hospital. Nurse there says "I think he's at the shipyard because he has short hair." They diagnose head trauma and possible seizure, automatically haul me out of the local city hospital and send me out of the county, out of the city, up to Napa Hospital for their ICU.

Nurse calls Navy corpsman at the (shut-for-the-weekend clinic, says we're moving one of your patients up to Napa, so we'll make up the charge sheets on Monday. Do you know who he is?"

Navy clinic calls Navy Base Duty Officer to get somebody up to Napa to figure how to do the billing, but I work on the Shipyard (different commanding officer, different everybody, different records.) So they don't know who I am either. The Shipyard duty would know, but he can't leave the base, and isn't notified anyway since he is working on some reactor problems and can't leave the yard anyway.

Napa chaplain comes by, calls Navy chaplain, who comes up to Napa to see, but who we work with all the time at the local church. THAT's the only way they figured out who I was...... 6 hours and two hospitals later.

Ronnie, of course, has no idea where I am the whole time.

So the Navy chaplain calls the wive's club, and the entire local parish "family" turns out and helps ... and THOSE GUYS "delivered" the baby and did the caring and nuturing and feeding and changing and all that.

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Cute story. About 6 weeks later, the same priest is out helping to finish painting the walls and eaves - since I wasn't permitted to be anywhere near a ladder (nor drive) for another 6 months until the EEG (EKG ?) are normal.

So Russel comes up to him rather confused, since obviously Father is not wearing the usual Sunday vestments, and asks, "Are you God?"

[honeygrl]

"Was unconscious for three days, in the ICU for a week, but Ronnie only claims it was so I didn't have to take care of her, the delivery and the other two kids..... "

And of course for the spongebaths from the nurses.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Perhaps because the prevention of injuries to girls is a high priority to The Tiger. Us dudes, on the other hand, can only get so dain bramaged.

[hobbes1]

Frailty....

[VRWCmember]

The girl still thinks my boobs are pacifier

At this point that should be hubby's prerogative.

[Robert A Cook PE]

(Couldn't even enjoy THAT with the cather'ed in place...)

[NYC GOP Chick]

Good save! ;)

[NYC GOP Chick]

:(

[hobbes1]

Good thing I left off the "Also more likely to be clumsy"... ; )