a better tomorrow

[topaz]

Laid up in bed with a 101dF fever for the last three days;
contractors ripping up the garage ceiling;
6-12 inches of snow coming in the next day or so;

If I had thought this morning, "the only thing that could POSSIBLY make this day ANY BETTER would be a four-year-old waking up in the middle of the night and vomiting all over the bed?"  I'd be ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!

Y'all wake me when this is over.

Comments

[agaran.livejournal.com]

Ooooffff.

BTDT, so I feel for ya.

Thoughts with y'all.

[jacflash.livejournal.com]

Oh, bleah. Sympathies all around.

[catya.livejournal.com]

*hugshugs* sympathy!!

[omegabeth.livejournal.com]

oh, dude. *hugs!*

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

Since I can't think of anything remotely different to say from what has been said (though I echo it), I'll try to think of something else...

Um...

Happy Valentine's Day?

[ducks to avoid flying pillows]


Ooo, I know! I'll send you an email of my draft for a future post - you can get to see it first!!!

It will be a very interesting post. And heavily filtered. Which you're on anyway. But still.

[naiad.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, that'll do it :( Been there too. *much sympathy*

[ceo]

Oh, suck. Feel better soon.

And it means you don't even get the massive macho points that would have accrued from riding to work today. :-)

[numignost.livejournal.com]

Actually, having a 35-year old woman wake up in the middle of the night and vomiting all over the bed is even betterrer! But that was a while ago -- sorry to hear you're in the middle of such a week right now.

[rintrahroars.livejournal.com]

So sorry your week is sucking! *many hugs*

[innerdoggie.livejournal.com]

I wish your household a speedy recovery.

[primal-pastry.livejournal.com]

Perhaps if these things had happened in different combinations?

Wishing your favorite comfort things. :)

[jostajam.livejournal.com]

ooohhh yeah....that bug...I'm so sorry you have that bug...

[(Anonymous)]

Here's a fun fact for you. "Gruntled" /= opposite of "disgruntled." For the heck of it I spent some time researching this in college, along with "ept," "ert," and other nonroot words. IIRC, in this case "dis" is an intensifier, so disgruntled means to be very gruntled.

Has the week gotten better yet?

[leeble.livejournal.com]

We had one of those sucky weeks once (it was a dog, and the carpets, and bunch of other crap, but yeah). I feel your pain.

Hugs...

[keyne.livejournal.com]

gruntle: cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of [syn: pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gentle]

—wordnet.princeton.edu

grun·tle
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): grun·tled; grun·tling
Etymology: back-formation from disgruntle
: to put in a good humor <were gruntled with a good meal and good conversation -- W. P. Webb>

—m-w.com

And yes, the original derivation is as you say, but the back-formation has been around for a century or so.