...tonight Jason stopped by for a bit waiting on Ling-Ling to get off work. Some people might be offended by him just "hangin' out" until he could hang out with someone else but he was honest about his actions from the get-go and he's always funny so, regardless, it's cool to be around him :)...
Jason gets the "i'm close to my house" call from Ling-Ling and proceeds to head out. He asks: "So whatcha got planned for tonight?" thinking I might say somethin' interesting lol. My reply was simply "This!" and I laughed just sitting on the couch. "I'm a bum!" I said "this is what bums do".
A bum, by Dictionary.com's definition, is a person who avoids work and sponges on others; loafer; idler. I wouldn't say that I'm necessarily "avoiding" work and if I were I wouldn't be doing it AND proceeding to sponge off of people. Now I do loaf but that's only when I'm home and that doesn't count 'cause that's what a home's for. I wasn't quite sure what the exact definition for idler was so I looked it up and I so do not pass time in a lazy or unproductive way!
I guess I just throw the word "bum" around. Kind of like how people throw around the word "addicted". To be honest I use the term bum to keep from hearing it come out of the mouths of others. I mean...besides lazy what do you call someone who isn't in school who isn't working and who has no direction?! I may not be in school.....I may not have a REAL job--although what I do do (yeah I said it lol) I get paid for....and I have no idea what "I'm going to do" with my life it doesn't mean I'm a bum! It just means that I...need to pray more, hahaha, and be mindful that all of this is just temporary.....like the weather. Right now my forecast is saying a lazy, below freezing, "stay indoors" type deal BUT I'm hopin' the future's forecast will be a nice 75 degrees with a 100% chance of "insert occupation here, marriage & three kids (before I'm 25), and serving God in whatever way I'm supposed to". --I may wanna grab an umbrella :)
I love this. We've been talking about the use of words a lot around here lately too. We've advised Au tha contrare to belief, daddy is not "addicted" to his iPhone! She's been throwing it around a lot! But I know that we also flippantly throw words around. Thanks for the reminder!
ReplyDeleteAnd by the way, thanks for the jobs you do ... in some way I think they are linked to us ... my kids, the church, houses :) See, you actually have 3 steady jobs ... most people can't say that! Haha!