April 17th 2020

If you recognize the muffled sound of parents in Charlie Brown, you instinctively refer to it as “blah, blah, blah.” Who listens to that, when it’s all just noise? Blah Blah Blah Day is about listening to those noises, and recognizing that people are speaking to you.

History

So, where did the phrase Blah Blah Blah come from? According to historians, it originated from ancient Greece, but the term was “bar bar bar.” The first phrase was taken from the sounds heard from barbarians, implying that the words beings spoken were “meaningless noises.” Those sounds have evolved to phrases such as “yada, yada, yada” and “blab, blab, blab.”

The phrase, “blab, blab, blab” showed up in 19th-century books and we now say “blah, blah, blah.” According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first use of “blah” came from a 1918 memoir in the magazine Wine, Women, & War. “Blab” can mean revealing a secret, gossiping, and talking about topics with little to no meaning.

Weren't you just dying to know that?

Up VERY early

With a cat who got into something,

And I got to clean it up 

At 6am!!!!

Did a layout

And the crawled back into bed

After making sure 

She was okay.

Got up at 10

Dressed and off to clean up

And put away new scrap paper.

A snack

Then some work on the craft order

And making sure

We ordered enough stock

For our own rooms.

Off to pick up

My portion of the cow I ordered

And then a drop off.

Home again

Some lunch

A few layouts

Some organizing

Some emails

And a few more challenges.

Supper was fish

And we watched Pirates of the Caribbean 2.

Now

My intention was to go down

And complete a few more layouts

But

My eyes are burning.

So 

I think I will head for bed

And restart in the morning.

Good night from John Street