The 'Sbomb'

“If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.” Dave Barry

I met up with my sisters last weekend for a wonderful Christmas shopping trip.  We laughed ourselves silly through our memorable adventure.  One of our more hilarious moments came when my sister informed us about some of the new terms that were being added to the dictionary this year.  Did you know that 'Fbomb' was being adopted as an acceptable term?  And I didn’t even know that 'cra-cra' meant crazy, much less that it was a new word.  My….how things are changing...

..and yes, in case you were wondering…, I ‘googled’ it when I got home to find out more about it.

…Instead of sending you the list of some of the new words, I thought it would be more fun to write a short story using them.  See if you can identify the words or grammatically acceptable phrases that are recent additions to our English language dictionaries.

                           'A Day in the Life of Joe the Plumber'

I met with my life coach today and told him I was on the verge of a meltdown and was totally stressed out. He asked me if  I had tried to relax.
“Well duh,  that’s a no brainer!“ I testily remarked.
He then asked me if I had read the book on my e-reader he had tweeted me about, and wondered if I had had any aha moments after finishing it.  
"Yeah," I was getting irritated, "Didn't you get the freaking text message I sent you?"
"Whoa, Bro," my life coach realized he needed to take me seriously, " I can see you really are stressed out. Here's what I recommend for you to do: On your way home, swing by the bigbox store and pick up some supersize energy drinks, and then go hang out in your man cave, maybe even invite along one of your buddies that you have a bromance with.  Then the two of you can just chill out."
“Chill out!” I shouted, throwing out the Fbomb, “You are cra-cra! How can I chill out? We're about to go over a fiscal cliff,  I’m underwater on my house, I have a boomerang kid that’s part of the me generation, unemployed, and laying around in his hoodie all day, sexting his girlfriend on his smartphone. My significant other is a soccer mom and a helicopter parent, and she is constantly ragging on me to finish my shovel ready projects.  I tell you, I’m at a tipping point!”   
My life coach took a deep breath,  “It seems our 30-minute real time appointment is about over.  But look, here’s the thing, Joe, at the end of the day, the best advise I have for you is just go home and spend some quality time working on your bucket list.” 
Sure enough, my life coach was right... who knew? I did what he said, and it was a real game changer!   (The end) 
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Any way, enough of that….getting back to the discussion of new words, sisters and silliness…as we were scurrying around the mall, checking and re-checking our Christmas lists with time running out, one of my sisters anxiously admitted, "I am really starting to feel stressed!".   "Oh no!" another sister remarked, “Did you hear what she said, she just said the Sbomb!" Our laughter reverberated off the store walls and down the escalators!
Once we were able to pull ourselves back together and stand upright again, we decided we could be instrumental in adding our own ‘new word’!  That’s right…since we can’t say the nasty word (stress) out loud in public, we have to use another term to express ourselves....Sbomb.

So, if you are still struggling with that 's' word in your life, and the idea of changing the word 'stress' to 'energy' and putting a smile on your face doesn’t do it for you…then how about just referring to it as the 'Sbomb'.   Who knows, it might be one of Webster's new additions next year.  

I'd love for you to post your 'aha' moments, or ideas for new words, or email me at smallsteps4bigresults@yahoo.com