The bleary weather...

....has arrived in Oklahoma. The temperature is plummeting from an earlier high of 42 degrees. It's misting outside, and we're supposed to have a wind-chill factor of 10 degrees by 3PM.

I want to bake cinnamon rolls. Amish friendship bread. Golden oatmeal muffins.

I have no reason to leave the house. There's enough coffee and Diet Coke to last for a few days.

I just went to put a card in the mailbox. I feel soooo sorry for my postal worker. She's gotta be freezing out there.

It feels like winter, even though I know it's not.

Hmmm....Amish Friendship Bread.

Finished the first draft of Iron Shoes. Came in at just under 31K, and I'll probably zip it out to the brave people who actually said they wanted to read it in the morning. First draft, folks, remember that!

asakiyume had a lovely note earlier about snarkiness by Merriam-Webster (regarding principle/principal). In a separate incident, I got into a discussion regarding my own word rantiness. (Gee, you didn't realize I had word issues? Where have you been all this time?)

My big ones?
1)Further(furthest)/farther(farthest)
You can walk far, farther, or farthest. These are words for distance. You cannot walk fur, further, or furthest.
2) Enormity/enormousness
Enormity denotes terribleness. It is not a reference to SIZE. You use enormousness for that.
3) Continuous/Continual
Any Calculus teacher can tell you the difference between these. You almost never mean 'continuous.' Almost never. If you don't know the difference, it's easiest to stick with continual.
4) Prodigal/Returning
Wait, those two don't look alike! No, they don't. Nor do they mean the same thing.

Those are the ones that I'm most likely to jump on in a critique. Which are your bugaboo word mistakes?

And, as hinted, the Amish Friendship Bread recipe ( under the cut. )