Happy New Year 2016

 All of us here at DK's residence are, at this very moment, wishing you a very, very happy new year.

On an entirely self-absorbed note, have y'all ever just...gotten a phrase stuck in your head? Like, it is not really a phrase that makes sense at all, but just, like -- I don't know, some words? And you keep thinking them, and they keep popping into your head for no discernible reason, and you really, really wish that you had some excuse to say whatever it is out loud, because it just seems like that would be really, really satisfying?

...Y'all? Hello?

Okay, so maybe this has not happened to you, but it's been happening to me quite a bit lately. And not in the sense of a song stuck in your head, like a few days ago, I couldn't stop singing "Bibi yako mfupi, lakini amezaa kijaana mreefu ametooka waapi?" And spent waaaaaay too many hours silently singing. And when someone says, "Did you just say something under your breath?" you get to say, "Uh, I said 'No, nothing' because y'all it's 8 a.m. and maybe you will end up with medication. Score!

Y’all.  What is going on?  Did I catch something?  Did I catch curse?  Can you catch curse?  Did one of y’all curse me?   Is this DK’s fault?

But, that was before. This is not a song, it is a new phrase, far less literary, but equally pernicious: Participating Eyebrow. These are the words I cannot get out of my head. Participating eyebrow.

This phrase does not make any sense whatsoever, and I would venture to guess that nobody in the history of the world has placed these two words next to each other in such a fashion as to describe an eyebrow as "participating" (in what? conversations?), but I am blazing new trails here. I have also decided that the phrase needs a definition, so I determined that when someone can raise an eyebrow in surprise, or in performing an impersonation of Judge Ian, the "Participating Eyebrow" is the brow that takes part in the action. It's the raising brow. It is the participating eyebrow.

Sadly, I have not had the opportunity to use the phrase, and it's annoying me. I think it would be peculiar to just walk up to someone on the street and say "Participating eyebrow!" but oddly, that is exactly what I feel like doing. I will probably get arrested. Or get medication. 

May you have Happy Participating Eyebrows in 2016.