Acronymns

This is the first blog I've ever created. As I thought about doing this blog I figured I may as well start with the story of the name.

We were all talking around the dinner table the other night about acronymns used in cyber language. There's Hubby, Anika, 16, Lloyd, 14, Matthew, 10 today and Mike, 4. Anika and Lloyd were bringing their mother's cyber language up to date. I already knew about lol, BTW and other such but didn't know about brb (be right back), rofl (rolling on the floor laughing) or velol (very evil laugh out loud - Lloyd's invention).

Hubby was telling me that there are such a lot of TLAs (three letter acronymns) and that he's definitely afflicted with UAS (ukulele aquisition syndrome). We have five ukuleles in this house but it never seems to be enough. How many ukuleles can a man play at once I think to myself? Hubby then tells me that he actually accused a fellow uke player (on a uke blog) of having UAS. The reply from friend uke blogger was along these lines: I do not have UAS. I know exactly how many ukuleles I need. I count all my ukes and add one - that's how many I need.

Hubby and I decided to enlighten our children about the acronymns of the dim, dark past. You know, in a previous age when there was no internet and people communicated by written, posted letter or telephone call. We told them about when DINKS was coined (for those of my children's age this means Double Income No KidS). We mentioned that Hubby's sister at the time had her own version of this: SINBAD (Single Income No Boyfriend And Desperate). So, why not? I'm a SINKS Mummy (Single Income Numerous KidS). For those in the USA who do not speak the same language read it like this: SINKS Mommy.