Welcome to my Cattywompus World

Welcome!

What's this "catty meets wompus" business, did you say?

Here are the ordered machinations of my mind that resulted in the blog name you blinked at:

Those of you who know me well also know that cattywompus is one of my favorite words. Much to my surprise, I discovered recently that it's a slang word rather than a bona-fide OED word.

Cattywompus means, as my dear friend Jon and I both found from the same source:
cattywompus adj
1. Diagonally across from something else. ("Her house was conveniently located cattywompus from the post office." Submitted by Melanie Arnold, Meri and Angie Knight, IN, USA, 26-12-2002.
2. Out of alignment. ("I need to get my wheels aligned. They're sitting all cattywompus.")

How nicely paradoxical to say that a word meaning out of alignment is meeting itself - almost as if aligning itself and misaligning itself at the same time. I think this an apt description of my state of being much of the time, so I have grown more enamored of my off the cuff blog name since thinking about it more along these definitive lines.

Another reason I like it: it's fun to say! For the record, separating catty from wompus is by no means meant to create a layered meaning of "catty," as in, "my, but you're catty with me today." There is no implied meaning on my part my catty and clumsy or thumping (or whatever you might read into "wompus") parts of me are meeting in writings herein.