A FANTABULOUS NEW WORD

Recently I learned of a wonderful new word, I instantly fell in love with the word. And this amazing word is: FANTABULOUS! I first learned of the word via the Casual Blogger website. Each week someone is interviewed and their blog is spotlighted. The woman being interviewed was asked for her favorite word! She said it was fantabulous, a mingling of fantastic and fabulous!

At first I thought she created it but I later learned it was actually a real word from the urban dictionary! Apparently the word has been around for a few years, I wish I'd learned of it earlier.

Please note that if you check the following link to learn even more about this word, there is a bad word used in one of the descriptions. So following the link, I have edited out the part with the bad word:

Here is the link: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fantabulous

Fantabulous
adj. from the above website:

"Sort of like "fabulous" but much more fabulous than the word "fabulous" can convey. Like supercalifragilisticexpialidocius but shorter and easier to spell. Describes something fantastic and fabulous, gernerally beyond belief or expectation."


They say to learn a new vocabulary word,  you must incorporate it into your every day life. So in that spirit, here are a few instances in recent weeks in which I've used this word:

~ I've had opportunity to use that word at work. One of my patients on a high amount of oxygen and rather weak. On one particular day she did extra well, she made good strides in moving forward in her recovery. Itold her she did "fantabulous!  I felt happy that she liked the word and she even used it several times in referring to her progress!

~ Then there is a a blog to support a young sister in our area who has cancer. This sister's friends "Flat Jenny" people share experiences vicariously, ie ala "Flat Stanley". I contributed a post. In it, I referred to a post shared by her friend in which her friend told of jogging 20 miles to a baptism! Don't you agree with me that is truly "fantabulous to the nth degree!

~ On the Sugardoodle facebook page, the sister who runs it described the tons of errands she had done on a  particular day. I commented that  what she did was fantabulous!

~ Easter: I was invited to a Easter celebration dinner. As I left the dinner, I thought our hostess had truly done a fantabulous job as a hostess! Not only in her kindness in her warmly inviting me and others into her home. She has endured hard times in life yet stives to serve others. At this dinner, she had a fun Easter Egg hunt, she shared awonderful spiritual thought related to the Easter and the Savior and she even in gave us goodie bags to take home. Her example of service makes me want to be a better person.

~ In our recent fast and testimony meeting, a sister shared her sincere hope to have Savior tell her at her final interview when she is judged on how she did in her Earth life, "well done though good and faithful servant". As I listened to her, I totally agreed with that sentiment. I thought I would also like to hear that statement said about me. But in light of this fantabulous new vocabulary word, I felt like I would also like to hear the Savior say, "Juanita, fantabulously well done!" Maybe? Hopefully?

 I hope I can live so that my final report will say "fantabulously well done". Hopefully having that thought on the way back burner can help inspire me to do more, to be better..to hopefully be fantabulous in my life!

OK- it is time for me to learn a new word!