Everyone has a junk drawer. Some folks have a junk closet. We had one. A couple of years ago, Gina stated she needed an office space. We took everything out of the closet and converted it into a cloffice (pr: kl-office), or closet office. Contracting two words into one is my thing. The new word cannot be used in Scrabble, but I'm good at it and it makes me a better person.
-"Babe, where's the insurance stuff"
-"Its in the cloffice"
and so on...
We live in a one bedroom house. Its pretty awesome, but we aren't able to make a baby nursery for Josie. Gina and I wanted a space to put her things. There was only one option: the cloffice. We moved everything out of the cloffice and converted it into a clursery, a closet nursery. Not big enough for a baby to reside, but plenty big to put her things. Just picture Gulliver standing in a regular nursery (that's the scale for your mind). The clursery was painted pink and has a chest of drawers, a book shelf, hanging clothes rods, stuffed animals, etc. Its a very basic and standard clursery.
Ok, so we have a clursery, but what about the cloffice? It is kind of a big deal. Gina had all of our financial paperwork, computer equipment, and alot of her work items in there. The cloffice's replacement was an armoire. We purchased the spartanic piece at Wal-Mart.
I have an issue saying words with a French accent. Its my issue, I know. Not because I have anything against the French, but because it sounds funny. In college, while I worked at a bakery, one woman would frequently ask for a coffee and a croissant. She pronounced it like one would in French:
"I'd like a coffee and a kwa-ssAAhhhhn". I found it profoundly annoying. Anything bought at Wal-Mart, and at the price we paid, should not come with a French name.
I'm from Arkansas, the home of Sam The Man Walton, and Wal-Mart. I picture Sam and I standing in the dining room.
-I say, "Mr. Sam, what do you think of our new ahhhm-whaaahhh".
-He replies, with a scrunched up face and Arkansan accent, "Son, I don't know what you just said, but I like that moffice you have".
-"What's a moffice, Mr. Sam?"
-"Its an office which is mobile."
-"Of course it is."
We have a clursery and a moffice. They're both awesome.
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