New Vocabulary

So I have recently been told that I make up some very interesting words. Most of the time it is little more than combining or lengthening normal words such as "gimongous" or "bestest". The most recent ones drew some rather funny comments from friends and co-workers.

A few weeks ago a couple of co-workers got into a conversation about vegetarians. When asked if I was a vegetarian, I paused and said, 'I'm a semitarian!' After a stunned look of confusion, I was inevitably asked what on earth that meant. As dead serious as I could be, I said that sometimes I go for days or weeks without eating meat, and other times I can't live without meat. Not really a full-time vegetarian, so a "semitarian"!

Yesterday, another new word was "created". I have a very mischievous cat named Milo. Among other things, he is well known for his stealth thieving abilities. In our previous house, my mother had a desk connected to the kitchen counter with a drawer underneath. Inevitably, if the desk chair was left pulled out away from the drawer, Milo would stand on the counter above it and slide his paw underneath to open the drawer. He would then proceed to steal whatever he could carry in his mouth...his favorites being rubber bands. These would often be found under furniture, or more often, under the stove or refrigerator.

In our current home, there is no drawer to get into. Now he has to resort to crimes of opportunity; straws and other implements from my mom's work table for her jewelry, bottle caps left on the counter, anything that makes noise like paper or foil. His favorite is still rubber bands and he has been known to retrieve them when they are flung across the room. He has also developed some new favorites. Pony tail holders are good, because they are easy to carry and flip around. His all time favorite, though, are nail files. I have some padded salon boards that he will go out of his way to steal; climbing on my bookshelf, digging in my purse, whatever it takes. I think it is because he likes to chew on them to sharpen his teeth. I can't tell you how many of these I have gone through for this reason!

That brings me to the next word. "cleptomanicat" That one pretty much speaks for itself! :o) Does anyone else have words like this, or am I the only crazy who makes up their own words?!?