Are you like me? Do you overthink things? Or sometimes take a direction way too literally? Do you mix up your metaphors? Nouns? Verbs? I totally lost the word "bench" once for like a week. Where did it go? I thought about naming this blog Michelle Misunderstands Things, but that's less catchy than bigger words mashed together in a funny way, so we're going with this. I get confused a lot. Confuzzled, like, you're confused but also puzzled with a dash of brain fog? For example, have you ever looked out on a placid, clear body of water, and commented to your friends, what a gorgeous lake, only to have them look at you in perplexion, and remark that in fact, Michelle, that's a steel building? Maybe I needed glasses. Anywho. The struggle for words likely stems from having studied too many other languages. I had brief introductions to Spanish and French in middle school, and took three years of Latin in high school. In college, I took three semesters of Germa...