Knot a Gnat Last Knight

I analyze. I belabor. I stress. I'm a perfectionist. But I rarely spell-check.

I woke up this morning to a text from Bestie: "Your gnat?"

I snicker at myself, but then Igor, my Ego, points his fat finger at my forehead, "Idiot!"

I lower my eyes, chastised. Grainy war-footage flashbacks run through my head of every instance I typed "knat" instead of "gnat" in my previous post, as well as ON FACEBOOK.

Holy Christ, I posted my new, tender baby blog on Facebook! WITH MISSPELLINGS?!

Igor is right. I'm an idiot. I look like an idiot. I have hundreds of Facebook friends who will see that I don't know how to spell GNAT.

I decide: I can fix this. It's Sunday morning! People are either at church or asleep! I can delete the FB post, go into Blogger, edit, re-publish, re-post and most importantly, save face.

But... I like knat. It makes more sense than gnat. WAY more words begin with kn than gn- I know, I googled it. Good ones, too: knackered (AMAZING), knife (Love!), knee (essential), knit (very good for stress, I hear).

What other words begin with gn? Probably weirdo D&D names and biology terms... Oh, hm.

Gnarl. That's actually one of my favorite words.
Gnash. Oooo, good descriptive verbs totally turn me on.
Gnaw! I LOVE to gnaw on stuff!
Gnome. Aww, gnot gnome! Gnothing beats gnome...

Okay, just disproved the superiority of kn or gn words. Know (ha!) what? I don't care.

It's knat. I'm sticking with knat. Knat's mine. My own species of tiny, drifty flying bug, closely related to its Parent Trap split-screen identical cousin, gnat.

Screw you, Igor. And get your finger out of my face before I knaw it off. Tee!

PS. I spellchecked this.