Caffeinated Randomness: Real Randomness

Good Morning Randomness Fans... I have no idea where my thoughts are going to take this post this morning.

My room is a MESS. I feel like maybe I'm four or five years old and my room is actually a land of adventure... the mounds of clothes and junk and stuff is actually a rugged wilderness that I carefully maneuver daily. The truth is - there is nothing pretend about it... my room is a disaster. And just a hunch... the disaster is not going anywhere until school is out (three weeks, one day).

I visited urbandictionary.com last night for one purpose - where in the world does the blogging word MEME come from and how in the world do you pronounce it. It just seems to be one of those words that gets under my skin... In my head, I pronounce it Mem (rhymes with Stem)... but is it actually pronounced Meemee? This word is just so stupid!

The problem is, I'm thinking about doing a blog link this summer... and I don't know what else to call it? The word just gets under my skin. Other words get under my skin and I almost decided to list them... but then I thought - why in the world would I want to start my day by listing all the words that bother me?

I will say this, the word "pee" - when did it become so socially acceptable to use this word to describe urine and the act of urinating? I think this word is so gross and crude... and everyone says it. Whatever someone is saying to me - if and when they choose to use this word in the story or conversation - I just stopped listening to whatever they were saying. I become so distracted by the grossness of what they just described, and frankly, I've lost respect for them not being able to express themselves a more intelligent and respectable way.

Okay, that rant is finished for the moment.

I don't know if I shared this story when it happened... but about six weeks ago, I was teaching a lesson on compliments to my preschoolers. At the end of the lesson, we went around the circle and every child turned to the child sitting next to him or her and he or she gave that friend a compliment. We went all the way around the circle and we came to the little boy sitting next to me... he looked me up and down... and up and down. Then he said, "Miss Brooke... ... Miss Brooke... I like... ... I like... ... Miss Brooke, I like your head." It was the cutest thing!

One more random thing.
Chris and I went to Florida about ten days ago to celebrate his sister, Becky, graduating from medical school. I met his family and we had a great few days in Orlando. Well his family like to play jokes on each other and other people...
After the graduation, Chris put on his sister's cap and gown and went up to other graduates pretending to be a med school graduate himself and asked if he could have his picture taken with these "medical school friends that he had gone to school with." Becky would tell him the names of the students to help him pull off the joke...Well, Becky's med school class was not large - everyone knows everyone - and NO ONE knew Chris. The looks on the faces of these poor med students were so funny as they were searching the folds of their brains... "How burned out am I that I can't remember this guy? He seems to know me but I have no idea how this is!"For more randomness, visit here.