Easter cuteness

There’s just something about babies and Easter that I love so much!

Here’s little Owen, the BFF’s little one:

March 24th, 2008 Posted by Jessica | Life | no comments

You’re fRustrating me!

Alright folks. The word is frustrated, spelled F R U S T R A T E D.

Notice the first “r.”

It’s not fustrated, nor is it flustrated.

My grammatical pet peeve used to be “your” versus “you’re,” and before that, “their” versus “they’re.” But it’s since moved onto people’s inability to properly pronounce the word “frustrated.”

Which, actually now provides more entertainment for me, as opposed to actually frustrating me. Typically, when people say they’re frustrated, they say it with agitation in their voice (nonverbally expressing their frustration). But, when they incorrectly pronounce frustrated, I just giggle now. Which, inevitably, makes them more “fustrated” (as they say).  It’s a vicious, vicious cycle.

Nowadays, I’ll validate their feelings with something like, “Wow. That does sound fRustrating. I’m sure it’s super fRustrating to have to deal with such fRustrating people.”

I feel it’s my civic duty to edumicate them.

Side note: A former coworker constantly inappropriately interchanged “your” and “you’re” and I would email him back something like, “Yea, what about my right?” in response to his email, “your right.” To this day, I’m quite sure he’s still confused as to why I’d write that back to him.

OK, back to Big Brother watching. Go Natalie.

March 24th, 2008 Posted by Jessica | Life | no comments