As I was typing the number 2 this week, I noticed the 2 key has the @ symbol on it. I must already know that, I thought, because I type @ all the time when I type email addresses. Has it just become so second nature that I don’t even think about holding the shift key and hitting the 2 when I want to type @?
After you look at certain words over and over, doesn’t it seem like they are spelled wrong when they are really spelled correctly? For example, weird. If you look at weird often enough, doesn’t the word weird itself look very weird?
Okay, so that’s not a unique thought. Unique, unique, unique…another word that looks like it’s spelled wrong if you look at it too long.
Emmy, my toddler, has an obsession with fruit chews. I only allow her to have two packets a day. Let’s face it, fruit chews have no fruit in them. Yes, I know I can buy the über-healthy 100% fruit juice fruit chews, but Emmy wants the box with Nemo on the front. Or Curious George.
So her addiction obsession means that I limit her fruit chew consumption. We’ll be in the car after she has already devoured her quota, and she’ll say, “more fru’ choo ‘morrow?” The first thing she tells me when she wakes up from her nap is “fru’ choo ‘morrow?” The concept of “tomorrow” hasn’t quite dawned on her yet. When she wakes up in the morning, instead of asking if she can have fruit chews today, she says, “fru’ choo ‘morrow?”
I’m reading The Time Traveler’s Wife, and I love the author’s last name: Niffenegger. That name came straight from Harry Potter. It just can’t be her real last name.
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