Grey Day
It is really grey outside and it looks like it might storm soon. Grey or gray? I know that both are acceptable…I am just wondering if you all have preferences. In my youth, I always used gray. Now, I am more partial to grey. I’m sure that is fascinating to, well, no one. I am home today with a sick kid. I’m tired…if it isn’t one kid waking at night, it is the other. Do they conspire to deprive us of sleep? When they are drawing pictures together, are they really writing out a schedule for their sleepless nights? I’m growing suspicious. My mother-in-law arrives in about 10 hours and the house is not yet clean. She doesn’t care about that sort of thing, doesn’t break out the white gloves to inspect every surface like my mother does. Still, I want the house clean. I’ve realized, though, that lack of sleep makes me rather inert. It also, apparently, makes me write about incredibly obvious revelations. I’ve spent the morning reading blogs and browsing iTunes which was probably not the best use of my time given the circumstances. It’s the perfect day for doing nothing but there is much to be done. I have to clean the stove. I really hate cleaning the stove. Actually, I hate cleaning in general. Now, organizing? I love that. I just wish that I could do the organizing and someone else would do the cleaning. I’ve always wanted a House Boy for this very reason. He could come every day to clean, do the grocery shopping, mow the lawn, weed the flower beds and maybe clean the pool on occasion. Of course, we don’t have a pool. There is no point in having a pool in Minnesota when it is only warm enough to swim about two months out of every year. I guess you could skate on it the rest of the time but no one really does that. Well, we don’t have a House Boy anyway. So, no one will be coming today to clean the stove and mop the floors. I’ll have to do it…I should probably get started. Damn.
One last thing…Blogging for LGBT Families Day is coming up. I’ll be participating again this year and will post on Monday. Have a great weekend.
Posted: May 30th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
Comments
Comment from Vikki
Time May 30, 2008 at 1:11 pm
It looks like they were only on this post. I went in and deleted them (I had updated software and had to edit a configuration file to correct some other weird characters). If you see them in other posts, let me know.
Comment from Chris
Time May 30, 2008 at 2:26 pm
My teachers always used to demand we spell it “gray” but I much prefer “grey” for some reason. And apparently your comment spellchecker and my teacher agree 
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Comment from Kelly
Time May 31, 2008 at 8:56 am
I always thought that “grey” was the more sophisticated way to spell that color. Perhaps it’s the more British way to spell it.
Comment from Ms. Melom
Time June 1, 2008 at 5:35 am
It’s just this sort of thing that makes the teachers of beginning reader/writers go gray/grey before their times. WHY should you spell it either way?! How about “grai” using the key phonogram for the long A sound? How about “grae,” as if it used a silent E? And how do you explain it to those trusting children, who look to you for rationality in the face of the English language? I’m tired of the weak excuse that our words come to us from different languages and follow their spelling rules! I’m tired of explaining the concept of “conventional spelling!” I’m ready for summer break!!!! Thank you very much, I’ll be quiet now.
Comment from Anthony
Time June 1, 2008 at 11:19 am
How much does the House Boy position pay?
Comment from Ms. Melom
Time June 1, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Ooohhhh, Ali, thank you! I used to be one of Miguel’s Montessori pre-school teachers, that’s why the rant. (Miguel is a trip – WE have a few Miguel stories, too…)
Oh, oops, I was going to be quiet.
Comment from Vikki
Time June 1, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Ms. Melom – you have a fan club here! Ms. Melom is probably saving her Miguel stories for a tell-all memoir or to sell to the tabloids when he becomes famous, or more likely, infamous.
Related to “grey”…interestingly, after seeing the title of this post for the past few days, I have decided that I actually do prefer gray. I think “grey” makes me think of Grey’s Anatomy now. Who knew?
Comment from Meghan
Time June 2, 2008 at 9:30 am
I always like grey better. I never knew there were actually 2 ways of spelling it. I always thought I was wrong, because everyone I ask says it’s gray. Thanks for clearing that up for me:-)
Comment from leigh
Time June 2, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Below is from wikipedia:
peace
leigh
Grey became the established British spelling in the 20th century, pace Dr. Johnson and others,[94] and is but a minor variant in American English, according to dictionaries. Canadians tend to prefer grey. Non-cognate greyhound is never grayhound.
Comment from Ms. Melom
Time June 2, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Ohhhhh, my dear Vikki….Miguel is only the tip of the iceberg, believe me. You are only one of a number of parents who hope I will keep my mouth shut.
(Still, remember what an iceberg did to the Titanic…)
Comment from Kristin
Time May 30, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Hey – Colleen and I are getting a series of boxes intermingled in with your text. Do you see them also?