I'm getting Kaya ready for school today, spraying her with Downey Wrinkle Releaser because I stopped ironing 3 kids ago, and she asks, "does the coat look okay?"
To which I reply, "it still looks jacked up."
And then I pause because I realize: I'm a 30-something mother WITH a college degree AND yet I sometimes speak as though I'm high school (no offense HSers).
In other words, even though I've "learned better than to use slang/swear words," I still sometimes use them. (Ask Kinda U.)
So I ask myself the bigger question, "WHY do I do STUPID things when I KNOW better?"
Hmmm . . .
I don't know the answer to ALL of the reasons "why," but I do know the reason I continue to use the word "Jack" and all of its iterations:
There's something about the letters J, C, K that are fun to say. (I think it's in our DNA--left over caveman grunt impluse). It's like saying "lollipop" or "finger-lickin' good." It's just fun to prounouce those letters (phonemes--all you parents of kindergarteners).
Anyhow, rather than get all existential TODAY (because I do most days), I thought I'd just go with the flow and list all of the reasons I like the word JACK and its many uses--it's so versatile!
Jack of All Trades = skilled in many areas
To which I reply, "it still looks jacked up."
And then I pause because I realize: I'm a 30-something mother WITH a college degree AND yet I sometimes speak as though I'm high school (no offense HSers).
In other words, even though I've "learned better than to use slang/swear words," I still sometimes use them. (Ask Kinda U.)
So I ask myself the bigger question, "WHY do I do STUPID things when I KNOW better?"
Hmmm . . .
I don't know the answer to ALL of the reasons "why," but I do know the reason I continue to use the word "Jack" and all of its iterations:
There's something about the letters J, C, K that are fun to say. (I think it's in our DNA--left over caveman grunt impluse). It's like saying "lollipop" or "finger-lickin' good." It's just fun to prounouce those letters (phonemes--all you parents of kindergarteners).
Anyhow, rather than get all existential TODAY (because I do most days), I thought I'd just go with the flow and list all of the reasons I like the word JACK and its many uses--it's so versatile!
Jack of All Trades = skilled in many areas
Jack Skellington (sp?) = character in The Nightmare Before Christmas
Jack Sprat = nursery rhyme (moral = don't eat a lot of fat)
Jack in the Box = childhood toy and fast-food place (PS: both still scare the cRaP out of me)
Jack and the Beanstock = fairy tale (moral = be very afraid of tall people)
Jack and Jill = nursery rhyme (moral = boys shouldn't wear crowns)
Jack = name
Jacked-Up = adjective implying messed up or not right
Jack in the Crack = NO IDEA, but the fact that it ryhmes brings me back again and again
Jack-donkey = now, I don't repeat this full word. Never was a fan of the any words with bahookie in them. BUT, I do think you can get the same effect from calling someone a "Jack" as you can from the complete word.
Jack-Mormon = reference to someone who doesn't "practice what they preach" (I think you can fill in the blank though, "Jack-anything")
SEE? Isn't this fun?Jack Sprat = nursery rhyme (moral = don't eat a lot of fat)
Jack in the Box = childhood toy and fast-food place (PS: both still scare the cRaP out of me)
Jack and the Beanstock = fairy tale (moral = be very afraid of tall people)
Jack and Jill = nursery rhyme (moral = boys shouldn't wear crowns)
Jack = name
Jacked-Up = adjective implying messed up or not right
Jack in the Crack = NO IDEA, but the fact that it ryhmes brings me back again and again
Jack-donkey = now, I don't repeat this full word. Never was a fan of the any words with bahookie in them. BUT, I do think you can get the same effect from calling someone a "Jack" as you can from the complete word.
Jack-Mormon = reference to someone who doesn't "practice what they preach" (I think you can fill in the blank though, "Jack-anything")
(Don't answer that.)
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