letter of the day

i may have explained this before, but bear with me. each morning at work, lynn, beth & i pick a letter of the day. we have little slips of paper in a cup - one for each letter of the alphabet - and we once a letter has been picked it gets put in a different cup to wait for us to start the alphabet all over again. we then spend the next ten minutes or so in deep concentration on coming up with letter-of-the-day appropriate words. then we go back to our general workload, continually spouting off words as they come to mind.

i kid you not, we do this all day.

we bring lists of words back from lunch. when one of us goes to the restroom, we come back with words. when we walk to the printer, we come back with words. it's fabulous. it might sound silly, but it's fun. and i think that's the point of silly.

everyday, however, towards the end of the day someone undoubtedly comes up with a word that makes us go "seriously? how did we not think of that already?" and for the letter b that prize goes to holly.

butterfly.

all day we thought of b words. we got behemoth, boisterous and boomerang. we got bursitis, benign and biopsy. we got baboon, bassoon and bison. we got booze, brandy and bottle. we undoubtedly came up with well over 150 words that start with the letter b. (including buerhle, mark - we went to the sox game yesterday.) but we did not get butterfly.

i love this game.