More Wacky Words and AntiDepressant Songwriting

Today, I'm greeted with this conundrum....
K: What does "Brocktude by" mean?
me: (the hell?) what are you talking about?
K: They say it on TV all the time...you know, BROCKTUDE BY
me: *blink*
K: MOM, they JUST said it....after Oprah... you know...."Oprah has been BROCKTUDE BY", but then they show a commercial.
LMAO! BROUGHT TO YOU BY!!

This anecdote has been brocktude by K....a production of Ctal, and if I were to cut to a commercial that had anything to do with the production....lets go with Bacardi, I guess. Let this be a lesson , people, if you don't ask...sometimes you just don't KNOW.


***** She's having a bad day today...8 year olds have crappy days too. Her dad made another dinner switch on her (2nd this week) and she's about to blow her top. She decides to sit down with her guitar (no lessons yet ;P) and write about it. She literally sounds like a small female version of Kurt Cobain: "My life suuuuuuuuckssssssss, why am I aliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiivveeeeeee?"
OK, its been said before she's a bit of a drama queen, but I digress...I sit down with her and try to direct her anger in a less negative way. Either try to focus on whats actually making you angry, instead of saying your entire life sucks, or try to find something to focus on thats not all that crappy. She did pretty well, for an 8 year old songwriter that can only strum one chord on her guitar.

Here are some excerpts:
"No shirt Skirts....no spaghetti straps...shorts mid thigh....don't they REALIZE its still Summer in September, in HOUSTON" (a rage against the school dress code)

"If I liiiiiived in a perfect woooooorld, it would be full of millions of Zachary C.s" (an ode to her kindergarten flame....still hot)

"everything diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeees.....my fish is deeeeeeeeeeaaaaaddd, and I can't find my new onnnnnnnnnne, eitheeeerrrrrr. I think he died toooooooooo" (he did, but shhhhhhh, I've told her he's just under the rock until I can get another one from Petsmart....I don't want her on Prozac at 8)