Edrei's Preschool Graduation Day

Yeah, you read right.  Edrei's Preschool Graduation Day.  Let me just go ahead and explain this one to you.  From time to time, I like to Google myself and see what pops up.  I've found that if I search "Edrei", that things about other people named Edrei will pop up.  If I search "Edrei Hutson", then my Facebook fan page is the first thing that comes up.  Well, I decided to start to search for me in other places.  Today, it just so happens that I was on youtube and saw an opportunity for an "Edrei" search.  Needless to say, the preschool graduation thing caught my eye immediately.  I don't quite remember what was running through my mind, but I'm sure that I knew it wasn't me.  

I clicked on the link and my suspicion that it was someone else was confirmed.  I will go ahead an encourage you to check out little Edrei's preschool graduation.  Actually, no, don't do that.  It's pretty boring.  

When I was on myspace, I would periodically do a search for my name, and it went from 4 pages to 7 pages to 11 pages.  I stopped looking after that because it became depressing.  Edrei's are coming out of the wood work!  There seem to be a lot of Asian and Hispanic people named Edrei.  It's all very interesting.  I was first confronted with this issue when I moved to Philly 4 years ago.  I went to the bank to open a bank account and the woman pronounced my name correctly.  I was surprised so I said, "Wow.  No one ever gets my name right."  What she said in response blew my mind, "Oh, well I have a friend named Edrei."  What!  Obviously it seems absurd that I would think that I was the only one...but you've all met me...I thought I was the only one!

I wonder if we have any of the same personality traits.  I like to think that having a unique name plays a huge roll in making me the person that I am today.  For instance, I am great with names.  I remember names and you better believe that I am going to pronounce it correctly.  My name is Edrei, not Ed or Eddie or some other variation.  Granted, once I know and love you, then you can give me whatever nick name you want.  But when I first meet someone, I don't want him/her asking me what else they can call me.  You can call me Edrei, just like everyone else.  Because of situations like that, I am very sensitive to names, and when I meet someone with a unique name, I make sure that I pronounce it correctly.  You'll be surprised at how many people will give you a nick name just because they are used to everyone butchering their real name.  Well not on my watch, new friend.  Your name is safe with me.

I think I got off on a rant somewhere.  Sorry about that!  Please do not let this discourage you from naming your children after me.