Silly Thing #13

Sometimes things look like other things and I like that.  This tree stump for instance.  I took the photo and didn't give it much thought.  Every few days I go through my older photos to see if anything stands out to me as something that I could edit and find the beauty in that maybe I didn't see before.  A couple of weeks ago, I found something that stood out to me.

The original photo...

This particular photo stood out to me because I could see a face.  A little playing around in MS Paint and I had two different looks.

Look #1...

Look #2...

It makes me want to go back through other photos and see what I can pick out.  Do you have any??

Silly Thing #12

12 Silly Things About Me:

1)   I cannot resist a good “that’s what she said” joke.  I want to be better than that, but I’m not.

2)   I make up songs all of the time.  Not good songs.  I would consider them similar to Facebook statuses.  They are about mundane things that no one else cares about but, by putting it out there in a different medium, it makes them appear more interesting.

3)   I speak for my dogs and they each have a specific voice.  I speak in that voice to express what I think their thoughts are at that moment.  Jay does it too – lest you think I’m the only weird one in the house.  Usually I’m trying to make Jay laugh.

4)   The other night when I was going to bed and was so tired, I got really excited that I didn’t have to set my alarm to get up the next morning.  Like overly excited to the point that I was giggling crazily. 

5)   I struggle to maintain my composure while trying to scold my sons for inappropriate potty humor. 

6)   Once a movie or song has been parodied well (‘well’ being the key word), I can no longer take the original version seriously.  ‘Walk the Line’ is now just as funny to me as ‘Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story’, ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ is always ‘Amish Paradise’.  Most American Presidents and their mannerisms so that the State of the Union addresses become comical.  The list could go on and on.

7)   This song never stops being funny to me…ever.  Business Time

8)    I love when Facebook statuses (and follow up posts) go awry.

9)    I love puns.

10)  My dog got a plastic flowerpot stuck on his head and ran around the yard for a few minutes  
       before he could remove it.  Funniest thing ever and I had to hear the story from my 7 year old  
       because I wasn’t downstairs yet.  I don’t know if I could have physically handled the funny of 
       actually seeing it happen.

11)  Putting a straw under your armpit and then blowing into the other end of the straw makes for 
       some funny and immature entertainment.

12)  No matter how slow anyone drives up our street, there is a crazy neighbor who will run down his 
      driveway shaking his fist at you.  We’ve tried driving at or well below the speed limit and, it
      doesn’t matter, if he’s out, he will shake his fist at you.  Jay saw this neighbor drive for the first
      time out of our neighbor and the dude was a CRAZY driver.  Swerving, running red lights…what 
      a weirdo!  We now just wave to him.

Silly Thing #11

Robot cartoons by me...because robots are great.

Silly Thing #10

Before the day takes off as it will be a busy one...a poem by my 7 year old...

"Gator Dater"

Kate had a date
With an alligator
When she was late
The gator ate 'er

Silly Thing #9

Jay thinks this is way funnier than I do but I'll post anyway.  We took our older two boys to get haircuts today and were sitting in the lobby waiting.  Our 7 year old was eating a purple sucker and said "Grape suckers taste the best AND they smell the best!  See?"  My response was "I think they smell like dynamite...I mean Dimetapp." (if you remember, Dimetapp -which has been taken off the market - tasted like grape flavored candy).  Jay cracked up laughing at me and that made me throw my head back and laugh too.  I hit my head against the wall behind me instead.  Jay and our son thought this was hilarious.

The rest of my evening was spent having Jay and our son occasionally saying "That smells like dynamite...BONK!"  My brain's not working so good.

Silly Thing #8

It's been an exhausting week and even more exhausting day.  I was looking back over my photos to get an idea for the silly thing today.  I found a self-portrait I had forgotten I had done.  Apparently it was another exhausting week and I decided that my dog, Clyde, had the right idea. 

He's a wise dog.

Silly Thing #7

I had to skip yesterday's Silly Thing due to circumstances outside of my control (exhaustion and a crazy long day)!  I wasn't going to skip today though.

Today I want to go with a list.  It is a list of songs that I can never resist singing along to (loudly) whenever I hear them and generally will get stuck in my head.  They are quite varied.  Enjoy!

1.  Bad, Bad Leroy Brown

2.  Build Me Up, Buttercup

3.  Bullet with Butterfly Wings

4.  Cold Hard Bitch

5.  Mahna Mahna

6.  January Wedding

7.  Hail Holy Queen - this is for Tina!

8.  Sundown

9.  Smile

10.  Hotel Yorba

What songs get stuck in your head???