#365Gratitude Day 214: Humor chains

Sunday morning I was still in bed in my tent at the birthday campout.  I'd just found the sweet spot that every air mattress has, where if you don't move too much, you actually feel comfortably supported.

So naturally, I turned to Twitter.

I retweeted something that really struck me funny, a picture of hideous vegetable mis-spelling.

"Hallopinyo" - you can't make this stuff up.

Some twitter friends of mine found it pretty funny, and that got us riffing back and forth, all laughing.  It reminded me of this other funny thing, which I've been laughing at for years now, and which utterly destroys Missy every single time she sees it.

"Slow down you sons a bitches"

And the whole funny road-sign thing got me on a tear.  So I looked up a couple of sign generators and made a few of my own:

"DIAPER WEARER CONVENTION - ALL FULL... NO VACANCY" motel sign

"SARCASM NEXT EXIT... YEAH RIGHT"

Still funny this morning.

I love being funny, and making my friends laugh.  When I do so, it sticks with me, too.

All of which brings me back six years ago to a time when our friend Peanut was staying with us, and Richard was over, and for some reason I can't even remember had brought over a Tigger costume.  For no good reason I decided to put it on and sneak up on her, and video the whole thing.

Yup, still funny.

#365Gratitude Day 213: Birthday Camp

Every year for the past several years, some super special friends of ours and our little boy Richard have thrown him a birthday campout.  It's a pretty marvelous affair, that they go out of their way to do for him.  People come from all over, and camp out, and we have cake, lots and lots of cake.

It really takes my breath away.  The whole affair is a testimony to how much people love Richard.  He's constantly doing things for others, and it's awesome for that time, that two days, to be his time.  It's relaxing, and fun, and just a great thing to be a part of.

#365Gratitude Day 212: Home office cafeteria

I'm fortunate enough that my job allows me to telecommute sometimes.  Friday was just such a day.  I love working from home sometimes.  It gives me the time to get in a good long workout in the morning, before settling down to a day of quiet concentration.

Sometimes though, it does pose a few challenges.  I spent most of Friday banging my head against a technical issue I still haven't solved.  This probably wasn't helped by eating no protein whatsoever, because we desperately needed to do some grocery shopping.  I wound up eating microwave ramen for lunch.

You know what's great about microwave ramen?

Yeah, me neither.

But towards the end of the day I was talking on the phone with my friend Squee, just puttering about the house and realized I had just enough fixings to make myself a grilled cheese sandwich with mushrooms!  

You know that thing about how found money is the best kind of money? Or the way say, the french fries at the bottom of the bag somehow taste better than the ones you just ate out of the little french-fry holster they come in?

Surprise last-minute home-made grilled cheese sandwiches (even when one piece is the heel of the bread, actually especially then) beat all that.  It was SO GOOD.

Clearly, I'm going to have to learn to keep the house better stocked for my remote-work days.

#365Gratitude Day 211: Making my friends laugh, again

This has been a humor and pun-filled week.  Check out this sweet pair of Bose headphones I shared with folks in the Big Little Podcast Kik chatroom.

My friend Squee countered that she vastly preferred the Skull Candy brand headband.

My friends are as punny as I am.  I like that.

#365Gratitude Day 210: Making my friends laugh

One of my favorite things to do is take pictures or funny things my friends post online, and add my own spin to them.  Like this one.  My friend Frazier, the famously dirty old man who runs The Crucible and Camp Crucible posted this.  He's famously cantankerous.

I amped it up a bit for him.

He liked it.