What Makes Me Laugh

So, thanks to Kara and Travis, who mimicked the comments of spammers on my post about blogging spam (those wisecrackers), I had a very funny conversation with a spammer/hacker this week. On Tuesday, I received this e-mail that said it was from my nephew Blake: Hello, How are you doing today? I’m written you in tears [...]

I hate paying the bills. I’d much rather hide in the sock drawer. Or climb up to high places. Hunt in the snow… Or snuggle with my sister. It’s hard work paying the bills. It makes me sleepy. And a little grouchy. How ’bout you?

I’m multitasking, which means that I’m writing this blog at the same time that I’m trying to cook at the same time that I’m chuckling about Doug’s crossword clues so I hope it comes out right. Last night Doug was doing the crossword puzzle from the Valierian, my hometown newspaper. I asked my parents for [...]

On our refrigerator is a New Yorker cartoon with a woman sitting on a couch, talking to a man standing in the corner of a living room. The caption says, “After your tomato plants, you have nothing left over for me.” We laugh about this cartoon but there is a grain of truth there. Doug [...]

We’re watching television, and a commercial for the cartoon Snow White comes on. Doug says, completely deadpan, “I had the hots for Snow White.” “You did?” I laugh. “I never knew this! How old were you?” “Four or five,” he says. And I laugh some more.

Got a flu shot today (the regular kind) so had to post this photo my sister e-mailed me. It’s Swine Flu paranoia gone too far. And I had to laugh.

Frankly, I would rather have a root canal than take my cats to the vet. My cats would rather I have a root canal then go to the vet. They are not like my friend Leah’s dog who acts as if the vet’s office is the best doggy cocktail party he’s ever been to. Pant [...]

The bus drops me off in front of the Montana State University student union every morning, and I walk the mile downtown to work. For some reason they don’t have the downtown bus timed to pick up the Livingston commuters, but no matter, I could use the walk. The walk through campus in the morning makes me [...]

On Tuesday I was waiting for the bus to take me home, reading a book, and checking my watch every few minutes. My fellow commuters were stretched out on the university’s lawn, plugged into ipods or blackberries or books. The bus was late, but they didn’t seem too concerned. I, on the other hand, had just walked like [...]

The other morning I stuck my head out of the back door to call in the cats before I left for work and got a whiff of eau de skunk. Uh. Oh. I scanned the yard and since it was daylight I figured the skunk had just left us a little scent tag to say [...]