What Makes Me Laugh

Right now I have nine spam comments on my blog just sitting here, waiting for me to delete them. The thing about comments generated by spammers (people who don’t actually read your blog, but want others to click on a link from their comment to an advertisement for genital herpes medication – or some other stupid product)   is [...]

Unless you’re a Goldman Sachs banker, you’re probably looking for ways to stay within your budget. I normally stay away from financial ideas that seem too good to be true, but I happened on an article on Slate.com (my favorite online read during my lunch hour) by Alicia Barney who test-drove the concept of saving big bucks [...]

Stop me if you know the meaning of these words: bolero, dupioni, brocade, sienne, southern formal wedding. In the process of preparing for my next debut as bridesmaid (bridesmatron?) I’ve learned so many new words. Which shouldn’t be surprising, since I am no fashion maven, and Kayb is an incredibly talented artist who is ultra-fashionably [...]

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 [...]

I think it’s about time I start writing about where I live, because it’s a funny place. Jimmy Buffet even wrote a song about it. When I finally read the lyrics I was surprised to find a few references to deviled eggs in bars. I’m no real partyer but I’m pretty sure no Livingston bars [...]

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.

At the football game today … Father to young son: “Don’t eat the popcorn off the floor.” Young son picks up popcorn from bleacher floor and eats it. Father to young son: “Don’t eat the popcorn off the floor!” Young son picks up popcorn from bleacher floor and eats it. Father to young son (exasperated): [...]

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.

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 [...]