Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Laughing Daily

When I started this blog I planned on a bunch of funny posts. As I look back through my blog postings, I realize that a majority of my posts are serious. Yikes. Not what I had planned. I wanted to keep things light, fun, and easy-breezy.

Maybe it's my job. (I'm a 7th grade English & reading teacher at an inner-city school in Vegas.) I have heard more sad stories than I could ever possibly write about. (Or WANT to write about.) I won't go into them here. Let's just say that I call my mom and cry to her several times a week. My husband hears it daily. (Poor guy.)

Maybe it's my life. I'm in my second marriage. Not what I had planned at all. My first husband decided several years ago he wasn't Mormon anymore. That broke my heart more than I can possibly relate here. I was lucky though. My hubby now was in my ward growing up. He is also divorced (another sad story) and we decided to marry and build a life together in the gospel. We're happy, healthy, and working on becoming financially stable. (Divorces will do that to ya.)

Maybe it's me. I've been accused of being too serious. I don't think of myself that way, but I imagine that I probably come off like that. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to laugh though. I don't think I laugh enough. Sure, there are comedians and sitcoms, but I'd like to find more laughter in everyday things. (And not the making-fun-of-someone-laughter. That's done too often.)

My hubby makes me laugh. He says funny things all of the time. (I think he gets most of them from his dad, a Southern Utah boy. Also a funny guy.)

My boys make me laugh. They are 11 and 10 and still silly. Not a day goes by that I don't shake my head and laugh with them over something they say or do. I love it.

My family makes me laugh. Nothing cheers me up more than going to my parents' house and talking with my sisters, brothers, and my parents while the kids run around. We all know how to make each other laugh---whether it's a funny memory we share or something that happened to us recently.

So today, December 1, 2010, I solemnly vow to laugh at least once a day. I will look for funny, silly, things in life, instead of focusing on the sad or negative. I will watch funny movies, tell funny jokes (have you heard the one about the seeing eye dog and the blind man ?) and think of funny things that I've see or experienced. Like my dogs wearing reindeer antlers that light up or the time my son threw a tempter tantrum at the mall when he was two. He flopped down on the mall floor screaming and kicking his feet. I couldn't pick him up so I walked a short distance away angry and embarrassed while people walked by him and stopped and laughed. That made me laugh and the rest is history. Plus I'll use it to embarrass him someday.


So go ahead and laugh. You've got my permission.  :o))))))))))))))

Joke websites:
http://www.cleanjoke.com/  (The seeing eye dog joke is at this website.)
http://www.jokesclean.com/

Funny movies:
Monty Python - The Quest for the Holy Grail
The Emperor's New Groove
Raising Arizona
Tommy Boy
Elf
Morning Glory
A Christmas Story
Scrooged
Date Night

Add funny websites or movies to the lists!

Photos courtesy of Snoopy & Oscar, the dogs of our house.

3 comments:

  1. Pure Luck and Weekend at Bernies always make me laugh.

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  2. Cool. I kinda like your serious posts, but I am always, and I mean always in the mood for funnny. I was going to recommend Elf, my personal favorite. My favorite funny movie of all time is "Waiting for Guffman". (Rated R only for ONE F bomb, unfortunately.) Also love What About Bob.

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  3. Laughing is good for the soul.
    I liked reading a wee bit of your history here.
    of those movies listed, I've seen Emperor's New Groove- definitely one of Disney's funniest...."Pull the Lever, Krank!"
    "Wrong Lever, why do we even have that lever?"
    Also love Tommy Boy, Elf - A Christmas Story ( my fave Christmas movie)
    Scrooged and Date Nignt...Seriously funny, I almost peed my pants!

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