while everyone’s eyes were focused
on the royal love story across the pond
i happened upon this one
much closer to home.
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“you can’t blame gravity for falling in love.”
-albert einstein
May20
Tag Archives: humor
May17
pack rat.
happy national pack rat day – may 17th
There’s a fine line between holding on to nostalgia, and being a serious contendor for an episode of Hoarders. But just for a day, you are permitted to openly cherish the growing stack of Signals catalogs piling up in your basement sans any judgment of concerned family and friends. Who knows? Maybe your Beanie Babies will become collectibles again, and the joke will be on us.
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and 2 very different philosophies from 2 very creative geniuses on this subject:
“i want to lead the victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter.”
-freddie mercury
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“out of clutter, find simplicity.”
-albert einstein
team freddie or team albert?
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credits: stanford university (image), mental floss
May14
find it?
due to my utter lack of any sense of direction
i am always a bit shocked
when someone asks me how to get somewhere
and i do wonder….
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“you’ll get lost and then you’ll find it.”
-mark darrah, ‘a catalogue of common people’
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image credit: purple clover
May6
living room.
and on the last night they’ll ever spend
in the only house they’ve ever lived
before moving to their wonderful new location for their wonderful new adventures
we celebrate by finally getting to eat in the living room without sneaking.
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“your journey never ends. life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.
-alexander volkov
May2
mosquito.
tag lines like this are one reason why local ads are the best:
‘should you decide not to call us, save this magazine for swatting.’
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“a man thinks he amounts to a great deal
but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.”
– don marquis
Apr12
mixed.
mixed feelings
when walking inside from another round of snow
and being greeted by a 4th of july display
at least i have my sandals on
with my long down coat
and i am ready for anything.
“there are certain odd times and occasions
in this strange mixed affair we call life
when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.”
-herman melville
Apr11
where hobbies, hijinks, and capers go bad = my childhood #2
another day, another hobby.
in the late 60s
this was a book that i longed to own
i loved to get mail and loved to get free things
what could go wrong?
i used my saved-up coins to send in for the book
and could not wait to begin using it
i read it from cover to cover
marking pages, checking off favorites
began writing notes, stuffing envelopes, and ordering things
using stamps that i found in a junk drawer
before i knew it i had a small collection of
weird government brochures, lists of tips, tables, charts, and recipes
none of which were really of any use to me
but i didn’t care what any of it was
as long as it came in the mail and it was free
my pile grew and grew
until it didn’t
when once again
i realized that i had no income
had used all of my money to buy the book
and had no way
to buy any more of the stamps
that i needed
to send in my requests
to get free things.
what i really needed were unlimited free books of stamps
and it was on to the next ill-fated hobby for me…
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“sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.”
-albert einstein
Apr1
spring holiday salad.
*my easter/passover/april fool’s day/full moon kit-kat salad and its recipe
upwrap 7-12 kit-kat bars
break into delicious individual pieces
if chocolate melts onto your fingers
lick them clean
drop what’s left into a lovely bowl
toss gently
enjoy.
*(serving size may vary depending on how willing you are to share)
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happy holidays to all
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“food for the body is not enough. there must be food for the soul.”
-dorothy day
Mar31
siesta fiesta.
so here it is, the last day of march
and i just found out that march is national sleep month
had i known i would have fully celebrated
each and every day
like a long fiesta with long siestas
and i will do my best to make up for it today
who am i not to honor a holiday?
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“there is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.”
-homer
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image credit: animalandnature.com
Mar10
who?
that moment when you realize that
you have been calling your neighbor ‘phil’ for three years
only to find out that his name is really ‘al.’
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“1 call everyone ‘darling’ because i can’t remember their names. “
-zsa zsa gabor
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image credit: twitter
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