Be Happy Contest
First off, I have to tell you I’m just overwhelmed with all the sweet messages and comments that I received after my last post. You all got me positively weepy. *sniff*
There were lots of fantastic contest ideas but the ones I liked best revolved around the “happy” theme. I also think it would be fun to turn the focus of the blog from me to you. So, in the spirit of this song, the contest is gonna be about you and what makes you happy.
Here’s what you need to do.
Leave me a comment by Friday evening about anything you want as long as it’s something happy! That’s easy, huh. Need ideas? How about a joke you love, or a blog post that makes you laugh every time you read it, or a knitting project gone wrong. Of course, you don’t have to share something related to knitting. This blog always makes me smile and it has nothing to do with knitting.
You’re probably wondering how I’ll pick a winner of the contest if everyone can just post whatever she wants. No worries, I have a plan.
I’ve convinced a friend whose sense of humor is frighteningly similar to mine to help me choose the vignette that makes us both smile/laugh the most. If you’re the person who leaves that comment, I’ll send you these lovely prizes:
A skein of original Opal Tiger sock yarn (not the Rainforest remake) and a hank of sKNITches sock yarn in the Harvest Time colorway.
Yum, orange yarn:
Plus, a bar of Blessed Juno soap (the Sunshine scent, of course).
Enter as many times as you want. Hell, you can leave 100 comments if you have 100 funny things to share or if you’re a Bengals fan who wants to win the Opal Tiger yarn. And, it goes without saying that you should read all the comments if you want a laugh, too.
I’ll choose a winner this weekend after I consult with my co-judge. I might even choose a second winner at random from all the entries if I’m feeling really happy. 
There were several people whose comments inspired the contest idea so I used a random number generator to select blogfree Betsy as the winner of the Wooly Wonka sock kit. Congrats, Betsy.
Happy Hanukkah to those who celebrate. L’Chaim!
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Hmmmm…. which one to choose.. I guess my favorite is the time I got up from knitting and went out to the laundry room then the bathroom only to find on my return that the yarn had stuck to my fleece and unraveled about an hour and a half worth of knitting. Funny now but not so funny then!!
Well, I’ll try to come up with something a little more detailed, but the number one thing that makes me happy? Chappy. I mean, really, how can a Happy Chappy do anything other than make his Mom smile? Every, single day.
This is my favorite blog post from NaBloPoMo. http://pixlkitten.blogspot.com/2007/11/and-now-for-something-completely.html
Well, lately it has been listening to my kids pretend to be the cast of “This Old House” The kids are 5, 5, & 3 and they are Kevin O’Conner, Tommy, and Liz (the homeowner) and I wishe they could actually do all the work they pretend to do. To have such a memory and imagination that the swingset turns into a South Boston Victorian two family house. It would make anyone smile.
What a great idea. Thanks for going the positive route.
I know that one thing you love about your blog is that it connects you to people – strangers – on the internet. I live in Canada and I met a guy on the internet from New York City. In under a year we were engaged, and we’ve been doing it long distance ever since. We were determined to make it work.
Finally, about two weeks ago, he got a job in Canada and is sitting here on my couch because tomorrow he is renting a van to drive to NYC and pick up his stuff to move here for good. We’re getting married next November.
It’s not very funny, but it’s the happiest thing that’s happened to me for a long time. The people you meet on the internet are real, and they change who you are. And, if you’re lucky, you meet one who you want to spend your whole life with!
Happy Blogiversary!
Well… Most recently this is the best thing that has made me happy… The first one is me! ^_____^
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1140653559
OK so a string went into a bar and asked for a beer. “Get out!” said the barkeep, “I don’t serve beer to strings.” So the string left, and formed a knot and frayed the ends. Then it went back to the bar, and asked in a very low voice for a beer. “Hey!” said the barkeep, “aren’t you that piece of string that I threw out?” “No, I’m a frayed knot.”
one of the funniest things i read was from Yarn Harlot’s Meditations for women who knit to much. It was about her mother or grandmother who would knit outside and then be called in to help with her kids. When she got back there would be miscrossed cables and purled knits and so on. She thought she was going crazy. Finally, years later her neighbor richard revealed that he had been hopping the fence to have a go at her knitting.
Thanks for a great website.
This will never, ever, EVER fail to make you smile: http://www.cuteoverload.com
Happy Blogiversary Susan.
Knitterly bizarre things make me smile and some make me laugh out loud. The latest is that Miss Violet from Lime and Violet is knitting her FIL this hat for christmas,
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=7801453
Priceless!
This clip makes me happy every time I watch it. Without fail.
This is just too cute…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aLRx-9VU4o
Happy Hannukah Susan! My wonderful friends of the knit blog community make me happy and smile.
The contented sigh a baby makes when sleeping.
Both my boys are well past that stage, but every time I think of their innocent little baby sighs, it makes me smile no matter what else is happening.
I’m a generally very happy person but your soap reminds me that I cannot resist singing along (at the top of my lungs, of course) to Walking on Sunshine whenever I hear it. It makes me HAPPY.
One night in Bangkok always makes me smile as does “it’s raining men” by the weathergirls.
Something else that makes me smile?? Babies…especially OTHER PEOPLE’S babies that I can give back!!
This makes me laugh uncontrollably everytime and I always have to watch it again.
Three words… Dramatic. Prarie. Dog.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHjFxJVeCQs
This little snippet of Arrested Development always makes me happy: http://tinyurl.com/2caxwt Hahahaha! That show was so clever.
I get such a kick out of the Napa Auto Parts Store cars with the yellow hat on the roof of the car. They are such a hoot. I imagine the executives trying to get out of driving a company car. I imagine the poor delivery boy looking for his car in the mall parking lot. I can’t stop thinking of the store manager taking his wife to the theater and parking his car with the yellow hat in valet parking and insisting on his ticket so they don’t lose his car. Or going to a hotel and having to go out and check his license plate number for registering @ said hotel! The stereotypical “parking” on a date @ a secluded romantic “lookout point”in the yellow Napa-Mobile! They are such a hoot!
There’s a Garfield comic strip that makes me laugh out loud EVERY time I see it. Garfield wants to impress a girl cat and instead of sticking out his chest and pulling in his stomach, he reverses it and his stomach is almost touching the ground from his sticking it out. I don’t know why it’s so funny, but it makes me happy!
I thought of something happier! When I walk into my bedroom and my kitty Callie starts purring and rolls onto her back get her tummy rubbed. She has the happiest look on her face and her purr is SO loud. You can curl up behind her and she gives the best snuggles while stretching her toes out. Sigh. I need to go find her now.
Red fingernail polish makes me happy. It doesn’t take “a lot,” I guess. (Now you can also get a laugh from my unnecessary use of quotation marks!)
Seeing my husband sneak a peak at the kids while they are decorating the Christmas tree, and he’s smiling makes me happy. That and the fact that he looked away from the Bengals game to watch the kids – the Bengals were losing anyway!
Charlie Brown said, “Happiness is a warm puppy.” That is so true for us. We lost our 3-year old Corgi to a rare, aggressive form of cancer almost a month ago. Grief overwhelmed us until her breeder called and told us she was giving us a new puppy. Happy just doesn’t do enough to describe our joy at our new little girl. Check out the blog for adorable pictures!
Three things that make me happy: 1. Shoebox cards (from Hallmark) has a blog: http://tinylittledivision.blogspot.com/ 2. The Feed Me, Bubbe videos (because sometimes you just need a little Grandma): http://feedmebubbe.com/ 3. The picot hem, preferably knitted together rather than sewn. I think it’s genius and I want to hem everything. Happy Chanukah, and happy blogiversary (no need to enter me in anything – I just thought you might like a little something nice).
My cousin’s wife has been undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer. She’s been pretty unhappy about her recent hair loss. But the other day when she was picking her daughter up, a mom she didn’t know very well, shouted out to her that her hair looked great (she was wearing a wig). She proceeded to ask her when she’d had it done. She simply said, “Um, thanks! I had it done awhile ago…,” and scurried away down the sidewalk. It makes me smile to think about it. She very badly needed to “feel pretty” and someone who didn’t know anything about her circumstances helped her do that.
The November 28, 2007 post, entitled “In which I disappoint even myself” at the Yarn Harlot’s blog. I laughed all day.
This made me laugh:
http://stringativity.blogspot.com/2007/12/yarn-harlot-ness.html
Knowing the answers on a game show… Jeopardy, Who Wants to be a Millionaire? and The Weakest Link especially.
Glad to hear you’re feeling better about things! OK, this sappy for me, but hearing my teen daughters laughing really really loud (even if it’s at us) from whichever of their rooms they’re hanging out together in.
More true to my form, if someone (especially my hubby) hurts themself, like in goofy slip and fall or walking into something. I don’t even pretend to try to hide it any more.
Last one, promise. When my oldest was 9, she asked me what a French kiss was. After gaping a while I explained to which she answered, “EEEWWWW! I’m glad I’m not French!”.
Spontaneous sillies from my children always make me smile. I posted about one such event on my blog at http://woolybuns.typepad.com/woolybuns/2007/11/hoppy-thanksgiv.html
But that child gave me another story that always reduces me to giggle fits. When he was about 7, he came running into the living room with his hand clamped over one eye, shrieking “my eye, my eye! Oh, my eye, it hurts, it hurts! Oh, my eye!” The husband and I jumped up in a panic and the little rug rat pulled his hand away from his eye, shrieked “arrrhhhhhh!” as something fell from his face. It was a cat’s eye marble. And then he laughed and laughed and laughed….
My son is 11 and he’s on the border between thinking I’m great and thinking I’m the most uncool person on the planet. One morning last week we were going to school and as I turned on the car, the radio started blaring Blondie’s “One Way or Another.” He forgot, for a few minutes, that it’s uncool for his mom to sing, and we both belted out the song along with the radio, it was great! Definitely made me happy!
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My kitties purring. They are just the noisiest purrers around. Like little mini chainsaws.
ok, here’s my mother’s favorite joke, slightly pg rated.
how many mice does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
two, but how do ya get ‘em in there?
I think this is one of the greatest comedy routines of all time: http://youtube.com/watch?v=sShMA85pv8M
But this never fails to give me a laugh when I need one:
http://mileybug.imeem.com/video/7JJl3tze/ync_funny_cats_comedy_video/
Oh, and this is fine. Just fine.
http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/2007/11/or-no-punishment-at-all.html
Here’s a pretty funny dating story from my blog: http://hotrodlibbyloo.typepad.com/derby_and_string/2007/10/adventures-in-1.html
I’ll see if I can come up with something else embarassing
Well, I’ve got two stories for you.
1) My son comes home from kindergarten one day in September and announces that he has learned how to pray. I asked him if he learned it at CCD or at school (he goes to a public school). He says kindergarten. So, curious, I ask him to tell me what the teacher said to say. He took a deep breath and starts, “I pledge allegiance to the flag, of the United States of America…”
2) Here’s a recent conversation between my 3 and 5 year old.
5 YO: You can’t touch my snow globe. You’re too little.
3 YO: I’m not little, I’m big.
5 YO: This snow globe isn’t for a 3 or 2 or 1 year old.
3 YO: That’s ok, I’m 4.
My college (Purdue University) has a very unusual mascot. Not a person or an animal, but a train! The Boilermaker Special (warning: page has background music). It’s not quite a real train; rather a little truck that looks like a train engine with a second “car” for passengers, but how often do you see anything train-like driving around a college campus?
I’m not generally a shining example of school spirit, but I adore that little train. My grandfather loved trains and had a huge collection of models. On the playground in elementary school, I’d sit and count the train cars going by on the train that passed through town during my recess. Grandpa died in 1995, and now I go stand on the pedestrian bridge that crosses the river (and the train track) and think of him as trains rush under me in the cool night air.
So when that Boilermaker Special comes choo-chooing past as I walk to class, and blares the school song (or oldies, such as “Build Me Up Buttercup”) I can’t help but break into a huge grin. This always leads to me feeling like a complete idiot for being amused by the school mascot, but feeling that way doesn’t make me look any less stupid…it just turns the grin into uncontrollable giggling!
Knitting with my boxer baby cinnamon sleeping on my feet and keeping them warm makes me exceptionally happy.
What always makes me happy? My children. I have a 5 yr old & 4 month old – both girls.
My 5 yr old comes up with the funniest things to say. Here is a recent conversation between her, me and our hairdresser.
Me: What is the difference between boys & girls?
Her: skirts?
Me: No.
Her: long hair?
Me: No. Think hard.
Her: (thinking hard)… Humility??
She also joins us to do yoga one night a week, but has since quit, because according to her, it’s too hard to do yoga while you are eating cheese. Heh.
A recent email, talking about how to write justifications for yearly appraisals. The quest was for clarity of the writer’s intent. The funny line was last — You still have to put meat in the justification, but using this format should make the second review go much faster since it eliminates the need to ferret out your intentions.
Made me laugh out loud for 5 minutes when I read it. No one else seems to get it, but that “ferret out” just struck me so funny!
Have a great blogiversary!
http://weblogs.newsday.com/news/opinion/walthandelsman/blog/2007/11/animation_baby_boomers.html
My friend sent me this link and I have been laughing about it every day since. My husband and friends have, too. Hope you think it’s funny. (It is age appropriate for all of us…)
Stevie Wonder songs played too loud! And pie – how great is pie?! And bubble baths (especially avec the Sunday Times crossword!). And making paper snowflakes.
Ooh, and fancy holiday lattes – gingerbread is my favorite. And snuggling. And celebrating friends’ successes.
And the scene in “Love Actually” where Hugh Grant dances around 10 Downing Street to “Jump!” (http://youtube.com/watch?v=FSSIgNjb_Wk)
Happy Hannukah!
Things that make me laugh?
http://www.yarnharlot.ca/blog/archives/2007/11/14/an_actual_conversation_in_my_house.html
That post made me laugh out loud. When I asked the husband to read his reaction was just a puzzled look – which also made me laugh
What is making me the happiest right now is that I’m quitting my job in 2 weeks. More time to knit! More time to quilt! More time to blog! More time to just sit and contemplate my naval if I wish. After 9 years and a very bad 6 months, I made the decision to do something for me. And that makes me happy
And more time to go look at all the silly YouTube and other links everyone else is posting.
And btw – It makes me happy that I don’t need the yarn you are offering for a prize – I have stash enough to last me a lifetime. I hope who wins loves it!
Dene
I’m going to share my favorite blog post of all time. It’s from my favorite funny site, Tomato Nation, and details how her cats handled being introduced to her new Roomba.
http://tomatonation.com/?p=844
I can also share that last night, I hit the 3/4 done point in my Mountain Stream Scarf, which is to be a Christmas present for my grandmother this year. Yay!
I have to say one of my happiest knitting moments came this Thanksgiving. My Aunt is a fab knitter. When she comes to visit, from states away, we always go out of our way to find time to knit together. Thanksgiving day, after eating with 52 close relatives, we found a free space (not easy) to have a glass of wine and knit. We were having a great time. More family would come to be by us just to see why we were having so much fun. Finally, one of my cousins asks us to teach her how to knit!! Sure, we say, but why? She thinks we are having so much fun and it must be the knitting!! We agree! Although, it could have been the wine! We got her started and I expect we will suck another relative in next year!!
Every year my mother gives my daughters each an advent calendar filled with little chocolates. This year, my 2 old selected one covered with little angels. The door for Dec. 1 was centered over the bottom of one of the littlest angels. Needless to say, the 2 year old thought that was hysterical. Now, every morning she asks if she can have more “Angel bottom chocolate”. Of course, she has no idea that this could be interpreted as something disgusting, which makes me smile even more!
When I realised what I had done I laughed so ard I cried, my kids thought I was mad, but it stil makes me laugh today so I had to share http://allstitchedup.blogspot.com/2006/04/dont-give-up-day-job.html
What makes me happy is playing Blue Samba on the steel drum. This song really features the bass and those are my instruments. Kind of weird, living in frosty New England, a playing in a tropical sounds steel band.
Boom,boom,boom (pause) boom, boom.
Now the leads answer, yah, yah,pause yah, yah
Guess you actually have to hear it, huh?
Oh, well, it makes me smile every time.
First of all, I would never stuff the contest/comment box. Unless it was for a very good reason. Like Vintage Opal Tiger yarn. Second, what I want to know is: How many balls of that do you have??? It must be more than anyone else. Maybe they’re breeding like Tribbles in your stash containers.
Something that makes me happy: marking off chart rows and being ever so close to the edge of the armhole. Also, thanks for hearting my new knit in Ravelry. Hearts there make me happy too.
Oh Gosh,I’m all about being happy..but if I could pull a wish from the ‘stars of blog’..it would be that my Mother would fully recover quickly and become totally mobile so that I can move back home with my Hubby and kids(dog and cat).it’s been a very long 5 months being mostly away from ‘my stash, my blog, my sweet hubby etc..is that enough about ME..
This story from work always cracks me up. Our group works on drugs that contain proteins, which are made up of amino acids. Someone in charge of going over all the test results for quality called my coworker and said he was very concerned about the high amino acid content in one of the results.
Hmm….high amino acid content in a protein made up of amino acids? I felt bad for the guy, but it still makes me chuckle.
I am still laughing over my certifiable-ness in my last blog post
http://atreehuggerswife.blogspot.com/2007/12/losing-my-mindor-only-21-days-until.html
Hi there…i am a lurker here, always enjoy seeing what’s up!
Hmm…well aside from the usual, being a wife & mom answers that so many of us would answer…. having a stress free day, finishing a project and having the actual item turn out like the image in my head, seeing the numbers on the scale go down, enjoying a good glass of wine while cuddling, hiking, being out in nature, watching the squirrels play , family and tradition ….. these are just a few! Simple things make me happy! Sorry, lol, not a bengals fan though but love the colorways!
Although my happy comment isn’t knitting related, it happened just today and made me chuckle all day. I’m a pediatric oncology nurse and one of my patients, a 7 year old girl, came for her regular monthly visit. As always, she came in tow with her mother and her 2 little sisters, 5 year old twins. During the visit, the doctor said to the girls “So girls, do you think Santa will bring me a present this weekend at the Christmas party?” One of the twins, the quieter of the two, piped up and said “Yes, how about a Cat scan?!” It was really cute and had us all laughing.
What makes me just crack up is my dogs. When they are exuding joy and craziness from every pore of their being so much that it expands into all around them. Hmm… and I like old knitting pattern pics, and coming up with all sorts of snarky comments about them. Ditto old family pics (my own and anybody else’s). But something specific and funny, oh, that my 40ish year old cousin was pregnant and didn’t know it. Until her husband dragged her to the emergency room when her water broke. He says ‘Laurie, why are you peeing all over the floor?’. She says ‘I don’t know but I can’t stop’. I mean, really, I thought this only happened to poverty stricken, undereducated teenagers.
Jennifer’s entry made me laugh out loud, I read 5 Yarn over, You can’t touch the snow globe… Instead of 5 year old.
Being a new lace knitter my mental thought process with my 8 year old is often:
YO K3 YO K2
“Don’t talk to me I am counting”
YO P2 “Wait one minute!”
Yarn ov–, damn where was I?!
Living 11 years after being diagnosed with breast cancer makes me happy/content/thankful/overwhelmed/thoughtful and amazed. I found out on Dec. 10 and thought at first that if I could make it to Christmas I would be happy – 11 Christmas celebrations later and I am still happy!
There are /so/ many things that make me happy. The first that come to mind:
Making gifts when I know the recipient will /love/ them. Current project? Toe socks!!
Having little lettuce plants sprouting in my kitchen windowsill garden in December. It was especially fun when it snowed on Saturday. Home hydroponics = year round springtime!
My baby is still the one thing that can make me laugh, no matter how bad a day I’ve had (I’m not knitting enough recently to have a related story!). I have a little video of him that makes me laugh at myself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL2SLJOPml8
Happy Blogiversary! I will have to enter numerous times, as I can’t settle on just one… but do you remember the margarine commmercial where a crown would appear over a person’s head wehn they took a bite of bread with the margarine on it? One of my funniest memories of my youngest son was a few years ago (he was 18 at the time) when his older sibs and I were with him at a chain drug store and he put on a Halloween-costume crown and went around the store pretending to be ‘king’… it was all I could do to stop laughing long enough to tell him to behave!
Like I said, I’ve got dozens! One thing that always made me laugh when I was a kid was the way my dad could jump up and click his heels together… Mary Poppins hadn’t come out yet and I thought he was the only person in the world who could do this! My mom could make us laugh and dance by sitting down at the piano and knocking out jazz tunes without even pulling out sheet music; pretty magical trick that was, too!
Happy Hanukkah! The biggest laugh I had this week when when my husband, who is usually very dour, came in laughing to tell me that if he throws his shoe at the cat who is in the sink, said cat will jump out and speed away, looking over his shoulder and hissing. The thought of my husband being hissed at by a 5 pound cat really made me chuckle.
If my 4 year old daughter makes it through the day with juvenile lock-up
it’s a great day. Seriously, and it sounds trite, but if my hubby and I can squeeze in thirty minutes of “us” time at 6 a.m. without our children tryi9ng to inflict bodily harm upon one another, it’s going to be a great day.
This musical treat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AhZmHnIxyM
Hi! when i need a laugh i pick up a Junie B Jones book ~ these are small chapter books for kids ~ my grandkids have several and they never fail to make you laugh out loud! read the one titled ‘A Peep in her Pocket’
Anything written by P.G. Wodehouse makes me happy. As does watching Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie bring his two best-known characters to life.
This blog post pretty much sums up what makes me smile and as a result, makes me very happy. http://www.typepad.com/t/app/weblog/post?__mode=edit_entry&id=40205338&blog_id=52805
My three grandchildren, John (age 2), Nathan (age 1 1/2), and Maggie (9 months) in their silliest moments.
Happy happy happy. I get happy when I get to hear my son play the bass when he’s home from college. (he plays both classical and jazz, both electric and double bass) He has a bass with him at school but for some reason doesn’e give me concerts over the cell phone.
I’m simple enough to find Cute Overload http://cuteoverload.com a reliable source of smiles.
I understand your desire to pull back a bit. It’s something that seems to happen to most bloggers and podcasters eventually. There is only so much time and thought a person wants to put into the enterprise. I blog pretty much weekly, and don’t feel that I can reasonable do more and keep up an otherwise normal life.
What makes me smile or happy? A lot of things…[I appoligize now for rambling]
Taking a long cool (temprature) shower in a steamy room, while lathering up in Irish Spring soap makes me really happy!! It’s really theraputic for me after a long hard day!
Seeing people do random acts of kindness makes me smile. It makes me realize there is still good people walking the earth.
Snuggling up with my FH while watching our favorite tv series (Friends, Scrubs, Heroes..)makes me happy.
Alpcas, sheep, puppies, kittens, hamsters bettas… make me happy. They are soo cute!!
Singing makes me quite happy, especially when I put everything I have into it.
Cozy mystery cooks makes me happy.
Sipping Caribou coffee and reading by their fireplace makes me really happy!
The colors of Fall, and unblemished snow at night makes me smile.
[I should stop...]
Since I am knitting a sweater for my son for Christmas, I love everyone of my children (5), this son is coming home for Christmas- Let me share something that makes my heart swell with pride. From a letter of his:”…I truly understand that when I step into that uniform, I’m stepping into something greater than myself. No longer does the general public see me, but the military itself. Especailly the branch in which I chose to serve. I’m confidant that the Army has been seen in a more positive light due to my actions while in unifrom. That’s not arrogance,that’s confidence….You shine for your unit, for your branch of service, for your country. The spot light is on you, but your remain in the shadow and the people are seeing all that you represent. It’s game time, but there’s no playing. It’s walking that fine disiplined line of duty. You’ll never be a part of a bigger team than the side of living history that you are on.. Indeed, I will miss the military. Not necessarily each and every aspect of it, but the good comes with the bad. I’m honored to have served my country. I will alwys have “that” swagger. I will always have those leadership qualities. I will always be respectful. I will remain diciplined. I will not forget where I have come from, what I have been through, and will continue to look toward where I am going. I AM an American Soldier.”
We were remembering family stories and my husband told this one about our daughter when she was about six years old. He was teasing her about Santa leaving coal in her stocking for being a bad girl (which she very rarely was) and without hesitating she told her father that he had been so bad Santa burned his coal and all he was getting was the ashes! Not a bad come-back for six years old. My daughter is a grown woman now but I still find that very funny.
This is a excerpt from a friend of a friend’s email journal as he traveled through Asia on “vacation”. (I’m sure I’m breaking a million copyright laws….
“Caught the trans-mongol express from Beijing a couple of nights ago. Some of the highlights: a chinese guy who smuggled himself out of the country by hiding underneath my bunk, bbq’d pigs feet for only 5 cents each, and the 6-hour border change fiasco where they pick up all the unbalanced train cars with cranes(with everyone rolling around inside) so they can put on mongolian-guage wheels. The best laugh was when the border official required me to fill in some documents even though all the fields were in Mongolian. So after giving up on getting the forms in any other language, I just wrote in the first two verses of the Beatles’ “Rocky Raccoon” – 1. In the 2. black hills 3. of Dakota there 4. lived a young man 5. named rocky raccoon 6. and one day 7. his woman ran 8. off with another guy That seemed to appease the guy, but I wonder what forms exactly I was filling out. Might come back to haunt me when I try to exit the country into Siberia.”
Makes me hoot every time!!
http://www.bluegarter.org/2007/05/the-concealed-weapons-permit-story/
This post from Blue Garter’s Blog made me laugh loud enough to get funny looks from across the hall at the office. And it made my husband laugh when I related it to him that night. It has Texans, and bar bouncers, and rabbit turds…it’s great!
1. Hugs (voluntary) from my teen boys
2. Friends that tell me about good blogs and other knitting stuff
3. A husband that brings home yarn from business trips
4. The Yarn Harlot
4. Reading The Harlot to said enabler-husband (sometimes he can even understand me between giggles, laughs, and snorts!)
How ’bout Bill Cosby: Himself. (You remember, the dentist, Jeffrey, childbirth, and chocolate cake?!?!?)
A great old video that we have tortured the kids with…
what makes me happy???
having great kids… they’re just awsome
smart, funny, creative, caring….
and they share the same interestes as me… we can all sit on the couch and knit/crochet and they also know how to spin…
how great is that??
This story, written and illustrated by my now-19-year-old daughter when she was in kindergarten:
Queen Elizabeth and Her Egg
Queen Elizabeth the 1st laid a egg one day. The egg had black, blue, yellow, and pink on it. Her husband laid an egg too. His egg looked like a smiley face and it had orange, purple, blue, and brown. They both hatched into pigs. Queen Elizabeth’s was a girl and her husband’s was a boy. The pigs married and had ducklings.
The End
Happy Blogversary! (I’m a little bit behind on my bloglines, ok, a lot!)
Also my 3 year old asked me to teach her how to knit today! My heart is going to explode one of these days! *L*
Something that makes me super happy right now? My son turned 7 yesterday, and he’s reading. He has completely over come his speech problems. I can’t even begin to express how very proud I am of him!
Things that make me happy?
1) Being surprised by fresh-baked cookies and/or art supplies.
2) Going to karaoke night at a local club and dancing like no one is watching.
3) Going to museums and looking at art and antiquities and other things that make people interesting.
4) Hanging out with friends, watching movies, and having our own little MST3K sessions.
My two year old daughter loves to watch Sprout (the PBS Kids channel). In the early afternoon the “Let’s Go Show” comes on. They have a new destination each day. My daughter’s favorite is the one about going to the teddy bear picnic, so now she runs around all day with her arms full of Care Bears singing “tay-bear bic-bic, tay-bear bic-bic!” So for Xmas I am making her the knitted Fiesta Tea Set from IK so she can finally have her “tay-bear bic-bic”! It makes me happy to think of the insane cuteness that it about to ensue.
One year ago the beginning of November, my husband was diagnosed with lung cancer. One year later, after going through chemo, radiation, and surgery together, he has had consistently “clean” MRI’s and PET scans. He looks and feels good, and every morning when I wake up and see him sleeping softly next to me, I thank God for his goodness and start the day with a spring in my step!
This funny story has been making me smile for the past few days. I hope it will make you laugh.
Anyway, I work at the local yarn shop and a husband comes in on Monday to buy his wife some things for Christmas. He asks me about how much yarn one needs to make a sweater. He wants to get some Cascade 220 tweed, as his wife has been saying how she wished she would have bought some for a certain sweater.
I tell him about 6 or 7 skeins should do. So he comes up to the counter with 3 skeins of the gray tweed and 3 of the green tweed. I asked him if he thought she was going to stripe the sweater? He said know, but this will give her 2 sweaters to work on. I said that she would need more than three, for a full sweater. He replies, “She only ever makes half the sweater anyway and then it goes away and she never finishes them.” “If she decides to finish them, she can come and by the rest of the yarn,” he says. I laughed out loud, he smiled and I told him about dye lots and if she really might finish them, she probally wouldn’t be able to match dye lots later. So he sweetly went back and purchased 3 more skeins of both colors! He made some other purchases as well and spent nearly 200 dollar’s that day. What a great husband. I am still smiling over this.
I was buying something at the hardware store, and needed to fing my shopping pass thing that is on a keyring. The young man at the cash register was a cutie about 17 or 18 years old. I have about 8 of these things from various stores on the ring. I couldn’t find it and I asked him, yours is a big one, right? He blushed and said, “why yes it is”. Realizing what I asked, I blushed too, and quickly left.
Checking out the website http://cuteoverload.com/ always picks me up. Who can resist cute baby animals and all things cute. Even my boyfriend likes the site.
Ian’s just discovered jokes–here’s one of his:
“Why did the M&M cross the street? Because he had to jump in a cup of water”.
Children are excellent entertainment!
This one is long, but it always makes me laugh:
http://cairokate.blogspot.com/2006/10/in-which-she-mangles-pomegranate.html
Keep smiling!
I guess this isn’t funny but it does make me happy that my dad is in remission from cancer. Last march we didn’t think he would live to see September but, I spent all day with him at Rhinebeck and I am going to visit him in 2 weeks. And he still is in remission.
On top of that, last weekend my husband flew to Houston because HIS dad was so sick that his sibs thought if Bill didn’t come right away he wouldn’t get to see his dad alive. Bill came home yesterday, on his birthday because his father has improved so much his lifs is no longer in danger.
What makes me happy?
Buying a great yarn for a project makes me happy!
Figuring out a new pattern or technique makes me happy!!
Completing a knitting project and presenting it the intended recepient makes me jubilant!!!
Health and happiness to all.
I just read Nora Ephron’s book, “I feel Bad About my Neck.” It was so funny. Usually I have very little sense of humor but I was hysterical reading this.
Here’s a seasonal groaner, best recited in a Brooklyn accent.
Q: This year Hannukah, being a lunar holiday, began the night of Dec. 4. Is the holiday ever on time?
A: No, it’s always oily.
My 3-year old nephew, Ian, always makes me happy. A week before Halloween, I stopped by my sister’s house, and Ian came running to see me, saying “Aunt Tammi, I want to be Mr. Pumpkin Superman!” I looked at my sister, who said “I told him to tell you about that”, me being the mom who’s made 10 or 12 costumes over the years for my son, who’s now 14 and not dressing up anymore. So I interviewed Ian about what Mr. Pumpkin Superman wears, and went home and sewed. He was thrilled, and every time I think about him swooping around in his orange cape and pumpkin hat, it makes me smile!
Can I leave a holiday-specific happy comment? My kids and I were just talking about Christmas specials last night, and I remembered the thing that makes me laugh my head off every year, without fail, for as long as I can remember: it’s the part of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” where Lucy is barking orders at everyone and Snoopy is standing behind her, mocking her.
Funniest. Thing. Ever. ABC already ran Charlie Brown once this year, but I sure hope they run it again!
I don’t think this is the kind of *funny* thing you had in mind, but since it is a very simple thing that always makes me HAPPY, I thought I’d share it. I have a 4×6 magnetic photo sleeve and I very often clip out a new lovely picture from a magazine (back page of Country Living often or maybe MSL) and slip it in there. Seeing it stuck up there every time I pass always brings a smile. I enjoy your blog!
YouTube vintage-music-video searches make me happy. Like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuB8xWeA59I
Don’t you want those sweaters?
I just finished a pair of mittens that make me giggle. I blogged about them here: http://issueswithknitting.blogspot.com/2007/12/more-fun.html
These mittens also make me happy because I took on the challenge of doing something different, and did not letting a lack of yarn stop me. Woot! Power knitting!
Taking a cue from your above-referenced “quotation mark” site, I, too, always smile when bad grammar or punctuation succeeds in completely altering the meaning of a sentence.
The latest example I’ve seen involves the title of Bill Cosby’s new book. Let’s take a look. http://www.amazon.com/Come-People-Path-Victims-Victors/dp/1595550925/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197150950&sr=8-1
No, Amazon didn’t omit the comma that should have been setting off the direct address. Mr. Cosby or his publisher failed to include it.
Ouch.
Too late for contest, but my happy moment…several years ago, standing in line somewhere with my WIP, a sock…and the man behind me said, ” My wife has Alzheimers and she needs a drink, will you watch her while I get her something,…and of course I said yes, she looked at my knitting and said I can do that, so I handed it to her and she knits rows and rows while we stood in line. I will never forget the look on the mans face when he came back and saw her knitting. He very gently rubbed her shoulder while I almost cried. Then she rubbed the knitting against her face and handed it back to me with a smile. I live that happy moment over and over, what a gift she gave me that day……just remembering something she loved for a few moments.
I just had to comment on Sue’s comment, just stated last post.
How beautiful! Having lived for years with my grandads alzheimers, that was beautiful!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3U0udLH974
This gave me a laugh, so cute and funny!
Well, I think it makes me happy when people see the importance of happiness in small things. The sun shining, the birds singing, the smile of a passenger in the street, the happiness of your children, a warm house and a well cooked meal. Or are these the big things in life?!
I just spent a wonderful hour (!) reading all your comments and watching the videos. ABBA! Those women had wonderful voices. And Sue’s story was lovely. Nice.