3 posts tagged “silly”
Can someone tell me
Why I woke up so early
And so easily...
When I didn't get
To bed last night until like,
Half past twelve o'clock?
No, seriously
Cuz every other morning
I CANNOT WAKE UP!
My dang snooze button
Gets hit about fourteen times
And THEN I sit up...
Maybe, maybe not.
But anyway, I digress --
(And are we surprised?)
This Friday morning
I made it to the shower
Before SIX O'CLOCK!
And that, my friends, is
Why I had this extra time
To write some haiku.
In keeping with yesterday's "cool" theme, I want to tell you about two more cool things that happened today. Ready?
Number one. My boss was showing me some new duties I'm going to be taking over temporarily until he finds someone else who can do it -- maintaining one of our labs. Ooooh...fun. Okay, but that's not the cool part. I mean, as excited as I am about tracking down obscure-looking pieces of equipment that are due or soon-to-be-due for calibration..... No, the cool thing that happened is that my boss came across a nifty flashlight that has no batteries. Instead, it's got this magnetic thingamajig inside it that you "charge" by shaking it, so that the magnet activates these copper wire doohickies or something, which then enables the light to turn on. I'm sure there's a more official name for this contraption, and it's probably not that cool to SOME people, like super-high-tech engineery-type people, like Joe. But anyway, my boss came across it and said, "Here! Put it in your car in case you ever find yourself in the dark or in need of a light source." Yay! (Little did he know I would spend the rest of the time we walked through the lab shaking it and trying to stifle my silly giddy-girl giggles. Yes. I am dumb.)
Number two. The other day, when I bought some healthy-type snacks and munchies to stop myself from being a big fat vending machine pig, I got an eight-pack of those little 1.5 oz boxes of Sun-Maid raisins. And I don't know if you ever did this as a kid, but the minute I pulled out a box and finished all the raisins today, I remembered making music with those empty boxes! Did you ever do that? I'd tear off the flaps from the open end, stick that end in my mouth and blow as hard as I could, and then there would be this gloriously obnoxious kazoo-esque screeching that ensued. Entertainment for hours! ...Er, for a six-year-old, of course. No, I in my current 23-year-old state of total maturity and serious adulthood, did NOT practically skip out the door at the end of the work day, throw myself into my car, shut the door and gleefully start blowing into my raisin box kazoo. Nope, not even a little bit. And I also didn't take a video (or three) of myself trying to make different pitches and noises with it. And I'm definitely NOT going to upload them to YouTube later tonight for your viewing pleasure.
Okay...maybe I will. But only if you promise to still be my friend.
That's all for this moment. Stay tuned for (possibly) a spurt of attempted fictional creativity, at some point in the next week or decade, about the mysterious red truck that I drive by every day on my way to work. (The truck's real, but I'm just thinking about making up some brilliant story about why it's always there, in the same spot, every morning...WITH its headlights on. I know, right? It's weird!)
And without further ado...here are ALL THREE ridiculous videos I recorded of myself playing the raisin box kazoo. Don't hate. And also, please disregard my totally disheveled, gross appearance. I was getting ready to go running! And didn't bother to put on makeup this morning for work. And frankly, didn't even wash my hair this morning either. Seriously...don't hate. Love. Love me like I am. (Name that country song!)
What was the bravest thing you did in 2008?
Submitted by TheFiercestCalm.
Hmm...that would probably be the time I went bungee jumping off the Empire State Building. That was pretty awesome.
Oh wait...did you say the bravest thing I did? I thought you said the bravest thing I didn't...lol.
I'm silly.
