I was at the library and picked up a reference book entitled:
**International Encyclopedia of Secret Societies and Fraternal Orders **
and discovered this Secret Organization:
*Knights of the Flaming Circle *
Worn on the left breast of the robe was a Flaming Circle to symbolize truth was found in Pennsylvania in 1923 to counter the KKK. They admitted blacks, jews and Catholics * but excluded Protestants. *
Yesterday, as I was walking the dog, I tripped on the curb and fell flat on my face, like I was hinged at the toes. It hurt a bit, but it also struck me as absurdly funny. I got up, and got the giggles so bad I walked into a sign post. Which made me laugh harder, naturally.
I lent my copy of The Sims to a friend, she rang me up at work today complaining that she had installed, uninstalled and reinstalled several times but she couldn’t get them to stop speaking Spanish and start speaking English.
Superdude was chatting with me on IM and he told me he was on his way home. He was actually using his phone to write messages to me while he was driving. That made me laugh.
Watching my two-year-old son successfully get his four-year-old sister into a headlock, then listening to my daughter shriek with glee “oh no! You got me! Aaaaaaah! Help! Help! Big Bad John-Boy’s got me! Aaaaaah!”
Making up a silly story with my roommate on the way to dinner about how there was nobody around in the halls because they all rode their mattresses down the stairs and into piles of leaves that got vacuumed up by the grounds crew and thrown into the lake where they used the mattresses as boats. Then they drank all the water and came back with all the dead fish from the bottom and that’s what we were having for dinner. Later we decided that the inedible potatoes were the mattresses in cube form.
Bonzo came home from after-school wrestling practice filthy and reeking as usual, with a 'fro pick stuck in the front of his sweaty hair. I said, “What’s that?” and he said, “That’s my 'fro pick”, and he proceeded to use it to comb his sticky (curly brown Caucasian) hair straight up, and it was so blecchy it stayed like that, like it had been moussed.
Watching TV with my boyfriend and seeing two deodorant commercials in a row (two different scents of the same brand) featuring a buff, shirtless guy who addresses the camera very seriously, then applies his deodorant…
And takes a healthy sniff of his now-deodorised pit.
I was in hysterics for a good ten minutes afterwards.
My dog made me very happy this morning (I do realize I blabber a lot about my dog, I can’t help it, it’s like being in love for the first time or something).
He’s only four and a half months old, but he is the best dog ever. Ever. Anyhoo, we were outside doing some obedience training. He was off his leash and I’m trying to make him understand that he needs to keep track of me, not the other way around. So, every time he got too far ahead of me, I turned around. I didn’t call him, I just turned and walked the other way. It took him a while to get it, but when he did, I was just so happy! He was really attentive, and he turned around with me so eagerly, and his little ears were flopping around.
This was last night but watching my kid (it was her first birthday) get tired and start to do an exaggerated heel toe walk and begin to stumble into stuff.
She was just exhausted but had toys all over the living room and wanted to stay up with mommy & daddy and hear the Beatles’ Today is your Birthday again and she was just bumping into stuff everywhere and cracking up.