August 16, 2011
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Humor
I like to laugh. A lot.
But… I feel like I don’t laugh often enough. When I am with good friends, yes, I laugh a lot.
But in my everyday, run-of-the-mill day to day, I often forget to laugh.
I don’t know if I am the only Mom who gets in this drill-sargeant, gotta-get-stuff-done kind of mode that just saps all of the laugher and fun out of my day. That seems to happen to me if I don’t intentionally do something about it.
A good friend has been a challenge to me in this area. She says that her goal for each day is to “laugh at least once a day with each of her children.” That might not seem like much, but if you are like me, it is probably better than I do some days. And not just a laugh that is fake but a laugh that is a shared event with your child. Where you are really connecting and involved in their world and just having fun with them. I think it is a really important thing.
I have long felt like I have a weird sense of humor. Even as a teenager, I remember just getting such a kick out of things that other people didn’t find to be that funny. And when other people were just howling with laughter, I was sitting there with just a smile on my face, wondering what was so funny.
I still feel like this.
Especially when I watch movies. I rarely laugh at movies or TV and Jeremy will just howl with laughter. But then there are things that strike me as SO hilarious and other people just kind of look at me like “Really? That? That was funny?” and sometimes I think people laugh more at me laughing than at the actual supposedly funny thing.
The other weekend we went on a date with two other couples. Fun, fun, fun. Lots of laughter. Great times. But I also brought along my “Deeper Thoughts” books by Jack Handy. Because one of the guys had mentioned that he liked Jack Handy when he was on Saturday Night Live and I am always looking for “Deeper Thoughts” buddies, so I was all over that like stink on a skunk. (Sorry, that is a phrase my husband uses. Crass. Not that funny. But it is what I thought of right now.)
In case you don’t know about “Deeper Thoughts” I will share a few of them that I find to be extremely funny. I will literally laugh until my sides hurt if I had a buddy to laugh with about these jokes.
They are so random and take you off guard with their endings, and I think that is why I find them to be hilarious.
“The other day I got out my can opener and was opening a can of worms when I thought, ‘What am I doing?!’ “
“A funny thing is if you’re out hiking and your friend gets bitten by a poisonous snake, tell him you’re going for help, then go about ten feet and pretend YOU got bit by a snake. Then start an argument about who’s going to go get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That’s why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke.”
“I hope that after I die, people will say of me: ‘That guy sure owed me a lot of money.’ ”
“Most of the time it was probably real bad being stuck down in a dungeon. But some days, when there was a bad storm outside, you’d look out of your little window and think, ‘Boy, I’m sure glad I’m not out in THAT!’ “
“Instead of a trap door, what about a trap window? The guys looks out it, and if he leans too far, he falls out. Wait, I guess that’s like a regular window.”
“When you go to a party at somebody’s house, don’t automatically assume that the drinks are free. Ask, and ask often.”
You should hear me laughing OUT LOUD as I am writing these. Maybe you don’t think they are funny, but they completely crack me up. There are lots more where these come from, because I have not one, not two, not three, but 5 of these books by Jack Handy.
And one more thing before I go for the day. I found this cartoon on Pinterest about a week ago. It was SO funny to me and days (I mean literally days later) when I would think about it, I would still laugh out loud. See if you think it is funny?
What is your sense of humor like?
Are you “weird” like me, or do you find your humor to be more mainstream?
Anyway, I hope you got a laugh for the day…
Laughter is the best medicine. Right?
Comments (14)
JUST like yours.
Well….*cough* ahem, I don’t really want to BRAG, but I was voted most funny out of my high school. *cough* clear throat, breath deep, puff up chest, hold head high. Yep, yep….I was most likely to star in a hit comedy.
I love laughing too!
We laugh here often. Jeff is pretty funny, and he keeps us laughing. My whole family is pretty hilarious, especially my brothers. However, we are very sarcastic, and sometimes people don’t get that.
You are right though, different people have different senses of humor.
I don’t know what mine is. lol
Oh yeah…I do want an invite to pinterest!!! Please. =)
@Elizabethmarie_1 - Can you message me with your e-mail address so I can send you an invite? You’re going to love Pinterest. I promise.
“Don’t stop…..believing……” Oh groan….and now you have me singing that song. lol
I am so by the mood humored… Another day I’d have laughed at your one liners but today I’m really tired. I think I have a very naughty humor.
I love absurd humor!! Not stupid “gross out” humor. I also enjoy dry, British humor and of course sarcasm is always so fun and satisfying
Love your sense of humor Audrey and the way your brain works… you crack me up!
jack handy does not strike my funny bone, but scaring people, watching people get scared or watching people fall does. so i am no more sophisticated than you. i don’t like marc to walk in while i am watching america’s funniest home videos. he does not understand how they drive me to the awful snort/laugh and tears from laughing so hard.
i do not find many popular christian authors funny when they try to be. there is one blog i read because i love, love, love her heart. but when she tries to make a story funny, it makes me want to poke my eyes out.
I’m pretty mainstream, I believe. Cause most of these made me go “huh?” Or maybe that is just the blonde coming out.
Yeah, I kinda have that dry, weird sarcastic type of humor. So many of my yearbook signings have “love your sense of humor”. Crazy. One of my coworkers says I should have been a stand up comic. (don’t think I’d take it that far, I just like to have fun!!)
Oh, and the don’t stop believing…THAT is funny.
I was here dying laughing!!! Oh MEG … yes naughty humor is the word for her!!!! She had me doubled over … so who is this Jack Handy? I have dry…very DRY, sarcastic and sometimes naughty humor… hummmm, usually no one gets me and there I am laying on my back snorting twisting, turning laughing myself to tears. Moral of the story, I amuse myself!
I like to laugh With You!! =) If we ever get past the serious depth! lol
@mlt10202002 - =)
Ok, not sure I would have gotten the comic cause I don’t know the song but the others, I was laughing.
I love laughing, altho I hate to get caught laughing out loud at something I’m reading or watching. 
Husband usually doesn’t get it. at all.
i lovelovelove your sense of humor. so if you’re calling yours weird, then mine must be too!
humor was one of the things that connected myron and cindy from the beginning. we laughed about the same things…things that nobody else seemed to even notice or find mildly amusing.
and this post has me writing a note to myself. next time that you are planning to see audrey? remind her to bring those jack handy books.