My life is funny. Is everyone's life funny?

quirky · Post by **quirky** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 2:44 am

I live in a place that still has old fashioned homemade ice cream socials.
The churches do it and the fire departments do it.

I like the Catholic ice cream best. So, grandma went last week to the ice cream social at the Catholic Church and she said to me, "I got you a half gallon of catholic ice cream...it's in the freezer."

So later we had a little ice cream. My brother asked, "What's the difference between the catholic ice cream and the presbyterian ice cream?"

I made the sign of the cross with my spoon and grandma snarfed her tea.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 11:54 am

lol..............my mum and i were having a giggle last week and she made me snarf my coffee all over her.............i kid you not, it was running down her face..........her mascara ran and her glasses were covered........the look of shock on her face was priceless, then we collapsed in hysterics..........

fluffy

mav · Post by **mav** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 3:41 pm

My chiropractor told me to head to the swimming pool. And I did.
Beginners classes - day 1... The instructor introduces himself "Hi. My name is Jim. I'm also a life-guard". That rings a bell in you, huh? After a few breathing and kicking techniques you decide to get adventurous and try to float in the four feet of water, but to your dismay cannot make it above water no matter how hard you try. After about fifteen long seconds someone notices you struggling under water and gives you a hand and you grab the entire being as if it were a life-saver. "Don't worry, I'm also a life-guard", you hear the him say, but you're too distracted wheezing the water trapped in your glottis and sputtering out swallowed water. Thankfully everyone laughs and you ponder on your lack survival instinct to not be able to find your footing in four feet of water. Anyway, you make you way to the edge of the pool and STAY there for the rest of the classes.....I look forward to day 2

quirky · Post by **quirky** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 3:45 pm

Way to go! You'll be floating in no time! Then swimming. Go mav!

quirky · Post by **quirky** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:19 pm

I think we might be becoming weather wimps. This heatwave has the news organizations all a-frenzy. I'm not saying it's not hot...it's just that when I was little I remember days like this. They were expected towards the end of summer. We played with water....sprinklers OR hoses and we ran around like usual. We drank lots of Kool Aid and got those tell-tale stains at the corners of our mouths. We got the 2nd degree burns from sliding down the metal slides at the playground.

It's this way in winter, too. An inch of snow and they are cancelling school. I swear, they used to just slap a plow on the bus and away we went....

carreyd away · Post by **carreyd away** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 1:02 am

Back on page 25 (in Jan) I wrote:

carreyd away wrote:I have been gone for a couple of days because I went with my nephew to a cattle show. You heard me, cattle show. You ever see the "Best in Show" dog events? Picture that with cows. People washing, blowdrying, moussing and hairspraying their cows and strutting them around in an arena. I have to admit I totally got into it. His cow is just under a year old and under 700 lbs, he should grow up to 1200 lbs. He's a black angus steer and cute as hell. They shaved his face and it was so soft and shiny, he felt just like velvet. I wish I had pictures to show... My nephew's steer placed 4th in his class. But it was just so funny to see these big burly cowboys meticulously primping and styling these cows for a beauty pageant...

Well now he's over 1300 lbs and at the County Fair! I got there too late to get photos of the primping, but I did get some picts...

Geez! Can't I eat in peace?

Cue Music: "The way-hay-ting is the hardest part..."

Grandma wants her picture taken with Shaggy the cow.
"Gosh! It's so embarrasing!" Mike says and looks away... Shaggy agrees.

Finally! Time to enter the show ring.

Showing off his ass-ets... he wins 3rd place!

We wander to the exhibits.

Mom gets the gold for her homemade Zinfandel wine.

In the wedding cake competition, someone gets first place by entering their "Alien" themed design..

My favorite exhibit is a preschool who made potato people! Straight out of ESOTSM... I couldn't find Clementine's, but I did find these:

Zucchini robot!

Hipster Potato

Crazy Hat potato

So anyway, that's what I did today.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 1:53 am

LMAO

fluffy

the cow looks adorable.....

.

quirky · Post by **quirky** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 2:42 am

Oh man....that's hysterical. The fair's going on here, too. The Doobie Brothers will be onstage one of these nights.

carreyd away · Post by **carreyd away** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:03 am

Cotton would've loved ours. Her boyfriend Billy Ray Cyrus played for free. Two shows even!

quirky · Post by **quirky** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:26 am

carreyd away wrote:Cotton would've loved ours. Her boyfriend Billy Ray Cyrus played for free. Two shows even!

mulletless??

cotton · Post by **cotton** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:48 am

Don't make fun of the mullet. Jim had one too you know.

I saw Billy Ray 2 times in concert. OOOOHHHH BABY!Hehe The place was small and well lit. I did something really dumb and sadly he saw me laughed.

quirky · Post by **quirky** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 5:07 am

I keep looking at the wedding cake with Wedgewood blue icing. I love it.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 10:10 am

man, how funky is the Aliens wedding cake??.............i wonder what the wedding outfits would be like for that one?.......

fluffy

quirky · Post by **quirky** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 5:46 pm

I've been going through boxes looking for my birth certificate. I found my nana's diaries. My mother's parents lived with us in Maryland. One day grandma wanted help cleaning her room. My aunt was visiting, so we started on the room. Then we happened on the diaries. They are from 1928-1930. My Nana was a writer! These diaries have the day she met my grandpa and details their dates. And has comments like "Boy is Chet dead compared to Millard!" (My grandpa was Chet.) Anyway my aunt and I were laughing so hard, then Nana came in the room (she was starting to suffer from some amnesia/dementia, but not bad. She got mad at my aunt and me and threated to burn or throw away the diaries.

Well....the diaries fell into my possession. I'm reading looking forward to reading them.