Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Point and Laugh

As you could tell by my last post, I enjoy a good tease of people's shortcomings. I snicker when someone trips, giggle when someone minces their words, and I will point and laugh if they completely fall (as long as they didn't hurt themselves in the process). Honestly, I am a very nice person and I feel I can do all of these because I am laugh worthy myself. Need a few examples?? These are just a few "Fail!" moments I had this past week (oh and I'm throwing some of Branden's in too because they are pretty humorous!)

1. My Mom's birthday was last week so Branden and I tried to figure out what to make for her birthday video (this is what po folk do for gifts when they live far away). I came up with a 'brilliant' idea that we would spell out each letter of Happy Birthday with our bodies...didn't work so well with our little non-wide angle Flip and our small living room space. However, we did practice on our bed and I almost got dropped a few times (ironic since we practiced on the bed thinking it would be safe and cushy). We then decided we needed to scale down the idea and just use our hands. So we sat on the end of the bed and spelled out Happy Birthday with our hands. Then we just cut and pasted all the parts together so Mom didn't have to watch all of our poor first attempts and random laughter outbreaks. As we were cutting and pasting the letters from the video, Branden asked, "Is there a 'b' in happy?" to which I sarcastically responded back, "Why yes, we just pronounce it wrong. It's really Habby Birthday!". This sent us into another outbreak of laughter and then we realized a small problem...we forgot to make the 'th' in 'birthday' so then we were really laughing over "Habby Birday!". We ended up reshooting to make the 'th' but when we put it all together, we noticed that Branden had done a costume change so our mistake was a bit evident.

2. We needed to get some groceries and we only had 7 euros on us. We figured out what we needed and about exactly what it would cost. After gathering everything but the cereal, we discovered that the store was rearranging the cereal, so there were no prices listed. Since we only had a bit left of our 7 euros, we looked for something else for breakfast. Lo and behold we found a box of 12 frozen waffles, and they were cheap! Quite happy with ourselves, and happy since I can't even remember the last time I had waffles, we headed home with our groceries. When we were putting them away, I noticed the picture of the waffles on the front of the box was of waffles on a plate with peas and carrots... Then I saw "potato waffles". "Um, Branden...these aren't exactly what we thought they were." And in my head, "Well, duh they are potatoes! Everything in this country is potatoes!". Branden however, took a more positive look at things and said, "Well we could still probably eat them with honey!" My mind ranted again, "Who are you, Pooh!?!" But instead I said, "Honey!? Eww! You don't eat potatoes with honey! Mmmmm, how about we put some Nutella on them too? Yuck!" We both cracked up at this and managed ok with our waffles as lunch instead of breakfast.

3. Yesterday we were watching some program where a woman from the UK went over to LA to see the gyms there. She took a spinning class and when they showed her pedaling away Branden all of a sudden said, "OH! That's spinning??" I looked at him as if he were a martian sitting next to me and asked the obvious, "Well what did you think spinning was??" to which he replied in a giggling tone as he realized how silly he was going to sound, "Like people spinning in circles." (sorry, I have to pause in my typing to laugh again!) Thank goodness I wasn't drinking anything or else it would have been shot out of my nose in an instant! I managed to ask in my laughter, "So you thought it was like what 3 year old little girls do in their twirly skirts?? How is that an exercise?!"*more ridiculous amounts of laughter from both of us* Could you imagine how dizzy people would get after an hour of that?!

So there you have it. I am allowed to laugh at people because you all just laughed at me. I am no better than anyone. But having said that, I do have a witty moment to share before you go. One of my friends on Facebook had as her status, "Nobody puts Baby in the corner!" to which I commented, "SuperNanny does!". I scoured the internet to see if anyone else had thought of this and to my surprise, I couldn't find anything!

So I created this:


18 comments:

  1. You are a nut! And it's great. Don't change.

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  2. Thanks Stephanie! We like being big dorks. It makes life so much more entertaining!

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  3. "Habby Birday!" Mama Cell Princess!!

    Haha and I am too sarcastic for my own good as well.

    Sarcastic FTW.

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  4. Hehe Miss Sassy Pants, I'll be sure to tell my mom ;) It was also my sis and Grandpa's birthday last week and then my uncle's, some cousins and an aunt this month...apparently my family gets frisky around January... Being sarcastic is fabulous but living in Scotland made me even more sarcastic because that's a lot of their humor. I didn't know I could get more sarcastic but when I visited the US last, my friends and family didn't know how to take me! I love it though!

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  5. Nice and thoughtful idea for a video. I once put butter and marmalade on a potato waffle. Didn't really work.

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  6. Tony, thanks! It was really fun to make and we even threw in a funny bout of laughter at the end of the video as a blooper. We even decided to send it to my sis for her b-day video because we couldn't figure out what better to do!
    Butter and marmalade on a potato waffle...eeeewwwww! I don't typically like marmalade on a good day but how nasty to put it on a potato waffle!

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  7. I'm still gagging at the thought of Nutella potato pancakes.

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  8. Joshua, it is most likely a criminal act against Nutella, vile enough to achieve the maximum penalty of projectile vomiting.

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  9. Friends aren't friends unless you can tease each other without getting upset! Personally I love it when my friends make fun of me, mostly because I can retort with something even better, I have no shame haha.

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  10. LOL! I was just teaching the alphabet to The Zombie Elf. We watched a fun video where the drawings rolled in and out of letter shapes.
    He loved it.

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  11. Mike, I like to say that if I don't tease you then I probably don't like you. Teasing is practically my first language and there is nothing better than being able to whip up a better comeback to your friends teasing you!

    Elisa, in no way, shape, or form should Branden and I make an educational video for children out of this...it would cause illiteracy in children and side splitting laughter for parents!

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  12. I actually laughed out loud at Super Nanny puts baby in a corner. Absolutely hilarious. And everything tastes better with Nutella.

    Love,
    Lola

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  13. Lola, I'm glad you liked my Super Nanny pic! I didn't get a chance to officially welcome you so Welcome to my Cell! Thanks for the follow as well and yes, I'm completely following you now too (you are going to be so handy to show my husband that I'm not the only one out there doing odd OCD things!!)
    Oh and I typically agree that Nutella makes everything taste better...except potato waffles! :)

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  14. Keep your great sense of humor young one. It'll serve you well as you get older.

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  15. Why thank you so much P.C.P. Totally rub your husband's nose in my OCD. We of the OCD Society Are the Best!

    Love,
    Lola

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  16. Thank you Boomer! I have high hopes that my humor will last because my Aunts, Uncles and Grandparents are all a great laugh so it must be in my genes :)

    Lola, hahahaha! I have an image of rubbing my husband's nose across the computer screen while saying, "SEE! SEE! Lola does it too!!!" Ha!

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  17. Speaking of spinning class, I was walking past a bike shop the other day and saw a sign advertising a spinning class. This highly confused me. "Why are they teaching a spinning class at a bike shop?", I said to my hubby. "You'd think they would teach that at a yarn shop." So we went inside to investigate. To my chagrin after I made a fool of myself asking what a spinning class was, they showed me the very cramped smelly room full of women all stuffed together riding stationary bikes. I explained that I thought maybe the wife of the owner was VERY crafty and wanted to offer a wool spinning class in the back room. heh
    Being more crafty than athletic, it still confuses me to hear of a spinning class at a gym. oh well. lol
    ~a

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  18. Annie, I think your idea of spinning is very much legit and I wouldn't laugh hysterically at you (like I did to Branden). Branden thinks they should just be called stationary bikes but to me that just sounds boring.
    Oh, and I find nothing wrong with being more crafty than athletic...I can relate to that more!

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Does this straitjacket make my butt look big?