Silliness To the Rescue

I want to be the one to walk in the sun

Oh girls they want to have fun

Oh girls just want to have

That's all they really want

Some fun

When the working day is done

Girls - they want to have fun

Oh girls just want to have fun,

They want to have fun,

They want to have fun...

I am a child at heart.  I love anything that tickles my fancy and makes me giggle.  Most days I can find something humorous in some of the most mundane things, as evidenced in my frequent observational status updates on Facebook.  You just have to keep your eyes open and be ready for anything.

Today, my friend Janelle and I went to see Contagion.  That in itself was not funny.  However, every time someone in the movie theater coughed, I giggled a little on the inside.  I also watched everyone make a beeline for the restroom and wash their hands furiously.  Ahhhh, nothing like the fear of germs to generate some hysteria.  I bet anti-bacterial company stock goes up.  There was plenty of product placement for Purell.

Before the movie, Janelle and I went to Books A Million, near the movie theater, to kill time.  For some reason, we stopped in the HUMOR aisle.  Normally, I make haste to the romances or new fiction.  I rarely stop in the humor aisle.  I highly recommend it.

Janelle did a dramatic reading of Go the F**k to Sleep and I realized that if I had kids, I'd probably write a similar book.  I laughed and laughed.  There's just something about seeing and hearing the "F" word in a children's book type setting.  Click on the book title and enjoy Samuel Jackson reading the book.  SO funny.

Then, I discovered a book called Crap At My Parents' House.  I kept laughing and giggling over the captions.  My parents had some of the stuff in the book.  I found a website about the stuff and they are on Facebook.  I thought about buying the book just to have it at my desk at work for when I have a bad day.

Then, I dramatically read some of Jimmy Fallon's THANK YOU NOTES to Janelle as she read to me tips from THE SEXY BOOK OF SEXY SEX. I learned more than I needed to know about ... um.. pube scaping.  Yeah, it's exactly what you think it might be.  

I oohed and aahed over the plethora of zombie-related books and wished that PAT THE ZOMBIE wasn't sealed.  (Remember PAT THE BUNNY?)

We eventually moved onto calendars, mocking one about the upcoming apocalypse in 2012.  I jokingly said that if I designed a calendar about the apocalypse, I'd have it end on 12/21/2012.  The calendar was sealed so we couldn't see if it ended as abruptly as the world is expected to.

Janelle wanted to look at magazines and I noticed some comfy chairs.  Two were occupied.  One was not.  I sat down in one next to some guy reading what looked like a "graphic novel" (bookspeak for an over-priced comic book).  To make him nervous, I kept glancing over at his book as he tried to read.  He leaned away from me and started to hunch over the pages.  I leaned a little more.  He turned and gave me an evil look.  I smiled, straightened up and updated my Facebook status with the event.  As I typed (or tried to type - making sure I don't accidentally call people like I did last night... sheesh...), I'd glance at him and then back down at my phone like I was documenting his behavior.  Fearful that he'd report me to the sales clerk and get me kicked out, I got up and wandered around the toys section.  

We eventually left and then went to the movie.

Every now and then, I need to have some comic release.  The laughter generates this oxygenated perky feeling and everything is right in the world. 

Like bantering on Facebook with Janelle about the sexual benefits of a toothless man... or bantering on Facebook with Janelle about my encounter with a random IMer on Yahoo Messenger ... or bantering with my co-worker Gordon about whatever strikes me/him as amusing at the time... or shocking co-workers in a training class by admitting that I knew all of the words to the Humpty Dance...  aaaah, good times.

I think the world would be a happier place if we all could find our inner child and just go have fun.

I dare you to do it.  I'm on a mission to have more fun and encourage others to have more fun.

• Read something as if it's dirty (as in "sexual").  That's super fun.  Just about anything can be made to sound dirty if you read it the right way.  
• Play with a toy.  (A real toy, not a sex toy, although that can be fun, too.)  
• Buy a happy meal.  Keep the toy.  
• Listen to fun music like THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS.  
• Do some You Tube Roulette.  
• Go to www.stumbleupon.com and check out random websites.  
• Think of unique things for your Facebook status.   
• Invite your friends to make up your Facebook status.  
• Google Jack Handey.   
• Write your own "Deep Thoughts".  
• Go to the SPCA and play with the animals.  
• Go to an arcade and play skeeball.  (My personal favorite.)  I'd start a Skeeball league if I could.  
• Eat ice cream for breakfast.
• Watch cartoons.  The ones for kids.
• Sit and people-watch.
• Google Kids in The Hall's "Crushing Your Head" and do it to people at work or in airports or at the train station.
• Make up stories in your head about people you see on the street, in the store, or in the car next to you.
• Say "wiki wiki wiki" in random conversations.
• Give yourself a rapper name, stripper name and porn star name.
• Google Dennis Quaid on the Ellen Degeneres talk show.  "Dennis Quaid is here!"  Talk about yourself in third person.
• Splash in puddles.
• Blow some bubbles.
• Offer someone a hug. (Someone you know.  Decrease the creep factor.)
• Watch videos on www.wyotk.com.  I suggest "What we say wrong" and "Hugs and Kisses".

Life is too short to take it seriously.  You don't get out of it alive so you must make the most of it while you are here.