So this has been a fairly rough week for me and my family. To catch you up: Alex and I are in the process of moving, his grandmother is moving, my Mom is retiring (YAY!), we hit a new road block with MEPS (medical processing required for enlistment into the military), he was sick this week, I had dental work that went very very wrong, a second ER trip, and Christmas is next week. It's been busy on the home front to put it mildly.
In the midst of it all though we've been able to have a few pretty good laughs. Some of those laughs have been in the process of getting to, being in, or leaving the ER but they still made me laugh. My family's motto is you will either laugh or cry and we choose to laugh maniacally. I'd like to share a few of the things that have tickled my funny bone this week. Most are paraphrased to some extent. Also you may not find all or even any of them funny but I did. So here's to a little gallows' humor.
1. Faith (to me): Heather keeps mutilating our Pepparkakor men!
Heather: Well you try picking them up it's harder than it looks!
Me: Why don' t you use a spatula to pick them up?
Heather: Because.
Five minutes later
Faith: Heather you mutilated my stocking!
Heather: Sorry they're hard to pick up ok.
Mom: Why don't you use a spatula then?...
2. (while listening to Geeks get the girl by American Hi-Fi)
Me: This song is strangely catchy.
Alex: Yeah I liked it a lot as teenager.
Me: Well it could be your theme song...
3. Me: But we did an allergy test! It should have been safe.
Someone ( I forgot who): That should have been our first clue it wasn't...
4. Dentist: Ok we're going to have you on a blood pressure machine. ( looks at me very nervously) We might put me on one too.
5. From my allergy bracelet in the ER: See list but definitely NOT prednisone.
6. Me: So how bad was my cough?
Alex: You sounded like a donkey trying to shout and bray at the same time.
Me: I'm so glad I can't hear myself.
7. Alex: She just said thank you, I'm sure if she was feeling better it'd be something much more snarky.
Nurse: That's fine, I love snarky.
8. Doctor: You know it's impossible to be allergic to steroids, especially IV form. Right?
Alex: So we've been told. My wife believes in the impossible I guess.
9. Friend: Well you married him you must have wanted to, right? He didn't cast a spell on you.
Me: No he didn't but I have been asked what I was drinking when I said yes... by his friends...repeatedly.
10. Heather: I'm sick of myself. Can I be someone else for a day?
Me: Sure, as long as your last name is Fitzherbert.
Heather: I can be Eugenia Fitzherbert!!
Me: That is officially your new nickname.
One extra as a bonus
11. Me: Hey Eugenia come here.
Faith: Eugenia?
Heather: (laughing) Yep, Eugenia.
Faith: You two are soo weird.
Me: We know.
Hope you enjoyed the laughs!
