Challenge - Day 7

Post a picture of the person you do the most screwed up things with.

You get 3 answers, or sets of photos, for this one. They represent different periods of my life. Today, though, I mostly save my crazy for my “alone” time. However, I got my first tattoo with one of my college BFFs. The 5 others that adorn my body were on my own time. :)

This was taken in college. Carolyn is the blonde in the middle. I've got some sort of rastafarian wig on. Ben's wearing the Lollapalooza shirt.

But the most trouble-doing I did was probably in high school. Snuffy, this one’s for you.

Sometime around 1989. Shane is on the far right. And a nod to Snuffy & Big Bird as best buds.

I met Shane my junior year of high school in Technical Drawing. He was my Snuffleupagus; I was his Big Bird. We just clicked. Not as romantic soul mates, but as best buds. We partied together. We listened to music together. He healed a flesh wound on my knee after a night of very bad things. We watched the summer 92 Olympics together. (He wasn’t too chauvinistic to admit he liked women’s gymnastics!) He came to visit me in college. He was an usher at my wedding. We’ve stayed close 20+ years later. Some time may lapse between visits or phone calls, but we’ll always be close.
And, of course, I’ve done plenty of wild things with dear hubby. (He was actually my first answer to this challenge, but then I thought I should try to think out of the box a little.)

That's my hubby, with shaved sides and a ponytail. Sometime in college.

Nowadays, it’s hard to get too crazy with 3 young ‘uns (OK, so they’re not so young), and PTA meetings don’t seem to get too out of control. But writing this post and thinking about this topic, does make me think that I’m about due for a wild time! Usually that means ink. But we’ll see.

Challenge - Day 6

This will barely make it under the wire. It's Sunday, 11:17 p.m., right now. Today's subject: post a picture that makes you laugh.

I pondered and wondered about what makes me laugh. Sadly, I realized that I don't laugh enough. I love corn ball humor, though. (So did my dad.) "Confucious say" jokes are my favorite! But I don't have a picture to capture that feeling. I mean, yeah, I could have "borrowed" a fu-manchu, old-style drawing of an old Chinese man, but does that really do justice to a philosopher who lived a billion years ago? OK, I may be exaggerating.

The picture that I originally posted is pretty hilarious, IMO. Blackmail for the future, I'm guessing, as well. I won't identify the kiddo in trouble (and the nakedness was his choosing), but feel free to guess. Timeouts must come when they must is the moral of that story, I suppose.

THERE WAS A NAKED-BUTT PICTURE OF ONE OF MY BOYS (AROUND AGE 2) STANDING IN THE CORNER FOR A TIMEOUT. BUT A FAMILY MEMBER SUGGESTED I REMOVE IT FOR FEAR OF PROVOKING THE CHILD PORNOGRAPHY FANATICS. NO BIGGIE. I REMOVED IT.

Lisa Lampanelli and Gina Yashere are 2 comediennes that I like. Vulgar, yes. Crude, yes. JUST LIKE ME. (But, as a side note, I don't care for potty humor. Sexual explicity and veracity are fine, in my warped mind, though.)

The Bill Cosby album "Himself" and Steve Martin's movie "Parenthood" crack me up because they are so poignant about parenting for all the different stages you go through as a mom or dad. Watch these (now) DVDs each year or 2, and you'll see something new. I guess that's the clean side of my personality, as opposed to the polar opposite side mentioned with the above comediennes.

I realized with this rather difficult exercise that I can say "aww" to many things. I'll "smile" at touching moments/snapshots. I'll even admit to the "cute" photos of my family or others. But laughter was one that was tough to come by for me.

And, by the way, I didn't make it before the midnight deadline. Good thing I'm not being graded on this project. :)