Funny Friday: Text Your Parents

Lets start with the topic for Jenni's blog every day in May: Things that make you uncomfortable.

1-When people argue politics:

You aren't going to see the same side, and you knew that when you started arguing, and you're just making the situation awkward for everyone.

2-When people just want to argue and won't even hear your side of it:

I really hate this. I try to be an open person, and if I don't agree with you, I will still listen to you. I get really uncomfortbale when people are closed minded and when you say your side they just say "NO" and go off on why you're wrong.

3-When people make out in public:

Do I even need to explain this one?

This might be the best Funny Friday I've done. Last week was pretty darn good, but I just find this hilarious.

I found this on my old standby, buzzfeed. It's called:

What Happens if you text your parents pretending to be a drug dealer

And here's how it starts

And here are some of the reponses, hilarious.



Now please go to the website and read the rest of them, they really are hilarious.

Funny Friday: Funny Stories

For Funny Friday today I thought I'd share some funny stories that happened to both us and other volunteers while we were living in Cambodia. A lot of really crazy things happened to us, but after a while they just became common place to us.

One of my favorite stories happened to Hal and I while we were eating some Zattarans in our room for lunch. We savored our western food while we lived there so we would save them for special occassions or days that we just really didn't feel like biking to the market.

I was sitting  on the edge of our bed, and Hal was sitting at our desk with the bowl of food. The fan was inbetween us because I was preparing to leave, and if you have the fan on you and then step outside you'll start sweating even more profusely, so I put the fan between us and was reaching out to get bites of food.

One thing you should know about me, is that I'm a serial spiller. I spill on myself probably once a day, no joke. I think this moment is when Hal stopped letting me lean over him to eat out of the bowl. Lets accurately set the scene for you here. You're welcome for this, in advance.

(Don't ask me why Hal is sitting weird like that, lets just call is creative license. I'm particularly proud of the mosquito net in the drawing, it's kin of a masterpiece.)

As I took a bite I brought it over to my mouth while I was blowing on it to let it cool, I dropped the whole heaping spoonful into the fan. Hal was suddenly splattered with zattarans since the fan was blowing directly on him. He wasn't very happy but I just laughed and laughed and laughed. That was probably my most epic spill ever.

This is our friend Ashley and her Cambodian yay (grandmother). Yays are the coolest! This is possibly one of the best pictures I've seen any volunteer take.

And Lastly, we all have mispronounced a khmer word a time or two. The problem with that is that a lot words sound almost exactly the same, so it's easy to mispronounce them. A good friend of ours chose a few words each week to practice with his Health Center Staff. One time he was trying to say "I ate corn on my new sheets" what his staff heard was "I ate vagina on my big shirt".

And that for you, is a glimpse into the life of a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cambodia.

Funny Friday

I thought about not doing a funny post today considering everything that is going on in Boston, but then I remembered when we had that mass shooting at Trolley Square, the mall where I worked, and I thought, no today we need laughs. But we still send our hearts to those effected by the Boston Bombings.

Who doesn't love good cat picture to make them laugh?

Let me paint a picture for you.

Your tummy is hurting when you get home from work and you walk in the door and your husband is making the most fantastic meal. Like homemade tomato almond pesto yummy. So you go lie down in your comfy comfy bed with your kindle to relax and hope your tummy ache passes. Then your nice kitty climbs up on the bed, and you think, oh she wants to come cuddle with me since I don't feel well.

But then your view of your kindle gets blocked, and all of the sudden this is your view.

She's really a big fat jerk covered in fur with a cute little meow to make you forget that she's really just a big fat jerk.

Because she also does it when you're trying to watch some netflix in bed.

In other news, The Giant Mechanical Man on Netflix is worth a watch, it seems like people are always trying to find a movie worth watching on Netflix.

Funny Friday

This week's Funny Friday post is also a little bit scary. It comes to you from the Color Festival we went to last weekend.

I was one of the last ones in our group to shower, and everyone kept looking at me all funny. No one would take my seriously with chalk all over my face, So I started wiping all of the chalk off my face, and then they looked at me even more funny.

I went from this:

To this:

Perhaps the title of this blog should have been "Something Wicked This Way Comes"

Funny Friday

I wasn't sure what I was going to post for funny friday just last night. I didn't take any funny pictures this week.  And then last night something happened that I found hilarious. I hope it's not a you had to be there moment, so I'm going to try and explain what happened.

Hal likes to attempt to do my hair sometimes. When we first got married he literally had no idea how to put a hair holder in my hair. Ah the life of growing up with no sisters. So last night when I was painting my nails Hal put my hair in pig tails.

Well one was looser than the other, so I asked him, since my nails were wet, hey, will you tighten the left one. He literally had no idea how to tighten a pony tail.

Normally it looks like this when you want to tighten your pony tail, right?

Well, when I tried to explain to Hal how to do it: you take the hair in your hand, split it in half, and pull them apart, this is what he thought I meant.

No Hal, I didn't mean for you to just pull on my hair.

I just laughed and laughed and laughed when he did this. I'm pretty sure if I asked my little brother to do this, he would know exactly what I meant, but he grew up with 5 sisters, and he was our slave when he was little. Hal grew up in a family of all boys. Oh the education he's had in the last 5 years being with me.

What silly girl things has your husband had to learn?

P.s. My bro-in-law is coming home from his mission this week. Wish him a safe flight, and a slightly less awkward return!

Funny Friday

This is another funny friday brought to you by our cat.

Our chubby kitty really likes to be involved in whatever you're doing. If you're lying down watching TV, she's on your lap, if you're reading a book, she lying on you between you and the book, if you're doing homework on the floor, she's lying on your books.

She's always been this way. It was so hard to work on projects because you'd be trying to make this post look like you have some skillz, and then your cat would be lying on half of it, leaving behind crinckles and hair.

Hal does his homework on the floor a lot. So kitty is all over his homework.

Also, she's taking a liking to licking Hal's head lately. I don't know what's more gross, that she wants to lick Hal's head, or that Hal just lets her lick it?

The other night she went to town. It was digusting. She licked IN HIS EAR.

That is my nightmare. Nothing should go in the ear other than maybe a q-tip. These two are gross, and a little bit funny because it's not happening to me, but mostly gross.

Funny Friday

I decided we needed a little break from my cat for funny friday posts. So this week is brought to you by my lovely Mr. Hal.

Over the Christmas break Hal decided he wanted to grow out a mustache. This isn't anything new, he often grows out a beard over his breaks in school, since his school makes him shave. I know, it sounds weird, but they're a religious private college and so they can set different rules. At BYU you can have a mustache, it just has to not extend beyond the corners of your mouth. 

He was going for a handle bar mustache and was pretty into it, until he read the honor code again, and it said it cannot extend beyond or below the corners of your mouth, so he decided a legit handlebar mustache would be breaking the code of honor, so it had to go. 

But we took these sweet pictures before he shaved it. Oh, they get better as they go along.

The kids at church still call him "frenchie" even though his mustache is gone.

How do you feel about mustaches?

Funny Friday.

First of all. Happy March. March? Isn't it still December or something?

The other night I was awoken by snoring. Neither Hal or I snore, so when someone does, it makes it hard for me to sleep. And thus, noises in the night wake me up.

I woke up and realized it was the cat who was snoring. She's been snoring a lot lately. Then I realized she wasn't lying on me (she's a snuggler and is always lying on one of us). I then realized the snoring was coming from my right so I turn my head over and this is the sight I beheld.

My lazy fat cat, snoring away, half under the covers, half out of them with her head snuggled on my pillow.

What cat likes to sleep under blankets? Besides mine of course, she's always trying to get under any sort of blanket you have covering you.

I'm pretty sure she thinks she's our baby. She's always begging for milk, always wants to snuggle, and sleeps over half the day away. Silly cat.

Funny Friday

This week's funny friday is a short one. It's brought to you by cheap half price valentines day candy.

Best. Conversation. Heart. Ever!!

Maybe I love it so much because we've started watching Prison Break and can't stop. And Tweener The Rat always says SUP, and when we're lazy and leave the subtitles on it says "what's up?" And I'm like Duh subtitles, get with the times...or the 2006 times.

Thanks conversation hearts for being with the times. Although, I could lose the CU L8R ones. I hate when people text like that so I never understand them and have to show them to Hal for a translation.

What's the best conversation heart you've seen?

Funny Friday

It's Funny Friday time. I was thinking of posts for next week and realized I didn't even have my Funny Friday post done, so I started looking through my phone for funny pictures and found this gem.

Some of you might not think this is funny.

I personally do. Maybe it's a twisted I lived in a third world country and know the culture kinda funny, but it's funny.

In Cambodia...men grow out their pinkie nails. Like grow out as long as possible. They pick their ears and nose and who knows whatever else with them.

One time Hal and another volutneer tried to grow out their pinkies, and I was all "I love you, but that thing has got to go."

Now this might be a little hard to see, so lean into the screen and get a good look. This is the longest I've seen a guy grow out his nails, and he didn't stop at his pinkie.

I hope I'm properly preparing you for this. This is a guy we saw on the bus. I acted like I was taking a picture of Hal. Sneaky Sneaky.

Sexy, no?

Funny Friday

Two days ago I head this slurping noise, and I was like what is that, and where is it coming from?

I followed the noise and found this

Usually when you catch our cat doing something like this she gets all embarrassed and runs away, but apparently she really wanted some fresh water and just kept right on drinking away from the dripping faucet.

Now you may want to avert your eyes, it's about to get a little sensuous up in here.

She must have gotten spoiled from having a fountain water dish at Hal's parent's house while we were gone in Cambodia. We gotta a diva kitty up in here.
I've heard of other cats who drink water from the bathtub after a shower. Does your cat do this?

Funny Fridays

The past two weekends we were dog sitting for my in laws who were on a cruise.

They have the cutest puppy! He's a golden doodle and he's so much fun to play with. Last Friday I went to pick him up from the kennel. They had just bathed him and blown him dry.

He was basically a giant fluff ball when I picked him up.
And here's when it gets good....the fluff on the top of his head was just calling to me, or to my hair holders really...

hahahha, that last picture just makes me laugh every single time I look at it. He kept it in for about an hour and then rolled around on his back until he got it out.

Pretty sure we're the best dog sitters ever.

Funny Friday

This Funny Friday post is brought to you ala Hal. Not like he's writing it because that would take a miracle, but as in he created it and took the picture.

A few mornings ago Hal said he was going to make me breakfast in bead. I'm spoiled, I know. Well, he went in the kitchen and a few minutes later I just heard, "Oh Crap" and then "Where's the camera?"

Don't you love how that was his first question? I think he dropped 6 eggs on the floor. Good thing he already had a few in the bowl to save my lazy morning. 

Funny Friday

In continuation with my Funny Friday posts, I thought I'd share this sweet gem of a picture.

Since being back from Cambodia I've been toying with how much I wash my hair. In Cambodia my hair was rarely greasy, so I didn't wash it much, and then I got crazy bad build up thanks so profusely sweating every day, so I started washing it every day.

Coming back to America I had to go through that horrible period where my hair is super greasy as it adjusts back to being washed every other day. Oh and for the first time ever I got really bad dandruff. Now that my hair has adjusted I'm toying with the idea of washing it every third day. I've really been pushing it and pushing it, and some days my hair just looks like a grease bucket. Well it makes for really interesting hair dos when I wake up in the morning, and so for your viewing pleasure...

I know, right? Please ignore the fact that I have total sleep face, and just have a good laugh at my hair. Hal suggested I send it into Duston Todd for a follow up to my sleep picture.

Have you ever tried the whole no shampoo and conditioner thing? Using baking soda and vinegar instead? I'm interested in trying it out, so let me know what your experiences have been.

Have a Funny Friday post? Link to it in the comment section, and if it grows over time I'll start an actual link up.
P.S. I'm headed to my first Sundance movie tomorrow. Here's hoping it's a good one, and that we see someone famous

Funny Friday

I've been taking some funny pictures lately and thought it would be fun to do it as a blog series, a Funny Friday post where you post the picture, and if it's necessary, a funny story to go along with it. Kind of like the wordless Wednesday posts out there...except, you can add words, and it has to be funny. To kick it off I'll start with this picture I took last night.

I'm not even sure what time I took this photo. I was awoken to being jabbed in the face by a whisker. I tried to let the kitty under the covers. I know it's totally gross, but it's an old cat and she loves sleeping under the covers and does it when we're not home so there's no sense in keeping her out on a cold night when she'll wake you up trying to get under them anyway.

Well she didn't want to get under the covers. All of the sudden she was up on my pillow. My brand new fluffy I'm so excited to sleep with, just bought that day, pillow. And the next thing I know she's laying down on my face. On My Face. I let her stay there long enough to take this picture in my half asleep daze, and then I made her move. I know. I'm mean.

Space Heater

It's cooled down as we head into winter, and our apartment has really felt the difference. Since our apartment is a half basement it definitely holds in the cold.

Since we're poor returned volunteers we don't want to spend the money to heat our entire apartment if we're only spending time in one room. So we bought ourselves a small portable heater that we can move to where we are. Smart money saving, eh?

Well, since we've bought it we've started to realize something.

Our cat is obsessed with the heater. This is the cat, when she sees someone covered in a blanket always tries to climb under the covers with you. You would think she wasn't covered in fur or something.

She will literally sit in between you and the heater so that you are getting none of the heat.

Trixy little kitty.