Who Gave the Cat Cocaine?

So, the title has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the post, it's just something B said to me last night while we were in bed reading and Addy was jumping around as if she had been possessed by the ghost of a steroid-enhanced grasshopper.

I'm reading Mindy Kaling's book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? and it is SO. FUNNY.  I love when women aren't afraid to step out and defy that middle-school thought that girls can't be funny and guys don't want a girl who makes them laugh, they want to make her laugh, blah blah blah.

Not that I had really ever seen much of Mindy's work- I just learned that she was in The Office (which I have never seen and never plan on watching..) I saw a little bit of The Mindy Project, but that when I was freshman and wanted to be out meeting new people and flirting with all the older guys for the entire two weeks before B and I got together.. Like who would rather hole up in a lonely dorm room, being forced to keep the laptop on the desk because that was the one dorm building without wifi? I had a life and friends to be out with until 4 am! (So I was a little different when I very first moved to the boro.. I actually liked to be social.) Plus, at that time I didn't have a roommate, so it was pretty lonely.

I mean.. why have this..

 

(this is the bleakest picture I could find of my dorm room- so white and sterile until Annie helped me decorate!)

When you can be doing things like...

commandeering an abandoned boat?

Doing a photo shoot where you and your friends dance on a pole..

or..

Riding a giant cement, water-shooting elephant with your boyfriend!?!

(So I may have just needed an excuse to put more pictures in.. Whatevs, feel free to be jealous of my awesome life!)

Laughing while alone is nowhere near as fun as laughing when even just one other person is in the room to hear you laugh and enjoy that moment.

But when you're with someone, laughing is fun.  It's more than fun, it's essential.  I think of one person who I have ever talked to and not laughed- and he ended up being termed "the tech services stalker" and is no longer allowed to use our services.

He was disturbing.

The glamorous Audrey Hepburn once said "I love people who make me laugh.  I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh.  It cures a multitude of ills."

Well said, Audrey.  Very well said. 

She's right- both the above quotes are.  When I was in high school, I knew this girl who could have been gorgeous.  But in the 4 years I had to see her on a pretty regular basis, my friends and I saw her smile a total of once. Just once! In four years! How is that even humanly possible?

One of my favorite things about being with Blake is that he doesn't take things too seriously.  We joke around and laugh and just have fun. He randomly says things like "Who gave the cat cocaine" and just kills me.  Looking through our engagement pictures, a majority of them have us laughing.  Not just smiling. Laughing.  I can't put one up here, but if you look through, you'll see them :)

Besides, isn't it hard to go through life and laugh at least once or twice a day? While we were taking pre-ceremony pictures in the parlor, one of the shots my photographer wanted was one of me looking demurely through a window.  It took a lot of tries to get me to stop smiling or making that face where you can tell I'm about to crack up.  I had to think about real things like "Holy crap I'm getting married in like an hour" and "peas and carrots don't smile peas and carrots peas and-eww. Peas."  But we got the shot! And it was even dubbed good enough to be put on facebook!

I know it's Monday, and that sucks.  Heck, I get to look forward to a month of working at 7 am four days a week.  Mornings and I mix about as well as oil and water.  So, maybe I'll find things and do things that make me laugh, so I cure the multitude of ills I know I'll be feeling by Friday morning!

I think I'm going to have to remember to laugh with people, not at them :)