Laughing Yoga class

This just in! The Vernon Area Public Library District in Lincolnshire, Illinois, is offering a program about Laughing Yoga! Wow! I can’t wait to learn good techniques for getting the blues out through laughter! If you are in the Chicago area, you don’t want to miss this. It’s possible that the Certified Laughing Yoga Teacher, Phylis Sugar, might give talks in your area too! Look her up! But better yet, sign up for the class. I’ll see you there!

Erma Bombeck, comedic writer

I love Erma Bombeck! She is so funny.  I think my mom introduced her to me at a young age.  Erma wrote about the mundane, seemingly trivial things in life like carpool and clothes shopping in a humorous way.  I’m currently listening to an audiobook of hers entitled All I Learned about Animal Behavior I Learned in Loehman’s Dressing Room. It is so funny!  On the days I listen to this audiobook, my commute seems like a breeze.  It is so sad that Erma died in 1996.  When I heard that, I was very sad.  Fortunately, however, she left behind a legacy of many books and columns that I’ll enjoy reading for quite some time.  Thanks, Erma!

Wall-E date night

Tony and I had an awesome date night on Sunday. First, we went out for a wrap at Nancy’s, which is always a treat. Then we poked around Target a bit to kill some time. We’ve started a tradition of having a McDonald’s ice-cream sundae on the weekend (started as a wedding tradition) so we indulged a bit on one of those. Then we went to the movie. We saw Wall-E at the Muvico Theater in Rosemont. Words can not explain how cool this place is. They have a daycare area for kids, which is nice. They have an over 21 movie theater. We discovered on this trip the “Digital Den” where people can play computer games or rent a Wii controller to play a wii game. Five dollars for 30 minutes of fun. Not bad at all!

Tony and I really enjoyed Wall-E.  Although the main characters, Wall-E and Eve are both robots, they definitely have a lot of humanistic qualities about them.  If you really like this movie, word to the wise: make sure that you stay to the very end.  There is a great deal of epilogue story there that you’ll miss if you leave the theater early.  This movie will definitely be one that we’ll add to our collection.  Oh, and the short cartoon at the beginning was hysterical!

At the end of our date night, we watched fireworks that were being displayed as the ending to the Harwood Heights “Island in the City” days. We drove around until we found a great spot, and then parked. What a great cap to the evening!

July 4th Fun

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On the 4th of July, my family and I got together for a fun day of food, fishing, and ladderball. My sister suggested I take this picture, and I think it turned out really great! A fun time was had by all.

Twitter Humor

I just started using Twitter again.  I came across this list of Twitter users that someone said are funny.  I’m going to check them out at some point.  If you subscribe to any of their tweets, please let me know!

personally i prefer to follow some funny twitterers … for good humor, i recommend:

hotdogsladies (merlin mann)
lonelysandwich (part of ylnt w/ mann)
presbush (not really him, but hilarious)
soupysales (see note above)
normcrosby (ibid)
larrykcolumn (ibid)
hodgman (the guy from the apple/pc commercials)
remiel (no idea who this really is)

Customer Service

With a title like that, you might think this post is going to be about bad customer service that I received recently from a business establishment.  Actually, my boss told us about a very inspirational video about how one person provided great customer service and how we can all strive to do the same thing.  It put a smile on my face…hope it does the same for you! Have a great day!

Recess at Work Day – great idea!

Well, it looks like I missed this special day by two days, but it’s still a great idea! June 19, 2008 was Recess at Work Day. It is meant to be a time when workers can just relax. The website states: “The Board of Directors has declared that all employees should take a recess on June 19th! Laugh. Take a walk. Watch a movie. Spend some time with a fun teambuilding exercise. Cease from the day-to-day routine for just a bit. And this means everyone – even the boss! Call it Team Building. Call it Employee Morale. Just make sure you call it fun. Today is your day to create team spirit, engage employees, increase morale and share your fun side with the people you spend the majority of your life with. Participating in Recess At Work Day could also help improve mental and physical health, which might bring down insurance costs.”

So, I missed this important day, but although it is Saturday, there are people who are at work today. Take a break, guys, and recharge your batteries! Time for recess!

A very good day

Today I brought a rhubarb crisp dessert to my boss who is ill from cancer.  That in itself, is not something one would generally laugh about.  Although they do say that laughter is the best medicine.  But the whole things makes me smile, because although it was brief, we had a good visit.  I told him about our reading clib and how many registrations we had.  He thought that was a good thing! I went with another co-worker, so that was helpful.  It is hard doing that stuff on your own.

On the way home from work, I picked up our Seattle Sutton meals.  As I was driving, I listened to a wonderful Disney album called Millennium Celebration.  Hoo wee, I had the windows open and the music cranked.  Driving with the windows down…it was great! I’ll have to drive to that soundtrack more often!

Disney Movie Night: The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

Tony and I returned from Kentucky tonight, with enough time to keep up our Disney Movie Night tradition. We started this tradition after returning from our honeymoon (at Walt Disney World) two years ago. We were planning on watching some sort of Disney movie every Sunday night (because that was the night of the week that The Wonderful World of Disney aired on television). Well, real life happened, and the movies, sadly, did not.

After returning from our most recent trip to WDW, however, we resurrected the tradition. We have watched quite a few movies so far: Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Mary Poppins, Enchanted, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Bee Movie, and a documentary entitled Tomorrow Land: Disney in Space and Beyond.

Tonight’s feature was The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. I liked the story of Mr. Toad quite a bit! I have become quite delighted with the hand-drawn cartoons that were the hallmark of Walt Disney’s early years. I can’t even begin to fathom how many hours it took to create those movies. It is amazing to see in the list of credits how many people are involved in each movie.

Next week? We’ll be watching Bambi. Tony said to be prepared. I guess it doesn’t have a happy ending. But it is one of the Disney classic movies, so we have to watch it! See you next week!

Relaxing in Kentucky

We’re just having a great time in Kentucky, my hubby and I. The weather is wonderful, the scenery is the tops, and the company is outstanding. Today we visited the Pikeville Public Library, the Page-3 videogame store (which has everything from video games, DVDs, role playing games…even Pocky!) the Eastern Kentucky Exposition Center and then shopping at Walmart. And I had a crocheted this afternoon and then took a luxurious two hour nap! Whooie! Good times. Tony went out on the 4-wheeler with his dad and had a super time. And we’re wrapping up with dinner of fried fish. Yum! A good day.