Things that are really funny...

My Luck. Usually I am unlucky, but I won something a couple of weeks ago!  What I won is quite funny... I won a pink mini garbage can!  There is this really cool new site, thepinkcart.com, that is Kicking Breast Cancer to the Curb!  WHAT A GREAT AND COOL IDEA! I was their weekly winner on twitter and won their first October giveaway, which was a pink mini garbage can and pink iPod.  When I received the email/tweet at work on Friday, I immediately bursted into laughter!  I never win anything and I am NEVER this lucky!  So if your on twitter follow @thepinkcart!  They are a great organization.

my new decorations & accessories for my offical (cubicle + office)

Let Go Laughing

This past weekend was FULL of laughs!  My sister, mother and I flew up to Canada to see family friends, my "Aunt" Patty and her two daughters, Amy and Krissy.  My mother (Patti) and my "Aunt" Patty met each other when they were in their twenties when they were both living in Long Island, New York.  They met each other through their boyfriends.  Ultimately, they both ditched the boys and stayed friends; thirty years later they are still best friends and silly as ever and even created more friendships among their daughters. 

My mom and "aunt" are both named Patti/y, but what is even funnier is they both married Mike's and had 2 daughters, all around the same age.  Whenever our family's get together for a night in the city, a vacation to Aruba or the Hamptons, or a trip to Canada, it is ALWAYS a fun time!  Our times spent together is literally laugh, after laugh, after laugh.   

We spent this girls weekend at wineries, touring Toronto, watching the Office, watching the Hangover (my Patti's first time!) and when we weren't out doing one of those, we were all huddled up around the kitchen table drinking wine/beer and eating!   We have these silly drinking traditions our moms started when they were young that we, daughters, insist on doing!  We grew up watching them and LOVE when we are together that we can do it with them!  Instead of "cheers"ing our first drink, we say "up yours."  When you are finished with your beer, you don't recycle it (yet) you throw it over the deck and wait to hear it clink with another bottle.  

I love when our mother's are together, it's like when both Patti/y's are together they go back in time and relive their youth with us!  This weekend made me thankful for my funny family and friends and  has really ensured me that distance make the heart grow fonder and that you are never too old to have a great time and laugh!



the kids in Aruba in 2000 - behind the bar



the kids in Aruba in 2007 ... legal to drink :)

Things that are really funny...

Stick-on Mustaches. My sorority sisters and I had a fiesta night in August.  We each had to bring something.  Brit and I were in charge of getting the margarhita glasses.  We went to Party City on a mission to find the glasses and also get obnoxiously large somberos.  Unfortunately somberos are expensive and were too costly for our budget.  But we did find the glasses and on sale too! We were very excited, as we walked  to the cashier, we came across these stick on mustaches and immediately died in laughter in the store.  What a perfect accessorie to wear at our little fiesta.  We got to our friends house and as soon as the fun was about to begin, Brit and I whipped out our stick on mustaches to surprise our friends.  Everyone was on the floor laughing and we had out own photoshoot in funny settings with these mustaches.  Troogz finally posted the pictures this weekend.  As I saw the pictures on facebook, I could not help but laugh. 

Allie,Jen,Me,Brit,Coll admiring the GREAT sales at Rite-Aid

I really have the funniest friends who make me laugh... too much!

The Professional Laugher

I have wanted to do this for awhile; I just never have had the courage to do so or what stories I would even share.  I recently became an avid blog reader and have become addicted!  At work we had to compile our goals for the year and I thought I should probably come up with personal goals for myself.  As I created my own personal goals of my dream job, dream husband and family, I thought I should pursue my addiction and create my own blog!  So here I am ... trying to complete a goal in my life. 

But now the hard part, what to blog about?  I started to brainstorm what I am good at and what I could share with others.  I am not a star athlete, or a brainiac, I like fashion but I have no advice to share.  As I reflected on my life and what I love to do, it came to me....I love to LAUGH.  Laughing makes everything better. Not only do I love to laugh, but I LOVE to make people LAUGH especially people I love. People tell me I am funny even when I am not trying; I kinda consider myself a professional laugher.  I am pretty good at it, so why not share my laughing stories.  So here I am, Jenna, the professional laugher, at your service!