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Tuesday, October 12, 2004
the key to happiness in day-to-day life is to be easily amused
Remember Mad Libs? Such a clever idea -- not least because they are fun for everyone: prudish grandmothers, groups of friends, teachers and students, gutter-minded thirteen-year-olds (I remember with disgusting clarity the Mad Libs session that went on in the seats behind me on one particular seventh-grade trip to Roller Land), parents and children. We just spent an extremely funny two hours here -- first just LT and myself, and then when T came home from a meeting, he joined in. I don't know when I've laughed so much. Now we have to buy some actual pen-and-paper ones, to take in the car -- so that I can relive yet another of my many beloved family memories from when I was little. And I was always annoyingly proficient at parts of speech, too, which was entirely the fault of those many car trips spent in the company of Mad Libs (on one memorable occasion, 'he drove off crazily in his sports mattress with his makeshift wife' had my mom laughing so hard she could barely drive).
In other news...
We got a new (used) washer and dryer today. These are in very good shape, pretty new, very clean. We found them thanks to an ad in the paper, placed by a woman who'd just combined households with someone else and hence had an extra set. We paid $200 for them. We had decided not to go into debt to replace our dryer, and to pray and see what the Lord did to provide a functioning one for us, and then the total money I earned this past weekend doing web design and data entry, added to the $10 check I got for my winning fair entries and the $18 we got out of our old dryer, very nearly made up the entire $200 required to buy the set in the paper. So we took that as our answer and had a strenuous morning moving the old ones out and the new ones in. Yay God. :)
And also: C at ballet today and LT sleeping just now. Such beautiful, wonderful people; it is amazing that they started out growing under my skin.
