My thought of the day: I really love funny people. Like, nothing makes my day more than laughing at someone who is truly witty. I have one of those laughs that is really polite unless I'm seriously laughing hard. Then, it's like silent and the only way you can tell I'm laughing is because my shoulders are shaking. I'm also borderline addicted to sarcasm, which is something I try to work at- but never happens. I love people who can just crack a joke when things get too serious. I think, if I could just keep a funny person in my pocket all day long it would bring so much additional happiness into my life... so basically, if you're 4 inches tall and really hilarious- hit me up, I'll gladly cart you around every day.
I also like pretending like I'm funny. Anyone who knows me REALLY well knows I tend to lean more towards the serious aspects of life. Not because I don't love to laugh, but because I would rather have a deep conversation than anything in the world. I am a hyper intellectual and would actually prefer reading alone than being with most people. Not always, but usually. BUT I love getting to know the depths of people. This is why, when I worked at Kanakuk, I was always the counselor the kids would come to with serious problems and deep questions, but most of the time when it came to just being crazy and hilarious they would migrate to Ally's cabin haha...(ally, you know this is so true too) Sometimes I forget to be light hearted and need a good kick. This is why my friends and family are so great...cuz most of them are literally hysterical. I LOVE calling Ally or Mere and just laughing my head off about something dumb, or skyping with Mel or calling mom and just hearing about all their craziness. It really puts life in perspective for me, and I learn more and more about how much I love laughter. However, when anyone ever tells me that I'm funny, it boosts my ego like 200%. For example, one of my friends told me I should get twitter so they could keep up with my funny witicisms all day, and I totally think they're full of it, but it still made me feel like a million bucks. Shallow much? YEP! Anyways, I like pretending I'm half as funny as the people in my life.
I'm trying to think of a good top 5 list of times I've laughed the hardest in my life, because for the first time since Camp Success started, I'm bored and have nothing to do. So:
1. Kabin searching 2008 (ally, please laugh at this, you know it was amazing) and honestly pretty much any time I hang out with Ally we end up laughing harder than I've ever laughed. "I miss the prickly whiskers of your young mustache" and "how your bellybutton was always deeper than the others" Not to mention when we found the jackpot- you know what I'm talkin about. We are always stirring up some sort of trouble, but literally it doesn't matter what we're doing, even if we are just sitting around I am usually crying laughing. The time we went to six flags and made videos while on roller coasters was a pretty good example of laughing til I cried numerous times per hour. But there are SO many more funny memories.
2. Looking at old high school friends blogs/facebooks with Meredith is always a gut buster. Usually, I end up unable to breathe for a few minutes, it's scary. I have this horrible un-Godly habit of making fun of people, but not in like really mean ways, just to lighten the mood usually. Most of the time it's one of my good friends I'm making fun of so I don't really feel badly about it. BUUUT sometimes it happens... and usually when I'm looking at old friends' facebooks or something with Meredith. Pretty much anything with Mere- like when we were in high school and made videos pretending we were canoeing to cheer camp. WHAAAAT?
3. I can't think of an exact instance, but pretty much any time I am in a serious gathering like a funeral, church, award ceremony, class, etc. where you're supposed to be super mature and quiet, I find something to laugh about until I turn blue from holding it in. It's always something that would never be funny in any other circumstance, but because I'm supposed to act mature it always ends up disastrous. The last time I can think of off the top of my head was like 5 days ago while in Neurology class. My friend Natalie got up to go to the bathroom and left her phone, and her b/f texted her.... and of course since I am the practical joker I picked up her phone and sent a bathroom related text to him pretending to be Natalie. Of course she comes in and reads it and just looks at me and smiles and I literally DIED laughing in the middle of class. SILENT class. It was one of those ones you try to hold in and then it ends up awkwardly making a really weird unnatural sound. Yep, good times. Also, my mom and I have had to vow to never sit next to each other in church since literally every time we do one of us ends up leaning over to say something funny and then we both end up almost peeing our pants and shaking the entire pew all the way across the sanctuary.
4. I think I would have to say Kanakuk term 3 my VERY first year when I had sweet 16 cabin with Paige and Courtney as my co's... gahhhhleeee I laughed so hard that 28 days. I mean whether it was Kiwi running through the cabin doing the veloceraptor with her hands through her shorts, making fun of Courtneys chewbacca smuggling, pranking the K-wet guys or laughing so hard with Paige and Court that we all literally collapsed on the bathroom floor, that term was the greatest thing ever. Of course all of my terms have been equally great, and I've gotta admit 3rd term is always hysterical, from Ally getting stank eye, to the adventures on the ropes course at K-wet when Darby ate leaves off the tree because she was so hungry, and I got a harness tanline from sitting on the screamer for 1.5 hours... BUT something about that first year just makes me laugh to even think about.
5. I'm gonna go ahead and say 90% of freshman year of college was spent doing the most ridiculous hilarious things. I just remember when literally 50 people would crowd into my tiny apartment until 2am playing never have I ever and riding my mountain bike down my stairs. Or when we two stepped in my kitchen for hours and then went outside and startripped. HILARIOUS. I miss freshman year!
6. Okay I'm gonna have to say a 6, because I have to include the time Michelle and I snuck into the concert at the Heart of Texas. HAHAHAHA watching precious innocent michelle sneak through those iron bars was a great memory.
7. I'm sorry, I can't stop. One of the no joke funniest days of my life HANDS DOWN was floating the Guadalupe river with Ally and Beef. OH MY GOSH. This weekend in general was hilarious, but floating the river was the greatest laughing moments of my life rolled into one day. First of all, someone REALLY ought to tell you that when you go down the tube chute, make sure you hold onto all articles of clothing for dear life/tie them onto your body because I lost my shorts to the river about 5 minutes into this escapade. THEN, I have the bright idea to go down the chute without a tube. AKA near death by drowning. The tube spits you out and then sucks you under for a GOOD almost 10 seconds until you seriously think "oh Lord, this is the end, forgive me for all my sins b/cuz I'm meeting you face to face today." Truly, life flashed before my eyes. Then, I finally came up thinking it was over and it sucked me under yet AGAIN. This is where I made a secret promise with God that if he let me live I would never go down the dang chute tubeless ever again. So I finally come up, thank God, tear up a little from happiness/fear, and find my tube. THEN, we begin to float again and apparently we missed the memo about "staying to the left" at the waterfall. OHHHH NO BIG DEAL, we just went right over the 4 foot waterfall. Everyone else went through this little mild baby tube chute, but not us. We get about a foot from the falls and I hear some guy say "Do they know that they aren't supposed to go over that?" at which point I look to my left and see the tube chute we are supposed to be going in. I immediately try to paddle backwards to no avail, and we all go crashing over the edge. Ally gets stuck under the falls because she cannot paddle out given that shes trying to hold her camera over her head with one hand in its "waterproof case" that was not waterproof at all. I float down the river and see my tube flipping itself over and over again under the falls. I'm screaming "ally! Grab my tube!" of course ally is half drowning so she cannot hear me and there is no way to get to her. Finally she dislodges herself and manages to grab my tube after yelling something to me along the lines of "okay megan I'll get your dang dube after I finish drowning!" in a kind of ticked off voice. Then, later when we were exiting the river, ally goes to get her tube out of the water and me and beef realize ally's top is completely off and she is full out flashing everyone. I about drowned for the 3rd time that day because I fell into the water laughing hysterically. Ally grabs herself and gets her suit and covers herself only to cap off the legit funniest day of my life. And that's a good way to wrap up my list I think.
Man, I've had so much fun in my life- my friends are AWESOME beyond awesome. God is so good to give us the gift of laughing at ourselves. =)
"It is the heart that is not yet sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in His presence."
-George McDonald
-George McDonald
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