A Bit of Distraction — Maybe Even Humor
by Katy on November 5, 2024 · 44 comments
Does anyone need a bit a distraction today?
First off, who wore it better?
When the underside of a Goodwill bins egg platter is an udder delight!:
Please enjoy that I have felonious doppelganger with a penchant for Legos and Target:
After multiple rounds of shampooing and enzymatic spray, we admitted defeat and hauled it off to the dump. Apparently the cat pee smell inside the minivan while driving was absolutely overwhelming, which helped to validate this difficult decision.
My mother then sent me this Craigslist posting maybe a year later:
“SMELLS A BIT LIKE PET!” So . . . my overwhelmingly odiferous couch had a second life as a prop for photo shoots and events?! People in their dressiest clothing draped across this absolute beast of a biohazard?!
Here’s that same photo turned sideways so you can confirm the identity. One way that I know it’s 100% the same couch is that I’d removed the feet from the couch before throwing it away. (I’d added them myself as there was nothing wrong with them.) You’ll note that the Craigslist couch sit directly on the ground — no feet!
“A bit like pet.”
And lastly, I’ll include this meme, which feels more relevant today than ever before:
Did it work, did I distract you for just a few minutes?
Katy Wolk-Stanley
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.”
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Yes, Katy, you did. (And I’d advise you not to shop in Fort Myers-area Target stores for the foreseeable future.)
Meanwhile, here’s my effort at “brightening the little corner where I am”: I was the second person through the door at my polling place at 6 this morning (I did let a guy on crutches in ahead of me). The folks handing us our ballots said, “Don’t forget there’s a proposition on the back.” I replied modestly, “I never forget a proposition.” If I’ve given one set of poll workers one good laugh, I consider this my good deed for the day.
Not spending any money in Florida, so that’s no worry.
Oh, and here’s something else silly I just did: I’ve been watching clips of old TV series on YouTube. I bet myself I could whistle the entire theme to The Andy Griffith Show, and I won.
I love Andy Griffith, and binging this was my election night plan! I can also whistle the entire theme, and probably guess the episode by the opening scene i watched so many of them!!
Cheryl, if there’s ever an NCA meetup anywhere, we’ll have to have a whistle-off!
I’m English and even I am on tenterhooks and worried today. I wondered if it would be possible to have a “I vomited” sticker, please? And yes, you distracted me!
If I had one to give, it would definitely go to you!
I read early yesterday that calories consumed today wouldn’t count. Thinking of comforting indulgences that wouldn’t give me a migraine (chocolate) or the runs (ice cream) I settled on a baguette, butter, and seedless raspberry jam. I’ve had several slices already today. I also bought a grocery store pizza for dinner as the mister will be working the polls until 9 or 10 this evening. I’ve also sewn one side of the binding on a quilt I’ve been working on since April (not full time).
You definitely distracted and delighted me with your vomit sticker and also your Floridian doppelgänger!! I am, however, astonished and confused by the reappearance of your couch—how did it get from the dump to someone else’s home or business?? Can it teleport?? Imagine if it was used in a boudoir photo studio, with {undressed} people lounging on its forever-stinky upholstery? Yikes. Hang in there today, Katy—from one mama of a precious LGBTQ kid to another.
Thank you for your trademark humor! Most welcome.
As one of my election volunteer roles, I am driving people to the polls that need a ride. In between rides and to distract myself from election anxiety, I am busying myself in the kitchen with meal prepping and recipe culling. I stress-snacked myself through yesterday so today I’m feeling downright virtuous.
I assume you’re joking about the couch. Yours has two cushions and the other has three. Plus other non-similarities.
I assume they remade the cushions.
Yes….you absolutely made me laugh…thanks so much as I definitely needed it today…..I’m going to start drinking BEFORE the polls close or I just may not be able to face the outcome!
That platter of wee boobies is delightful! The I Vomited cat looks exactly like my late Ollie, who was an ace vomiter but the sweetest boy.
The Victorian cat pee sofa having yet another life is just amazing,
I’m a stress tidy-er. I’m making my second run of donations to the thrift store. I sold an item on FB marketplace this morning and have a meet scheduled for this afternoon to sell an item for $250. I hope that comes through. I’ve sewn a cushion cover, dealt with an item that’s been recalled, done my Trader Joes shop and done return and recycling drop off at Target (they take cans/plastic/glass and pay the redemption value).
Omg I spent the entire day yesterday rage cleaning. It’s the only thing I could think of that I control over that would burn off some of the crazy.
The cat wins. Thanks for the laughs.
Comic relief is always appreciated
Thanks for the distraction! I only had a half-day afternoon substitute teaching job today so I watched “The View” on ABC. I am trying to Stay Kamala And Carry On-a-la but I have to confess I’m worried out of my mind. They’re saying that a lot of older women voted in Iowa, as per the Des Moines newspaper’s poll that is considered hugely accurate, and may have caused that state to go blue. One can only hope! I will be thrilled if it is later found that us old gals got out there and voted and saved the country! But not just our age group: I wore my Kamala button today and some high school girls told me they’re voting for her, or that they’ve already early-voted for her. So there is hope! (Oh, and someone wrote online and said their vote in a red state wouldn’t matter. My take on that: yes, it does matter! Even if the Dems lose, your vote will show the Republicans that their radical agenda is losing support. And that’s important, too! So please fight the good fight and go cast your blue ballot today.)
Thanks for the miscellaneous distraction. I am keeping busy and ignoring election news today.
If that ever happens again, try My Pet Peed. It works way better than anything else I have ever tried (and I currently have two puppies, yeesh).
It worked!!! Haha Thanks for the epic distraction! Much needed, much appreciated.
Distracted and delighted. Thank you, Katy
Here in Brisbane , Australia, we are all on tenterhooks! I feel like Maxwell Smart “ “The fate of the whole civilised world hangs in the balance” , but this time it isn’t a joke! Trying to stay positive, but it isn’t easy!
I want one of those I Vomited stickers for Clobber Paws!
We started rewatching Wolf Hall, on PBS. I don’t know what I was thinking—the similarities to that time period and ours are disheartening.
DS and I distracted ourselves by watching original series Star Trek episodes in the style of Mystery Science Theatre, which means we improvised snarky dialogue and complimented Spock on his eyeshadow a lot. It helped defuse our case of the nerves.
Spock did have a pretty good smoky eye.
Hey I just stumbled on your site and share your goal of buying as little new as possible. If you ever again need to conquer cat pee, I found what will do it-a product called SCOE 10X. I’m kind of a cleaning fanatic, always looking for a better way to clean things and wanting to understand the chemistry of how the products work. But urine was the one thing I felt I could never solve. Sites of old doggie accidents on the carpet still smelled after applying Nature’s Miracle and a few other brands of pet cleaners. In a fit of research, I found SCOE 10X and tried it on an organic latex crib mattress I bought off Craigslist. When I arrived to buy it, the seller saw some pinkish spots on the corner, and gave it to me for $40. When I got it home, my blacklight (and nose) revealed it was completely soaked with urine. The wool pad the mom had used caused the urine to wick evenly throughout the whole mattress, rather than form an obvious puddle spot, so she didn’t realize the accidents were happening. I saturated the entire mattress with SCOE 10X, wrapped it in plastic for a day, then aimed a powerful blower at it to dry it. Urine, stains, and smell were completely 100% gone, confirmed by my blacklight and my nose. A lot of great things get sent to the landfill because cat pee is considered unfixable, but this product can fix it. It’s expensive, but not nearly as expensive as a new mattress, car, carpet, or sofa.
I teach 1st grade so I was completely distracted all day. Not even a glance at the news. That couch- that is crazy! How would they get it out of the dump, is that even allowed? And so gross, omg.
My husband is distracting himself from the election by passing a kidney stone!
Thank you so much for the diversions!! The vomit sticker especially cracked me up! So between you and Andy Griffith I’m managing tonight!!
Definitely not the same couch. Yours has a line down the front down on the bottom and the other couch does not.
If it isn’t the same one, does that mean couches of that shape, color, and fabric are (excuse me) more likely to be peed on?
Or perhaps they’re so cool people hold onto them until something catastrophic happens.
I’ve been foiled! I found a penny tonight in the parking lot and I was excited to have it as part of the daily 5, as I think we were all getting a bit desperate for the 5 per day, every day!
This was a very much needed funny light hearted distraction
Hi Katy
I’ve been reading your blig for quite a few years and really enjoy it…never commented before…I’m in Australia and I’m just feeling heartsick for Americans tonight! I just don’t get how people could vote in a narcissistic mysoginist for President. Those republican voters must be delusional! I just don’t get it! I think it will divide your country.
.Nicole
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Katy, I love all your posts! I especially loved this post today!
Love this post – can totally relate to the last meme on it only being Tuesday!
I don’t believe The Craigslist couch is your old one. It has three cushions and yours only had two?
I hope it not too much to ask, but could you blog everyday for the next 4 years? 😉
Yes, please, possibly hourly?
Bobi, thanks for your comment! Definitely made me laugh. And I know you’re being serious because I’d love hourly posts for the next four+ years too.
I live in the Fort Myers area but thankfully don’t look like this Target ‘shopper’. lol
I need to get that I Vomited sticker for my long haired cat who never fails to run to the nearest rug to huck up a hairball and accompanying stomach contents.