A Bit of Distraction — Maybe Even Humor
by Katy on November 5, 2024 · 24 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).
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.