Limericks?!

LIMERICKS!!


Limericks are pretty cool. Mostly they're funny poems that are known for having dirty connotations. Not mine though. Mine are pure as the driven snow!


They're about dancing fruits and aliens!


Before we begin who remembers WordArt that you could use in Word Perfect or maybe the Microsoft Word of yore? Anyways most of my titles were WordArt and it makes me laugh because I remember thinking that WordArt was like THE BEST when I first discovered it. I'm pretty sure it still exists but does anybody use it? I really hope I haven't put my foot in my mouth and it's actually super widely used and I've just insulted half the world.

Disclaimer: I just re-installed Photoshop so you all may be privy to some pretty terrible Photoshop-ed pictures. Right now I just got the wonderful idea of trying something out after reading one of the limericks I wrote called "The Yellow Banana"


Check it out:

The Yellow Banana

There once was a yellow banana

Who sang at the Copa cabana

He met a green mango

Who taught him to tango

And they won a trip to Havana

All I can think about right now is to try and find a way to Photoshop bananas and mangoes dancing at a tango club or in Havana or just dancing...yes...


I wasn't kidding when I said it would be bad :)

Tony the Banana and Lola the Mango dancing in Havana

I also can't help but think that this is shamelessly ripped off from one pretty famous Barry Manilow song. Mango might as well be called Lola and the banana, Tony and, at the Copa, They fell in love.

In addition to the banana and mango there was an Alien from Mars.


Oooh ooh! Picture this! Alien happily jumping around in space and then suddenly getting his hair singed. Aw silly alien. I guess it'd have to be like a comic strip. I guess the limerick itself does kind of plays out like a comic strip actually.

The Alien

There once was an alien from Mars

Who tried to jump over the stars

But once he got there

The stars burned his hair

And he ended up drinking in bars

In Flanders Fields

It's November 11 and I don't have a more comprehensive post but it's Remembrance Day here in Canada. Poppy day. 

Many people have stories about the adventure of getting your poppy and losing your poppy and getting another poppy and losing that one and eventually resorting to putting a Canadian flag pin in in the middle just to keep the thing on. 


I have a story of when I had lost about 3 poppies in the same year and encountered a veteran giving them out in a metro station. I decided to ask him what he does to keep the poppy on because losing them was driving me insane. He told me that he'd pin one on my jacket and that I'd never lose it again. So he did and I didn't. I was so impressed and stupid because it didn't occur to me to check what he did until much later. He basically just bent the end of the pin so it wouldn't come off easily. Smart. I've been doing it since.


How many Lauras does it take to pin on a poppy pin? haha. no? 


Another Remembrance day memory I have is of an assignment in eighth grade. We had to memorize and recite "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae. I don't know if it was the act of memorizing and reciting it in an animated manner over and over or listening to it being recited in an animated manner over and over but I still remember it by heart, word for word. And many of my blog followers (hi guys!) were in that class and still remember it too. 

Anyway it's a beautiful poem :

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below. 
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders Fields.


Take up our quarrel with the foe:
 To you from failing hands we throw 
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
 If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders Fields.


- John McCrae

I don't mean to be preachy but I do think Remembrance Day is important. Lest we forget...

Insomnia

At the beginning of October I was PLAGUED by what I'm calling insomnia. I don't know if it was really insomnia but I was tired and I couldn't sleep properly for around 2 weeks.

Why am I mentioning this you ask? Well I seem to be afflicted by a different type of sleeping ailment nowadays. It's called ThePhoneRingsEarlyInTheMorningAndICan'tGetBackToSleep. So my point is I'm so tired all the time that I can't write anything coherently. Believe me I've tried. And naps are completely useless to me because then I can't sleep at night which causes "insomnia" which is just SO annoying.

Part of me thinks it's a lack of schedule. I have no reason to wake up at a certain time in the morning and no reason to go to sleep by a certain time at night. Sleeping patterns are all over the place! Treasure your sleep people. It's the best!

I remember those days in University when I could probably fall asleep in a split second wherever or whenever I wanted because I was so exhausted from being a student with a part time job. NO MORE.

Anyway I seem to be rambling. I'm going to preview what I have planned for the next few posts even though I don't know when that will be. I'm tired.

Second real job interview evaluation. Seemingly huge marketing company turns out to be a tiny office with 4 people in it. The interview was really strange as well. There was a dog licking my shoes.

Limericks! LIMERICKS!!!!!!

A séance with a really important lesson to be learned!

Some French poetry and short stories anyone? I do live in Canada and more specifically Québec. Must spread the love of BOTH our official languages am I right?

In the meantime sleep well all! You could not be sleeping and then you'd be like me.