March
I recently attended a Metro-West Women's Connections Sat morning Breakfast with my friend Janel. I enjoyed a nice brunch & irsih step dancers & a christian lady shared her life story & singing songs that she had written. It was a great time of fellowship with other women & inspiration.
April 11th "Fashion Show"
I was asked to play the piano! I am excited & will blog the review otherwise if anyone women are intereseted in attending April 11th please let me know so I can fill you in on the details!
I need to come back to fill in the link/website or contact info for this...
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
April Fools tradition popularized....
My thoughts of April's fools...
So I was wondering where & who thoguht of April fool's day & how did it come about???
I thought it would be interesting to look up because it seems so random to have such a weird holiday without having a great purpose or recognition behind it. Joking & humor is a great part of life to celebrate but how did it get to be holiday is to my surprise. So I found some info on the history, so here it is.. On that note, I personally don't need a holiday to play a joke on someone or make a fool of myself because I am capable of doing both on a regular basis! lol!
History of April Fool's Day...
On this day in 1700, English pranksters begin popularizing the annual tradition of April Fools' Day by playing practical jokes on each other.
Although the day, also called All Fools' Day, has been celebrated for several centuries by different cultures, its exact origins remain a mystery. Some historians speculate that April Fools' Day dates back to 1582, when France switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, as called for by the Council of Trent in 1563. People who were slow to get the news or failed to recognize that the start of the new year had moved to January 1 and continued to celebrate it during the last week of March through April 1 became the butt of jokes and hoaxes. These included having paper fish placed on their backs and being referred to as "poisson d'avril" (April fish), said to symbolize a young, easily caught fish and a gullible person.
Historians have also linked April Fools' Day to ancient festivals such as Hilaria, which was celebrated in Rome at the end of March and involved people dressing up in disguises. There's also speculation that April Fools' Day was tied to the vernal equinox, or first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, when Mother Nature fooled people with changing, unpredictable weather.
April Fools' Day spread throughout Britain during the 18th century. In Scotland, the tradition became a two-day event, starting with "hunting the gowk," in which people were sent on phony errands (gowk is a word for cuckoo bird, a symbol for fool) and followed by Tailie Day, which involved pranks played on people's derrieres, such as pinning fake tails or "kick me" signs on them.
In modern times, people have gone to great lengths to create elaborate April Fools' Day hoaxes. Newspapers, radio and TV stations and Web sites have participated in the April 1 tradition of reporting outrageous fictional claims that have fooled their audiences. In 1957, the BBC reported that Swiss farmers were experiencing a record spaghetti crop and showed footage of people harvesting noodles from trees; numerous viewers were fooled. In 1985, Sports Illustrated tricked many of its readers when it ran a made-up article about a rookie pitcher named Sidd Finch who could throw a fastball over 168 miles per hour. In 1996, Taco Bell, the fast-food restaurant chain, duped people when it announced it had agreed to purchase Philadelphia's Liberty Bell and intended to rename it the Taco Liberty Bell. In 1998, after Burger King advertised a "Left-Handed Whopper," scores of clueless customers requested the fake sandwich.
Here is a few stories of personal jokes I was involved in! Lol!
well i think the jokes started @ home with my two older brothers! They were always fooling around and getting into some kind of trouble & are family had a lot of laughs with funny imitations of characters on TV to imidating relatives, teachers, and celebrities. As I grew up over the years my family started a tradition for several years that we would play a Christmas yankee swap on my Uncle Ralph! We did that for many years. Each Christmas we would wrap up gag gifts such as seashells, a urinal, and cans of soup! Then one Christmas my brother played a joke on my papa & gave him a fake winning lottery ticket! It was so funny because my nanny & Papa thought it was real 1st and the reaction & the things they said were so funny we were dying laughing on the floor!lol!
I played some great jokes on some of my friends over the years as well. I remember playing a joke on one of my ex boyfriends when I was 22. We had recently broken up & I was wondering what he was doing because he had missed bible study that night. So my friend Bethany & I were driving home from bible study on a friday night with not much going on one summer night. We were both curious of what Jerry was up to, so we stopped by his apt and saw that his car was there. So we went to Walmart & bought ice water & filled up my Super Soaker Water Guns & went back to his apt parking lot!
I called him & he answered & I told him that my car broke down on Rt.28 and needed his help to change my flat tire! lol! So of course, he said he would be right there to help and to sit tight. So after we hung up, Bethany & I got out of the car with our Super Soaker Guns and hid behind the dumpster. Jerry walked out of his apt building and we totally got him by surprise & Super Soaked him! Although He stole my gun & soaked me as well, but it was a super fun memory on a hot fun summer night!
I admit that I lied to him but it was soooo worth it!
Another joke I played was on my friend Dena! Dena would always come over my house but always forget something at my house. She had forgotten her watch, sweater, hat, jewelry,sunglasses, etc.. you name it she forgot it at my house. I always tried to remind her to come by & get her things. But she would forget and keep leaving things at my house by accident. So I got fed up & put all her things in a box that she had forgot at my house & wrapped it up as a Christmas present that year and had her open it up! lol~! It was great, and she laughed so hard!
This was an unplanned joke, I promise honest! I was hanging out with Mark W one night and he was saying that he felt fat and ugly. So I said things like well I don't think that. I think you are smart & sexy! I was trying to build him up in his insecurities so he would be more confident. I told him he sounded like an 8th grade girl. So then then next day, I was playing piano at Mark's house one day while we were dating. He had to do an errand and on his way back I text him that I wanted a small decaf coffee. So he did not hesitate to stop by Dunkins to bring me back a coffee. I was not hungry then & don't want to eat donuts because they are not good for me. So he comes back with my coffee & a small donut bag. So I take a break from piano and look on the kitchen counter and say, "oh what's this?" And he says,"a donut", "a boston cream," because he has been good all week!lol! So I was like okay. Then I took and held the bag, and said, you can't eat this. And he was like why? So I say it again, you can't eat this, because remember last night you were complaining like an 8th grade girl that you were fat & ugly?? So I said, Dr. Phil would say, is this working for you???? Obviously not, so you need to make a change! I told Mark don't not eat it because of me, don't eat it because you want to make a healthier change for yourself! I told him I already liked him the way he was but wanted him to feel better about himself. So I think he got the point, so he said, ok, your right. Then he grabbed the bag & opened the trash & said here's making history! So the freshly made boston cream donut in the bag was just thrown in the trash. Then Mark had to go run another quick errand, so I said I would play a little more piano and then be on my way home and would see him another day. So I play some piano and then get hungry and all I could think or crave was that boston cream donut that was just thrown in the trash! So no word of a lie, I went in the trash & got the bag out & ate the donut and could not even believe my own despiseful behavior! I could not even believe myself because honestly that was not my plan or intention at all. Then I felt so incredibly guilty so I thought I would empty the trash and bring it outside & put a new bag in the barrel to make it look like I did something good & helpful and then it covered up my crime so there would be no evidence! I drove home thinking how could I have done that, I felt like it was murder in the donut dating world!!!lol! So two days go by and Mark & I are at his house watching American Idol & talking & I randomly had said that I have a "secret" and then he wanted to tickle it out of me but I kept quiet to save my life & my relationship. So 20 minutes later, I blurt out my secret out of guilt & thought there would be some humor to it, so here goes nothing... I blurt out to Him my confession... "I ate your Boston cream donut out of the trash the other day after you left" do you want to break up with me???honestly that was not my plan or intention!!! Do you want to bring me to confession???He looked raging mad, like he could not and would not trust me! ugh... so anyways i think he was definitely mad at me but I told him I would make it up to him and I did!But for me at least I have such a funny story & memory to look back on and laugh!
My college roommate Brook also always played jokes on me! She was famous for sprinkling water over public bathroom stalls to make me hurry up! But what goes around comes around because she was trying to mix up & steal cafeteria plates @ a college we were staying at on a mission trip & she accidentally took a girl's tray she did not know and felt so bad. Then she thought she was throwing water over my bathroom stall at an amusement park in california and she mistakenly missed my stall for a little girl's stall and felt terrible... so Brook felt awful & stopped her jokes for just a short time. But luckily right before I moved back home on the east coast we had stayed in a hotel in Portland, OR with her mom & friends to attend a woman of faith conference and I was able to return the favlor or sprinkling her with a shower over the bathroom stall!lol! It was soooo great! And whenever we have a reunion, I can't wait to do it again! I love you Brook! Thanks for making my college memories last a lifetime!
I love jokes & I love surprises! As long as they are nice & in good fun! Bring it on!Laughter is the best medicine! : )
So I was wondering where & who thoguht of April fool's day & how did it come about???
I thought it would be interesting to look up because it seems so random to have such a weird holiday without having a great purpose or recognition behind it. Joking & humor is a great part of life to celebrate but how did it get to be holiday is to my surprise. So I found some info on the history, so here it is.. On that note, I personally don't need a holiday to play a joke on someone or make a fool of myself because I am capable of doing both on a regular basis! lol!
History of April Fool's Day...
On this day in 1700, English pranksters begin popularizing the annual tradition of April Fools' Day by playing practical jokes on each other.
Although the day, also called All Fools' Day, has been celebrated for several centuries by different cultures, its exact origins remain a mystery. Some historians speculate that April Fools' Day dates back to 1582, when France switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, as called for by the Council of Trent in 1563. People who were slow to get the news or failed to recognize that the start of the new year had moved to January 1 and continued to celebrate it during the last week of March through April 1 became the butt of jokes and hoaxes. These included having paper fish placed on their backs and being referred to as "poisson d'avril" (April fish), said to symbolize a young, easily caught fish and a gullible person.
Historians have also linked April Fools' Day to ancient festivals such as Hilaria, which was celebrated in Rome at the end of March and involved people dressing up in disguises. There's also speculation that April Fools' Day was tied to the vernal equinox, or first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, when Mother Nature fooled people with changing, unpredictable weather.
April Fools' Day spread throughout Britain during the 18th century. In Scotland, the tradition became a two-day event, starting with "hunting the gowk," in which people were sent on phony errands (gowk is a word for cuckoo bird, a symbol for fool) and followed by Tailie Day, which involved pranks played on people's derrieres, such as pinning fake tails or "kick me" signs on them.
In modern times, people have gone to great lengths to create elaborate April Fools' Day hoaxes. Newspapers, radio and TV stations and Web sites have participated in the April 1 tradition of reporting outrageous fictional claims that have fooled their audiences. In 1957, the BBC reported that Swiss farmers were experiencing a record spaghetti crop and showed footage of people harvesting noodles from trees; numerous viewers were fooled. In 1985, Sports Illustrated tricked many of its readers when it ran a made-up article about a rookie pitcher named Sidd Finch who could throw a fastball over 168 miles per hour. In 1996, Taco Bell, the fast-food restaurant chain, duped people when it announced it had agreed to purchase Philadelphia's Liberty Bell and intended to rename it the Taco Liberty Bell. In 1998, after Burger King advertised a "Left-Handed Whopper," scores of clueless customers requested the fake sandwich.
Here is a few stories of personal jokes I was involved in! Lol!
well i think the jokes started @ home with my two older brothers! They were always fooling around and getting into some kind of trouble & are family had a lot of laughs with funny imitations of characters on TV to imidating relatives, teachers, and celebrities. As I grew up over the years my family started a tradition for several years that we would play a Christmas yankee swap on my Uncle Ralph! We did that for many years. Each Christmas we would wrap up gag gifts such as seashells, a urinal, and cans of soup! Then one Christmas my brother played a joke on my papa & gave him a fake winning lottery ticket! It was so funny because my nanny & Papa thought it was real 1st and the reaction & the things they said were so funny we were dying laughing on the floor!lol!
I played some great jokes on some of my friends over the years as well. I remember playing a joke on one of my ex boyfriends when I was 22. We had recently broken up & I was wondering what he was doing because he had missed bible study that night. So my friend Bethany & I were driving home from bible study on a friday night with not much going on one summer night. We were both curious of what Jerry was up to, so we stopped by his apt and saw that his car was there. So we went to Walmart & bought ice water & filled up my Super Soaker Water Guns & went back to his apt parking lot!
I called him & he answered & I told him that my car broke down on Rt.28 and needed his help to change my flat tire! lol! So of course, he said he would be right there to help and to sit tight. So after we hung up, Bethany & I got out of the car with our Super Soaker Guns and hid behind the dumpster. Jerry walked out of his apt building and we totally got him by surprise & Super Soaked him! Although He stole my gun & soaked me as well, but it was a super fun memory on a hot fun summer night!
I admit that I lied to him but it was soooo worth it!
Another joke I played was on my friend Dena! Dena would always come over my house but always forget something at my house. She had forgotten her watch, sweater, hat, jewelry,sunglasses, etc.. you name it she forgot it at my house. I always tried to remind her to come by & get her things. But she would forget and keep leaving things at my house by accident. So I got fed up & put all her things in a box that she had forgot at my house & wrapped it up as a Christmas present that year and had her open it up! lol~! It was great, and she laughed so hard!
This was an unplanned joke, I promise honest! I was hanging out with Mark W one night and he was saying that he felt fat and ugly. So I said things like well I don't think that. I think you are smart & sexy! I was trying to build him up in his insecurities so he would be more confident. I told him he sounded like an 8th grade girl. So then then next day, I was playing piano at Mark's house one day while we were dating. He had to do an errand and on his way back I text him that I wanted a small decaf coffee. So he did not hesitate to stop by Dunkins to bring me back a coffee. I was not hungry then & don't want to eat donuts because they are not good for me. So he comes back with my coffee & a small donut bag. So I take a break from piano and look on the kitchen counter and say, "oh what's this?" And he says,"a donut", "a boston cream," because he has been good all week!lol! So I was like okay. Then I took and held the bag, and said, you can't eat this. And he was like why? So I say it again, you can't eat this, because remember last night you were complaining like an 8th grade girl that you were fat & ugly?? So I said, Dr. Phil would say, is this working for you???? Obviously not, so you need to make a change! I told Mark don't not eat it because of me, don't eat it because you want to make a healthier change for yourself! I told him I already liked him the way he was but wanted him to feel better about himself. So I think he got the point, so he said, ok, your right. Then he grabbed the bag & opened the trash & said here's making history! So the freshly made boston cream donut in the bag was just thrown in the trash. Then Mark had to go run another quick errand, so I said I would play a little more piano and then be on my way home and would see him another day. So I play some piano and then get hungry and all I could think or crave was that boston cream donut that was just thrown in the trash! So no word of a lie, I went in the trash & got the bag out & ate the donut and could not even believe my own despiseful behavior! I could not even believe myself because honestly that was not my plan or intention at all. Then I felt so incredibly guilty so I thought I would empty the trash and bring it outside & put a new bag in the barrel to make it look like I did something good & helpful and then it covered up my crime so there would be no evidence! I drove home thinking how could I have done that, I felt like it was murder in the donut dating world!!!lol! So two days go by and Mark & I are at his house watching American Idol & talking & I randomly had said that I have a "secret" and then he wanted to tickle it out of me but I kept quiet to save my life & my relationship. So 20 minutes later, I blurt out my secret out of guilt & thought there would be some humor to it, so here goes nothing... I blurt out to Him my confession... "I ate your Boston cream donut out of the trash the other day after you left" do you want to break up with me???honestly that was not my plan or intention!!! Do you want to bring me to confession???He looked raging mad, like he could not and would not trust me! ugh... so anyways i think he was definitely mad at me but I told him I would make it up to him and I did!But for me at least I have such a funny story & memory to look back on and laugh!
My college roommate Brook also always played jokes on me! She was famous for sprinkling water over public bathroom stalls to make me hurry up! But what goes around comes around because she was trying to mix up & steal cafeteria plates @ a college we were staying at on a mission trip & she accidentally took a girl's tray she did not know and felt so bad. Then she thought she was throwing water over my bathroom stall at an amusement park in california and she mistakenly missed my stall for a little girl's stall and felt terrible... so Brook felt awful & stopped her jokes for just a short time. But luckily right before I moved back home on the east coast we had stayed in a hotel in Portland, OR with her mom & friends to attend a woman of faith conference and I was able to return the favlor or sprinkling her with a shower over the bathroom stall!lol! It was soooo great! And whenever we have a reunion, I can't wait to do it again! I love you Brook! Thanks for making my college memories last a lifetime!
I love jokes & I love surprises! As long as they are nice & in good fun! Bring it on!Laughter is the best medicine! : )
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