What’s Made You Laugh Lately?

The TV show Rooster has me laughing out loud..
Steve Carroll and a smart, funny supporting cast have made this one of my favorite shows.

celebrity memoirs, strength training, and reading or watching stuff that considers grief. recently: dear sam by janet torge – a book of lettere she wrote to her son who died suddenly, and replies she wrote from him – and the movie all of us strangers

i think anxiety for me is often a pileup when i have no space to feel sad

I’m with you on the anxiety lately (definitely perimenopause) and something that surprised me the other night was the Marty Short doc. I meant it to have it on in the background, and it totally captured me and made me laugh and cry and gave life some perspective. I grew up watching shows like Father of the Bride and Captain Ron so I generally knew what Marty was about, but his story took my breathe away- he’s experienced SO much loss but he continues to come through the other side with joy! It made me feel like I’m going to be ok. Plus- the old footage of Catharine O’Hara playing frisbee! Tom Hanks on the Keys! The Christmas parties and life at his Canadian lake house! It was all such a feel good and highly recommend.

Anxiety is my reality and I’ve got a new trick from my therapist that is really connecting. We did a visualization exercise where I pictured my self where I felt most at peace. While in that place I tapped my thighs to help the image really stick. Now…when I need to regulate I ground myself, close my eyes to picture my place and tap my thighs to really pull in the image and feeling. It works for me.
Also – Rooster made me laugh hard…

I had my IUD removed earlier this week, and it turned out that it had become embedded in my endometrial lining. The pain of the procedure was excruciating, and there was not a lot of explanation and ZERO pain management happening so I could surely use a laugh right about now! Can’t wait to comb through these comments as they trickle in.

Let’s be honest: nobody’s cortisol is doing well right now. We are ALL in the red zone physiologically, and if you tell me you’re sleeping fine, I have questions about your your soul.

I find absolutely nothing happening in Washington funny. Not one thing. Not even a little.

And yet. And yet.

This recent season of SNL has been genuinely, uncomfortably excellent. Colin Jost’s Pete Hegseth has been a recurring fixture — the aggro Secretary of War, as the show now correctly titles him — causing scenes at D.C. dive bars, bragging about starting a war the way a frat pledge brags about a keg stand. And then Aziz Ansari turned up as FBI Director Kash Patel — and he nailed it, strutting in to crowd applause, announcing himself as “K Dot, AKA Kash with the K.” Patel’s custom FBI bourbon, apparently a real thing the real man has allegedly done, became a recurring bit. It’s the kind of detail that, if a writer pitched it in a writers’ room, would be sent back with a note reading: too on the nose, try again.

When you laugh at a cold open that is maybe three degrees removed from actual governance, you’re not laughing because it’s absurd. You’re laughing because someone else sees it too. Your anxiety is confirmed. Your perception is not faulty. You are not, as the saying goes, losing your mind — the situation genuinely is this unhinged, and here are several professional comedians to corroborate that for you on a Saturday night.

This morning my teenage son was filling out his direct deposit form for his first job…
Him: Where it says description do I write 6 foot 2, white male with athletic build?
Me: I think you write “lifeguarding”

I didn’t do a great job recording funny things when my kids were toddlers, but I think the things teen say are even more delightful.

Looking forward to the comments! And your long hair looks so lovely in this picture.

I’ve always exercised, but I’ve found even 20 minutes of Peloton app Pilates helps. I need at least 7 hours of sleep, so I’ve moved on from melotonin gummies to Dr. Mary Claire Haver’s sleep supplement. (Still have to read her book.) Thinking about trying lemon balm next. And no caffeine after 12 p.m.

Will Ferrell’s Colbert Questionnaire, giggle central. (Miss you already, Stephen Colbert)
SNL Marcelo Hernandez, any sketch, but always “Short King,” and the emoticons one with Mikey Day.
My beloved toddler who is blissfully unaware of all the bad, so every moment is so very good and funny (even the hard dropping of the nap moments.)

St. Dennis Medical is SO FUNNY! It often has me laughing out loud, for real.