Tag: fun

New & Improved! Giggles & Bits

~ JodiLea

Giggles & Bits Thursdays will continue into the new year. However, Thursdays posts will no more be “Giggles & Bits” – In 2016, this column will be “G&B”, standing for “Giggles & Bits” of course, without all that annoying typing.

That being explained, I am trying something new next year:  Guest Posts!

This means, dear readers, I need YOUR help. I hate admitting this, but there are days when I just don’t feel funny. Sarcasm usually carries me through, but I am dealing with hormones and a cold, so I’m not even in the mood to hear funny stories, let alone pass them along.

My deepest apologies.

But wait!  There’s MORE!

Now YOU have a chance to be featured on Not Pretending (to be sane)! Share a funny story from your life, or let it all out in a rant (very therapeutic.) If a photo or poem gives you the giggles, please submit that  🙂  If you are shy – check the “remain anonymous” box and your identity will be kept private.

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Since this is not a contest to win money or items, we can skip over the legalize in fine print. However, please keep in mind that this site is rated PG!  My eleven year old granddaughter reads this blog, so “R” rated material will NOT be published.

♥  TTFN  ♥

A Throwback Thursday Smile

~ JodiLea

Giggles & Bits are not happening this Thursday. A long story that I’m too tired to explain it all, but suffice it to say: The Quilt Faire is next week.

This afternoon, I was looking through photos to find one for an upcoming class, and I saw it!  The photo that makes me smile each time I see it, because it’s of me with my 3-year old granddaughter making Christmas cookies.  Mixing stuff and breaking eggs were her favorite things, until it was time to use the cookie cutters. Half of our fun was getting to wear our matching aprons, and watching each other to make sure the other one was not sneaking nibbles of dough.

making cookies

And don’t forget the VHS tape with all the good Christmas Specials – watching them while decorating cookies became a tradition that began in the 80’s.  I recorded the tape while making Christmas cookies with my daughter. She and I love it even more now, as we watch her girls enjoy it. They can’t understand why we laugh so hard when the commercials come on. 80’s commercials are really bizarre!

Both of us have grown since the day this photo was taken. She is now in Middle School and does not think every boy has cooties. Despite what her dad tells her.

I am retired now, and writing this blog, making quilts and trying to finish my novel.

I am really, really tired now.

♥  TTFN  ♥

Thursday’s Giggles & Bits

~ JodiLea

It used to be tidbits & Giggles on Thursdays.  Then I accidentally typed Giggles & Bits and decided to keep it that way. It just sounds sillier, reminding me of Kibbles & Bits. Remember those commercials?

Speaking of silliness…  EggLove

I have not been feeling silly, for a while now. In fact, I should do a search for a silly blog, so I could go there and cheer up a bit. It being a Thursday and all. Allrighty then!

Google only turned up 13,400,000 results. Sigh. Now I have to make a decision. I hate that, so I clicked on the first result in the list, which took me to another list! And there I saw a domain that made me think of my dad, who was a very funny guy, so I checked it out. “shitmydadsays”  This site by “Justin” is just that – quotes from his dad’s tweets. They are funny and I could hear my dad saying most of them, but without the constant foul language and F-Bombs.  Definitely not a link to share with kids!

Because every body’s vision of silly & fun are different – here’s a list of silly places out there.  I don’t have time to review them for you because the 49ers last pre-season game is in 10 minutes!

Hey, I just realized something. I feel pretty good now. Not silly though. 49er games are serious, man.  🙂

♥  TTFN  ♥