Today I thought I had it. The money shot, the shot I have hoped for and hankered after for the past 2 years, ever since the gerbil tank moved into the computer area on top of the scanner.
NB. The scanner doesn’t actually work anymore, but if it isn’t there the tank will not fit and I have no idea where it would go otherwise. Anyway, I have this idea in my head that Flora the gerbil would miss my big pink face looming over her as I whisper coochy coos through the glass. You’d miss that right?
So, for the past year (it’s my blogaversary in 12 days, I can’t believe it!!) Flora and I have been silent but comfortable companions for a couple of hours pretty much every day.
In the wee small hours when Misses E and M are in bed and Mr B is snoring, we have little conversations.
Well, ok, I have little imagined conversations with her.
Me: “Hi Flora. How are you today my little furry friend?”
Flora: “I’m fine and dandy Jo. I can’t find my telly remote again, but otherwise I’m happy as a bucket of clowns.”
Flora: “Did you see that James Nesbitt thing on the telly the other night?”
Me: “Yeah, I quite fancy him.”
Flora: “Me too.”
So anyway, about once a week as I sit beside my little rodent buddy, something happens that just totally cracks me up. I have no idea why, but it just makes me giggle to myself every time. When Mr B asks what I’m laughing at, I tell him and he gives me that, ‘you’re weird and have the sense of humour of an ironing board’ kind of look, which just makes me laugh even more.
I think sometimes that scares him a bit.
I have wanted this shot for soooo long that I even told Holl about it as she sat in my computer chair and tried to sort my youtube issues out for me and she laughed. You did laugh didn’t you Holl? And I think it was with me not at me…
So what is it that I find so funny?
What is it that I have tried time and time again to capture, sitting with my camera at the ready, trying to move fast enough to get the shot yet not so fast that she runs into her tunnel and hides?
Are you ready?
Da daaaaaaaaaaaa.
Sorry….
Corey’s right, I must have been very, very erm, tired.
But it still makes me laugh. Maybe I need to take something??
Oh, and as I was in the first 5 to comment on Sweet Irene’s site yesterday I got to do this meme. All you have to do is answer each question with a single word…
Where is your mobile phone? - charging
You significant other? - vomiting
Your hair? - frizzy
Your mother? - car
Your father? - work
Your favourite thing? - holidays
Your dream last night? - weird
Your favourite drink? - free
Your dream/goal? - authorship
The room you are in? - kitchen
Your ex? - hairy
Your fear? loss
Where you want to be in six years?- healthier
Where were you last night?- bed
What you’re not? - penguin
Muffins? - please
One of your wish items - debtless
Where you grew up - Mansfield
The last thing you did - read
What are you wearing - clothes??
Your TV? - old
Your pets - gerbil
Your Computer? - love
Your life - good
Your mood - calm
Missing someone - gran
Your car - grubby
Something you’re not wearing - sombrero
Favourite Store - Pier
Your summer - now??
Like someone? - yes
Your favourite colour? - changes
When was the last time you laughed? - today
When was the last time you cried? -hormones
And if you want to play then that’s fine by me. But you have to laugh at my gerbil.
A gerbil with a hat on? LOL
Loved your answers to the meme.
hmmmm…..I am just guessing….but I would say that one has to be a bit sleep deprived to find that funny. Maybe….just maybe….or I guess you just have to see the cute nose wiggling at the same time? yeah…THAT’S it!
BUT….I’m glad you got the shot, cause I know too well the agony of waiting for the money shot.
Oh that is wonderful .. she’ll be SO embarrassed when she hears she’s been blogged w/paper on her head ..
Thank you for you kind comments. :-Daryl
That would make me laugh too— It’s like when an elephant hides behind a flower stem and thinks you cannot see it.
That gerbil is cute! (Even though I am allergic.)
I believe you and Holl are still drinking those weird concoctions!
Well, I’m laughing here!I think she’s playing Nurses. Tell her James Nesbitt would definitely want to give her one, I reckon.
Mya x
i can’t wait to see the rest of the flora’s costume.
you got it!!! yay!!! it’s true! i laughed!
sigh. the gerbil style these days. what next? hoodies?
is mya saying that james nesbitt would want to *cough cough* a gerbil? is that nice?
and i was *just* having a conversation the other day about james nesbitt, but couldn’t remember his damned name!!! i mean it’s not like there’s a ton of northern irish actors out there… oh crud. i’ve just offended your northern irish readers. . .
Hmmm, it seems I’m not the only one who hears voices.
your gerbil completely cracked me up - you are not alone!
Here’s something else funny - pancake bunny!
http://bcm.maz.org/archives/pancake%20bunny.jpg
Awww… cute Gerbil… but I thought when you said it was “the money shot”, that it would be paper money on her head!
(J/K)
What a cutie; and yes, I know the waiting, waiting for the special shot. Thank goodness for digital cameras. I don’t mind taking 200 photos if I can get one really, really good one. Something I wouldn’t dare do back in the day of film developing!
I laughed at your answers and your gerbil. Fun post!
Hee hee! She looks so dang cute with the paper on her head! And “penguin”? Made me snort. Totally.
Gerbils are ALWAYS funny!!!
I laughed at you laughing at your gerbil, because I was imagining you sitting there giggling in the dark all by yourself.
I think your gerbil looks smashing in her nurse’s hat.
I love this meme. I’m all over it.
Akela it just makes me laugh. Like when your teacher had ketchup on their nose or something, Tee hee.
Corey, it still makes me smile. I think you have to be here.
Daryl she’ll never be able to show her face down the local again, sighhh.
Susan, that is so funny. And she is very cute.
Lori, we might be…
Mya I’ll tell her. I think he’s dead sexy actually. Is that bad??
Holl, Mya says all sorts of naughty things. She’s a bit of a one you know.
Groovy mum, it makes us more interesting, right?
Thalia’s child, that made me laugh so much. How very random. Hee hee. Thanks you.
Maureen, digital cameras are fantastic. I love mine sooo much.
Mrs Weasley thanks my sweet.
Kim, yay, I made Kim laugh. I’m dancing here.
Sybil, they so are.
Noortje, I was, that’s exactly how it was. I love silly moments like that.
Deb she looks fabulous doesn’t she. And yay, do the mem, do it, do it.