Today is throwback Thursday, but I’ve got nothing to throw back, so I’m going to talk about a mess of different things – a potpourri of useless information, which fills our minds and makes us cranky – produces a chuckle – lifts our spirits – helps us forget about all the icky stuff that permeates our world today.

Did you ever wonder if the Hokey Pokey is what it’s all about? I mean, if all there was to life was turning ourselves around, wouldn’t we all be turning in circles every day? Then there’s the thought of bumping into each other as we turn ourselves around. Utter chaos.

Or how about this? “Follow your heart,” How can we do that? Our heart is inside of us and to follow it, we’d have to get outside of ourselves. I suppose that’s a good place to start.

Here’s another one – “When nothing is going right – go left.” That might be good advice, unless you’re on a roundabout. You’ll be there all day.

“As you get older, three things happen. First you lose your memory and the other two I can’t remember.” This is especially true for people of my age. I often go on a quest for something in another room, and by the time I get there, I forget what I was going for. Or I’ll write something down in my planner and when I check it a few weeks later, I have no idea what I was thinking.

This actually happened to me once. I was in a play where I was supposed to say, “out of the frying pan, into the fire” and reversed the sentence to “out of the fire and into the frying pan.” Thankfully, I realized my mistake and got myself out of the fire and back into the frying pan.

Funny things always happen to me – or I simply find humor in normal things. Either way, I seem to wind up with lots of funny material to use in my playwriting or blog posts. I’ve gone to work with two different shoes or socks on. When I was working, that was a strange thing to do. Today it’s a fashion statement. I’ve left a whole package of frozen bread dough loaves on the counter to thaw. When I returned home, the dough had made a path all around the sink, stove and other areas in the kitchen. I’ve made balloon animals out of surgical gloves while waiting in the ER. I’ve mixed colors in the laundry, and it all turns into tie dye stuff. I actually believe commercials that tell you their product will clean, shine, wax, make like new and remove acne and unsightly warts. I mean none of those things are really going to happen with one product, but if you’re gullible like me, you believe them. I should know better. I was the wife of an advertising director.

This morning I woke up – watched a televised devotion – put my teeth in my mouth and combed my hair. Thankfully I did that in the right order. When I sat down to write my blog, I drew a blank. Most of the time I try to give encouragement or inspire someone or spread God’s love with another. Today I had nothing. I came across the image above and this happened. The muse came to life and there you have it.

It’s Throwback Thursday, so laugh a little. It’s the best medicine around.