September 13

Thank goodness we found these five things to laugh about this week because Ava is mainly not in a laughing mood. Why you ask? Ava can be counted on to laugh at just about anything, right? Well, not when Amylynn goes off on a small vacation with her adult family members and leaves her at Bank of No Forks all alone for two days – Ava is not laughing then!!!! But she did let out a small chuckle and a tiny guffaw over these . . .

1. Dennis Rodman – The sisters have always thought Dennis was a bit of an idiot. After all, he

somehow messed up his relationship with Carmen Electra. It seems he had no idea he was totally out of his league, even if she was a little nuts. Aren’t all of those pretty girls crazy? Anyway, he went over to North Korea, apparently not realizing he’s American, and said of Kim Jong Un, apparently not realizing he’s the repressive dictator of North Korea, “He has to do his job, but he’s a very good guy.” What? WTF? What? We’re calling his mother . . .

2. Robert Taylor 1936-2013 – Who is Robert Taylor you ask? Well, we’ll tell you who . . . he’s the guy who invented hand soap via a pump. His company introduced Softsoap in 1978. He says he came up with it because he hated the mess left behind by bars of soap. I hate the mess left behind by the children who live at my house – can someone invent something to take care of that? Well done Mr. Taylor, well done. You’ll be missed.

3. That’s MR. Siri to you – Finally, the Apple people have come up with an improvement that the sisters have been hankering for. We like Siri well enough but it always bothered us that she was a girl. The sisters don’t respond well to being pushed around by other women. Siri can now switch gender to a male voice. We’d like our male voice to be British. Like James Bond. We won’t mind being pushed around by 007. We don’t know any real women who would.

4. Crown Tattoos – Ava doesn’t have any tattoos but she saw a crown tattoo that she fell in love with. She showed it to Amy, who does have tattoos, and to several other ladies at Bank of No Forks and now they all want one. We’re all going to go over to the tattoo parlor after work on Friday – who’s in???!!!

5. A Balanced Budget Amendment – As you readers know, we’re not a political blog even if we keep calling up the white house with our excellent suggestions for the running of the country. They need to stop hanging up on us or we’re going to think they don’t want to talk. We came upon the excellent idea of the federal government having a balanced budget when we saw a poll showing that better than 72% of Americans agree. Americans can’t agree on anything and ba-da-bing – there it is, an agreement. If we have to balance our budget at home and suffer, everyone has to. We will presume that Mr. Rodman did not vote in the poll since he’s out of the country . . .