My Least Favorite Things!

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

No one has ever accused me of having a voice like an angel, or even like Julie Andrews in the movie, Sound of Music.  In fact, last Christmas my oldest daughter bought me a Karaoke machine and no one will help me set the thing up.  I begged again this Christmas and the two people who reside in this house with me told the two people who got to fly back to Oregon after Christmas to please not help me or else.  Even without my microphone, I sing everyday and I love to make up songs.  Usually, I belt them out in the morning while I am getting ready for the day.  This works well for me when it is just Fudge and Vern in the house, but on the weekends I have to sing through the pain of the audience all but throwing rotten tomatoes at me and heckling me with comments like, “will you please shut up…your voice is so shrill I think you just broke my eardrums…Hayley, check outside. Is there an animal dying?....God in heaven, make it stop.”   Oh well, all good artists know you have to keep working at your craft.  Well, last night the lyrics to my next song came to me while I was sleeping and I wanted to write them down before I forgot them.  Please feel free to sing them along with me to the tune of My Favorite Things from the Sound of Music.

 

My Least Favorite Things

 

Raindrops on muddy paws and poop bags and mittens

Bright yellow throw up and warm hissing kittens

Brown paper packages with urine samples inside

These are a few of dog things I abide

 

Cream colored messy dogs and crisp winter days

Walks in all weather and rough housing called play

Wild geese that fly above and taunt my poor dogs

Sometimes prompting my least favorite jogs

 

Dogs in all colors with their long golden tethers

Cause me to issue corrections and swear like a mother

Silver white snowballs that cling to their fur

These are a few of the things I endure

 

When the dogs fight

When the pee stains

When I want to cry

I simple remember I love these two dogs

And then I don’t ask myself “why?”

Feel free to add a stanza or two because singing really is a great stress reliever, even if you don't sound like Barbra Streisand.

[F, Calla & Luca]

You betcha. Sadly it didn't do any good, though.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

I think that belt thing was equivalent to ACV :)

[F, Calla & Luca]

You hit the nail on the head. It did just the same amount of good. Tell me you don't remember it?

http://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/cool-things-belt-vibrator/15638

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

I remember it, but I never used one.

[F, Calla & Luca]

I think I tried someone's once.

[Leslie and Halas]

I remember seeing those things.  I can't believe that didn't work :)

[F, Calla & Luca]

They did work Leslie. They were found to be just as effective as ACV.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Leslie, At my age, I might already be doing pee-ups and fartleks:)

[Leslie and Halas]

LOL

[F, Calla & Luca]

Why, dare I ask, do they call them burpees?

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Uh oh, that is another question for the scientific group. I have no idea. I wonder if Bonnie Hunt knows?

Wait a minute...I found the reason. Named for a guy. I hate him :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burpee_(exercise)

Hold on-link not working..here you go.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the exercise was named in the 1930s for American physiologist Royal H. Burpee, who developed the Burpee test. He earned a PhD in Applied Physiology from Columbia University in 1940 and created the "Burpee" exercise as part of his PhD thesis as a quick and simple way to assess fitness.^[2] The exercise was popularized when the United States Armed Services adopted it as a way to assess the fitness level of recruits when the US entered WWII. Consisting of a series of the exercises performed in rapid succession, the test was meant to be a quick measure of agility, coordination and strength.^[3]

 

[F, Calla & Luca]

As usual the little red hen had to look it up herself.

"According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the exercise was named in the 1930s for American physiologist Royal H. Burpee, who developed the Burpee test. He earned a PhD in Applied Physiology from Columbia University in 1940 and created the "Burpee" exercise as part of his PhD thesis as a quick and simple way to assess fitness.^[2] The exercise was popularized when the United States Armed Services adopted it as a way to assess the fitness level of recruits when the US entered WWII. Consisting of a series of the exercises performed in rapid succession, the test was meant to be a quick measure of agility, coordination and strength."

One of those would surely be the death of me : )