2014-01-24



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Today’s post features photos from our first family trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Have a great weekend!

 What is Follow Friday? It’s a blog series I created a few years ago based on a Twitter meme.  Learn more about it in my FAQ. See my nomination for a Shorty Award for Follow Friday here. You can read more Follow Friday goodness here. Would you like to be a guest photographer for Follow Friday? Email me!



thenomodellady  There’s really no graceful way to eat sushi. With your hands. While driving.

shinyinfo   I hope nobody follows me for library tweets. I hope everybody follows me for astute A-Team tweets.

fart  just got a wrong number for someone named “Rambone” but i’m gonna run with it. i am Rambone now

josswhedon  How do you undelete a tweet? Also, how do you undo most of your adult life?

EliBraden  Most people outside Denver don’t realize ‘Broncos’ is short for ‘Brony Cosplayers’

jerryRenek  Hurray, we CAN do worse.

BeTheBoy  In Soviet Russia, RT’s are endorsements.

donni  Worst Excuses For Arson 5) Dragons did it 4) Yellow, warm, pretty 3) Fire is a myth 2) Had too much water 1) It was always burning

muffpunch  The lady doing stretches in the bowling alley parking lot is no one to fuck with, other bowlers.

MommyMG  Matt watched the girls this AM so I could sleep in a little bit. When I came downstairs he & the dog were both wearing Hello Kitty headbands.

thejamietighe  Brain: Day off? Let’s get you up at 6.

Me: I just… Brain:

UP AT 6!

Me: But…

Brain: Here have some soothing music. *plays Macarena*

cloudypianos  I believe in you. No sorry I thought you were someone else.

marlespo  I’m at the cinema with all 3 of my boys and no one has died or cried yet but then again it hasn’t started.

cloudypianos  I’ve just been saying “life is hard” to everyone I pass and I think it’s helping.

josephesque  Can’t sleep so I’m practicing riddles with my cat. He hasn’t gotten one yet so I think I’m getting better at this.

InfiniteChicken  I like Buzzfeed, but sometimes it’s easier to push AA battles into my sinuses.

JesseThorn  Best sports in the Winter Olympics: 1) Hockey? 2) Made-up thing with snowboards or whatever 3) Frozen rich people shit 4) none

TheNextMartha  Today my son read the donut names when ordering. Proud moment.

The_Dorkster  I need a joint roller, but for burritos.

inthefade  My high school sack of flour baby would be 35 years old this month if I didn’t turn it into pancakes shortly after birth.



FlyteAphrodite  Not sure where in the baby book I put “first shared mother-son laughter over a news article about masturbation” but today’s the big day!

RaeBeta  LIFE HACK: be a rich, straight, white, Christian dude with shiny hair.

DrMaldoror  When the good Lord closes the door, you’ve missed curfew and must sleep in the car. #PlausibleAdages

STACEYNIGHTMARE  I just flew in from Manhattan and boy I shit on like 20 cars.

helenlewis  I have just realised that uteruses are technically 3D printers.

BillCorbett  I know people complained, but frankly I was glad they cut all the sex scenes from JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI

DrMaldoror  Is it “necrophile” or “necrophiliac”? Asking for the gals at church.

Soulsmithy  In my journalist capacity, I have a Twitter hater I adore and will never block. He’s just so feeble and predictable. I luff heem.

eehouls  lady, don’t scream, “A G-STRING? ARE YOU SERIOUS?” into your phone and then don’t fill the rest of us in.

twelveyearsold  new syfy movies • pornado (tornado w/ boobs) • cocaino (volcano filled w/ cocaine) • dino frog vs mecha-owl (allegory for 2004 US election)

bridger_w  When someone says, “I haven’t seen you in forever,” a fun response is, “I know, we’re really not that good of friends”

CerromeRussell  I’m disappointed that vegan ribs aren’t the ribs of actual vegans

99golems  it’s nice being broke because nobody can possibly scam you

sbellelauren  i need a cup of coffee to be awake enough to make a cup of coffee

tehawesome  Cosmo’s Three Ultimate Ways to Please a Man: 1) Friction 2) Pressure 3) Touchin’ it

dubouchet  Are you tired of looking up? Try my new ground kites! Each kite has wheels and a top-mounted mirror so you can still see the sky.

andrewmorrisey  From now on I’m just going to worry about how many things there are to worry about.

kellyasterisk  Went out to bring in the compost bin wearing my pjs and a towel on my head and some guy yelled WHAT UP SHAWTY from a car

Patheticist  Grab life by the horns because that always works out best in nature when people grab animals that have horns by their horns, good advice.

jennyjaffe  I don’t know, that Milk Hotel seemed pretty biased to me.

jwoodham  Hello, 911? Someone is looking at me while I’m talking to them. Yeah, like they’re not looking at their phone or anything. Please save me.

eoghanmccabe  Something you won’t say when you die: “So glad I got to Inbox Zero.”

apelad  You don’t have to agree with my opinions, but you do have to print them out and hang them over your desk, for everyone to see.

Journalgirl  Amused that my current nemeses take the forms of small, green & brown-clad little girls doing no more than waving rectangular boxes at me.

FlyoverJoel  The closest I’ll ever come to being an action hero is slowly walking away from my car while I click the electronic lock button.

markleggett  Go back in time, kill Hitler, take his place, and win the war with your knowledge of modern technology (how to download apps, basic Excel).

keithuhlich  Now that I’ve read the best comment ever written (“I will poop now”) I shall cease reading comment sections.

fart  i never had sex on a pool table but i have barfed into one of the holes on one

h0mfr0g  god’s not dead he’s just not that into you

JerryThomas  (Gesturing toward my bedroom) “This is where the nothing happens.”

oodja  Instead of saying “Because I said so,” try answering why with “Because I’m holding a thermal detonator!” instead

rstevens  Thrift Tip: TYPE IN ALL CAPS WHENEVER POSSIBLE TO SAVE WEAR AND TEAR ON YOUR SHIFT KEY #ThriftTip

senderblock23  ”Teach me how to accept myself” – Dougie

goodinthestacks  yo, did twitter shit all over twitter again because it looks barfy as fuck

shutupalice  Years ago a girl from my high-school posted 2 status updates 1) ‘Mmmm bacon’ 23 mins later ‘I HATE LIARS!!!!!!!’ I think about it every day.

_Enanem_  I think the worst movie bounty hunter is Smur Fett.

brx0  Seems like the New York Times is rebranding itself as the 4chan for the 1%.

dvoted_hubsand  my greatest fear is that I am gradually becoming my mother. and that my mother was really a crazy moon dragon or a 3000 year-old giant squid

atxstoryboards  X-men policy: Cere-bros before Magneet-hos.

donni  Ladies, help me raise the roof. I hate being a single parent of a roof.

andrewmorrisey  STOP ABSOLVING ME OF MY SINS THEY WERE A LOT OF HARD WORK

louisvirtel  Leonardo DiCaprio is the most serious Fisher Price Little Person ever. #GoldenGlobes

michaelianblack  I’m too masculine to watch “The Golden Globes.” Besides, only half an hour until “Downton Abbey!!!”

fierceflawless  If the 4yo really wants to find me while playing hide & seek, all he needs to do is find where the dogs are congregated & staring.

fart  a good name for a comedy club would be Trader Joke’s (you trade jokes at it)

Chazballpark  Handicap bathroom stall? You mean The Deluxe Twitter Suite?

wordlust  The Facebook Friend should be a Batman villain.

ScrewyDecimal  Holla if you’re also procrastinating because you have no idea what the hell you’re doing!

Molly_Kats  Did you know you can just say you’re going to the ladies room & then walk out, get in your car & speed away from a baby shower?

ProfessorSnack  Heard the NHL video game announce that a player had to “sit for a deuce”. Seems completely reasonable.

rikpayne  Busting the headboard would have made for a helluva story if I wasn’t alone.

MrEmilyHeller  Considering that I can smoke legal weed and watch any episode of Daria I want in the bath, it’s pretty weird that I DON’T believe in God

JerryThomas  And when there were ten sets of footprints in the sand Jesus was playing pick-up basketball.

BeTheBoy  If I had 3 wishes I’d use one to ensure I never had to call anyone on the phone again. Then I’d get two tacos.

InfiniteChicken  I am like a cat in that I will try to cling to my dignity even as life carries me around by the armpits.

Jedimasterbator  Okey dokey hockey donkey!

markleggett  Just used a public toilet that smells like clams. Well, it does now.

ShesAllWrite  When texting your son about his iPhone and your husband about date night you need to be very careful or your son will need therapy forever.

VaguelyFunnyDan  We’re here! We’re queer! Get used to it unless we move but even then just know we’ll still be queer just in that new location!

ScrewyDecimal  Putting the “champ” in “champagne.”

shariv67  My nana’s voicemail greeting is her saying “hello?” a bunch of times, then dialing noises followed by ten minutes of her talking to her cat.

JhonRules  How many kittens is too many to bring on a first date?

hughlaurie  Grumbling is fantastic exercise. I do 5 minutes on weather, 5 on knee pain, and then finish with John Humphrys.

mdob11  Accidentally missed the freeway exit for home, now I’m heading north to start a new life.

SCbchbum  Not trying to tell you how to run your business, Sizzler, but I recommend a free flu shot with every salad bar purchase.

heyitsIsobel  There used to be big dragons everywhere, then a big earth bomb came. It made all the dragons die and then earth was nice for people.

fecklesswaster  For a good pornstar name take your mum’s first name and her second name and put em together

What is Follow Friday? It’s a blog series I created a few years ago based on a Twitter meme.  Learn more about it in my FAQ. See my nomination for a Shorty Award for Follow Friday here. You can read more Follow Friday goodness here. Would you like to be a guest photographer for Follow Friday? Email me!

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