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Anecdotes I can throw in here and
there, but I always need a place to start, and a good place to start would be
this advice: Always keep laughing. Laugh at jokes, mistakes, anything.. But
mostly laugh at yourself. Eventually someone is going to make fun of you, that's
life, if you can laugh along with whoever it is, though, that's living :)
I make jokes and joke around quite a bit, with those that know I am a Sanguine,
and those that don't... keeps life interesting. Also, it makes those around
me more at ease, my friends are more likely to joke with me because I usually
start it. Little one liners and bad puns or clichés work best. I don't
think I couldn't count the number of times I have used the line "I never drink...wine".
*L*
I remember the first person I told ever was a good friend of mine, still is,
but the first think he asked wasn't "How do you know?" or "are you joking?"
but "You're not going to try and rob the Red Cross,are you?" his face was utterly
serious *L*
Lots of humanitarian jokes fly about. After all, if vegetarians eat vegetables,
what do humanitarians eat? Laugh at the face of Garlic. Make fun of the old
myths when you can :) I love garlic bread, and garlic toast, and garlic powder
on my popcorn. I have great fun using that fact as a base to joke from. The
old "can't enter until invited" is a good one too. I wait because its polite,
but I make it fun by pretending to hit a wall if I have to walk in and I haven't
been asked in :)
Vampire movies are great joke fodder. Ever notice how every time Lestat bites
someone in Interview it sounds like celery being broken? Lestat... the original
Bunnicula. Dracula: Dead and Loving it, My Best Friends a Vampire, Vampire in
Brooklyn, Love at First Bite, Once Bitten... all of these I would recommend
before any of the more "serious" flicks. Laugh when someone says "Bite me" makes
a day more fun. Record the Ray-Ban commercial on at least one tape, humm the
theme song to Count Duckula, watch Sesame Street just for fun...with the hope
of seeing Count Von Count :)
Another thing I remember was when the 3rd edition of V:tM book came out. A fiend
invited me to a party the local LARP group was doing, took every ounce of control
I had... and biting on my finger... not to burst out laughing when the LARP
group was introduced as "The only real vampires in the room"
When I moved, I told a friend of mine from my hometown on the east coast. For
months she wrote to me as "Dear potato-sucker" instead of the "Dear Potato-picker"
she had started with... can you guess where I moved to?
*thinks* I think laughing like this helps. True, not everything is peaches and
roses, but if one keeps looking at the problems, they can't see the living.
I figure here you are, this is what you are if you can't change it have fun
with it! Lemons to lemonade and such.
Another thing to remember... No matter how hard it gets it can get worse, but
odds are it will get better.
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