In back of Tall Tales headquarters, on Wednesday, when it was close to 70 degrees, in January, in Kansas, and I was off. Sigh. I spotted the cardinal while I was outside "getting some sun on my pineal gland".
The truth of the matter is there is no way to get actual sun on your pineal gland because it is located deep in the middle of your brain. But somehow Chris and I got in the habit of saying that and it stuck. If you have been married over 30 years, you and your spouse have ridiculous sayings like that too. Don't try to deny it.
Getting "sun on your pineal gland" is like "taking the waters", a therapeutic treatment, so to speak. Please feel free to use this saying (and therapy) in your home now that I have introduced it to you. In case you are wondering, it's pronounced pie-knee-ul when it is associated with sun therapy. I wouldn't say it like that in front of your family doctor though.
You crack me up!
Posted by: Tina | 01/31/2015 at 10:51 PM
As I'm reading this post I'm thinking...hmmm How are they getting sun to the pineal gland? I should have known there was a trick up your sleeve. HA
We've been married for 44 years, second marriages for each, but we don't have that kind of ridiculous saying. We do have a strange ability to read one another's mind on occasion, which is really freaky. I'll be thinking I'd like to have dinner at a place we haven't been to in years. My DH will come in and ask if I'd like to go to that place for dinner, is one instance.
Posted by: Joan | 02/01/2015 at 12:03 AM
We've been married 20 years and we have all kinds of ridiculous conversations that we carry on with--no one else would ever have a clue what we are talking about--it's our own little language and we also read each others minds--I will be thinking something and he will say it at about the same time or vice versa--do you do that?
Posted by: Janet Ghio | 02/01/2015 at 08:18 AM
I can always count on you to brighten my day. Love your posts!
Posted by: Pam Michael | 02/01/2015 at 09:58 AM
:) I love hearing these family sayings. My 2nd husband has had some of the family sayings from my 1st marriage now in his vocabulary. Stooging around, waiting aimlessly is "waiting for the 84 bus" which goes back to life in Yorkshire in 1968 where the 84 bus ran along from York-to Harrogate. Smile worthy...
Posted by: Maureen | 02/02/2015 at 12:29 PM
ROFL!!!! At our house, the best phrase would be "Darwin in action". So very useful - so often....
I know that after all these years we should be a couple who completes each other's sentences, but more often, we both forget exactly the word that would complete the sentence, although we know what we mean. Does that make any sense?
Posted by: jeanette, mistress of longears | 02/04/2015 at 01:27 AM