Thank You Summer—Jimmy Fallon Style
Stasha of Monday Listicles asked us for 10 Thanks this week. Nobody does gratefulness like Jimmy Fallon. His Thank-You Notes make US grateful we have a DVR, because Erin goes to bed too early to see him live.
1. Thank you, summer, for exquisite sunsets and blogging for making it impossible to just sit here and enjoy it.
2. Thank you chemistry for protecting our kids from summer’s dangers with a marinade of DEET, chlorine, and SPF. Brussel Sprouts should totally counteract this.
3.Thank children for taking turns being pains in the asses over an entire week. It would totally suck to have a full day of summer bliss.
4. Thank you fabulously fit people at the pool for proving once and for all that the government guidelines regarding fitness are utter crap. If you want to walk up stairs without a coronary, thirty minutes a day is just fine. If you want to rock a bikini, you are gonna need to move into the gym and swap your kids for protein shakes.
5. Thank you easy breezy schedules for letting us sleep in every day, letting us hang out every evening, and giving our kids the freedom to constantly bug us for sleepovers. Nothing says easy like a house full of other people’s kids.
6. Thank you lower gas prices for making it possible for us to hang out in real life. Communicating with each other through our joint Twitter account was getting old and making us a little creepy to our followers.
7. Thank you, crazy people, for being consistent and keeping it up over the summer. We wouldn’t know what to do if you surprised us and gave us the summer off from your reign of insane.
8. Thank you air conditioning for preventing fratricide and swamp butt. Our kids appreciate living to see the light of a new day and, well, crack sweat is not attractive on anybody.
9. Thank you X-treme Sports for making us think we should teach our kids to paddle-board this summer. And kayak. And rock climb. And mountain bike. Instead of, you know, just swim.
10. Thank you soccer ball for hours of baby-sitting and all around knock-in-the-head fun, thus allowing us time to sit here and write this list when we could be watching the sunset.
And thank you Stasha for hosting Monday Listicles on your blog The Good life. It is always a cool place to hang complete with lovely sunsets, the most photogenic child, and a mammoth of a dog. Go check out Stasha’s gorgeous photographs and what everyone else is thankful for this week.
By Ellen Williams Erin Dymowski
Sometimes I look at fabulously fit people and wonder what true wonders of life they are missing.
Perhaps someone who is fabulously fit will write a listicle this week to explain it.
Thanks to thighs that don’t fill the whole car seat when I sit down and buckle up.
Thanks to my 6-pack abs, so my cleavage goes from clavicle to skimpy bikini top.
Thanks to my rock hard buns that are indifferent to your dagger like stares.
Hm, I could only come up with three. Sad for them.
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Best comment! HAHAHHA! Ellen
I went to a girls only luau on Saturday and fretted all Friday about being in front of everyone in my bathing suit. I now thank everyone who was there for not being perfect. A couple were thinner but mostly we were all chunky somehow.
Great list, as is everything you two do.
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What a great party! I need that kind of invitation. Ellen
I always learn something new when I read ya’ll…swamp butt…hahaha!
thank you for sarcasm and an entertaining list.
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Now, have you never had swamp butt or you just didn’t know the proper medical term?
Ellen
Jimmy Fallon made my list too. Awesomesauce:)
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Gotta go check it out! Ellen
Glad you had a great time and love the sunset photo. Thank you for always making me laugh with your fab lists and your awesomesauce blog. I heart you double Es!
PS there is no such thing as blissful when you take kids on vacation
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Truth in blogging. We were actually TOGETHER watching THAT sunset on THAT river beach while writing THIS Listicle.
And the kids were being entertained by the soccer ball playing “Run the Gauntlet,” a game that involved running as a pack and avoiding being taken out by the “shooter” with the ball. Sweet times.
Ellen
This was one of the best lists ever, thankful, yet realistic! And swamp butt? HA, Ha, ha!
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Thank you! How can you not laugh at swamp butt? Unless you have it and then it is not funny at all. Ellen
See, you may be attending the wrong pool. Hit the local water park. If its anything like the one here you will instantly gain confidence. So much so that you could likely strut around naked while singing “I’m sexy and I know it” at the top of your lungs.
Yes. It is THAT bad. I must bleach my eyeballs after every trip!
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Truth be heard! Ellen
What a fabulous list. I especially liked thanking chemistry and the soccer ball.
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Better living through chemistry. Ellen
I think your post is a beautiful Thank You to summer. The season that I love….and like you, I had to thank whomever invented air conditioning. For without it, I don’t think I’d love summer so much.
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We LOVE summer so much. I start to mourn its departure starting in August, but I think without A/C my love would not be so fervent. Freon is fabulous. Ellen
I am thankful for our air conditioning too. I usually have to wear a sweater, but my husband would get so cranky without it that I wouldn’t be able to bear it. And I wasn’t even considering swamp butt. Great list!
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My husband is the same way! But I will take meat locker over tropical rain forest any day. I can put on a sweatshirt, but I can’t strip down enough to avoid swamp butt without A/C. Ellen
I’m far too lazy to move into the gym so I’ll just have to learn to love my cellulite. Great list!
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I wondered why I wasn’t rocking my bikini – I thought it was because of all the margaritas and ice cream. Hilarious post as usual, ladies!
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Hahaha!! Love the kids being “pains in the asses” one…and each taking turns doing it. Sounds a lot like our house
That last picture is really gorgeous! Also, summer is the best time of year!!
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Thank goodness for air conditioning! Looks like a lot of people feel the same too! Nothing like sitting down on the couch to watch a movie & wanting to snuggle up only to find someone is sweaty! Thank goodness there’s a fix for that!
Yesterday I became sucked into the Iron Man from Hawaii competition. One day a year, I watch that shit and think “Hell, I could swim, bike, & run” then I wake up the next morning and think, who the hell am I kidding? I don’t run or bike.
I kind of think the same thing happened to you two with Xtreme sports. Initially a good idea, but then with some thought, that realization WTF?!?
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Crazy people get worse during the summer. I was recently accosted at a Walmart for wearing my Maryland Law shirt. Apparently the woman found it offensive…unlike my “Jesus is my Health Insurance” shirt, which is totally blase. I think it’s the heat and solar flares (in that it is too hot to wear the tin foil hats that protect one from the mind controlling solar flares).
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You should look into the dry fit solar flare protection hats and pass them out on your way from the parking garage. Ellen
Ewwwwww! Crack sweat! I just totally had a mental picture of a plumber’s ass. Thank you very much for that image before bedtime.
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Bahahaha! Great list! Thanks for the giggles
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I can’t possibly pick my fave on this list. I love them all!
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I think I love you for #4.
That is all. (-:
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I’m afraid I’m with Erin…well maybe not so much going to bed early but I don’t watch Jimmy Fallon on a regular basis so thank you for including the clip. Makes your list even better than FANTASTIC if that’s possible.
Beautiful sunset photo!!! Diane
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That’s a fabulous sunset.
#4 totally cracked me up because there is much truth in what you write there.
Swamp butt is bad for everybody.
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Great list and even better that you guys got to be together to do it. Love the sunset photo!
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I LOVE this list!!! Totally love it! My favorite part of the list? Thank you Air Conditioning!! Amen sisters! Because – you are right… no one wants to see sweaty butt cracks
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Thank you! It really is a public service, preventing sweaty butt cracks. Ellen