In case you didn't know this - and I'm betting you didn't - we're smack dab in the middle of funny month.
Yep. You heard that right. April, I have just discovered, is National Humour Month.
Not sure why. Not sure why April wouldn't be, oh, National Easter Bunny Month or National Cut Your Lawn Month or National Put Away The Winter Clothes Month.
But it ain't. It's the month that's devoted to laughing.
I am also unclear what I am supposed to do during National Humour Month, but I suspect I should be watching back-to-back episodes of Seinfeld for 30 days straight. Either that,
or bone up on my slapstick comedy and my knockknock jokes.
In any case, it sure as heck beats out National Down in the Dumps Month, which may or may not exist, but would be a natural for November.
By rights, July ought to be National Grill the Ribs Month or National Pulp Fiction Month, but it's probably something similarly curious. You know, like National Book-keeping Month or National Barbershop Quartet Month.
And October? A clear natural for National Rake the Lawn Month or National Stuffing Month, but odds are, it may be National Haircut Month or National Ironing Month.
Who knew? There's no accounting for these things.
"So," I said to the husband, "there are only so many days in April. Shouldn't we be doing something funny before it's over?"
The husband looked at me. Humorously. He clearly hadn't heard.
"It's National Humour Month," I pointed out. "Should we be going to clown school or what?" "What's National Humour Month?" he asked.
"Not a clue," I said. "I only know that it's April."
For the next two weeks, then, I'll try to get with the program. I'll watch Monty Python. I'll draw smiley faces. I'll burst out laughing when someone asks me if I know the directions to the bus stop.
If I get any oddball reactions, I'll just explain that I'm being a woman of the moment -or should I say, the month.
No word yet on what May will bring, but I'm already a bit concerned. I could live with it being National Brunette Month or National Pasta Month or National Library Month, but if it happens to be National High-speed Race
Car Competition Month, I haven't a clue what I'll do.
For now, however, I'll ignore all that and focus on today. Today I'm still in April, and it's a complete and utter laugh.
