And The Funny Award Goes To...

Update: Thank you to everyone for your ideas on titling this award! More information on the first edition is forthecoming...

I've been feeling that things have been a little, well, depressing here at Chez MotR lately. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's the convergence of *ahem* monthly happenings with what is shaping up to be quite possibly my last few days of breastfeeding Little Guy. (*sniff*) That these two events are occuring simultaneously seems to have sent my hormones completely out of whack, and thus, a sort of sad and easily irritable MotR has emerged of late.

And while I think it is perfectly fine and OK and good to blog about things that aren't just funny and cute and that are actually of a more serious nature, I feel the need to honor the funny stuff today--the stuff that people blog about that gets me "choking on my twizzlers", as one blogger put it in her comments to me once.

And here is why I want to honor the funnies.

Because no matter how completely shitty my day is, no matter how badly I feel like picking up an expensive household item and chucking it across the room for reasons I can't fully explain...I'll open the Internet and something I read on one of your blogs will have me

laughing.
my.
a*s off.

And in those few brief minutes that I'm reading your post, I'll forget about stuff for a while. I'll forget that I still haven't gotten the laundry done. I'll forget that I have a "heart to heart" talk scheduled with my mom this weekend that I'm absolutely dreading even though I know we need to do it. I'll forget that Husband had every right to get annoyed with me this evening because I was being a bit*ch but couldn't help it (those damn hormones again). I'll forget that we're probably getting no vacation again this year and I sooo need a vacation.

When I read these hilariously funny posts, I'll forget it all and just have a good, from-the-gut laugh. And you have no idea how theraputic this is for me.

And so, to the true point of my post.

I want to start a Funny Award. And I want to know what you think about it. It would be a little award that I would hand out to bloggers who got me laughing my tushie off. I wouldn't award these on a schedule. Just when I came across a post that REALLY cracked me up. There are a lot of funny posts out there so it would have to be like spitting-out-my-coffee funny. There would be a button involved for the "awardees" that they could place on their blog, and I would put a link on my sidebar to all the "winning posts" as a way to showcase them.

Now please note that I am in no way qualified to determine what funny is, and I actually don't claim to be funny myself so it is quite possible that you might not think the posts that I select are even that funny. But one thing I've learned about the blogosphere is that you can create anything here. There are no rules. It's an open playing field where non-funny people can hand out funny awards. And ya know, I kinda feel like handing out some funny awards!

So, what do you think? Do you like this idea? Do you think I should do it?

If so, do you have a good idea for a name for my Funny Award? Cuz all I can think of is "The Funny Award," which is completely unoriginal and un-funny. And somehow I think that the name of a funny award should be kinda funny. But I guess it doesn't have to be.

Anyway, whatcha all think? I'm dying to know.

For examples of posts that I think are worthy of The Funny Award, go read Pattie's latest post over at Stolen Moments or go watch this hilarious video of Jenny's daughter over at Mama Drama.