Have I ever mentioned how awesome Wes is?  Because seriously, the man is fantastik.  Not fantastic.  Fantastik.  He’s so cool he gets his own special spelling of a cool word.  That’s pretty cool.

The reason I’m so singing Wes’ praises right now is that he’s doing me a huge favor by helping me out with a big project for work.  We have to do a video to win a small business grant and none of us has the time or skill to shoot and edit a video.  We were going to have one of my boss’ friends help us out yesterday but the scheduling didn’t work out.  I was looking at the prospect of having to shoot the video myself (a very bad idea) and I called Wes to kvetch.  He sprang into action and put his projects on hold to save the day.

Within an hour we had a bunch of raw footage and Wes was home again, editing his face off.  He worked all day (in between conference calls and interviews) and has a rough draft already done.  It’s awesome.  The editing is great, the shots are fun, and he even wrote an original guitar riff to play during the intro.  Seriously, he went the extra mile and then kept right on going.

That’s the real Thing That Does Not Suck this week, but I’m loathe to show the video off yet because it’s not done.  Instead, to sate your appetite for non-suckitude, I present you with a site I just discovered today.  It’s called Awkward Family Photos and showcases the very best awkward family photos ever scraped off the bottom of someone’s hall closet.  It’s an amusing site with which to waste some time, and I doubt they’ll run out of photos to showcase soon.

I’ll leave you with my favorite photo from that site, with the hopes that your Friday and weekend are substantially less awkward than any of the photos on that site.

Doesn't the lady in front look THRILLED to be holding that parrot?

Think fertile thoughts for me this weekend as I take another pregnancy test to discern whether my extremely late period (seriously, like a week and a half late) is due to freak of nature-ness or because of a tiny little person.  I will of course keep you all posted (ha ha!  Get it?  Posted?  Because I write blog posts?)  I’m going to leave now before I pun again.

I was talking to Wes during a break today and I mentioned that I didn’t have any ideas for today’s Thing That Does Not Suck.  He came to the rescue and said he had just the thing, that he would email it to me and that the only catch was that I had to tell him what my reaction was.

My reaction was pure, unadulterated mirth.  I must have watched this at least four times in a row today, every time laughing more than the next.  It probably sucks for this guy, so perhaps he doesn’t think it doesn’t suck, but I certainly do.

This week’s Thing, courtesy of Wes:

I mean, what isn’t funny about a guy getting kicked in the back by a kangeroo?  I have to stop writing now because I keep watching the video and giggling like a fiend.  I know it’s kind of mean, but that doesn’t stop it from being hilarious.

I’ve gotten into the disturbing habit of going outside and weeding every day when I get home from work.  The sun is too delicious to waste, and after a day of looking at the computer I have next to no desire to sit in front of it while the sun is out.  My concern has to do with my gardening gloves, and what my tan lines will look like after an entire summer spent outside weeding.  I’ll be Erika “Albino Hands” Mitchell all winter…

Another thing I’ll be?  Is a freak, because apparently I’m the only one in the world who hates buying toilet paper.  I wrote a guest post about it for Alice and the post only got one comment.  My last post for them got 15 comments total (about half of which were from me responding to people) so I’m going to take this one personally.  Whatever, I’m just trying to keep it real around here.  I’m really a freak, so does it not logically follow that my posts would be slightly off from center?  If the world’s not ready for my thoughts on buying toilet paper, I’ll just have to peddle them elsewhere.

In the same vein as my strange blog post for Alice is this week’s Thing That Does Not Suck.  I found it through happy happenstance today and it’s had me giggling all afternoon.  It’s another comic, but this one is cool in exactly the opposite way as the last comic I featured on here.  This comic is strange, and odd, and may not be funny the first time you look at it.  Take a peek:

See?  You’re probably not laughing.  But look closer.  Look at the guy’s face in particular.  Something about the strangeness of the humor has kept me in stitches all afternoon.  I found it on this site called Married to the Sea, and the blog’s full to the brim with random comics.  I’ve scrolled through the first page and I think they’re hilarious.  If this gives you a whole new thing to waste time looking at while you’re working I couldn’t be happier.  If this isn’t really your cup of tea, maybe next week will be more to your taste.

I’m off to go lick my wounds and scheme up more topics I can blog about that no one else will agree with…