Jelly Potatoes

Recently, on a short road trip, my mom, my sister, my boyfriend, and I were all in a car and munching on jelly beans. A little while after we had started eating them, my sister stops and stares at one of hers and tells us:

"They should call them jelly potatoes."

We had a little argument in the car, with my sister saying that they looked more like really small potatoes and the rest of us saying beans made more sense, as they were the same shape and size. (Argument is too serious of a word, as my mom was driving and nearly cried from laughing so hard.)

When we took her to the store, we made sure to show her some beans and the comparison finally made sense to her.

(But we also decided that someone should work on making potato-sized jelly beans to call jelly potatoes.)

Hugie Lugie

You know when you get tongue-tied? Usually, the words you mean to say come out a little jumbled, but once you finally get them out correctly, people can see how the jumble makes sense.

Not with my sister.

Gibberish just comes out. "Hugie lugie" is one such gibberish sentence that she said once. I don't remember what she was trying to say, but trust me, it sounded nothing like "hugie lugie". I think it was something about a deer.

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Cut it in half

We're eating pizza and talking about my two finches. My poor male birdie, Huff, recently died. We picked up another society finch, but we're still trying to figure out the gender. We're pretty sure it's a girl, though, same as my other (zebra) finch, Puff.

Now, some eggs were just laid (which I suspect the new bird laid). My mom asked if they were both sitting on the egg and I answered that they were. My mom says that we will have to get another bird, now, and my sister and I agree. There's a moment of silence as we chew our pizza. In my sister's defense, she's staring at the T.V. and so she missed what my mom and I are doing. I'm staring at the pizza, which had huuuuge slices, and debating taking another. So, my mom tells me: "We can cut that in half."

I start to nod in reply, but my sister looks up in panic and asks: "The birds!?"

Aides =/= AIDES

Our father is watching the news and a piece on First Lady Michelle Obama is on. It's talking about her fighting back about some of the things a book has said about her.

One such thing was that the book claimed she "clashed with [President Obama's] aides."

My sister has been facing the television, like my mom and I. Upon hearing this she immediately turns around, eyes wide, shocked, and panicked. She exclaims: "He has AIDS!?"