Sisters

I love my sister dearly! We haven't always seen eye to eye, (sometimes head to head), but I'd like to think the love was reciprocated these days. We are polar opposites, she is blonde, (well born blonde anyway), she's good at academic subjects such as maths, where I'd run screaming. She's bold and has a big belly laugh, where as I can be a bit of a mouse at times. She's also very funny and makes me laugh, hysterically sometimes.

I have these things known as "-ism's". A suffix which I attach to the name of certain people which denotes certain idiosyncratic behaviour. I in my naivety am known for Sarah-ism's. Things normally fall from my mouth before my brain has time to compute. My sister is an intelligent girl, she could qualify for Mensa any day,  however she is know for her Dawn-ism's and they are another ballgame altogether!

It was my nephews 9th Birthday today and as per usual we got together to celebrate. My nephew also has these moments and you can definitely see who he takes after. Three Dawn-ism's were mused over this evening which I would like to share. Granted they may not seem quite as funny retelling them, but they raised more than a snigger to the witnesses.

Dawn-ism No1:
My sister had been sitting with her arm propped up on the back of the sofa. On looking around she managed to scare herself when she caught a glimpse of a random hand floating in her peripheral vision.......her own hand!

Dawn-ism No2:
My sister and her partner recently went to a Chinese buffet restaurant for a meal. As her partner got up to go to the bathroom, she noticed a woman staring at her from across the room. Despite looking back at the woman, the woman continued to stare. She said herself that she felt a little irked by this woman's nerve. That is until she realised that the woman staring was in fact herself, staring at herself in the mirror.

Dawn-ism No3:
I think everyone was stunned by Felix Baumgartner's feat when he jumped from the edge of space back to earth. 24miles up breaking the fastest skydive at 833MPH, he of course was aided by a rather nifty suit that stopped his blood from boiling, organs from combusting etc. He also was attached to a very high tech parachute. Common knowledge by now you would think.

In Dawn's world the chain of events went something like this: He had no parachute and when he landed he gently went into a forward roll. Her explanation went something like.....I thought that when travelling at such a speed from so high up, the land became kind of softer when you landed. I mean I know he was in space, but I didn't realise how high up that actually was.

I haven't set it in quotes because I was too busy laughing to honestly say that it was verbatim. Instead I have highlighted the text it in airy fairy pink, it should be obvious why!

All that I can say is thank you for the laughs and being you! xx