Hard to believe that I’m at Blog Post #50 already. It’s seems like just yesterday I did Blog Post #1 and it went viral. Thank you to everyone who has read this ridiculously entertaining goodness and supported this endeavour in some way over the years. It really has been fun.

It’s been a crazy month. I started full time training Mondays to Fridays to prepare for my new nursing job in Community Care. I completed my book this month as well. The irony is not lost on me that as soon as I finish a book on bedside nursing, I leave bedside nursing. Now I wait as I have two different people go over my book with a fine-toothed gnome, looking for any erorrs I may have made. I also need to ensure that all content in “Nursing: The Funny Side of the B.S.” is professionally acceptable.

Since my time is limited this month, I thought I’d share my highlights and favorite moments over the past 49 blogs. It buys me time to write more material and gives you a chance to reminisce about your favorite jokes, stories, and moments.

What Is Roy Blogging On About?

I didn’t really know where this blog was going to go when I started. I just knew I wanted to write. In the beginning, looking back, I was still trying to define the blog. Here’s a few quotes from those early days:

From Blog Post #8 : “my writing blog….a place to write my thoughts on pretty much anything; to practice an art form. There are no rules for spelling, punctuation, or grammar. It’s art.

Yeah, Roy, I know. Spelling, punctuation, grammar, terrible. I’ve been reading it from the beginning.”

From Blog Post #11 : “Each time I go to write a blob post, I always doubt if it will work and whether it will be fun and/or funny. Then it’s like I switch a flip in my brian and it turns out better than I could have hoped for (full of cheesy ridiculous stupidness).”

Every once in a while, I came up with good quotes which helped define my blog a little more:

From Blog Post #14 : “People exchange their time (something that doesn’t exist but is invaluable) for money (which is only valuable due to the meaning and worth people have given to it) and in the process lose their soul (which none of us have).”

From Blog Post #37 : “Fulfillment doesn’t come from comfort or entertainment, it comes from purpose and achievement.”

Looking back, I guess it wasn’t just all jokes, all humor, all laughs, all the time after all.

Photography

I’ve enjoyed sharing some of my photos. This was the one that got the most responses.

From Blog Post #38 : “If you missed the British Royal Wedding on TV or haven’t seen any pictures, this is my photo showing everything important that you may have missed.”

Words of Wisdom

What started out as “Health Tips” soon became “Words of Wisdom.” Here are a few of my favorites that people seemed to enjoy.

1. From Blog Post #13 : “Never work an overtime day shift after a night shift (working more than 12 hours in a row). You’ll become more forgetful than Dory on Jeopardy with Alan Trebek.”

2. From Blog Post #19 : “Have some patience when driving. The light has barely turned green and people are honking. It seems that people are honking at you before you even have a chance to finish your text.”

3. From Blog Post #34 : “Don’t procrastinate on things you want to do. Time is running out for all of us….maybe not Queen Elizabeth, Keith Richards, or Betty White….but for the rest of us; Don’t wait!”

4. From Blog Post #43 : “Have cheat days. February is the month when most people go off their ambitious new year diets. The discipline only lasts so long for most people. That’s why I love cheat meals and cheat days. They’re great for a mental break and the extra calories can boost your metabolism. Does Tom Brady have cheat days? Yes, every day…but he always feels deflated afterwards.”

5. From Blog Post #22 : “Don’t eat food that doesn’t belong to you without asking first! I recently heard a story of a restaurant cook who saw a cake in the fridge. The cook didn’t know that the cake had been dropped off by a family that had reservations to celebrate a 50th birthday that night in the restaurant. The cake was worth over $600 U.S.D. The cook ate it. So at the end of dinner, the family asked for the cake to be brought out…..no cake. The manager had the pleasure of explaining that the cook had eaten the cake (they should have said it was dropped). I hope the dinner the cook made was good. What would you say if that was your cake?

• The cook ate the cake.
• Too many cooks spoiled the cake.
• It was a piece of cake.
• It was a piece of cook.
• Cooking is a piece of cake.
• You can have your cake and eat it too.
• You can have their cake and eat it too.
• That was icing on the cake.
• That was icing on the cook.
• You can’t have your cake and cook it too.
• You can’t have your cook and cake too.
• Way to go Cookcake.

The Best of…

The most popular blog posts were:

#37. (Translating the Cold Hard WOD)

#31. (Leaving ‘Paradise’: Ode to My Dad)

#1. (First Blog Post)

My favorite moments:

From Blog Post #39 : “The Titanic was built in Belfast and the people are very proud of that fact. Belfast has the largest Titanic museum in the world. We all know it was ‘Ice’s’ fault that the Titanic sank.”

From Blog Post #41 : “I want to wish all my readers peace and Roy over the holidays. May you all have tidings of comfort and Roy. If you see Santa, remind him to stop at The Island of Misfit Roys.”

So many great moments but really it’s been all about the ending jokes. Here are a few of my favorites although they’re all great. Enjoy.

My wife’s friend was telling us about how she had recently taken up fishing and she was very excited, “I caught my first fish the other day!”

Didn’t that upset the people at the pet store?”

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My friend has had progressive hearing loss for years. She was telling me that she was going to be getting hearing aids after she was recently tested. She said, “I have trouble hearing ‘A’s, ‘O’s, ‘E’s, and ‘R’s.”

I said, “Oh my god! You think my name is ‘Y’ ??”

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My wife recently asked me, “What should we do first when we get to San Francisco?”

I said, “First thing I have to do is send a message on Twitter that says, “Rice-a-roni”.”

“Why?”

“Because it’s a San Francisco tweet.”

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I have to say this about my wife: Although she’s selfish, self centered, and usually only thinking of herself, she’s still the love of my wife.

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I was asked what the highlight was from our trip to Britain. I said, “That’s easy. It was getting the chance to hang out with The Queen in London.”

“Wow, you met The Queen?”

“Met The Queen? I’ve been married to her for 11 years.”

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This was one of my favorites. It was right after the movie “Birdbox” came out:

Britain’s separation from the European Union has been predicted to be an apocalyptic event and as such has recently been renamed, “Birdbrexit.”

A lot of British people think the whole thing is a bunch of Sandra Bullocks.

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Thank you again to everyone who has read and supported this blog 50 times (or even a few times). Here’s hoping for 50 more. Cheers!