
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

If you put a bunch of chameleons on top of a bunch of chameleons on top of a bowl of Skittles what would happen? Is that science? Because if so, I finally get why people want to do science.
Jenny Lawson • Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
I should have slapped the card to the ground and yelled, “Witchcraft!” but you always think about these things too late.
Jenny Lawson • Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Whenever Hailey tells me kids at school were mean to her I want to go find those kids and tell them that I’m them from the future and that they’ve failed miserably. And then I’d be like, “And look how fat you got.”
Jenny Lawson • Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Bruce Springsteen said you can’t start a fire without a spark, but you can start it with a magnifying glass. It ruins the rhyme scheme but at the cost of science. And arson. But maybe it’s still a spark even if it starts with a magnifying glass? Maybe the first flame is always a spark? But that’s like saying you can’t start a fire without a fire. T
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Why is it “incapable” and “unable” instead of “uncapable” and “inable?” You can have an inability but you can’t be inable. I’m uncapable of understanding how these decisions were made.
Jenny Lawson • Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
“We wish you a merry Christmas” is the most demanding song ever. It starts off all nice and a second later you have an angry mob at your door scream-singing, “Now bring us some figgy pudding and bring it RIGHT HERE. WE WON’T GO UNTIL WE GET SOME SO BRING IT RIGHT HERE.” Also, they’re rhyming “here” with “here.” That’s just sloppy. I’m not rewarding
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When I wake up in the morning I often find messages left to me on my phone. Then I read the messages and I suspect that I’m being stalked by a madwoman. And I am. That madwoman is me. The calls are coming from inside the house. Some of these notes are written while I’m waiting for my sleeping pills to kick in, but most are written at two a.m., when
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My Phone Is More Fun to Hang Out with Than Me
Jenny Lawson • Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Sometimes crazy is just right.