Uh, yea: me.
Get in the mood with Halloween jokes, one-liners, and puns. Plus some clever and creative photos.
I picked up a little toy skeleton at the grocery store with the thought of a completely different photo project than the one I ended up completing. It turns out that I needed to play.
Adults that incorporate play into their lives cope with stress with more ease and fluidity. Play makes us adaptive and resilient to whatever might come next. And lately, we’ve had a big lesson that there is always a next. It’s easy to go into fear about the next shoe dropping, but there’s a better way to respond.
Besides, adults that play are less likely to use avoidant or negative coping strategies when times get tough. So instead of overeating, overdrinking, punching the wall, try play. Cognitive functioning improves, creative thinking flourishes, and best of all, you laugh.
On to Halloween jokes and puns.
Woohoo! The birth of "Bones on the Banister." Both a trick and a treat. And boy, once I reviewed the photos, I realized that I needed to dust in a bad way.
With the World Series in October, the MLB invited Bones to the mound for the ceremonial first pitch. After his wind-up, he proclaimed, "I always wanted tibia star."
From a humble start modeling the human anatomy at an orthopedic clinic, Bones got a big break and hit the runway.
Bones goes wild for another Arizona Cardinals win. When asked if he ever played football, he replied, "I was always afraid of the snap."
Good bone health comes from eating right and weight-bearing exercises. Bones is particularly fond of deadlifts, but needs to work on his guns today.
I'm not sure I'd be this calm before a big recital, but Bones leaned over and whispered, "Nothing really gets under my skin."
There's no bad ideas when the team is brainstorming. Unless you have some spooks on the call with you. I've never seen Bones quite so shocked.
What's your secret to growing candy corn, Bones? "The best organic soil possible. I find crumbled brownies and chocolate chips to yield a bumper crop."
"If I'm not in my studio painting abstract art, I feel so hollow inside." Hey, Bones, this is a trick. These art pieces look eerily similar to ones in my Impressionism Art Gallery.
Oh no, Bones. The doctor thinks you might be running a femur.
Watching the tube with the tubers.Bones loves him some Addams Family and popcorn. But he gave the little guys the remote. Watch out Bones. They might change the channel to "The Princess Fries" movie.
Getting ready for November and letting that stache grow out. You guys look gourd-geous.
One look at La Catrina from his neighboring holiday, Dia de los Muertos, and Bones said, "true love, I can feel it in my bones."
And while you may not be into playing with kids’ toys just yet, play takes on many forms. One of which is sharing laughs with others. So share away and send this off to someone who could really use some skele-fun.
For more ways to figure out how to play, assuming the toy thing might not be your schtick, take a look at this article. BTW, “schtick” comes from another period of play in my life when my college roommate Karen taught me a Yiddish word every week; I then had to use the Yiddish word-of-the-week in a sentence. I know, I know, it took me this long to find a sentence for “schtick?”
Ann Newman is a photographer, writer, and creator of Annstracts who brings readers inspiration through her abstract photos. As a former, professionally-trained salesperson, Ann understands that people want to solve problems or accelerate growth for a better future. Exploring the little moments in life with gratitudes gives her art a positive spin. You might find Ann near her home in Phoenix, bent down looking at the tiniest details of a bug, patting any nearby dog, or asking “why” an awful lot.