lee ann = jessica

i have this cute friend lee ann... i like to tell lee ann stories sometimes... anyone that knows me and has been around me for a good amount of time has heard at least one of the lee ann stories...

this weekend, for some reason, i've been inundated with jessica simpson... newlyweds has been on mtv a lot... and then tonight, the rerun of when jessica and nick were on snl was on... and as i was watching it, it hit me... jessica simpson is just like my friend lee ann...

i could see lee ann confused about chicken of the sea... "i know it's tuna, but is it fish or chicken?" - those are words that wouldn't surprise me coming out of lee ann's mouth...

so here are a few lee ann stories...

lee ann worked in an office during the summer that i worked in during the school year... our supervisor was a pretty sarcastic guy... but he asked lee ann one day to drive over to our other offices and get some file folders... about 20-25... so lee ann drives to the other office and comes back with the file folders... and jon asks her to make one for every letter of the alphabet... lee ann makes a frustrated face and says, "jon, if i would've known that's what you were going to have me do, i would've gotten 23!!"

my sophomore year, i lived in a 2-story townhouse with 2 roommates... roommate lisa put a sign over the stairs that said "carpe diem" - lee ann came over after we moved in and i was giving her the tour... as we were walking down the stairs, lee ann looked at the sign and said, "carp... carpee... carpee dye-em...?" i'll give her credit because it's a different language... but it's a popular expression...

one time lee ann went with her boyfriend (now husband) to the movies... they were leaving and walking back through the theater... looking at the new releases... and the movie "man on the moon" was coming out... (the story of andy kauffman played by jim carrey)... so lee ann stops, looks at it and reads... "my name is andy... this is my pah-ster..." (like imposter without the im...) she stands there, looking confused... "pah?? ster?? paaaahhhhh-sterr...?? pahster... ?" - so after a few minutes, boyfriend/husband joseph looks at her and says, "you do know it's poster, right?" - then she says, "oh... pohster..."

one time lee ann and her friend julie went to a baseball game with their friend matt... about half way through the game, lee ann looks at julie and says, "who are we playing..." - and julie says, "tuck-son"... lee ann looks at julie and says, "julie, it's not "tuck-son" - it's "toookson!!! matt just laughed... "it's tucson..."

okay - last one... lee ann came up to me one day and says, "did you know that if you hold your arm in the air for a really long time, you can forget that you have your arm in the air?" evidently, she and julie had tried it and they forgot they had their arms in the air...

there are more, but you get the idea... i'll stop there...

the thing is... as dumb as she is, she's so cute... and fun... so it's more fun to just laugh together and have fun with it... she's not ever embarassed about it... and she's well-liked... yes, sometimes it takes a little patience on joseph's part... but the laughs can definitely be worth it... and she's really bright... she's not an idiot... she just sometimes says really stupid stuff... which i'm thinking might be the case with jessica simpson...

and as irritating as i find jessica simpson, it's funny... it's fun to laugh... obviously it doesn't bother her that bad... she can laugh at herself... so it works...

so i'm enjoying my epiphany... friend lee ann is my version of jessica simpson... (pictures below...)