I hope it’s coming through my blog posts that I’m feeling much better since my break from blogging in April. The tone of Single Dad Laughing is a lot lighter again and hopefully will stay that way for a long time.
It seems that the heavier things get around here, the more I forget not to take life too seriously. So much of my writing becomes heavy, overly-contemplative, and serious. And that’s not very fun, on or off of the blog. I started this blog in an attempt to laugh more. Not less.
So, I was hoping you’d all do me a big favor.
If you feel like I’m falling into that constant heaviness again, please send me an email with one word in it.
WENIS
That’ll be our new code word.
And no, that’s not a dirty word. Wenis is the loose skin on the end of your elbow. 
Don’t get me wrong. I’ll still talk about whatever I want to talk about. I’ll still say whatever’s on my mind. I’ll still do my best to make this world a little more loving. And, I’ll still write on the heavy side… once in a while. But for the most part it will be shorter posts, sillier posts, and stuff that’ll make you laugh or smile.
I’m just asking you to do this because I know that you all tend to see me getting to that low point before I’m ever willing to admit it to myself (as is evidenced by all the comments and emails telling me so). So if I start getting a bunch of emails that say:
WENIS
I’ll know that it’s time to take another break.
It’s good to be Single Dad Laughing again.
Dan
PS. I’m sincerely wondering… what are your favorite everyday posts that you like to see here on Single Dad Laughing? What makes you smile and laugh? What have I not done in a while that you miss?
Okay, I want to go to CafePress right now and see if they have that on a shirt!!!
Your uvula is showing... ;)
*giggles* Back in my 20's I had a t-shirt that said across the front "Show me your Wenis!" and on the back said " Don't get so excited... I just wanna see your elbow!"
Great post, I think everyone who writes has to go through a phase where they struggle with keeping things good while things could be better. Thanks! :D lol love the word,
your wenis is the skin on your elbow correct????
My older daughter used to refer to her, um, private parts as her "weenis". It seemed appropriate LOL.
DeeDee
www.KidNeedsAKidney.blogspot.com
I like the photography bro downs!
Interestingly enough the origin of the word is not scientific, it is only accepted as a slang word to refer to the end of the elbow because sometime a few years ago someone thought it would be funny to pass it around on the internet as fact, and kids (mostly immature boys) thought it was hilarious to say wenis and have other people think they were referring to their penis. haha. Technically, it's not a "real" word, but I think by now it is accepted as slang officially.
One of Tyler's favorite words (my 14 y/o)
My son loves that word - he loved being able to tell people to quit touching his wenis. I use past tense because I am going to believe he has grown out of it until I hear otherwise.
There's a person of Asian extraction I know who pronounces the word "venus" as "wenus".
When I was a kid, we always joked about someone hurting our spleen (funny word too IMO). Now my kiddos say, "You're hurting my wenis!" And they are all boys. It's the best. ::red-faced and laughing::
wenis is also a reference to the skin beween your thumb and forefinger (the webby bit) when it gets stuck in the bite of a gun slide jerking back when your grip is wrong while firing a weapon
Me, my children's father and our children(two boys ages 2 & 4) use the word Wenis instead of penis.
Spell it backwards and you have sinew- a fancy word for tendon! ;)
I haven't read the article yet but all I can think about is Chandler on Friends!!!
My sons' favorite word circa age 5, nice.
Old people say the wisest/darndest things. You said what to your kid. Those translation fails of your phone. Silly rants. :)
http://youtu.be/GD9QSINgNW0 I thought of this video when you said Wenis!
We love the word wenis around here. The kids get to feel like they are saying a bad word, but they are not. And when I FEEL like saying to my kids "Stop acting like an asshole!" (which I would never actually SAY to my kids, no matter how much I might THINK it), I say instead "Stop being such a wenis!" It works, we (usually) all laugh, and we all live happily ever after..... until the next incident..... so about 10 minutes...... but I'll take it!
And if you're a Friends fanatic, WENIS is also the Weekly Estimated Net Income Statistics . :) Either definition makes me giggle!!