When You Tell Yourself a Joke

If you are anything like me, you understand that EVERYTHING has a punchline if you try hard enough and you're brave enough to cross the right lines.

Always being one for a challenge, throughout my days on YouTube and Blogger, I have accumulated a healthy list of parody and original songs that my TRMW family has suggested and prompted me to write.

Who could forget the song that teaches you to pronounce gif? Or even the song about being the third wheel on a date? Or the backwards country song about a dog and his boy? And there are so many others that I've yet to film, but have performed for y'all on social media or in small gatherings. Remember the Xtreme parody about sunburns styled like "More than Words"? Or the Billy Joel parody about food poisoning styled like "The Longest Time"?

It's kinda like telling yourself a really good joke. You just really wish others could appreciate the vast amount of effort you put into creating something so delightfully funny.

Wish no more!

I am super excited to be embarking on my very first tour as The Real Mark Wimberley. The tour, which I've named the "Grammatically Correct" tour will feature all of your favorite TRMW songs as well as a little bit of stand-up, sleight-of-hand, and maybe even a special guest or two!

I'm really stoked to see what my first tour has in store. Maybe I'll bomb. Maybe I'll win big. Maybe I'll sell some TRMW swag. It's no joke that you can get 15% off everything from April 5 through April 9 if you use the code 15APRIL19. But I digress.

I hope I can meet each of you in person this year. I am really looking forward to sharing all the jokes I tell to myself in a Grammatically Correct manner.

April Showers Bring Not Much to Talk About

Well, April Fool's Day has passed with little fanfare. Contrary to what I may have convinced a few people of, I am not moving out of state, nor did I buy a 3 month old goat named Reginald, although now I kinda wish I had (buy the goat, I mean).

I hope your April Fool's Day was how you envisioned it to be. Taping the light switches so they won't turn on and making prank calls to your stock broker are definitely the best ways to usher in a new month.

But now it is May, and it is the time to mature and leave the childish pranks behind (until next year, of course). In case you weren't aware, summer is just around the corner! To folks from my neck of the woods, summer means 90+ degree days and an endless stream of beach pictures invading your social media feeds. This would all be well and good if the California weather didn't decide that high winds might be a nice way to switch things up after the good dousing of rain and hail from a few months ago! The folks out in the eastern half of the country have also been experience a bit of rain so I hear. Fun times!

At long last, we at Wimberley Manor have finally got our garden planted! I'm looking forward to harvest time when I can indulge in some purple hull peas, okra, bell peppers, tomatoes, and corn on the cob! Another sign of summer, and just another way we move on from the childish (but ever hilarious when non-destructive) April Fool's pranks. Just as we will be cultivating nourishing vegetables, in our lives we will be cultivating not-vegetables.

Oh, before I forget, I'm going to be participating in an event next week that will be really different for me. I'll tell you about it in a later post. Stay tuned.

But "that" time of year has come, and I hear your questions. I feel your inquisitive thoughts. "Mark," you say, "will you be doing another tour this year?" My answer is super super simple: "I really hope so, it may or may not definitely or not definitely is maybe almost possible if we can sorta almost take mostly care of a few kinda small but humongous issues that will take little to a ton of time and a Mack Truck load of resources to fix so how does next month maybe or maybe not sound?"

Ok, so actually, I have no answer. If you remember my blogs from last year, you'll know how much difficulty we had getting on the road then. It's even harder this year!  But never fear! Remember my New Years Resolution? No? (Neither did I...I had to go back and check) The long and short of it was dream big to achieve big. So I'm just going to go into the month of May with that mindset regarding a tour.  I'll let you know if anything good happens.

One last thing before I close: We don't actually call our home Wimberley Manor. I just couldn't think of a really cool name that was accurate.....besides "that house I live in".

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