Writer’s Workshop: Walking On the Moon
by Jenners • 10/27/2010 • Writers Workshop • 69 Comments
Time for Writer’s Workshop! Head on over to Mama Kat’s to join in.
This week, I’m choosing prompt 2: If you could witness (or take part in) any event in history, what would it be? Why? (inspired by Texan Mama from Who Put Me In Charge Of These People?).
It took me about two seconds to come up to the answer to this question. I would be a part of the Apollo 11 mission, and, on July 20, 1969, I would muscle my way past Neil Armstrong and be the first person to walk on the moon.
Why did I choose this? Here are just a few reasons.
- Only 11 people in all of history have walked on the moon. I want to be one of them. (And I want to be the first one.)
- You weigh much less on the moon. In fact, I found out at Moon Connection.com, that I would only weight 26.4 pounds on the moon! What a painless diet! (By the way, if you attempt to figure out how much I weigh in real life by using a reverse calculation, it is all over between us.)
- I want to bounce around on the surface of the moon.
- I want to see what Earth looks like from the moon.
- I want to experience a rocket launch that I know ends up safely. (None of that Apollo 13 nonsense for me!)
Putting aside the fact that I was less than 2 years old during the Apollo 11 mission, let’s imagine what I might have looked like on the mission using the magic of Face in Hole (my “go to” site for making posts 75.4% funnier).
My Official Astronaut Portrait
Hey! This is so cool! Yet my head is abnormally large compared to my suit. Must be my giant astronaut brain.
You do realize that it hurts like hell to laugh, don’t you? Still trying to catch up. Love the photos – just too funny! OW!!
But laughter is the best medicine. Still, perhaps you should only giggle moderately.
I’m with you on all counts—especially the fact that you weigh less in space and can actually get your body to bounce *hehe*
Okay first of all face in the hole is just a crack up to me…I think the stats are a little higher than 74% in the rate of funniness!
I don’t even care how much less I weigh, just as long as I would weigh less…even by 5 lbs!
On the moon, you can drop something like 75% of your body weight! Woo hoo!
You really need to read Packing for Mars…the chapter on astronaut toilets might just make you change your mind.
Well, I’m going to just do this in a quick three hour trip somehow! And I so want to read that book!!!
When I was little it was my dream to be the first woman in space – then a woman went,
Oh well, at least you went to the moon. :0)
Awww…so sad to have your dreams dashed like that.
Hilarious portraits! Walking on the moon would be brilliant – even if I had to pee into a big nappy for the duration of the flight.
Yeah … that is the one aspect of space travel I don’t think I’d enjoy!
you always make me smile….no matter what kind of day I’ve had.
And from reading your post, it didn’t seem like a very good day.
Love the pics and love that I would weigh so little on the moon! Maybe I should start using my moon weight?
I think I’m going to start using that too!
You look SO happy to be on the moon!! It makes me want to go there, too
I’ll meet you up there and we’ll bounce around!
Okay those pictures really do add the perfect touch to this post. I never would have thought of that moment but it is a good one.
I like to dream big.
well, you look very slim of the moon!
Look for my new diet book: The Jenners Anti-Gravity Diet
Oh you are too funny! Hmm, walking on the moon, eh? The way that you described it, It does sound like it’s a lot of fun
I’ve always wanted to try floating around in space too! Maybe we can all go and party on the moon 
Those pictures of you are just too funny! I love how you always superimpose yourself into these photos
I think it would be a blast to jump around and float around. (Of course, I’d want to be earth-bound before needing to use the facilities.)
I love it! Did you see the movie Astronaut Farmer? He didn’t walk on the moon, but I thought that it was so great that he went into space when no one thought he could.
I didn’t see that movie but maybe I should check it out.
I’m filing this entire post under “Things that make me love Jenners.”
With a subfolder that includes “And why she is so weird.”
Love the big head in the Face in the Hole!
I can’t think of just one place in time that rises above others – too many choices! A lot of mine revolve around music though (seeing young Elvis in concert, seeing ABBA before they broke up, etc.).
It is a hard question, isn’t it? Your thought process interested me. I wouldn’t have pegged you for an Elvis or ABBA fan!
I’ve been a huge Elvis fan for most of my life (thanks to my parents indoctrination of many movies and albums). We used to always listen to ABBA on road trips growing up, so there’s that nostalgia, but I also just love their songs. I went to see Mamma Mia twice in the theater. We almost went to see it on Broadway too, but I took pity on my husband (who can’t stand their music). When the Mamma Mia soundtrack came out he earned brownie points by not complaining when I wanted to listen to it for four hours straight on a road trip. He’s a very patient man.
Sounds like he is a very patient man.
I loved that movie Mamma Mia!
I am SO with you! Have you seen my son’s bedroom? – all Apollo photos and a Saturn V rocket replica hanging from the ceiling. Although, he has the last man on the moon hanging up, not the first – both equally cool men. Neil Armstrong totally rocks – still.
So who was the last man on the moon? I’ll have to Google that. And we should go to the moon together … I’ll go out first and you can go second! : )
oh man- those pictures of your face on the astronaut cracked me up! hahahha!
I’m not big on flying, so if I could just like magically appear on the moon and then magically appear back here? That would be great.
Well, I think you need to be on Star Trek to do that.
Oh I love photoshopped heads on random bodies!!!
Me too! (Which is why I do a post with them almost every week or two.)
Okay…. you totally won me over with point two.
I have very fond memories of that event. My dad was really into that kind of stuff and he died less than a year after the moonwalk.
Oh….and I love your photos.
I imagine it was such a neat thing to see — it must have blown everyone’s mind. When you think about it, no one has landed on the moon recently. I kind of wish they would.
What a riot. I think that’s probably why we weigh so little on the moon, the food sucks, and there is no chocolate. Love your photos.
True that! If I had to eat that awful astronaut food, my weight would plummet without any help from gravity.
I love the way your brain works! Keep the Face In The Hole pics coming. They really are funny.
Funny … and terribly addictive.
Love it! I love the photos especially. It is so very true though, you just HAD to be the first person to land on the moon, nobody remembers the rest.
I know! If you’re not first, you’re forgotten.
Not a bad choice. Personally, I have always wanted that feeling of hitting a golf ball three miles. Lord knows it isn’t happening down here.
But really, has it happened to anyone down here?
Love this! I also would like to go on the moon diet, as it would be wonderful to shed all that weight without doing a thing except blasting up to space!
Wouldn’t that be the coolest? We’d way the same as toddlers!
You may need to get a bigger helmet for that huge brain of yours.
(I remember Tang! Too funny)
With each nice comment, my heads swells bigger and bigger.
I admit – I have absolutely no interest in ever being in outer space!! I’m not that daring.
Even with 100% guaranteed safety??? : )
Help! Those photos are classic. Heehee. Very fun way to start the day. Has the Little One been to either of the Air and Space Museums in DC? Worth the trip. Maybe they’ll consider adding your pictures to the exhibit. ;o)
We haven’t been to the one in DC but we went to some different air and space museums. The Little One’s reaction: “This is both scary and boring.”
Your head must be bigger because you opened up your space helmut to take the picture. It will go back to normal once the pressure stabilizes.
Thank you for your oh so scientific explanation, Ms. Scientist Lady. : )
LOL!!!! You kill me!!!! Gotta love that Face in Hole!! I can think of so many “portraits” to make
I’m horribly addicted to Face in Hole. It is becoming a problem.
I’ve got Sting’s voice in my head now with “Walking on the Moon.” That’s not a bad thing
Anyway, I know that you would be the coolest, chocolate smuggling, astronaut mom on the moon!!! What a fun post to read Jenners!!
“Giant steps are what you take … walking on the moon.” I love that song!!
I hope you enjoy dehydrated food.
We actually got some astronaut food one time at a museum (a dehydrated ice cream sandwich) and it was horrible. Gag. But at least I like Tang!
OMG, thanks for making me laugh out loud before 7:30am
You’re welcome. And that is quite a feat to laugh out loud that early. I just can’t do it.
Not just the first person to walk on the moon – you could also have attended Husband dearest’s 3rd birthday bash. I love this post, such good fun, especially your official portrait.
I could have swooped down from the moon and made a special guest appearance at your Husband Dearest’s party!
lol! I love the photos, and I love your reasons
I have such fun with that Face in Hole. I just can’t stop doing it!