Post by Shira on Jun 25, 2006 10:33:10 GMT -5
Things to do When You're Bored
1.Go outside. Sit down on the pavement and stare at the clouds. Try to find one that looks like somebody. Talk to it. If it responds, go back inside and call a good shrink.
2.Find a paperweight. Open the nearest window. Throw the paperweight as far as you can. Then go look for it.
3.Try to bend spoons with your mind.
4.Convince other people that you can bend spoons with your mind.
5.Open a jar of salsa. Pour it all into a bag of chips. See how many you can eat without having to take a drink.
6.Phone a friend. When they pick up, say, "Welcome to McDonalds. May I take your order?"
7.Answer all your phone calls in that manner.
8.Sharpen a marker.
9.Sharpen your fingernails.
10.Build a life-size statuette of yourself with hot glue, Popsicle sticks, dental floss, and index cards. Take it outside and burn it.
11.Turn on the television. Find a news station. Put the TV on mute. Made up some more interesting news.
12.Talk in a foreign accent all day.
13.Talk in a foreign accent to your parents.
14.Make up your own language. Walk around speaking gibberish. When someone attempts to talk to you, say, "I no thpeek no Inklish."
15.Eat grass.
16.Make mud pies. Take them inside and bake them. Put on some icing and leave them in the fridge.
17.Take a picture of your arch-enemy and hang it on the wall. Commence throwing of darts.
18.Make brownies. Then eat the whole batch yourself.
19.Be a four-year-old again. Run around the house (run, you hear me, run, don't walk) babbling and generally being an idiot.
20.Melt Crayons.
22.Set the wrappers on fire.
22.Go to a clothing store and tell them you'd like to purchase a straight jacket.
23.Memorize a chapter of a book and walk around reciting it.
24.Wrap duct tape around your hand. Claim that you've broken your arm if anyone asks.
25.Make yourself a new shirt from newspaper and twine. Model it proudly.
26.Name your left foot Fred
27.Make Fred a hot fudge sundae.
28.Pop a wheelie in an office chair.
29.Find shapes in the speckle on the ceiling. Draw them on the bottom of your feet.
30.Apologize to Fred for drawing on him.
31.Collect AOL disks and stick them to your ceiling.
32.Shine a flashlight in your ear. Look in a mirror to see if it comes out the other one.
33.Call that shrink again.
34.Go shopping. Pick up everything you come across and hold it to your face. Inhale deeply. Sigh. Repeat.
35.Tell the security guard yes, you do this all the time.
36.Take a newspaper and rip it up. Glue it back together however you like.
37.Spit peanuts at the ceiling.
38.Write a book. Title it "The Art of Blinking"
39.Yodel
40.Charge your neighbors fifty cents apiece to get you to stop yodeling.
41.Cut off some of your hair. Gift wrap it and give it to someone as a "birthday" present.
42.Celebrate Kwanzaa.
43.Plant a weed in your bedroom. Give it fertilizer.
44.Replant the weed in the flower garden.
45.Vacuum your front lawn.
46.Go to a yard sale. Buy an old boring book. Rip out the pages and rearrange them. Resell it.
47.Pop a bag of popcorn. Put in a movie. Throw popcorn at the characters that you don't like. Offer the rest of the popcorn to Fred.
48.Call the shrink and ask if they would like some popcorn.
49.Play Monopoly against yourself. Lose.
50.Open a bag of Doritos. Remove one chip. Lick it. Replace the chip. Offer it to Fred.
51.Dig a hole to China.
52.Jump in the hole.
53.Turn the volume all the way up on your stereo. Play polka.
54.Dance
55.Alphabetize your spice rack.
56.If you don't have a spice rack, alphabetize your socks. Same thing, right?
57.Go to Radio Shack. Tell them you'd like to buy a puppy.
58.If that's not available, ask for a hot dog.
59.Go to a restaurant. Fill out the customer satisfaction ballots. All of them.
60.Get a magnifying glass. Inspect your carpet. Every so often, leap up and announce that you're on the trail.
61.Lose the trail.
62.Get into your car. Pretend to drive. Make motor noises.
63.Ask the shrink if they'd like to play cars.
64.Every time the doorbell rings, leap up and yell "Get the door! It's Domino's!"
65.Ring the doorbell yourself.
66.Mow your carpet.
67.Torture a banana.
68.Ask the shrink if he needs a haircut.
69.Start yodeling again.
70.Charge the neighbors a dollar this time.
71.Capture a grasshopper. Name it Minnie.
72.Feed Minnie to the neighborhood cat.
73.Wear mismatched socks. And sandals.
74.Give Fred the prettier sock.
75.Have animated conversations with the TV newscasters.
76.Call all of your siblings and friends "Marvin"
77.Pour yourself a bowl of cereal. Feed it to Fred.
78.Ask the shrink why Fred won't eat.
79.Eat lots of bananas. Leave the peels around the house.
80.Claim that you are Sasquatch. Go live in the "mountains" (your backyard)
81.Build a fort. Put up a sign that says "No Fish Allowed"
82.Claim that your siblings are all secretly fish.
83.Claim that the shrink is a fish.
84.Build a catapult in your front yard. Launch action figures on to the neighbor's roof. Go over and ask for them back.
85.Repaint your room. Neon yellow with glow-in-the-dark green stripes.
86.Make sure the stripes are exactly three inches apart. If not, repaint the entire room orange with purple polka dots.
87.Ask to have your ceiling carpeted.
88.Befriend your can opener. Invite it to your fort.
89.Wage a war against linoleum.
90.Paint your fingernails white.
91.Trip on the cord of a cordless phone.
92.Put your breakfast in a blender. Press "puree". Drink it through a straw.
93.Offer some to Fred.
94.Find a picture of a celebrity's face. Make it into a mask. Wear it.
95.Make a pair of suction-cup shoes. Try to walk up the side of your house.
96.Call the fire department when you can't get down.
97.Claim your backyard in the name of King Louis XIV
98.Go to Taco Bell and order creme brulee
99.When they say they don't have it, ask for broiled lobster instead.
100.Celebrate Abraham Lincoln's birthday. Bake him cupcakes.
101.Go to the library. Check out a number of children's books. Sit down and "read" them. Hoot with laughter after every page.
102.Make yourself a pair of spectacles out of Saran Wrap and pipe cleaners.
103.Walk through the drive-thru lane at McDonalds.
104.Order a milkshake. Pay with a ten dollar bill. Or, a larger denomination if you have one.
105.Ask for your change in pennies.
106.Go trick-or-treating. In April.
107.Climb trees. Carve your name into the top branch of every tree you climb.
108.Introduce yourself by saying "I am Georgina Murphy-Jones Edward von Streichlandheimer Henrietta McNavies Andrew-Christopher van Diesel Whittam Johnston the eighteenth. You can call me (your name here).
109.Laugh if someone actually addresses you by that name.
110.Record a new message on your answering machine. Something like "Hello. You have reached the White House. If you are calling on a matter of national security, press 1. If you are the President's hairdresser, press 2. If you are a terrorist, you have the wrong number."
111.Send yourself fanmail.
112.Write back.
113.Draw a mustache on your face. Introduce yourself as Charlie Chaplin.
114.Teach yourself to become ambidextrous.
115.Roll down a hill.
116.Go to Wal-Mart. Get one of those motorized wheelchair things and drive it through the store.
117.Bring a friend and have motorized wheelchair races.
118.Serenade the checkout lady at Wendy's.
119.Go to McDonalds and ask the cashier if the want fries with that.
120.Ponder. If anyone asks you what you're doing, put a dreamy look on your face and say "I'm...PONDERING."
121.Joust.
122.Purchase a jar of pickled pig's feet.
123.Offer them to Fred.
124.Ask your shrink if he knows any good pig's feet recipes.
125.Play 52-card pickup in a swimming pool.
126.Wallpaper your room with candy wrappers.
127.Invite your friends to eat the necessary candy.
128.Flood your living room. Pour Jell-o powder into it.
129.Put fruit in the jell-o.
130.Build a mud hut in your backyard.
131.Either that, or an igloo.
132.Spend all day trying to summon lightning.
133.Smite your enemies.
134.Apply tartar sauce to your forehead. Go out in public with a sign that says "LEPROSY VICTIM". Ask for spare change
135.Soak grass clippings in some water to turn it green. Pour some green water into your siblings' milk.
136.Write a play. Title it "Masquerade of the Vacuum Cleaner Salesman".
137.Become a politician. Run for a position in Senate. Only begin worrying if somebody votes for you.
138.Call the shrink and ask for his vote.
139.Give yourself a makeover. Put a paper bag over your head.
140.Devote the rest of your day to meditation. Decide to quiet and go watch a movie after approximately 18 seconds.
141.Eat this list
142.Memorize scripts from popular movies and recite them on a busy street corner.
143.Day Backwards National Have.
144.Pretend to take a nap. Wake up five minutes later yelling, "What year is this?? Who am I??"
145.Go to the movies. Laugh at the sad parts and cry at the happy parts. Clap every two minutes. See how long you can do this.
146.Be a time teller. Go on a street corner and announce the time every minute.
147.Pick your nose.
148.Eat it.
149.Randomly flip people off.
150.Speak only in questions?
151.Flush the toilets everytime someone is in the shower.
((Got any more to add? Be my guest.))
1.Go outside. Sit down on the pavement and stare at the clouds. Try to find one that looks like somebody. Talk to it. If it responds, go back inside and call a good shrink.
2.Find a paperweight. Open the nearest window. Throw the paperweight as far as you can. Then go look for it.
3.Try to bend spoons with your mind.
4.Convince other people that you can bend spoons with your mind.
5.Open a jar of salsa. Pour it all into a bag of chips. See how many you can eat without having to take a drink.
6.Phone a friend. When they pick up, say, "Welcome to McDonalds. May I take your order?"
7.Answer all your phone calls in that manner.
8.Sharpen a marker.
9.Sharpen your fingernails.
10.Build a life-size statuette of yourself with hot glue, Popsicle sticks, dental floss, and index cards. Take it outside and burn it.
11.Turn on the television. Find a news station. Put the TV on mute. Made up some more interesting news.
12.Talk in a foreign accent all day.
13.Talk in a foreign accent to your parents.
14.Make up your own language. Walk around speaking gibberish. When someone attempts to talk to you, say, "I no thpeek no Inklish."
15.Eat grass.
16.Make mud pies. Take them inside and bake them. Put on some icing and leave them in the fridge.
17.Take a picture of your arch-enemy and hang it on the wall. Commence throwing of darts.
18.Make brownies. Then eat the whole batch yourself.
19.Be a four-year-old again. Run around the house (run, you hear me, run, don't walk) babbling and generally being an idiot.
20.Melt Crayons.
22.Set the wrappers on fire.
22.Go to a clothing store and tell them you'd like to purchase a straight jacket.
23.Memorize a chapter of a book and walk around reciting it.
24.Wrap duct tape around your hand. Claim that you've broken your arm if anyone asks.
25.Make yourself a new shirt from newspaper and twine. Model it proudly.
26.Name your left foot Fred
27.Make Fred a hot fudge sundae.
28.Pop a wheelie in an office chair.
29.Find shapes in the speckle on the ceiling. Draw them on the bottom of your feet.
30.Apologize to Fred for drawing on him.
31.Collect AOL disks and stick them to your ceiling.
32.Shine a flashlight in your ear. Look in a mirror to see if it comes out the other one.
33.Call that shrink again.
34.Go shopping. Pick up everything you come across and hold it to your face. Inhale deeply. Sigh. Repeat.
35.Tell the security guard yes, you do this all the time.
36.Take a newspaper and rip it up. Glue it back together however you like.
37.Spit peanuts at the ceiling.
38.Write a book. Title it "The Art of Blinking"
39.Yodel
40.Charge your neighbors fifty cents apiece to get you to stop yodeling.
41.Cut off some of your hair. Gift wrap it and give it to someone as a "birthday" present.
42.Celebrate Kwanzaa.
43.Plant a weed in your bedroom. Give it fertilizer.
44.Replant the weed in the flower garden.
45.Vacuum your front lawn.
46.Go to a yard sale. Buy an old boring book. Rip out the pages and rearrange them. Resell it.
47.Pop a bag of popcorn. Put in a movie. Throw popcorn at the characters that you don't like. Offer the rest of the popcorn to Fred.
48.Call the shrink and ask if they would like some popcorn.
49.Play Monopoly against yourself. Lose.
50.Open a bag of Doritos. Remove one chip. Lick it. Replace the chip. Offer it to Fred.
51.Dig a hole to China.
52.Jump in the hole.
53.Turn the volume all the way up on your stereo. Play polka.
54.Dance
55.Alphabetize your spice rack.
56.If you don't have a spice rack, alphabetize your socks. Same thing, right?
57.Go to Radio Shack. Tell them you'd like to buy a puppy.
58.If that's not available, ask for a hot dog.
59.Go to a restaurant. Fill out the customer satisfaction ballots. All of them.
60.Get a magnifying glass. Inspect your carpet. Every so often, leap up and announce that you're on the trail.
61.Lose the trail.
62.Get into your car. Pretend to drive. Make motor noises.
63.Ask the shrink if they'd like to play cars.
64.Every time the doorbell rings, leap up and yell "Get the door! It's Domino's!"
65.Ring the doorbell yourself.
66.Mow your carpet.
67.Torture a banana.
68.Ask the shrink if he needs a haircut.
69.Start yodeling again.
70.Charge the neighbors a dollar this time.
71.Capture a grasshopper. Name it Minnie.
72.Feed Minnie to the neighborhood cat.
73.Wear mismatched socks. And sandals.
74.Give Fred the prettier sock.
75.Have animated conversations with the TV newscasters.
76.Call all of your siblings and friends "Marvin"
77.Pour yourself a bowl of cereal. Feed it to Fred.
78.Ask the shrink why Fred won't eat.
79.Eat lots of bananas. Leave the peels around the house.
80.Claim that you are Sasquatch. Go live in the "mountains" (your backyard)
81.Build a fort. Put up a sign that says "No Fish Allowed"
82.Claim that your siblings are all secretly fish.
83.Claim that the shrink is a fish.
84.Build a catapult in your front yard. Launch action figures on to the neighbor's roof. Go over and ask for them back.
85.Repaint your room. Neon yellow with glow-in-the-dark green stripes.
86.Make sure the stripes are exactly three inches apart. If not, repaint the entire room orange with purple polka dots.
87.Ask to have your ceiling carpeted.
88.Befriend your can opener. Invite it to your fort.
89.Wage a war against linoleum.
90.Paint your fingernails white.
91.Trip on the cord of a cordless phone.
92.Put your breakfast in a blender. Press "puree". Drink it through a straw.
93.Offer some to Fred.
94.Find a picture of a celebrity's face. Make it into a mask. Wear it.
95.Make a pair of suction-cup shoes. Try to walk up the side of your house.
96.Call the fire department when you can't get down.
97.Claim your backyard in the name of King Louis XIV
98.Go to Taco Bell and order creme brulee
99.When they say they don't have it, ask for broiled lobster instead.
100.Celebrate Abraham Lincoln's birthday. Bake him cupcakes.
101.Go to the library. Check out a number of children's books. Sit down and "read" them. Hoot with laughter after every page.
102.Make yourself a pair of spectacles out of Saran Wrap and pipe cleaners.
103.Walk through the drive-thru lane at McDonalds.
104.Order a milkshake. Pay with a ten dollar bill. Or, a larger denomination if you have one.
105.Ask for your change in pennies.
106.Go trick-or-treating. In April.
107.Climb trees. Carve your name into the top branch of every tree you climb.
108.Introduce yourself by saying "I am Georgina Murphy-Jones Edward von Streichlandheimer Henrietta McNavies Andrew-Christopher van Diesel Whittam Johnston the eighteenth. You can call me (your name here).
109.Laugh if someone actually addresses you by that name.
110.Record a new message on your answering machine. Something like "Hello. You have reached the White House. If you are calling on a matter of national security, press 1. If you are the President's hairdresser, press 2. If you are a terrorist, you have the wrong number."
111.Send yourself fanmail.
112.Write back.
113.Draw a mustache on your face. Introduce yourself as Charlie Chaplin.
114.Teach yourself to become ambidextrous.
115.Roll down a hill.
116.Go to Wal-Mart. Get one of those motorized wheelchair things and drive it through the store.
117.Bring a friend and have motorized wheelchair races.
118.Serenade the checkout lady at Wendy's.
119.Go to McDonalds and ask the cashier if the want fries with that.
120.Ponder. If anyone asks you what you're doing, put a dreamy look on your face and say "I'm...PONDERING."
121.Joust.
122.Purchase a jar of pickled pig's feet.
123.Offer them to Fred.
124.Ask your shrink if he knows any good pig's feet recipes.
125.Play 52-card pickup in a swimming pool.
126.Wallpaper your room with candy wrappers.
127.Invite your friends to eat the necessary candy.
128.Flood your living room. Pour Jell-o powder into it.
129.Put fruit in the jell-o.
130.Build a mud hut in your backyard.
131.Either that, or an igloo.
132.Spend all day trying to summon lightning.
133.Smite your enemies.
134.Apply tartar sauce to your forehead. Go out in public with a sign that says "LEPROSY VICTIM". Ask for spare change
135.Soak grass clippings in some water to turn it green. Pour some green water into your siblings' milk.
136.Write a play. Title it "Masquerade of the Vacuum Cleaner Salesman".
137.Become a politician. Run for a position in Senate. Only begin worrying if somebody votes for you.
138.Call the shrink and ask for his vote.
139.Give yourself a makeover. Put a paper bag over your head.
140.Devote the rest of your day to meditation. Decide to quiet and go watch a movie after approximately 18 seconds.
141.Eat this list
142.Memorize scripts from popular movies and recite them on a busy street corner.
143.Day Backwards National Have.
144.Pretend to take a nap. Wake up five minutes later yelling, "What year is this?? Who am I??"
145.Go to the movies. Laugh at the sad parts and cry at the happy parts. Clap every two minutes. See how long you can do this.
146.Be a time teller. Go on a street corner and announce the time every minute.
147.Pick your nose.
148.Eat it.
149.Randomly flip people off.
150.Speak only in questions?
151.Flush the toilets everytime someone is in the shower.
((Got any more to add? Be my guest.))
