freshmint
2011-8-31 12:54 PM
1.Eat more cookies. Abstaining from a single cookie isn't going to make you look svelte and toned. Go on, eat some cookies. I recommend the double chocolate ones with chocolate chips inside.
2.Sing. In your car. In elevators. At the mall, especially at Crate & Barrel and Pottery Barn. In hospital corridors. Before important client meetings. When people give you that patronizing look, wink at 'em.
3.Make Popsicles.
4.Stay home on the weekend and disconnect your phone.
5.Bring a plastic straw to a fancy restaurant. Make loud gurgling sounds when you get to the bottom as you attempt to drink every last molecule of diet Coke.
6.Order the stuff on the menu that you've never heard of ?like Gkaeng Cheud Bplah Meuk Yad Sai (Stuffed Squid Soup with Napa Cabbage or Squash).
7.Talk to strangers.
8.Collect something weird that isn't expensive but is relatively hard-to-find.
9.Wear odd hats in public places.
10.Amass a jar of coins. Bury them in your back yard. Draw a treasure map and give it to a friend.
11.Walk to the park near your house. Do some somersaults. When was the last time you did a somersault, anyway?
12.Eat pickles out of the jar.
13.Build a Web site and write your own Rusty Brain column (Matt only).
14.Spend a day by yourself. Leave your cell phone at home. Wander the streets, muttering to yourself and occasionally disagreeing with what you've just muttered.
15.Buy a puppy. Name it Charo.
16.Get your teeth capped. Move to Hollywood. Become a star. (Isn't that what you've been dreaming about anyway?)
17.Wear thong panties under your habit (nuns only).
18.Throw a surprise birthday party for a friend. Invite lots of people. Make sure that your friend's actual birthday is nowhere near the date of the party.
19.Belch in public. Then sigh contently.
20.Suntan naked on a public beach. Adopt a European accent for the day to explain your complete lack of modesty.
21.Quit your worthless job and dedicate your life to the study of the Moroccan flute.
22.Fly a kite.
23.Stop wasting your life with the Moroccan flute and get a real job.
24.Volunteer at your library, or church, or your local soup kitchen, or Habitat for Humanity. Wear clothes so ratty that you are often mistaken for one of the "needy."
25.Use the word "Jonesing" as often as possible. As in, "Man, I'm Jonesin' for some homemade Popsicles." Studies have shown this will make you happy.
26.Join a bowling league. Buy a large red bowling ball. Name it "Gorbachev."
27.Drive to the nearest national forest. Hike a mile with a backpack full of cold fried chicken and biscuits. Find a clearing where you will not meet a single human and have a picnic.
28.Stare at the clouds for a full afternoon and dream.
29.Think about the things you love to do. Now go do those things more often.
30.Meet someone, fall in love, live happily ever after.
2.Sing. In your car. In elevators. At the mall, especially at Crate & Barrel and Pottery Barn. In hospital corridors. Before important client meetings. When people give you that patronizing look, wink at 'em.
3.Make Popsicles.
4.Stay home on the weekend and disconnect your phone.
5.Bring a plastic straw to a fancy restaurant. Make loud gurgling sounds when you get to the bottom as you attempt to drink every last molecule of diet Coke.
6.Order the stuff on the menu that you've never heard of ?like Gkaeng Cheud Bplah Meuk Yad Sai (Stuffed Squid Soup with Napa Cabbage or Squash).
7.Talk to strangers.
8.Collect something weird that isn't expensive but is relatively hard-to-find.
9.Wear odd hats in public places.
10.Amass a jar of coins. Bury them in your back yard. Draw a treasure map and give it to a friend.
11.Walk to the park near your house. Do some somersaults. When was the last time you did a somersault, anyway?
12.Eat pickles out of the jar.
13.Build a Web site and write your own Rusty Brain column (Matt only).
14.Spend a day by yourself. Leave your cell phone at home. Wander the streets, muttering to yourself and occasionally disagreeing with what you've just muttered.
15.Buy a puppy. Name it Charo.
16.Get your teeth capped. Move to Hollywood. Become a star. (Isn't that what you've been dreaming about anyway?)
17.Wear thong panties under your habit (nuns only).
18.Throw a surprise birthday party for a friend. Invite lots of people. Make sure that your friend's actual birthday is nowhere near the date of the party.
19.Belch in public. Then sigh contently.
20.Suntan naked on a public beach. Adopt a European accent for the day to explain your complete lack of modesty.
21.Quit your worthless job and dedicate your life to the study of the Moroccan flute.
22.Fly a kite.
23.Stop wasting your life with the Moroccan flute and get a real job.
24.Volunteer at your library, or church, or your local soup kitchen, or Habitat for Humanity. Wear clothes so ratty that you are often mistaken for one of the "needy."
25.Use the word "Jonesing" as often as possible. As in, "Man, I'm Jonesin' for some homemade Popsicles." Studies have shown this will make you happy.
26.Join a bowling league. Buy a large red bowling ball. Name it "Gorbachev."
27.Drive to the nearest national forest. Hike a mile with a backpack full of cold fried chicken and biscuits. Find a clearing where you will not meet a single human and have a picnic.
28.Stare at the clouds for a full afternoon and dream.
29.Think about the things you love to do. Now go do those things more often.
30.Meet someone, fall in love, live happily ever after.
