Well i am here to solve your problems!
so the past few weeks i have been finding some really random things to do that turn out to be super fun! so here is Marissa's super fun list of Fun Stuff to do when you are Bored this Summer.
1. go to a local thrift shop.
this is seriously really fun. if you are not one of those people who freak out at weird smells then you will have fun at least, because there are usually weird smells in thrift shops. the other day i went with my sister and we bought an old boardgame for a dollar fifty, and pair of ugly old glasses (my sister wanted them) for a buck, and i bought this book that i have been wanting to read for only 75cents. and that leads me to my next thing.
2. Go to the library!
i went a few days ago, and i was browisng through the childrens non-fiction center and i check out five books on random subjects that i am currently working through they are about the north pole, sweden, vikings, one of those eye magic books, and andy warhol. and then i bought te Lovely Bones at the thrift shop. reading is FUN.
3. sew.
and if you don't know how to sew, then you should learn. go to JoAnns, and buy a random pattern, or better yet go to the thrift store and buy one from the 60's. and make something crazy. who cares if it turns out like crap, you made something! it is also pretty fun to sew side by side with a friend. If you don't have a friend who is cool enough to sew with you, or you just want to be alone, then you should go online and download some podcasts to listen to while you are sewing, it makes it Very entertaining. and if you like harry potter then i suggest "MuggleCast" because they are SO FUNNY, but i am not sure if you would get some of the corny jokes unless you are a potter fan.
4. download Last.fm
really cool, it takes the music that you play on your itunes, and it givs you suggestions on what else you might like. great way to discover new music.
5.picnic!
pack a picnic lunch and go to the park, bring a basketball to play with when you are done eating. no park? make a picnic in your back yard or i've evn done it in my living room, and play a board game!
6. make a movie
grab some friends, or siblings and make a parody of something. we are working on ours right now.
woohooo!!!!SUMMER TIME.
Showing posts with label wisdom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wisdom. Show all posts
27 June 2007
03 April 2007
wisdom: school
okay, so i know that you all are off getting your much needed school advie from Ned's Declassified and all, but because i'm here and smarter than a 14 year old boy...
during my almost 12 years of schooling, and almost 4 years of all-girls catholic schooling, i have learned the following:
1.always have a magazine. believe me, it's school, your gonna get bored. either the teacher is going to give you time to 'study' in class or your friends are talking about the lamest subject EVER at the lunch table, a magazine will help you through your ways. i would say book, but with book you get interrupted when you want to keep reading. with magazine, you flip through pages and look at pictures, and don't really care who interrupts.
2. on cell phones: okay i know they all say "it's CA state law that you can't have cell phones in class...BLAH BLAH BLAH." well if you really wanted to you could get away with anything. believe me. just don't be stupid, i mean if the teach is giving a lecture and you think it is a good time to text.. are you an idiot, or something.. at least wait until you are watching some boring video on enzymes and your teacher is in the back of the room. oh, and the whole leg shaking thing is a total give away. and please turn your phone on silent, that's silent with an 's' not vibrate with a 'v'. they are different, you can hear vibrate, coughs can't cover up everything.
3. on lunch: i mean yeah, you could go sit with the friends you've been sitting with for the past eight years, or you could branch out, make new friends and keep the old...and i'm heading straight into a girlscout song one is silver and the other's gold. YEAH. so do like me, hang out with your friends for most of lunch, then slip off to 'throw your trash away' and sit down with your random friend from block 3 who you only talk to in class. and don't be all awkward, because we know that's awkward, so talk with the other people sitting there as well, don't just listen to their convo's and laugh at the funny parts, that's lame, you need to make the funny parts. wow, i rock at run-on sentences.
4. on homework: i need to go do mine, so i will post this now, and update it later.. so um check back, as if anyone reads this crap HAHA o geez/...okay MORE, well seriously, you should do most of your homework, but you can always get away with not doing the homework you don't have to turn in, or if it happens to be due last block that day...then you can save it for break, or something like that. so when doing homework at home, do it in order in which you will have to turn it in at school the next day...BRILLIANT.
5. on lockers: you don't necessarily need one when you area senior, but when you have to lug all of those books around, please use a locker. imean it is just really annoying seeing people with those HUGE backpacks, the ones that knock people out when the person wearing it hears their name and turns really fast. and then there are those people who want to have a cut little tote bag, but also want to carry every book in their house around with them. when the bag looks like it is going to rip, that means it is to small. use your locker.
hmm, well i think that is about it, maybe i'll think up more...maybe not.
during my almost 12 years of schooling, and almost 4 years of all-girls catholic schooling, i have learned the following:
1.always have a magazine. believe me, it's school, your gonna get bored. either the teacher is going to give you time to 'study' in class or your friends are talking about the lamest subject EVER at the lunch table, a magazine will help you through your ways. i would say book, but with book you get interrupted when you want to keep reading. with magazine, you flip through pages and look at pictures, and don't really care who interrupts.
2. on cell phones: okay i know they all say "it's CA state law that you can't have cell phones in class...BLAH BLAH BLAH." well if you really wanted to you could get away with anything. believe me. just don't be stupid, i mean if the teach is giving a lecture and you think it is a good time to text.. are you an idiot, or something.. at least wait until you are watching some boring video on enzymes and your teacher is in the back of the room. oh, and the whole leg shaking thing is a total give away. and please turn your phone on silent, that's silent with an 's' not vibrate with a 'v'. they are different, you can hear vibrate, coughs can't cover up everything.
3. on lunch: i mean yeah, you could go sit with the friends you've been sitting with for the past eight years, or you could branch out, make new friends and keep the old...and i'm heading straight into a girlscout song one is silver and the other's gold. YEAH. so do like me, hang out with your friends for most of lunch, then slip off to 'throw your trash away' and sit down with your random friend from block 3 who you only talk to in class. and don't be all awkward, because we know that's awkward, so talk with the other people sitting there as well, don't just listen to their convo's and laugh at the funny parts, that's lame, you need to make the funny parts. wow, i rock at run-on sentences.
4. on homework: i need to go do mine, so i will post this now, and update it later.. so um check back, as if anyone reads this crap HAHA o geez/...okay MORE, well seriously, you should do most of your homework, but you can always get away with not doing the homework you don't have to turn in, or if it happens to be due last block that day...then you can save it for break, or something like that. so when doing homework at home, do it in order in which you will have to turn it in at school the next day...BRILLIANT.
5. on lockers: you don't necessarily need one when you area senior, but when you have to lug all of those books around, please use a locker. imean it is just really annoying seeing people with those HUGE backpacks, the ones that knock people out when the person wearing it hears their name and turns really fast. and then there are those people who want to have a cut little tote bag, but also want to carry every book in their house around with them. when the bag looks like it is going to rip, that means it is to small. use your locker.
hmm, well i think that is about it, maybe i'll think up more...maybe not.
18 January 2007
wisdom: skiing
dear post readers, i have recently been asked to advise a very dear friend of mine on how to make a very difficult, life-threatening, self-esteem crashing decision. She asked me which should she try, skiing or snowbording? my immediate reaction of course was "NO" because i have had many a traumatic experience with the subject. but after much deliberation i decided to tell her what i really think, because she has no voice in the decision and is being forced to miss danielle's birthday party to go. so here it is:
my dearest mag, you know that i disapprove of any snow sport that is not sledding. therefore i do hesitate to give you advice on which horror filled sport to choose. but, because i am a great friend filled with infinite wisdom, i will advise you to try snowboarding.
from my past three horrible tear-filled snowboard/ski experiences i have learned the following:
1. i have absolutly no coordination, and because you are very much like myself i am afraid you will suffer from my same fate.
2. it is harder to get back up after falling when wearing ski's, because you have two big long things, instead of one short fat one. but, they both have their disadvantages, because while both feet are attached to the fat board it is hard to stand up after falling. (if you have absolutly no upper body stregnth, as do i, then getting up will be difficult, so maybe you could do some crunches before you go, but that might make you sore, so maybe not)
3.bring sunscreen, for real. oh, and chapstick, also for real.
4.ski lifts are probably the scariest thing in the westeren hemisphere. they don't stop. and if the people controlling them stop it for you, you will feel like an idiot. also, the scariest thing in the industrialized world.
5.about feeling like an idiot, there will be hot guys, because you know, hot guys do sporty stuff like snowboard. you might think, "oh, maybe i should act cool. and go on the really hard slopes with them to show off my undiscovered talent." NO, not a good idea. if anything, just go down the bunny slope for the first time, hope that there might be hot guys. ( no, sorry, there will only be old austrian skiing instructor guys teaching rich people) if your lucky there will be one with his little sister, and he might help you get up (because yes you will be on the ground) also, sorry, shaun white, though a local resident of san diego is not likely to be present on the bunny slopes of big bear. (or where ever you go) he has more important things to be doing, like winning gold medals, or competing in the upcoming winter x-games, which again are not on big bear bunny slopes, but in aspen colorado.
6. if you have properly mastered staying upright while skiing, you might find yourself thinking,in the words likely of amber "whoah i am going, like, way to fast, like, i don't know how to stop! i'm gonna like crash into the old austrian dude!" all you have to do to slow down on ski's is to turn your toes together, making a "pizza" shape. and while snowboarding i believe you turn the board horizontal (but i am not sure of that one).
7. turns out i am a goofy footed person, yeah that means weird. you will find out what you are after waiting in a long line to rent your snowboard/boots.
so there you have it my 7 skiing tips/warnings/lessons/things i've learned.
i thought that maybe any of you other first timers out there might be in need of some assistance as well, but i am probably wrong, you probably know more than i do.
i would also like to conclude by saying that we are from southeren california and most of us do not have experience in this field, for we are constantly sheltered in our 65 degree partially cloudy weather, and do not wish to wander off into danger. (but of course knowing my family, they will drag us off to montana for a skiing trip, yes, everyone enjoyed it but me)
also warning that the above was probably very biased and i am sure that there are people out there who enjoy falling down icy hills while straped to a board, or of course, multiple boards, with sticks, that absolutly do not help.
my dearest mag, you know that i disapprove of any snow sport that is not sledding. therefore i do hesitate to give you advice on which horror filled sport to choose. but, because i am a great friend filled with infinite wisdom, i will advise you to try snowboarding.
from my past three horrible tear-filled snowboard/ski experiences i have learned the following:
1. i have absolutly no coordination, and because you are very much like myself i am afraid you will suffer from my same fate.
2. it is harder to get back up after falling when wearing ski's, because you have two big long things, instead of one short fat one. but, they both have their disadvantages, because while both feet are attached to the fat board it is hard to stand up after falling. (if you have absolutly no upper body stregnth, as do i, then getting up will be difficult, so maybe you could do some crunches before you go, but that might make you sore, so maybe not)
3.bring sunscreen, for real. oh, and chapstick, also for real.
4.ski lifts are probably the scariest thing in the westeren hemisphere. they don't stop. and if the people controlling them stop it for you, you will feel like an idiot. also, the scariest thing in the industrialized world.
5.about feeling like an idiot, there will be hot guys, because you know, hot guys do sporty stuff like snowboard. you might think, "oh, maybe i should act cool. and go on the really hard slopes with them to show off my undiscovered talent." NO, not a good idea. if anything, just go down the bunny slope for the first time, hope that there might be hot guys. ( no, sorry, there will only be old austrian skiing instructor guys teaching rich people) if your lucky there will be one with his little sister, and he might help you get up (because yes you will be on the ground) also, sorry, shaun white, though a local resident of san diego is not likely to be present on the bunny slopes of big bear. (or where ever you go) he has more important things to be doing, like winning gold medals, or competing in the upcoming winter x-games, which again are not on big bear bunny slopes, but in aspen colorado.
6. if you have properly mastered staying upright while skiing, you might find yourself thinking,in the words likely of amber "whoah i am going, like, way to fast, like, i don't know how to stop! i'm gonna like crash into the old austrian dude!" all you have to do to slow down on ski's is to turn your toes together, making a "pizza" shape. and while snowboarding i believe you turn the board horizontal (but i am not sure of that one).
7. turns out i am a goofy footed person, yeah that means weird. you will find out what you are after waiting in a long line to rent your snowboard/boots.
so there you have it my 7 skiing tips/warnings/lessons/things i've learned.
i thought that maybe any of you other first timers out there might be in need of some assistance as well, but i am probably wrong, you probably know more than i do.
i would also like to conclude by saying that we are from southeren california and most of us do not have experience in this field, for we are constantly sheltered in our 65 degree partially cloudy weather, and do not wish to wander off into danger. (but of course knowing my family, they will drag us off to montana for a skiing trip, yes, everyone enjoyed it but me)
also warning that the above was probably very biased and i am sure that there are people out there who enjoy falling down icy hills while straped to a board, or of course, multiple boards, with sticks, that absolutly do not help.
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