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The Monthly [In]Sanity Check - July 2003 Cover Article Are you bored? Summer getting you down? Nothing to do? Fear no longer. For I bring something to do! *Blinding light* 100 Things to Do When Bored 1) Go swimming. Convince a pack of friends to come along. 2) Clean your room. (Hey, at least you won't be bored!) 3) Write a penpal. Don't have one? Go get one. 4) Start a website. Or at least continue one. 5) Play an instrument. Can't? Sing. 6) Listen to the radio while doing something that doesn't require a great amount of concentration. 7) Paint all your nails different colors. (If applicable. ;) ) 8) Draw cartoon dolls. Never tried? Go try. 9) Or, if you just don't do the computer drawing thing, make one with a dollmaker. 10) Write a book. Or a rant. Or a poem. Or a ramble. 11) Further on that last one, become a JaR rambler. ;) 12) Read. 13) Read with a different voice for each character, and act out entire scenes. 14) Get a few friends or siblings or neighbors or parents or... involved. 15) Watch a movie you haven't watched in forever. Or one that you haven't seen yet. 16) Organize a summer garage sale. Sell off old junk. 17) See how far you can bend your parents' rules. Extend your bedtime ten minutes... another ten... another ten.... 18) Sneak a flashlight to bed and read undercover. (Yes, I know that was a horribly bad pun.) 19) Take pictures of everything from your brother's eye to your bed and extensive fuzzy pen collection. 20) Set up a tent and camp out. 21) Plan what you want to help cook for Thanksgiving (if applicable), what you're going to wear for Halloween, what you want for Christmas.... 22) Pretend to fly. 23) Have a picnic. Even if the only other attendant is your teddy bear. 24) Write in a diary. If you don't have one, find an old notebook that isn't very used, rip out the pages that are used (along the rings) and decorate it with colored paper or rubber stamps. 25) Or, if you prefer the online variety, get a weblog. Here are some neat places to get them. 26) Play Neopets. Unoriginal, yes, but a boredom buster all the same. 27) Paint. 28) Finger paint. 29) Splatter paint. 30) Splatter paint on your siblings. (Ahh no I'm just kidding!) 31) Create a newsletter, or help write one. 32) Catch lightning bugs and put them in a plastic jar for a few minutes. Set them free afterwards, remember. Nobody wants a jar of dead bugs. 33) Play War (it's a card game). 34) Play Uno. You will need special Uno cards for this. 35) Play War with the Uno cards. 36) Paint murals on your closet doors. (Ask parents first!) 37) Play tag. There are many varieties of this game. I suggest flashlight tag, water balloon tag, squirt gun tag, and freeze tag. 38) Talk to your pals online. *Smiles* 39) Go into random chat rooms and act like a weirdo. Spontaneous weirdom is healthy. 40) Suggest to one of your online friends that you switch identities (on msn, this can be done by switching nicknames and font). See if you can fool a friend (who you both know). 41) Break a world record. Or at least pretend to. 42) Annoy your little sibling(s) and their friends. Subtlety is key. 43) Make up your own language on several pages of a notebook. Speak (or type) this language to your friends. Avoid getting slapped in the face. 44) Help your parents clean. After you have gotten on their good side, ask about a sleepover. 45) Read (or at least look at) one of those nifty-thrifty Daybooks. I suggest Hey, Day. 46) Make a board game. 47) Make a board game that takes a month to play. (Really!) 48) Make a table out of all the magazines you've (ahem) collected. Stack 'em. 49) Make a fansite. 50) Doodle. 51) Make lists (like this one!) 52) Engage in water balloon combat. Even if you're the only person fighting. 53) Run through sprinklers. 54) Catch a breeze. (Open a window!) 55) Play with matches. (Ahh don't listen to me!!) 56) *Do* fireworks. Even if it isn't the 4th of July. (Last phrase if applicable, lol) 57) Draw a picture
in Notepad, using characters. 58) Actually read the forwards people send you. Laugh at the ones that say they've been going since 1885 (or some ridiculously similar date). 59) Draw. 60) Draw a pile of gold. 61) Draw yourself winning a pile of gold. 62) Make up a bunch of characters (like, the kind in stories). File them away for future use. 63) Use these aforementioned characters in stories. 64) Talk to those weird AIM bots like SmarterChild and ZolaOnAOL. Practice your sarcasm. 65) Make beadie babies. 66) Learn HTML. 67) Try and figure out if there really are 999 uses of rubber bands. 68) Figure out how many uses AOL trial CDs can have. I suggest frisbees, cup holders, and lawn ornaments. 69) Start an obscure collection, like one of fuzzy pens or alphabet beads or sparkley lip gloss or business cards. If it is small enough, keep it in a recycled coffe can (washed and emptied, of course). 70) Have a scrunchie flinging contest. 71) Buy a large frame and collect some letters, photographs, certificates, cards, and other [flat] things that are dear to you. Put them in the frame neatly and hang. 72) Bounce. 73) See if other things bounce. 74) See if your dog bounces. 75) Develop a sudden hate for a food you used to think of as ok. After a month of refusing to eat it, tell your parents you want some. 76) Create your own language. 77) Tell ghost stories to little kids. Scare them. 78) Confuse people. 79) Play marbles. 80) Find some story starts and... dun dun dun... start a story! 81) Look through Mum and Dad's old CDs (or records, if you have something to play them on). Listen to "old" music. 82) Make a wand out of a chopstick, twig, or mini flagpole. 83) Poke things with this wand and complain to people when nothing happens. 84) Buy postcards. Send them to people. 85) Make things out of pipe cleaners. 86) Look up how to make candles. Make candles. 87) Do the same with soap. 89) Make a birdhouse. 90) Start your own window garden outside a window of your room. 91) Get a corkboard for in your room. Change it periodically. 92) Do stuff. Don't ask me what, just do stuff. 93) Create a currency system between you and your siblings. Use something small and plentiful as currency, such as pony beads. (Red = 1, blue = 5, whatever.) 94) Say completely random things to people you meet. When they ask about it, smile at them. 95) Buy a dartboard and darts. Put pictures of people you know on the dartboard. Throw darts at them when the people on it are around. 96) Look for shooting stars. Wish on them. 97) Write letters to nobody. Put them in a box and refuse to show them to anyone. 98) Whenever you share an umbrella with someone (and you're holding the umbrella), constantly put them right under the edge so that water gets them. 99) Grunt as the answer to any question. Do not give certain answers. 100) Write your own list of things to do when you are bored. |