Stories From a Hat

Here’s a list. Enjoy it forever.

1. Throw a surprise party…for yourself.
2. Recite the ABCs backwards. Repeat until you can do it successfully three times in a row.
3. Make observations.*
4. Write down the lyrics of your favorite song.
5. Solve a Rubik’s Cube.
6. Read.
7. Stay up as late as possible playing Tetris.
8. Invent a card game.
9. Write.
10. Play the game.
11. Make a list of all the books you want to read. If you’re like me, this will occupy you for days.
12. Color-code your wardrobe.
13. In alphabetical order, list all the words you know. You cannot go back and add more words.
14. People watch.
15. Shop online.
16. Ride a bike.
17. Make puns…then send me your puns.
18. Start a diary.
19. Catalog your home library.
20. Get a home library.
21. Read the blogs of YA authors. They’re really good, addicting, and entertaining.
22. Become a Nerdfighter!
23. Memorize words.
24. Write a poem.
25. Learn about Edgar Allen Poe.
26. Bake.
27. Walk.
28. Do as many cartwheels in a row as you can.
29. Spend the most amount of your time in a room that you usually spend the least amount of your time in.
30. Listen to a band you’ve never listened to before!
31. Learn about grammar.
32. Try to understand music theory.
33. Make letters out of pretzels.
34. Anagram!
35. Memorize trivia.
36. Memorize famous people’s last words.
37. Memorize a Shakespeare play.
38. E-mail someone you’ve never e-mailed before.
39. Make a yarn doll.
40. Make a scrapbook.
41. Make a wallet out of cardboard.
42. Make a rose out of duct tape.
43. Plan a road trip.
44. Philosophize.
45. Learn about presidential candidates and their positions on issues!
46. Make a map of a made up place.
47. Read as many children’s books as you can in a sitting.
48. Memorize the order of the presidents and their terms.
49. Make a list.
50. Form a band.
51. Join a band.
52. Write a song.
53. Make shoelaces out of things that wouldn’t normally be shoelaces.
54. Draw caricatures of people.
55. Say everything phonetically.
56. Read the newspaper.
57. Find mistakes in the newspaper.
58. Expand your vocabulary.
59. Pretend you’re a pirate.
60. Pretend you’re a ninja.
61. Pretend you’re a zombie.
62. Dress up like a favorite fictional character.
63. Fantasize about changing your name. What would you change it to, how would people react, etc.
64. Watch a movie.
65. Do jumping jacks.
66. Learn a foreign language.
67. Put on all the coats in your coat closet at the same time.
68. Write a screenplay.
69. Find summer camps that you would like to go to next summer.
70. Design a new rubber ducky.
71. Memorize the periodic table.
72. Find out what antidisestablishmentarianism actually means.
73. Add nonsense words the dictionary in MS Word.
74. Create your own word.
75. Think of creative places to write pizuzu.
76. Write pizuzu in creative places.
77. Invent a musical instrument.
78. Doodle.
79. Put on makeup so that you look incredibly ridiculous.
80. Dance like an idiot.
81. Go through your documents on your computer.
82. Design an outfit.
83. Memorize digits of pi.
84. Lip sync.
85. Make up a dance.
86. Play “That Makes me Think of…”
87. Lie down on the floor an see how many people notice.
88. Make obscene remarks on your facebook status and see what happens.
89. Complete a jigsaw puzzle.
90. Make Morse Code Jewelery. Have different beads represent the shorts, the longs, the spaces between letters, and the spaces between words.
91. Draw on the furniture.
92. Learn the history of something completely random.
93. Learn to juggle.
94. Bust myths.
95. See how many tabs you can open on your web browser before it crashes.
96. Make a secret to send to PostSecret.
97. Plan a party.
98. Make an animated flipbook thing…
99. Put a curseword in a random place and see how many people notice.
100. Create your own “Thing a Week”.
101. Play around on Wordle.

The End.

*Examples of observations I made while making a bowl of cereal at one in the morning:

I’m bad at opening those bags of cereal in the boxes.

My brother says strange things to himself while on the computer.

There is nothing on television.

I love CSI: Miami because of David Caruso’s bad acting.

See! It’s an endless thrill ride!