A Guide To Curing Boredom

You know what would suck?

Is if you were a penguin.

I mean think about it. They have it worst out of all the animals.

They're called birds, but can't fly. That sucks.

And on top if it all, they're not even colorful! Like they're just boring old black 'n' white.

They stand in the icy cold all day, swim in the almost frozen water, have their babies eaten by other animals and are they even fluffy!?!?!

Look at him he just looks so sad! Photo Credit

I just feel bad for penguins.

Okay apparently I'm really awkward at making introductions because that was just a random smack to the face.

So what's this post about?

Penguins.

HAHAHA no.

It's about your mom.

No really it is!

Just kidding it's not.

I probably don't even know who your mom is and if I do, tell them I say hi! (That awkward moment when I typed them instead of her so I was basically implying that you have multiple moms...)

Anywayssssss...

We all have those days and maybe even weeks in our lives when we are just so bored! *cough cough this next week called Spring Break* There's absolutely nothing to do! Your house is boring as poop, all your friends are "busy," you can't drive yourself anywhere and there's just nothing for you to do!!!

So here's a list of things you should do when your bored with or without a friend.

 It's The Real Guide To Livin' The Yolo Lyfe And Curing Boredom:

WARNING: If you look like a complete idiot while doing any of the things I suggested, that is all your fault because you're the one who was stupid enough to actually do something that I tell you to do. Have fun!

If you're in public:

Point at someone and scream, "YOU'RE ONE OF THEM!!!" And begin to run away but trip and crawl away slowly but frantically.

Lead a Zumba or Jazzercise class where ever you are. If you haven't ever done this then you are missing out big time! Basically you make a dance and everyone follows along and it's so much fun!! (So the lady who made this video, if you watch some of her other one's there's this old lady who consistently shows up and she's goooood and so funny to watch her get so into it.)

Take a picture of a stranger and then go up to that person, showing them that picture asking, "Have you seen this person?"

Climb a tree next to a popular path and make sure you can't be seen. Begin to talk to people walking by.

Two words: Marco Polo (Anywhere. Anytime.)

Hide in a clothing rack at some store and when ever someone starts looking at it jump up and down screaming, "PICK ME! PICK ME!"

Squawk at people walking past you.

Go up to random people and try to start a conversation with them. (Best way to make new friends!)

Blow bubbles.

Buy an ice cream cone and ask the person who served you if they believe in unicorns than smash the ice cream cone on to your forehead and walk away like a boss.

Blow up a balloon, tie it to yourself, run around while screaming, "IT WON'T STOP FOLLOWING ME!! SOMEONE HELP!!!"

If you're stuck at home:

Do some DIY's! There are endless amounts of DIY's out there and most of the stuff you can do with stuff you have at home, well at least hopefully they do.

Netflix is always the answer.

Play with anything that looks interesting.

Look up fun facts so than you can randomly give facts and you'll seem all smart and stuff. Like did you know that Luna is the most popular name for a dog currently? Which is kinda cool because one of my dogs is names Luna. But I wonder why that's the most popular name? Because you're not gonna name a brown dog Luna...? Right?

Find new obsessions. LIKE OHMYGOD TODAY I JUST CAME ACROSS THIS BAND AND I'M IN LOVE LIKE I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!! SO JUST LISTEN TO THIS AND YEAH I KNOW IT'S YOUR STEREOTYPICAL BOY BAND BUT THAT'S MY SORTA THING SO...

So obviously if you're reading this you're bored and that means when you're bored you like to stalk my blog.

Make videos! Either awesome music videos, totally strange videos, halarious comedies, embarsssing things or do a talk show about what ever you Juant! Here's a totally rad video my friend Molly and I made about the adventure of being bored!

Redecorate your room. I swear I do this at least once a month.

Try experimenting with the blender. But not in a weird way. Like once I put everything chocolate I could find and made the most amazing milkshake I've ever had... and I've never been able to recreate that shake.

Bake a cake.

Paint your nails. And boys you can do this too!

Have a movie marathon with lots of popcorn and pillows.

If you live in a neighborhood where people actually walk by your house and you have one of those legit mailboxes, put a walkie-talkie in it and every time someone walks by, scream super loud in the other walkie-talkie.

Long car rides:

Just take a whole buttload of selfies. But you have to make sure they're totally random and spontaneous that way you can enjoy those absolutely gorgeous faces you can make. (This one's a lot better when you have a friend.) And you never know, maybe one of them will by Instagram worthy.

Many selfies....

Candy Crush. Best way to spend time in the car. Until you have no more lives, then that just sucks.

Pretend you're making a music video. Either blare music from the radio or your phone/ipod. Then you have sure to document the moment and then show it to me so I can pee my pants laughing at how ridiculous you're acting.

So after your phone dies, (if this happens to you I am so sorry that's like the worst thing ever) but if it does die, charge it with a car charger or charge it off a laptop... but say you can't even do that. Here are a few more things you can do.

Sleep. Make sure you have a pillow!!

CARD GAMES!!

Roll down all the windows and blare music. This is always fun.

Eat as much junk food as you can possibly fit into your mouth.

What People Suggested From The Search Engine Named After His Great-Great-Grandfather Google

So I want all y'all to know I couldn't think of all these by myself. I had help from many people and all the strange people on the inter webs. And here are some that I just thought were hilarious and totally randomly awesome!

Like this but in a car or in your room!

Recopy the Bible replacing your name for God.

Send your goldfish to obedience school.

Discover the source of the Mississippi River.

Recite romantic poetry... to your toaster.

Learn Sign Language.

Plant a shoe.

Wear snorkel gear and hang pictures of fish from the ceiling. (In a car would be best!)

Interview your feet. (But really you could interview anything.)

Play with matches.

Listen to a painting.

Rake the carpet.

So if you're insanely bored and already done all these things just google things to do when you're bored and you will get a MASSIVE list of things to do. Just like this website.

 ✌ Peace out losers!  ✌

Oh have a FANTASTIC Spring Break 2k14 and make sure to party hard!!!

It Was An Absolute Failure

Everything was a fail... even the picture

What was an absolute failure?

Everything.

Okay not everything that day.

But the skiing...

That was with no doubt in my mind an absolute failure.

We were planning on skiing at Snowbasin with my aunt & uncle that were visiting. But it didn't exactly go as planned.

So we show up and half the lifts are on wind hold... That's just fine and dandy.

It seemed as if a hurricane was about to attack the mountains, it was just that windy.

When we were getting on the gondola they told us the skies weren't allowed outside the gondola because it was so windy. So we had six people along with six skies inside the gondola. Let's just say my dad's skies didn't even fit inside.

I swear that gondola could NOT move any slower. I probably could have walked up that mountain faster than that gondola was moving.

I am aware I used gondola at least once in every sentence. Yay... grammar!




While skiing down I was pelted with chunks of ice that were blown from the trees. And even if I didn't turn at all I went the speed as if I was doing pizza skiing.

We almost fell of the tree and
died

We get to the bottom and take our skies off and get in line to go up again and the official lifty was like "Sorry this lift is now put on windhold so you're not allowed to get on."

Ruuuddee

I've only done one run and know you're going to make me go sit inside and buy your food until you open again. Not fair.

So that's what we did.

For an hour.


Then we asked the ladies at the information desk if and when they think they'd open the lift again. They were like sorry, we aren't opening again.

So I drove and hour both ways to get here just to ski one run, have a hot chocolate along with some fries and the go home. Yay.

Luckily they gave us a voucher for another day next year, but still.

Five Things That Occurred To Prove How Windy It Was:

• When everyone was in the lodge and we came out, all the skies and snowboards were blown over and were just laying there on the ground 
• When my brother and I were skiing our one and only run down a fairly steep slope, the wind almost stopped us from moving at all
• Even the little beginner lift was put on windhold which is protected by a ton of trees
• I fell over while walking because the wind pushed me over (it might have been my clumsiness but the world will never know...)
• Enough proof right here: The resort never opened again because it was so windy...

When we got back to my house I just wanted to sit on my lazy butt and watch Pretty Little Liars.

(DON'T SPEAK TO ME ABOUT THE SEASON FINALE BECAUSE I'M ONLY ON SEASON TWO AND I NEED TO CATCH UP ASAP BUT IF YOU SPOIL ANYTHING LIKE SOME PEOPLE HAVE FOR ME I WILL DISOWN YOU FOR LIFE.)

But no..... that didn't happen.

We had to go for a hike.

I only agreed to it because we hiked up and then got to sled down.

When we get to the trail head my parents point to the top of the mountain and I was like "Uh-no I'm not hiking all the way up there!" But they're like okay you can wait here in the parking lot for the next four hours while we hike. Fineeeeeee....

Here were some of my thoughts while hiking the dreadful peak:

My legs are going to fall off and there's nothing I can do about it.

Dysfunctional picture of me hiking the hill

Another bear is going to come out of those trees attack me again and then eat us all and no one will ever know.

What my brother and I actually said almost a million times. "Are we there yet?" "How much longer" "Can we just go from here." 

I think I'm gonna die.

We're lost. This isn't a real trail head, they just wanted Tyler and I to be trapped up here in the wilderness and die alone.

This sled should have a rope attached so I can just drag it and not have to carry it. 

Why'd I agree to do this?

When I'm sledding down this, I'm gonna run into that tree, this tree, that tree over there, and this tree that fell down probably from someone else running into it. 

We finally get to the top or the hill and we had a pretty great few of Park City. We began to sled down the mountain and it was such an adrenaline rush. I was so surprised I didn't crash into a tree and break my face.


So here's a video from the Sledtopia run and I guess it's not embarrassing... but it's a video. So it counts. Ha.

Oh and those clips aren't sped up at all I was actually going that fast. Intense, I know.

Action shot of my dogga wogga Zack-a-wackers 

Me and my swaggy butt sled and go pro

#nofilter

What's The Superbowl?

So not many people know...

I'm a Patriot's fan.

Which causes much teasing

and humiliation.

Especially by Bailey.

I really appreciate all the teasing. It's my most favoritist thing in the world.

Yeah. We're cooler than you.

But let me just say, Tom Brady would NOT have screwed up as badly as Payton Manning did during this last Super Bowl.

You can make any argument you want blah blah blah but bottom line is, the Patriots would not have done that horribly in the Superbowl.

My flappy bird high score is even higher than the Broncos score was. (And I'm HORRIBLE at Flappy Bird.)

I mean if I was a Broncos fan, I would be so embarrassed I probably would have to leave the country. Maybe I'd go to Canada...

Okay that's a little over exaggeration. 

Mostly considering I don't watch football and I don't care about it... at all. I realize that makes no sense because above it made it sound like I really care but I don't.

(FYI: All that was mentioned above were opinions from other patriots fans that weren't me, I just so happen to agree even though at the same time, I couldn't care less) Does that make sense?

And you can say anything you want to about how you hate the Patriots and I won't feel a wee bit insulted. Sorry about that. 

But this Super Bowl I was determined to suffer through the pain and actually watch the game. (OH I JUST RHYMED AND IT WASN'T EVEN A CRIME! Boom ya!)

But after that first critical mistake by the Broncos I knew there was no way I was actually going to watch the game. Let's just say I'd rather be watching Honey Boo Boo and if you've seen the show, you know what I mean...

At the moment Alexa and I ditched the football scene so we could have our own party!



(That's if you consider partying, sitting in a room listening to music and wearing weird costumes.) Well for me that's a PARTYYYY!!

We were sitting around playing Candy Crush, I know it was real intense, no need to tell me. (FYI if you want to talk Candy Crush, I'm your woman. You could say I'm kinda obsessed.)

Long story short we ended up making a video using the app Video Star. We couldn't agree on a song so we looked through all the free songs and some of the songs are pure genius. Especially the one titled Girl Making A Duck Face by Parry Grip.

Surprisingly enough, that wasn't the song we chose. (Maybe next time.)

The video is pure perfection but the song is even better. It's actually quite creepy if you listen to the lyrics. (Which we did about a million times so we could learn them.) The song's about a girl who's got a crush on someone she met on the internet. STRANGER DANGER!!

Enjoy this video I've seen a million times and still laugh as hard as I did the first time.

P.S. The answer to the title of the post: A game the Broncos don't know how to play. 

The Results Of Boredom & Creativity

I just wanted you all to know that Ullr had a small problem truly understanding WE needed snow AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!

I don't believe all of you did what I told you to do.

I'm ashamed of you.

The snow was delivered almost a week late and the snow was given to the east coast before us. That's 100% not acceptable!

Moving on....

So lately I've been into making movies.

Is that normal?

Eh.

Who cares?

Anyways....

Last weekend my activities consisted of homework, skiing, homework, scary movies, homework, some painting, homework, popcorn, and even more homework.

(By the way, teachers, I would really appreciate it if you would stop giving me so much homework over the weekend. The weekend is when I'm supposed to being #partyinghard not #doinghomework)

So it was a Sunday afternoon and I was supposed to work on my science fair project (Yuck!) with my dearest friend Tushig. But she didn't want to be seen with my in public (okay, just kidding that'd be 100% insulting although sadly I understand why.) So bored quickly engulfed me.

I was looking around my room trying to find something to do while thinking, "What is it that I could do on this horribly quiet Sunday afternoon?" 

FUN FACT: It was actually anything but quiet around the Fisher household. There were three fifth grade boys running around "working" on their science fair project.

My funtastic options included: cleaning my room (Nah.), making another batch of popcorn, helping my brother and his friends with his science fair project (No way José!!), or making some sort of painting.

So I went with the best option.

Painting.

And I had absolutely no idea what I should paint.

Then I remembered a post that a friend did on a DIY for tape art.

So that's were my inspiration came from with my own sort of twist to it.

But I wanted to make it even more exciting!



I decided to make a stop motion while doing the painting! I had never done a stop motion before so it took a lot of experimenting first.

I know you really don't care to know step by step on how I did this so here's a quick summary with how I did it and all the strange things that happened to me along the way.

My artsy pictures along with the totally awkward ones

I had to put my precious camera on my tripod that was raised all the way up, while aiming down at my painting table. (This is a lot harder than it sounds which also gave me many bruises that weren't appreciated from falling off the chair. Oh the joys of being clumsy.)

Then I had to make sure I took plenty of pictures while doing the painting. (Sometimes I forgot. Oops!) I know by the end of the project I had over one-hundred pictures. (For me, that's actually a bare minimum.)

But luckily pictures don't have the ability to capture smell.

Um... Morgan... That's a little random.

You should just be thankful that you couldn't smell what I smelt while doing this project.

My brother and his friends, thought it would be hilariously funny if they kept coming into my room and farting. And let me tell you, those farts were not pleasant in any sort of way.

I suffered through the farts and the falling of the chair without a broken bone or a loss of smell.

But overall my project was a success! The painting along with video turned out better than I expected or even hoped!

If you ever try this type of painting or a stop motion, I wish you the best of luck! ;) Oh and let me know how it goes!

P.S. Incase you didn't figure it out my stop motion is above and all the pictures above that are of my not-a-failure painting!

Excuse Me Ullr, I'm Over Here

This is a team effort.

I can't do this by myself.

I need everyone's help.

And when I say everyone, I mean EVERYONE!

But most importantly...

Your help!

What do I need your help for?

Calling to the snow gods!

Duh...!

(I know I'd be a great sales person, you don't need to tell me.)

My very intelligent father tells me that there's a Norwegian Snow God, named Ullr, and many sources from the internet confirm this. But, according to Wikipedia, there's also a Finnish Snow God named Heikki Lunta. So not only are we calling to one snow god, but two!

Why am I so persistent on calling to the Snow Gods? Simple. We. Need. Snow. It's just down right depressing how little snow we have.

Normally during Sundance we have a huge sledding party (Sleddance) on my GIGANTIC sledding hill but the past two years it hasn't happened. And currently it's dirt and bushes with a sprinkling of snow.

This is very imperative to call to the snow gods because currently they are very confused on where it is supposed to snow. Cause excuse me Ullr, but it's supposed to snow in Utah not the East Coast!

So I need your help to change this weather pattern, call to the Snow God, but most importantly, make it SNOWWW! And here's how I plan to do it.

The Four Steps To Call To The Snow Gods So They Will Make It Snow!

1. Sacrafice!

This is said to be the most important step because this is what initially attracts their attention. You could sacrifice your brother, mother or even grandmother depending on how urgently you need it to snow. Okay... just kidding! DO. NOT. SACRIFICE. YOUR. GRANDMOTHER. UNDER. ANY. CIRCUMSTANCES. I mean if anything sacrifice a brownie and some hot chocolate to the snow god. Maybe even a pig... Oink oink!

2. The Snow Dance Ritual 

Um.... I couldn't think of a better way to explain this than to show you myself. So enjoy this horribly humiliating video of me doing my snow dance ritual...

P.S. I don't have any friends to do The Snow Dance Ritual with but I'm sure you do. So do a snow dance ritual with them, because the more people you have, the stronger the force!

3. Hopes Of A Snow Day 

There are multiple things you have to do to convince the snow gods you are truly committed. You might remember doing crazy silly things in elementary school when there were hopes of a snow day. Yeah, well those silly little things are apart of this process of making it snow. And if you want it to snow you have to do each and every single one of these things.

Make sure when you go to bed tonight you wear your pajamas inside-out and backwards (bonus points if they're footsie pajamas) along with a spoon under your pillow. But before you do that you have to run circles around the table and flush ice cubes down the toilet. Make sure they are actual ice cubes, no crushed ice, it's a very common mistake. But most importantly you have to throw ice outside so they get the hint of exactly what it is you want.

4. Pray

Simple as it sounds. Pray to both snow gods individually and wait for the magic to begin.

Do I think these things actually work?

Of course I do!

Who do you think I am!?!?!

Jeez.

I mean my dad (the one who knows everything) did tell me about one time when my he was little, vacationing in Maine, he had a 103 fever and the forecast was rain. So you know what he did? He went and did a snow dance calling to the snow god, Ullr. Then he claims that his fever disappeared almost instantly and the forecast changed to snow.

That's enough proof for me and should be for you to.

Because you are going to call to the snow gods wether you like it or not.

At this point, you don't have a choice.