compile a list of 101 Useful Things To Do Besides Watch TV

1. Eat an oreo… if you’re a person.
2. Read a book… if you’re not blind.
3. Write a book… if you don’t want to read one.
4. Listen to music… if you own a radio and/or CD.
5. Cook some food… If you’re hungry.
6. Develop some opinions… if you want one.
7. Research a topic… if you have the sources.
8. Sing a song… if you have decent breath.
9. Brush your teeth… if you don’t have decent breath.
10. Put on clothes… if you aren’t a nudist.

24) study big band charts
25) play guitar
26) take a long hot bath (stole that from Harijan)
27) paint my front door
28) breath
29) sort my clothes
30) move the boxes in the hallway
31) journal
32) dream
33) look up new recipes
34) lift weights
35) mow the grass
36) get the KORG ready for Maggie
37) teach
39) work on my dads 30’s CD
40) plan a vacation
41) make money
42) read the world is flat
43) go to dinners ready
44) trim the knick knick
45) clean under the kitchen sink
46) organize my CD’s and throw a bunch away
47) book gigs
48) do the “Songs I love” CD
49) volunteer
50) do push ups
51) sew that cute skirt I bought material for
52) clean out my purse
53) call people I love and tell them

20) Do this :)
21) knit
22) garden
23) write

18) talk to my brothers on the phone
19) throw things I don’t need away

7) feed my cat
8) do dishes
9) sew dougs pants
10) call my daughter
11) pray
12) call a friend
13) clean the garage
14) sing
15) do sit ups
16) play tennis
17) take pictures of things I love

1) write songs
2) sweep the back porch
3) plan menus
4) write notes to friends and family
5) read
6) dance

42. Recharge cell phone
43. Pick up glasses
44. Clean ears
45. Digitize photos
46. Organize CD’s
47. Appraise car
48. Take inventory
49. Use coupons
50. Do taxes

37. pick up friends prescriptions
38. Wax eyebrows
39. Encourage dad to get a colonoscopy
40. Return rentals

12. Help my sister figure out if it would be easier for her to get into a California pharmacy school or medical school, if she transferred to Cally as an undergrad.

13. Find a balance between the things I need to do (maintenance) and the things I want to do (fun).

14. Fill my tank with premium unleaded once amonth to “clean it out.”

15. See if I can fit into my sister’s old roller skates.

16. Get a haircut

17. Clean out your wallet and glove compartment

18. Floss

19. Watch over sister’s house while she goes to Hudson’s Adventure Island to have fun

20. Babysit

21. Replace filters in the swimming pool and the air conditioner.

22. Figure out if the mercury (silver) fillings in my teeth are slowly poisoning me to death, and if there’s an easy way to get them out.

23. Clean out voice mails

24. Iron clothes (ya right, I know I’m never going to get around to this)

25. Walk brother-in-law’s dog

26. Spend the night with a friend

27. Repent of my sins

28. Congratulate my sister on her successful presentation

29. Swim

30. Figure out why the sequel to Pirates of the Carribean was so sucky with such a sucky ending, and why I have to wait a year for the next. I mean, do they think they are cool, like Back to the Future, or LOTR?

31. Contemplate the probability that the Earth will be hit with a gamma blast

32. Worry about when Yellowstone supervolcano may erupt…. hey, this is worth doing if you are a survivalist.

33. Convince someone that bombing power stations, bridges, sewage facilities, apartment complexes, roads, etc. is not “self-defense” for the capture of 2 soldiers in a border incident and is not worth a major world war.

34. Pray for Mexico never captures 2 of our border guards, since the c-in-chief is increasingly going to need to find excuses to distract people from all his failed policies.

35. Buy a power generator

2. Make a list of all your peak experiences
3. Call your mom and dad
4. Make a to do list for tomorrow
5. Get to know yourself
6. Go try on some jeans at American eagle so that you can get a free ticket to see Pirates of the Caribbean or Al Gore’s movie over at AMC
7. Go to crooksandliars.com, mediamatters.org, lewrockwell.com, commondreams.org, bushwatch.com, or smirkingchimp.com and keep abreast of current events
8. Give a $5 to the next homeless person who asks, instead of chump change… and give him directions to the nearest least expensive and best foodplace.
9. Go to everything2.com and read my articles on “Count Dooku” and “Mace Windu” thus enhancing your knowledge of the Star Wars Universe.
10. Clean the dust which collects on the top side of your ceiling blade fans