I never quite got around to naming all my furniture, but I did name my china ornaments as a child. I was an only child, so my dolls and ornaments were my only friends up till starting school when I was 5. Oh how I loved school! I used to cry when the holidays came round. Needless to say I grew out of that after a few years! ;-)

How about...

Start doing things with your feet that you normally do with your hands (like brushing your teeth), and if anyone asks about it, tell them you are practicing in case you lose the use of your hands - that way you'll be prepared

**Rewrite and sing popular songs, using the names of your dogs.

**Pretend you're a 'CSI' and wear rubber gloves and carry a flashlight all day. Swab various surfaces as needed.

**Demonstrate, by daily example, that eating vegetables is a waste of valuable chewing time that can be put to better use with potato chips and Kit-Kat bars.

-Joy

i have this book, and adore it: it's called "101 experiments in the philosophy of everyday life" by roger-pol droit. my favorites are
-call out your own name,
-try not to think,
-telephone at random, and
-shower with your eyes closed.

it's a great book. i recommend it to everyone.

Dear Mrs. Keri Smith,
This is a great blog!!!!!!!! In fact it is my Aunts inspiration. She rights blogs too. If u ever want to visit her blog just type in wide bluesky

I put a link to you on my blog, I hope you don't mind. If you'd like me to take you off just send me an e-mail. I love your journals, by the way, mine never look so beauteous. :)

This made me laugh at the end of a long day! And if I don't actually end up *doing* any of these things, just considering doing them is good entertainment :)
....And I liked the stapling thing too

~Blind fold yourself for an hour inside of your house and go about your tasks to see how well you can achieve your tasks.

~Start a dirt collection for a month or longer. See how much dirt really comes into your house.

~Make up ten jokes really fast - e-mail them to your friends to see if any are a hit.

~~~~~Your hair at the end of one month of no showering must be so oily. But when you wash it it will look so good b/c of all the oil.

~~~~~The marble one - I would be afraid I would forget about it and swallow it.

~~~They are all funny and everyone else's are too funny!!

Here are a few more...

1.Pin a stuffed animal on your shoulder and whisper secrets to it all week.

2. Don't speak for a few days, use a notepad and pencil to communicate, only using pictures.

3. Walk with a piece of chalk and make a hopscotch track, you can only move ahead on a drawn square.

4.Spend a day eating only dessert.

I am going to staple everything together starting right now. That was just too funny!

And I see that gauchos are actually back in style! I am going to wear those for a week…as soon as I find some.

Here are some from my artist's sons' friend....
Take an old tire for a walk in a stroller.
Make cupcakes out of cement.
Wear a fat orange lifejacket around for a while...as in everywhere you go.

I used to interview people at fast food restaurants....telling them they would be on Candid Camera....the cameras of course were hidden...!
Susan

Microwave a Moon Pie* for about a minute.

*For those of you who don't know what this is, it's a wonderful Southern American thing--marshmallow and this thick kind of cakey graham cracker covered in chocolate or some other kind of flavored coating. They're also highly explosive when heated. *evil laugh*

Sing something outrageous in the bus/tram/train/subway. But sing it loud.

Take pictures of the places you go to in a day (even and especially if it's an ordinary, everyday trip home-to-office) and make a collage out of it.

loved the post. I've had the blahs lately and this is just the thing. I read this in a kid's book where the main character wanted to cure his shyness: tie a piece of string around a stalk of broccoli. Wear it around you neck for the day.

Choose a random name and address out of the phone book. Start sending them postcards once a week, telling them all about how you're doing.

Yeah. My roommate and I pretended we lived in a Jane Austen book for about an hour. We spoke in british accents, but we're pretty awful at faking any type of accent, except a Filipino one, because, well- we're Filipino. I work in an independant theater company, and we're like the charade rulers of the world, and one time we played a charades game at an outdoor cafe. Talk about impromptu performance art. And the thing is, you're too caught up in the game to worry about embarassing yourself.

Ooh, I love those ideas! How fun.
Here are some I've come up with:

- Wear ridiculously tall shoes so you see everything from a different perspective.
- "tatoo" words on your hands with an ink pen or sharpie. See if people notice.
- wear those gigantic sunglasses you get at the circus.
- paint each of your fingernails a differnt color
- change all your lightbulbs to those party red or blue kind.
- rollerskate around your house.

p.s. I used to have a coffeepot named carl. How funny you chose that name... :)

You're a peach, Keri!

Take on the personalities of fictional characters from your favourite books for an entire day. It woud be delightful to see Miss Havisham from Great Expectations in the grocery store, or Dunstan Ramsay from Fifth Business in the laundromat.

This reminds me of the day that co-workers and myself sang in opera everything we would normally speak for the whole day....such as OH! This job isssssss hot! We must, we must get it done riiiiiggggghhhhttttt nowwwwwww....lalalalamememememeeeeeee.....

I had to smile when I read your latest post.
I once worked in a small office with some of the funnest people you'd ever want to meet. Once somebody wondered out loud "What if, instead of names, we had SOUNDS?"
So we each picked a sound and addressed eachother that way for weeks.
I was "Boy-yoy-yoy-yoing!"
Nate was "Ehhhhnnngghhh"
Tom was "AAAACCCKK!"
C.J. was "Bow-chicka-bow-wow"

God I miss those people!

What sound name would you be?
Carolyn
http://carolynchip.blogspot.com

Turn the heat up to 80, bring the mini kids pool into the living room, fill it up and soak while watching old Gidget re-runs.

My daughter took you up on one of those today...popcorn kernel up the nose. I don't recommend.

yep these are funny, thx.

i give you -
sing in the elevator day
t-p your office day
and
since it is spring
office worker skip day :)

This is so wonderful! I laughed out loud (In fact, I almost got my coffee up my nose) when I read the word "gauchos". I used to wear those in junior high (at least I think it was jr. high).

I'll add mine: Put a "Dole" banana sticker on your forehead on a big errand running day and see how many people ignore it vs. say something.

Keri, I cannot tell you how many ways you inspire me and fill my days with fun. I have my permission cards in a lovely shell on my desk, I have painted rocks all over my house and I have a word tree of words describing myself hanging from my studio ceiling. I have given your book away to many and I recommend it highly. You are a wonderful, dear soul and I cherish you.

(And thanks very much for the laugh.)