The Brown-eyed Girl

If you read the editorial to your left, you will see advice to avoid going out this weekend. Here are a few things that could make your weekend fun anyway:

1. Buy a new CD and break it in with a couple of friends and a long drive.
2. Invite some people over for a “People of Wal-mart” viewing party, then venture out to the nearest superstore and take some photos of your own for the Web site.
3. Practice a Julia Child recipe.
4. Paint the walls of your living room lime green and see what your roommates say.
5. Have a TV sitcom marathon, such as all 10 seasons of “Friends.”
6. Have all of your friends dress like they did in 2001 and invite them over. Marvel in the hideousness of your previous fashion choices.
7. Plan a lavish vacation with your closest buds and decide how to make it happen for real.
8. Buy a bulk-sized box of plastic forks and put them in someone’s yard.
9. Sit around with a pot of coffee, some good books or magazines, a couple cozy quilts and your best friend.
10. Call that girl who sits in front of you in science class. You know you want to.
11. Answer the phone when that boy calls you.
12. Rent some of your favorite movies, preferably something you loved in high school, then remember why you loved it so much back then.
13. Sign up for Netflix and watch random movies instantly online.
14. Bedazzle something. A T-shirt, a hat, your backpack. Whatever you’re feeling.
15.Brush your dog.
16. Play a prank on your roommate, like hiding all of the clothes in his closet or taking one of each pair of shoes and put  them in a weird place.
17. Go to Gospel Fest at New Life Church.
18. Take a random road trip.
19. Cook a themed meal.
20. Drive to Wayne.
21. Figure out where Wayne is.
22. While you’re there, go to the playoff game.
23. Make your own Christmas list and e-mail it to your closest family and friends. Or if you’re stingy, everyone on your Facebook.
24. Start some early Christmas shopping online.
25. Buy a new pair of underwear. You can never have too many.
26. Decide what you want to do for the rest of your life.
27. Stalk a celebrity.
28. Do something nice for someone else.
29. Organize your closet.
30. Write someone a letter.
31. Make an awesome playlist on your iTunes.
32. Listen to your playlist.
33. Watch Saturday Night Live.
34. Have breakfast for dinner.
35. Watch a movie you’ve seen so many times you know all the lines. Recite the lines as the movie plays. Score yourself.
36. Try to break a Guinness World Record.
37. Go on strike against Marshall University changing the graduation rule.
38. Dye your hair.
39. Write an e-mail to your mom in text message language. Laugh when she calls and says she got a weird coded e-mail.
40. Pierce something.
41. Bake cookies.
42. Try a new wine.
43. Get a tattoo. Why not?
44. Make a list of things to do  next week and hang it on your mirror to check off each item as you complete it.
45. Get caught up on TMZ.
46. Start making signs for the basketball games.
47. Find a bunch of old photos from elementary or high school. Scan them. Put them on Facebook. Tag everyone in them, no matter how embarrassed they will be.
48. Plan your Halloween costume for next year.
49. Buy a new pet, like a goldfish. Name it after yourself.
50. Take a trip to Sheetz for a smoothie or chicken strips.
51. Do some serious Facebook creeping with some friends.
52. Go see Chris Daughtry. Not.
53. Do laundry.
54. Do some old school prank phone calls.
55. Get rid of five things in your closet.
56. Be a witness at a wedding at the courthouse.
57. Find out the history to your name.
58. Take some glamour shots.
59. Pawn some gold for cash.
60. Dance in your living room.
61. Watch the video of Elisabeth Hasslebeck and Rosie O’Donell fighting on “The View.”
62. Work on your resume.
63. Start a blog.
64. Find a new volunteer opportunity in your community.
65. Make a collage.
66. Send a care package to a long-distance friend.
67. Browse iTunes for that cool song you heard on the radio but can’t remember the name.
68. Watch your prom video.
69. Make your own music video, preferably to “Ice Ice Baby.”
70. Throw away all your ex-boyfriend’s stuff he left behind.
71. Pluck your eyebrows.
72. Tie-dye a T-shirt.
73. Apply for jobs.
74. Make a mix CD.
75. Have a black light, white T-shirt party. Just saying.

Hopefully these help you have a fun time this week and weekend.
Kristin Steele and britt frye, graduate students from huntington, CONTRIBUTED TO
THIS compilation iof ideas.

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