Weekend Funtimes

Hello and hello again,

IT IS THE WEEKEND!! Hooray for Saturday.

As I've alluded to before, I'm not much of a socialite. Don't get me wrong, I'm not so much of an introvert either - I do enjoy the company of some other people, but usually I'll be spending my Friday nights/ weekends at home or with my parents and/ or possibly one friend. Last night was pretty awesome for me because a) It was Friday and I managed to get out of a period of French and period of RE to perform for 200 people (even if they are just the year 11s at my school..) and these 2 periods were period 5 and 6 meaning the end of the day. b) I SPENT MY NIGHT IN TOWN, NOT AS A TOWN RAT BUT AS A PERSON WITH A 'LIFE'!!!! :D c) I SAW NITRO CIRCUS 3D!! Shit it was an awesome night. Also, I highly recommend you watch NC3D. It's hilarious and awesome and just everything that Nitro Circus is.

It really was great to be asked to do something on a Friday night. This is a basic outline of how the night went: 1. School all day until period 5 + 6 (yay performance). 2. Hanging around the library until we got kicked out. 3. Hanging around one of the music rooms having a ukulele/ guitar sesh. 4. going out for tea at nandos 5. Going out for dessert like the classy bastard I am 5. NITRO CIRCUS 3D

After coming home from this wonderful evening, I got onto the old facebook as usual, but instead of reading/ seeing pictures of "Taking selfies at ........'s party cos we cool kidz", "before ......'s!" or "beeeeeeest night at .........'s party", I read many a status along the lines of "So sick of not doing anything on a friday night" "Why is there nothing on tonight?!!?!" and "Inbox if you wanna do something. Seriously. ANYONE inbox me. I'm bored. I'm lonely...." which ultimately made me really really happy because THEY DID NOTHING AND FINALLY IT WAS ME, ME, THAT HAD A SOCIAL LIFE! This is one of the statuses I came across (it is a real one, obviously I just derpified it because I'd be killed if she saw me put it on here)

Long story short, if you're sick of not getting invited to parties, events or gatherings, do it yourself. As I've mentioned, I'm not a commonly invited figure so somewhat often, I am just sitting around waiting for something to happen, which in this case it did. BUT in my own experience, I've found that there's soooooooooo many people doing the exact same thing and waiting for something to happen. Hence, you should be the one this time to make something happen. This way, not only will YOU not be bored shitless and probsibly jealous of people doing stuff, the people you invite (even if that is a small group like the one I went with last night) will also be having fun and (lets be honest) hopefully have people jealous of them doing stuff.

Being almost Summer here where I live, here are (in picture format) numerous suggestions of what to do for fun times:

Step 1:Ask at least 3 friends/ acquaintances to attend (unless otherwise stated)
Step 2: Decide on which of these fun times might be amusing/ possible to do.

1. Acquire some black lights. Install them. Adorn yourself in fluoro, highlighters and white. Crank up some music. Dance your pants off. (This can be taken literally if desired)

Without Black Light:

With Black Light: 

2. Find a bus. Find a beachish thing. Use the bus to get to the beachish thing. Beach it up! I went on a bus for the first time ever on my own only a few weeks ago and I had no idea what I was doing, but I did manage to get where I was going so if I can survive it, you can.

This is my preferred beachish thing; it has a pool, playground, grass area, safe beach swimming area, skiing area and food places around it. Also, apart from the food, it's completely free.

3. This one can be done with just one other person; in fact, the more people you have the less fun it gets because too many people want to do different things. Get onto a train. Head to the nearest massive city. Get lost on the way to finding Krispy Kreme. Find Krispy Kreme. Purchase an over-priced beverage and donut. Have a picnic. Almost miss the train home because you took the tram a stop too far and had to walk back (its a surprisingly long distance between stops).

When having your picnic, picnic behind this busker dude. The buskers where I go are pretty damn good so I don't mind sitting near them.

4. Acquire a large piece of cardboard. This can be done tastily by buying a pizza or four and using the boxes. Find a large, steep hill that preferably does not end in sharp rocks or prickle bushes. (For a hilarious/ dangerous variation, find one that DOES end in sharp rocks or prickles). Get your ass on the cardboard at the top of the hill and slide down. My personal favourite cardboarding hill is incredibly steep with palm trees everywhere which one must avoid and ends in a vertical drop to a road.

In fact its this hill at my preferred beach

This is the view from near the top

5. Get a table. Chuck it outside. Put sparkly things and teacups everywhere. Surround it with chairs.  String fairy lights everywhere. Get people to bring a small amount of sharable food and make/ buy some yourself. Put fancy awesome food thingos on said table. Make everyone dress up a tad (that does indeed mean wearing dresses for the guys or girls - if both are attending). Have a tea party.

6. This is also another one with less people than previously suggested. The max. amount of people I'd invite for this one would be 2. Find a river and/ or bike track. Get on a bike. Explore. If you're near a river that won't kill you, perhaps jump in. Don't blame me if bad things happen.

 When I did this one, my friend and I both jumped in and got soaked. Both tires on both of our bikes then got punctured and we didn't have a repair kit with us. We then rode literally about another 15km to my nan's place, soaking wet and covered in algae on a stinking hot day with dead bikes. The next day this came up on the front page of the newspaper. Oh dear

7. Plan to go to the movies BUT instead of just going to the movies and that's it; go out for dinner at one place beforehand and then dessert at another either before or after the movie. That way you're more full so you don't waste quite as much money on food in the movies and also, I can assure you that its super fun and going out for dessert somehow makes you feel classy. If you can't afford to go out for dessert, head to the supermarket, pool your money together and buy a tub or two of ice cream and a pack of plastic spoons. Find somewhere to sit and have an ice cream picnic! It's super fun and fattening in the best way possible. I've done this many many times.

Btw, there should be waaaaay more ice cream than in this picture, but it's the only decent one I could get. Fear not, I'll be doing this one again soon enough.

A final suggestion:

8. Go camping. And by that, I mean go camping in your back yard because really, who can be bothered travelling and preparing to go on a SPONTANEOUS camping trip? Exactly! You can't really prepare for something that's spontaneous. Get a tent. Spend hours quarreling over how to set it up, or if you're a genius and manage to do it first try, sit inside discussing how you're amazed that you didn't spend hours quarreling over how to get it up. If you don't have a tent or can't be bothered setting one up, hang a long sturdy rope/ line from one point to another. eg. a tree to a post. Lay a tarp down underneath and one over the top of the line. Peg this to the ground or weigh it down with rocks or something. You can also use a huge sheet for this, but it will get dirty and if it rains, then you're screwed. Fill this with pillows, blankets, food and a torch or three and do sleepoverish things. Seriously load up on the blankets too, even though it's Summerish at the moment, you'll get cold. PS. Ensure there's no dog crap underneath your tent before you hop in. It stinks and is upleasantly squishy.

Also, fairy lights make a fantastic edition to a back yard tent. I suggest you use solar powered ones so you don't have to worry about reaching a power source

Considering this whole blog is supposed to be full of suggestions on what to do with your time as a teenager and more 'living' than just merely 'existing', I'll obviously have a lot more posts like this. Also, just to be bitchy, it's your problem if you found this post to take too long to get to the point. Just skip whatever I blab on about at first if you want. :D

I am glad that this blog is now in swing of what I wanted it to be about. PS. For the pictures that aren't actually mine on this post, when I get around to redoing all these awesome things (which I look forward to, they're so fun), I'll take photos to replace the current not-mine ones.

TTFN!

The Future

I've always had this notion that in some way, I knew I could tell the future to some extent. In my mind I've many times pondered that if there was a way to tell the future, would I want to take advantage of it? Or would I want to stay away from this knowledge and keep hold of the whole 'destiny' thing. In a way, I am a bit of a believer is destiny, but then in another I'm not. I suppose in a way you would just say that I believe everything is a bit set out, but your destiny changes a fair bit with everything you do.

This big idea of destiny and the future came to me about two minutes ago when I was sweeping the floors downstairs in my house for literally the third time in a week, and none of those times the floor was actually in apparent need of my mother's obsessive cleaning. Today is my Dad's birthday, so tonight we've got the whole family coming over, thus the entire house including the areas such as my room that will not be visited by anything 'need' to be cleaned. I was sweeping and thinking of how tonights events are going to transpire; A bit of "Hey! I couldn't care less that you're here but I'll pretend its great to see you" introductions, unwanted kisses from the delightful smelling chain smoking aunty, some amazing food (I'll give it to her, my mum is a fantastic cook), plenty of awkward small talk about my life's path, my grades and university options, and of course the cake ritual which is always a bit of amusement. Considering everyone is coming at around 7.00pm, I can expect that the last of the relatives will leave at 11.30ish, meaning there'll be at the very least 2 hours of boredom. With this obnoxious thought and various memories of favourite Doctor Who moments in mind, I had an epiphany: I can predict the future.

Despite this prediction being a pretty bland and somewhat obvious one, it is a prediction all the same with an almost certain outcome. But, the future is all wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey so I do indeed have the power to change its outcome. Because I have time to prepare, I can rummage through my 'random stuff to do' folder and figure out a way to escape the scrutiny of my life choices and avoid the evil looks when I say that I don't particularly want to go to uni, that it's more of a 'I-have-to-or-I-wont-have-many-acceptable-job-pportunities' type thing. Because of my musicality, every time the parentals have someone over, I'm expected to play the piano for them. As much as I hate playing when requested to and playing for the my-child-is-more-impressive-than-yours reason, it does give me a reason to politely get everyone to stop talking to me and feel obliged to compliment me. (I find this a much better way to fish for complements than "omg i look so gross in this pic. like the photo not the link" type crap). Anyway, along with this, I always manage to scuttle off to my cave (aka my room) and do whatever until I'm re-summoned. But once I reach my room, I'm confronted with the new-found boredom of "what the hell do I do now?"

This is my solution: Head downstairs, keep learning guitar and only show myself for bragging time and food time (these times may intertwine). By keeping track of what's probably going on upstairs and what is about to happen, I can ultimately predict and even change the future.

Mind. Fucking. Blown

A Bit of Hello

I go by the name of SnailOnABicycle. I'm like to think I'm somewhat of a 'normal' teenager in the way that I don't know what the hell I'm doing with my life, and I love it. I'm 16 years old, and very recently became so. At this stage I've only been 16 a bit over half a month, so I'm younger than most of my friends. I'm not someone that would be considered a 'popular' person, and of course I have my times where I envy and despise those people, but at the same time love them because they provide an endless source of entertainment for me. More on that later.

I'm in year 10 at an all girls Catholic school, but in no way whatsoever am I religious. Being at an all girls school might seem like a pain in the ass, but honestly I like it. There's a fair bit less bullshit around guys, but at the same time I do wish I had some guy friends.

My huge passion in life is music, and like most people, going a day without listening to music would almost kill me. I play piano and I've been doing so for 9 years. I play at grade 5 level and am doing my grade 5 exam next year. I'm in a band called Falling Sunday and I'm doing Certificate 3 in Music Performance and Certificate (I can't remember which one..) in Music Industry. I don't listen to just one specific genre of music, in fact I listen to and like bits and pieces of just about every genre, but my favourites are Punk, Punk Pop, Punk Rock, Hardcore, some Death Metal, Metal, Rock, Hard Rock, Post Hardcore and Ska. This might be a bit of a long list, but trust me, this is very limited for what I listen to. My favourite bands are All Time Low, Chunk No Captain Chunk, Fall Out Boy, A Day To Remember, HIM, Bring Me The Horizon, Asking Alexandria, Bullet For My Valentine and The Cat Empire. Apart from this, there's a lot of bands I love but it would be a bit pretentious of my to name them now because I only know a few albums worth of their songs and can barely play any. As well as Piano, I play ukulele, mini accordion, sing and am learning guitar. I really really really want to be able to play the mandolin, so that's my next big goal - saving up for a decent mandolin.

One more big part of my life is Umpiring. I'm not a sporty person, and I really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really don't like netball, so don't think I umpire that. I'm not that good at sports and I love footy (that's Australian footy for those of you wondering), so I took up goal umpiring. It's better than a job, I only train twice a week and work once a week. Also it's only for half a year. As well as this, I get paid more per hour than most part time jobs. Hell yeah.

Alright, enough bragging about myself. The reason I started up this blog is because lately I've been going through a shit load of boredom and have been thinking about how awesome it is to be a teenager. I loved it when I was a kid and didn't want to grow up, and now that I'm 16 I can honestly say that I absolutely love being a teenager, despite this year being pretty damn shitty for me. In this blog, I'm just going to describe my life in anecdotes and offer stuff to do for teenagers with less than loud social lives.

Have fun killing boredom.

- Snail