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!