Here are some ideas to help kick a rotten siku to kingdom come…
Do something good for someone else, even though wewe may not want to. Do a favour, help them find something, give them an item which will help them in some way. Start the flow of positive energy.
Eat the best chokoleti wewe can get your hands on. In bed. au in the bath.
Turn up muziki wewe really love. Play it so loudly that it soaks in through your skin. Dance in your pyjamas. Feel the pain lift.
Have a romance in your head.
Volunteer.
Buy a remote control for your camera & dip your toes into the pool of narcissism.
Call a friend & ask them if they want to have a slumber party.
Throw yourself head-first into a creative project. Something that you’re excited about but which feels a little too big for you. You’ll be so consumed kwa it that it will fuel wewe for ages.
Do the splits. au at least try. (Be gentle though!)
Sing. Loudly. Badly. Off-key. Whatever wewe like. It works. The last time I was on my way somewhere really nerve-wracking, I was in a cab. The radio was playing & I was so anxious that the only way I could distract myself was kwa imba along. Loudly. The driver probably thought I was a total nut but I didn’t care & it did the trick!
Cover your entire body in kakao siagi & fall asleep.
Drink 2 litres of fizzy drink (pop, soda, wewe know) & stay up until sunrise.
Write a orodha of things that wewe appreciate right now, in the present moment. Focus on each of them & let the upendo inside wewe well up. Even when things appear to be going really, really badly, there are always things to be happy about. (That’s one of the reasons why we do Things I upendo Thursday — to help bring your attention back to the positive.)
Indulge in your “guilty pleasures”, whatever they are. (Old episodes of America’s inayofuata juu Model, ginger ale, chokoleti cake, romantic comedies, etc.)
Send a text message to one of the most interesting people wewe know — maybe someone wewe don’t know that well, just to say hello.
Order delivery food, just to bask in the glory of the fact that if wewe pay people, they will come to your door. With food. Warm, good food. What an age we live in, huh?
Look through old photos. With a friend if possible. If it’s an old friend, wewe can reminisce (“Oh my god, do wewe remember when we did that?!”), & if it’s a new friend, wewe can tell grand stories (“Well, let me tell wewe about this guy…”).
Listen to old Motown hits. Come up with dance moves. Wear something sparkly & work it out. (DJ Z-Trip’s Motown Breakdown is an excellent time, too.)
Write a gruellingly personal entry for your blog dissecting every aspect of the situation which has upset wewe so much. Post it, don’t post it, whatever, just get it out of your system.
Plan a holiday.
Write a ridiculous online dating profaili & marvel at the people who come out of the woodwork. (“Oh, a threesome with wewe & your wife in New Jersey? Sign me up!”)
Spend an saa in your variety store of choice, set yourself a budget ($20?) & buy some junk. Lip treatments, candy, maybe an exfoliating scrub… Then go nyumbani & play with your new purchases. There’s a reason it’s called retail therapy, wewe know (though of course, it doesn’t last).
Wear a fake moustache all day.
Think up nicknames for all your friends, then send them each postcards to alert them.
Think back on the last really good sex wewe had. Think about it for an hour. Then do something else.
Go out for a milkshake.
Appreciate the dinosaur Bones at your favourite museum.
Grab a friend, dress up like tourists & go & do all the really schlocky things on offer in your city. Take LOTS of photos, & be sure to flash the peace sign in 70% of them.
Stick little crystals on something wewe use every day. (Wallet, light-switch, key-ring, boots?)
Buy a new pair of sunglasses au non-prescription frames. It’s a super-easy (& often relatively cheap) way to evolve your look. Plus sunglasses make for excellent on-the-fly disguises.
Go to a yoga class. Surrender & breathe deep.
Put on your favourite pair of high heels & walk up & down your bedroom/hallway doing your best Miss J impersonation. Have a friend au neighbour who is willing to humour wewe offer critique. “Girl, wewe walk like a busted-down freight-train.”
Write multiple lists of everything wewe want. Material possessions, relationships, work, lifestyle, everything. Pin them up kwa your door so wewe see them all the time.
Go through Urban Dictionary & find some fun/ridiculous new words to add to your vocabulary.
Make yourself the biggest aiskrimu sundae you’ve ever seen. Decorate it with hot fudge sauce, whipped cream, sprinkles, nonpareils, whatever wewe like. Take a photo. Give it a name (“Jane’s Orgasmatron Cardiac Arrest Sundae”). Devour. Maybe without using your hands. Take a picha of that too.
Get your eyebrows shaped.
Spend an saa in a department store sniffing perfume samples. When wewe find something wewe like, spray it on a card & drop it in your purse.
Try break-dancing.
Watch video of flamboyant, successful people like Elton John au Michael Jackson & marvel.
Eat animal crackers.
Drink through a straw all day. If wewe get your hands on a straw which matches your outfit, so much the better.
Plan a party with a theme that makes wewe feel really, really happy.
Write a letter to yourself in the future. Then hide it. Maybe in the pocket of a kanzu, koti wewe never, ever wear.
Leave the house wearing just fabulous lingerie underneath a coat. With heels. (Note: if wewe are a man wewe may get accused of being a flasher if wewe do this. The world is cruel sometimes.)
Pull a Kid CuDi & announce your retirement from the world of something. Like cooking, au vocal communication. Announce your unretirement whenever wewe feel like it.
Buy a harmonica & annoy the hell out of everyone while wewe learn how to play it.
Go wig shopping.
Choose a festival (SXSW? Burning Man? Coachella? Wave-Gotik-Treffen?) to go to, invite some friends, & start making plans.
Add diamantes to your manicure.
Hula hoop.
Buy some really good art for your walls. Posters, prints, original artwork au other. If you’re feeling impoverished, go to the library, check out some art books, then take huge, great quality photocopies at a copy shop.
Listen to Never Better kwa P.O.S. from start to finish & revel in what a great album it really is.
Load up your ipod & go for a walk through your favourite park.
Visit a cool toy store & make your friend a surprise package.
Reach out to the people who inspire wewe but who don’t know wewe exist.
Write the birthdays of your personal Heroes in your planner & work out a way to honour them on that day.
Pie.
Colour your hair. (You can always dye it back.)
Notice where wewe hold tension in your body, & let it go.
Visit some kind of religious institution & observe a service.
Bake heart- au bunny-shaped cookies. Give them away.
Be graceful.
Be graceless.
Make a video diary.
Answer maswali with questions.
Try on a pair of really, really expensive shoes & act like you’ll be back tomorrow, but you’re just going to go nyumbani & think about it. (Bonus points: take a picha of wewe in them. Often wewe will need to be stealthy about this but it’s worth doing.)
Record yourself trying to recite the alphabet while vigorously brushing your teeth.
Flirt with entirely inappropriate people.
Sing into your friend’s answering machine. (If you’re in the USA & use Slydial, it will take wewe straight to their voicemail.)
Pour pancakes in the shape of your initials. Eat them while watching aerobics on television.
Make Marafiki with your neighbours.
Think about how great it would be to name a shaggy dog “Toupee”.
Go to an audition just for the experience.
Tell someone cute, “You’re cute”.
Sit in a sauna with a stack of fashion magazines & sweat it out.
Find a secret place with a great view. Like a tree, au a rooftop, au a hill.
Go & see a musical (or just rent one).
Be optimistic.
Buy ridiculous slippers.
Make a orodha of the things wewe want to do to celebrate the upcoming season.
Lie down in the sunshine.
Pretend to be a dancer in a muziki video as wewe perform mundane tasks. Jiggle your way from the bathroom to the kitchen, shake it while wewe wait for your toast to pop, booty bump while wewe pick an outfit.
Go to an aquarium & take picha of the jellyfish.
Watch sinema wewe used to upendo as a child.
Book a karaoke room with Marafiki & sing your moyo out.
Make a orodha of practical, actionable ways wewe can improve your situation.
Start keeping a dream journal & write down their supposed meanings, too.
See if wewe can develop an appreciation for a band au a style of muziki you’ve never liked before.
Write a play.
Go to vintage stores looking for fabulous old typewriters.
Write the stuff wewe like about your body on your body with a marker.
Change your ring-tone to the sound of one of your Marafiki laughing hysterically.
Watch video of Robin Williams au Eddie Murphy.
Listen to Divine Harvest kwa The Mae Shi. Don’t be worried, everything will turn out fine. Don’t be worried, friend just put your hand in mine.
Take a nap with your head at the other end of the bed.
Walk around a garden centre & buy a colourful plant. Give it a name.
Go somewhere that people walk their mbwa & make Marafiki with some fluffy creatures.
Hug your friends.
Tell someone everything.
Believe that everything is always getting better.
Do something good for someone else, even though wewe may not want to. Do a favour, help them find something, give them an item which will help them in some way. Start the flow of positive energy.
Eat the best chokoleti wewe can get your hands on. In bed. au in the bath.
Turn up muziki wewe really love. Play it so loudly that it soaks in through your skin. Dance in your pyjamas. Feel the pain lift.
Have a romance in your head.
Volunteer.
Buy a remote control for your camera & dip your toes into the pool of narcissism.
Call a friend & ask them if they want to have a slumber party.
Throw yourself head-first into a creative project. Something that you’re excited about but which feels a little too big for you. You’ll be so consumed kwa it that it will fuel wewe for ages.
Do the splits. au at least try. (Be gentle though!)
Sing. Loudly. Badly. Off-key. Whatever wewe like. It works. The last time I was on my way somewhere really nerve-wracking, I was in a cab. The radio was playing & I was so anxious that the only way I could distract myself was kwa imba along. Loudly. The driver probably thought I was a total nut but I didn’t care & it did the trick!
Cover your entire body in kakao siagi & fall asleep.
Drink 2 litres of fizzy drink (pop, soda, wewe know) & stay up until sunrise.
Write a orodha of things that wewe appreciate right now, in the present moment. Focus on each of them & let the upendo inside wewe well up. Even when things appear to be going really, really badly, there are always things to be happy about. (That’s one of the reasons why we do Things I upendo Thursday — to help bring your attention back to the positive.)
Indulge in your “guilty pleasures”, whatever they are. (Old episodes of America’s inayofuata juu Model, ginger ale, chokoleti cake, romantic comedies, etc.)
Send a text message to one of the most interesting people wewe know — maybe someone wewe don’t know that well, just to say hello.
Order delivery food, just to bask in the glory of the fact that if wewe pay people, they will come to your door. With food. Warm, good food. What an age we live in, huh?
Look through old photos. With a friend if possible. If it’s an old friend, wewe can reminisce (“Oh my god, do wewe remember when we did that?!”), & if it’s a new friend, wewe can tell grand stories (“Well, let me tell wewe about this guy…”).
Listen to old Motown hits. Come up with dance moves. Wear something sparkly & work it out. (DJ Z-Trip’s Motown Breakdown is an excellent time, too.)
Write a gruellingly personal entry for your blog dissecting every aspect of the situation which has upset wewe so much. Post it, don’t post it, whatever, just get it out of your system.
Plan a holiday.
Write a ridiculous online dating profaili & marvel at the people who come out of the woodwork. (“Oh, a threesome with wewe & your wife in New Jersey? Sign me up!”)
Spend an saa in your variety store of choice, set yourself a budget ($20?) & buy some junk. Lip treatments, candy, maybe an exfoliating scrub… Then go nyumbani & play with your new purchases. There’s a reason it’s called retail therapy, wewe know (though of course, it doesn’t last).
Wear a fake moustache all day.
Think up nicknames for all your friends, then send them each postcards to alert them.
Think back on the last really good sex wewe had. Think about it for an hour. Then do something else.
Go out for a milkshake.
Appreciate the dinosaur Bones at your favourite museum.
Grab a friend, dress up like tourists & go & do all the really schlocky things on offer in your city. Take LOTS of photos, & be sure to flash the peace sign in 70% of them.
Stick little crystals on something wewe use every day. (Wallet, light-switch, key-ring, boots?)
Buy a new pair of sunglasses au non-prescription frames. It’s a super-easy (& often relatively cheap) way to evolve your look. Plus sunglasses make for excellent on-the-fly disguises.
Go to a yoga class. Surrender & breathe deep.
Put on your favourite pair of high heels & walk up & down your bedroom/hallway doing your best Miss J impersonation. Have a friend au neighbour who is willing to humour wewe offer critique. “Girl, wewe walk like a busted-down freight-train.”
Write multiple lists of everything wewe want. Material possessions, relationships, work, lifestyle, everything. Pin them up kwa your door so wewe see them all the time.
Go through Urban Dictionary & find some fun/ridiculous new words to add to your vocabulary.
Make yourself the biggest aiskrimu sundae you’ve ever seen. Decorate it with hot fudge sauce, whipped cream, sprinkles, nonpareils, whatever wewe like. Take a photo. Give it a name (“Jane’s Orgasmatron Cardiac Arrest Sundae”). Devour. Maybe without using your hands. Take a picha of that too.
Get your eyebrows shaped.
Spend an saa in a department store sniffing perfume samples. When wewe find something wewe like, spray it on a card & drop it in your purse.
Try break-dancing.
Watch video of flamboyant, successful people like Elton John au Michael Jackson & marvel.
Eat animal crackers.
Drink through a straw all day. If wewe get your hands on a straw which matches your outfit, so much the better.
Plan a party with a theme that makes wewe feel really, really happy.
Write a letter to yourself in the future. Then hide it. Maybe in the pocket of a kanzu, koti wewe never, ever wear.
Leave the house wearing just fabulous lingerie underneath a coat. With heels. (Note: if wewe are a man wewe may get accused of being a flasher if wewe do this. The world is cruel sometimes.)
Pull a Kid CuDi & announce your retirement from the world of something. Like cooking, au vocal communication. Announce your unretirement whenever wewe feel like it.
Buy a harmonica & annoy the hell out of everyone while wewe learn how to play it.
Go wig shopping.
Choose a festival (SXSW? Burning Man? Coachella? Wave-Gotik-Treffen?) to go to, invite some friends, & start making plans.
Add diamantes to your manicure.
Hula hoop.
Buy some really good art for your walls. Posters, prints, original artwork au other. If you’re feeling impoverished, go to the library, check out some art books, then take huge, great quality photocopies at a copy shop.
Listen to Never Better kwa P.O.S. from start to finish & revel in what a great album it really is.
Load up your ipod & go for a walk through your favourite park.
Visit a cool toy store & make your friend a surprise package.
Reach out to the people who inspire wewe but who don’t know wewe exist.
Write the birthdays of your personal Heroes in your planner & work out a way to honour them on that day.
Pie.
Colour your hair. (You can always dye it back.)
Notice where wewe hold tension in your body, & let it go.
Visit some kind of religious institution & observe a service.
Bake heart- au bunny-shaped cookies. Give them away.
Be graceful.
Be graceless.
Make a video diary.
Answer maswali with questions.
Try on a pair of really, really expensive shoes & act like you’ll be back tomorrow, but you’re just going to go nyumbani & think about it. (Bonus points: take a picha of wewe in them. Often wewe will need to be stealthy about this but it’s worth doing.)
Record yourself trying to recite the alphabet while vigorously brushing your teeth.
Flirt with entirely inappropriate people.
Sing into your friend’s answering machine. (If you’re in the USA & use Slydial, it will take wewe straight to their voicemail.)
Pour pancakes in the shape of your initials. Eat them while watching aerobics on television.
Make Marafiki with your neighbours.
Think about how great it would be to name a shaggy dog “Toupee”.
Go to an audition just for the experience.
Tell someone cute, “You’re cute”.
Sit in a sauna with a stack of fashion magazines & sweat it out.
Find a secret place with a great view. Like a tree, au a rooftop, au a hill.
Go & see a musical (or just rent one).
Be optimistic.
Buy ridiculous slippers.
Make a orodha of the things wewe want to do to celebrate the upcoming season.
Lie down in the sunshine.
Pretend to be a dancer in a muziki video as wewe perform mundane tasks. Jiggle your way from the bathroom to the kitchen, shake it while wewe wait for your toast to pop, booty bump while wewe pick an outfit.
Go to an aquarium & take picha of the jellyfish.
Watch sinema wewe used to upendo as a child.
Book a karaoke room with Marafiki & sing your moyo out.
Make a orodha of practical, actionable ways wewe can improve your situation.
Start keeping a dream journal & write down their supposed meanings, too.
See if wewe can develop an appreciation for a band au a style of muziki you’ve never liked before.
Write a play.
Go to vintage stores looking for fabulous old typewriters.
Write the stuff wewe like about your body on your body with a marker.
Change your ring-tone to the sound of one of your Marafiki laughing hysterically.
Watch video of Robin Williams au Eddie Murphy.
Listen to Divine Harvest kwa The Mae Shi. Don’t be worried, everything will turn out fine. Don’t be worried, friend just put your hand in mine.
Take a nap with your head at the other end of the bed.
Walk around a garden centre & buy a colourful plant. Give it a name.
Go somewhere that people walk their mbwa & make Marafiki with some fluffy creatures.
Hug your friends.
Tell someone everything.
Believe that everything is always getting better.
Official contest launches Saturday June 26, 2010.
WIN BELLA'S ENGAGEMENT RING!
Submission topic 'Why I upendo Edward Cullen' au 'Why I Want Edward Cullens Ring' au anything about EDWARD CULLEN may consist of any ORIGINAL content including fanfiction, fanart, poetry and au your personal reason/story.
link
The Edward Cullens ring as decribed in the Twilight saga is yellow dhahabu however the winner of the contest will have their choice of either white dhahabu au yellow.
This is going to be FUN, FUN, FUN!
Contest begins Saturday June 26, 2010 and ends Sunday July 11, 2010.
Good Luck!
WIN BELLA'S ENGAGEMENT RING!
Submission topic 'Why I upendo Edward Cullen' au 'Why I Want Edward Cullens Ring' au anything about EDWARD CULLEN may consist of any ORIGINAL content including fanfiction, fanart, poetry and au your personal reason/story.
link
The Edward Cullens ring as decribed in the Twilight saga is yellow dhahabu however the winner of the contest will have their choice of either white dhahabu au yellow.
This is going to be FUN, FUN, FUN!
Contest begins Saturday June 26, 2010 and ends Sunday July 11, 2010.
Good Luck!