So today was the first day of school. And needless to say, I didn't enjoy it (I've realized that this year is going to be, well, difficult!) But when I got home and saw that a package came, one that I've been waiting for, one with a book inside called This Book Will Change Your Life, I was ecstatic.
See Betty and I (well, mostly Betty) decided to follow the instructions in this book every day, hoping to liven up our senior year and stay connected since I've moved and we're still the best of friends. Pretty much this blog will be our way of keeping up with each other's progress.
Here's how it's going to work:
At night we'll read over the next day's task, trying to think about how we'll do it or alter it to make it reasonable for us (school during the day can really limit things)
The next day we'll do the task
That evening we'll blog here about what we did and how it went, all of that
This way we each do our own thing but we are held accountable by the other. Also, it'll be so fun to read what the other one did and all that. We're going to avoid talking about the tasks before hand, as it will be a lot more interesting to see how each of us decided to do the tasks that could be done in different ways.
So enough about how this works and on to today's task.
There's a big list of random little things and the task is to choose only one for the day, as a warm up (hence the title). I marked all the ones I'd be interested in doing and then chose one. I picked "insult an insect".
During dinner I thought about insults I've never been brave enough to say that I could say to a bug but I couldn't think of anything great. Then I remembered this site I stumbled to (stumbled referring to by using Stumbleupon) that has a list of Shakespearean insults in three columns. You just pick one from each and you have a nice insult. I went through and narrowed down until I had "puny rump-fed foot-sucker". Then I went searching for an insect. I was walking around my house, hunched over, scouting for bugs, in my pajamas. I finally found one by our front porch- a little ant scurrying around on the sidewalk. I said in the meanest voice I could muster "You puny rump fed foot sucker!!" At this point my five year old brother, Brandon, opened the front door and asked why I was outside in my pjs. So I went back in, feeling accomplished.
I dont think it was as big of a deal that I insulted the ant, but more that I did something I never would have thought to do. I mean, even if I were mad at an ant, I wouldnt think of anything more creative than "you stupid ant" to insult it with. And then there was just the satisfaction of completing my first task and knowing that I have an entire year's worth ahead- it was exciting.
More tomorrow,
Brittany
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Haha. I really like your story. It is a lot better than mine. I also like how Brandon, even though he's only 5 years old, comes across as the practical one in this story and you're the one that is standing outside insulting an ant. I wanted to insult a bug too, but I was too lazy to find one. :/
it was more difficult than I thought it would be. I really almost gave up. I searched the porch and in the garage (especially by the cat food) and I was about to try to dig for a worm, but I like worms, so I was going to go choose a different one, when I spotted that ant. Can you change settings to email one of us when the other has posted or someone has commented?
also I think that we should type in two different fonts so it's easily distinguishable which is which. Like, we'd use that font every time.
Yeah, I was thinking that too! I call Georgia...because it's my favorite font. :) I'll do some searching and see if I can change the settings to do the email thing. I need to fix the time too because it's really screwed up.
I used trechubet or whatever. but you could barely tell the difference so then i bolded it. tell me if it's too much.
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