Mother Teresa - Do It Anyway [Poem]

Another 100 Favorite Things

1. Buying the half-dead plants from the discount shelf at Lowe's and babying them back to health.

2. Knight Rider marathons.

3. Finding strawberries on sale.

4. Cutting off the bottoms of grocery store veggies to put in cups of water on windowsills and regrow.

5. Board games.

6. Going through recipe boxes and copying favorite recipes for your own.

7. Spatchcocked turkey.

8. Enormous cups of coffee.

9. Geraniums.

10. Rain on a tin roof.

11. The busy sound of someone typing.

12. Laundry warm from the dryer.

13. Kids drawing on foggy windows.

14. Happy wrinkles, evidence of many smiles.

15. A good thunderstorm.

16. Mother's Day hydrangeas.

17. Billy Joel music.

18. Mug cakes.

19. Refrigerators right after a good deep clean.

20. The sound of strong wind in the trees.

21. Making bruschetta.

22. Hemming curtains.

23. Having a full gas tank in your car.

24. Planting apple trees in the back yard.

25. Sturdy shelves.

26. Mismatch silverware.

27. Really old windows that only stay open if you prop them with something.

28. Sunday afternoon cheesecake.

29. Nature documentaries.

30. Sun porches.

31. Lentil soup.

32. Game plans.

33. Reading with a highlighter.

34. Ordering books online.

35. Philippians.

36. Birch bark.

37. Chickadees.

38. Coleman camp stoves.

39. Taking the long way home.

40. Ice cream and midol.

41. The theme song to MacGyver.

42. Driving past a Christmas tree farm in summer.

43. Counting all the cars on a train.

44. Babies with really thick eyelashes.

45. Putting celery in water so it perks up before you serve it.

46. Kids on trampolines.

47. Ajax dish soap.

48. Keith Urban on the radio.

49. Sandpipers.

50. Spring dandelion greens with bacon.

51. Overtipping.

52. Saying "Hi" to cows while driving past.

53. Electric blankets.

54. Snoopy.

55. Apricots.

56. Deep windowsills.

57. Asking for the recipe.

58. Pizza with extra sauce.

59. Window fans.

60. Egg cartons.

61. Watching someone pursue something they're passionate about.

62. Porch lights.

63. Ice cream sandwiches.

64. Breaker boxes with labels on all the switches.

65. Bored mall kiosk salesman.

66. The sky before it rains.

67. Murphy's Oil Soap.

68. Eating peanut butter on a spoon for breakfast in a rush.

69. Turning on the lights after replacing burnt out bulbs.

70. Flowered sheets.

71. French press coffee.

72. Refrigerator pickles.

73. Landscape paintings.

74. Camping out in the yard.

75. Free books.

76. Trix cereal.

77. Swirl glass sundae dishes.

78. Barnswallows.

79. Getting off work early.

80. Cookbook shelves.

81. Olive Garden's house salad.

82. Morning fog burning off in the sun.

83. Opening stuck windows.

84. When old people call daffodils "Jonquils."

85. Potato Mashers.

86. Really hot water.

87. Traffic lights.

88. Ticket windows.

89. Those miniature corn cobs in Chinese restaurant food.

90. Free road maps.

91. Spring Peepers.

92. Newly paved parking lots.

93. Fluffy pillows.

94. Dimples.

95. Buckwheat cakes.

96. EMTs.

97. Paddington.

98. Bathrooms with heaters in them.

99. Hydroponics.

100. Textbooks.

Chuck Berry - I'm In The Danger Zone [Song of The Day]

105 Things To Do When You're Bored

1.  Read a book.
2.  Learn to juggle. 
3.  Clean your closet.
4.  Learn a language online-sites like duolingo, and youtube.
5.  Go for a walk.
6.  Declutter and donate the results to charity.
7.  Create a Spotify account if you don't have one (free!) and find some new music you like. 
8.  Write something. Poetry? Stories? A letter?
9.  Make some cards for use later. 
10.  Paint your nails.
11.  Take a handwriting course.
12.  Listen to a podcast like the splendid table, marketplace, etc.
13.  Make your bed.
14.  Do laundry.
15.  Go for a long drive to nowhere in particular and turn the music up loud.
16.  Find someone to play a game with.
17.  Go on a short hike to a local outlook spot.
18.  Learn a new recipe.
19.  Make a how to video and upload it to youtube.
20.  Make a DIY face mask from eggs or something.
21.  Try to draw an elephant.
22.  Go geocaching.
23.  Learn a new musical instrument (tutorials free online, check craigslist for a cheap/free tuba.)
24.  Grow a plant.
25.  Make some abstract art-everybody's good at abstract art! Don't forget to sign it and frame it.
26.  Watch a TED talk on YouTube.
27.  Jump on your bed.
28.  Take a shower.
29.  Make meals for the coming week and freeze them.
30.  Drink a BIG glass of water.
31.  Take a nap.
32.  Digitize some old photos.
33.  Go on ancestry.com to find out if your great, great, great, great grandfather was a pirate or not.
34.  Make a blog.
35.  Buy flowers from the grocery store and give them to people.
36.  Write a letter or make a video to your future self.
37.  Take a picture of what you are doing every hour for the next twenty four hours. 
38.  Learn how to make origami swans.
39.  Throw away all the receipts in your bag.
40.  Plan your next vacation.
41.  Start a jar to fill with change and label it with what you're going to spend it on. 
42.  Prank call your mom and pretend to order pizzas.
43.  Do a puzzle.
44.  Do a five minute workout (look it up.)
45.  Make a cup of tea or coffee or lemonade and then just sit and enjoy it.
46.  Start a journal or an art journal if you hate writing.
47.  Start a memory jar.
48. Wash your sheets and hang them on the clothesline if you have one.
49. Clean out your fridge.
50. Start some friendship bread starter.
51. Write a letter to a kid you know.
52. Call your grandma and ask for the recipe to that cranberry-liver-stuffing she makes every holiday.
53. Use it to start your own recipe collection of heirlooms and personal favorites.
54. Rearrange your bedroom furniture.
55. Pick an artist and listen to ALL of their songs, one after the other.
56. Find a new motto.
57. Create a personal master plan.
58. Make a mug cake.
59. Look for coupons in the newspaper for stuff on your grocery list.
60. Play a video game.
61. Sign up for a free class on Coursera.
62. Meditate.
63. Make a bucket list.
64. Buy a goldfish.
65. Go to a library.
66. Teach yourself how to juggle. 
67. Make some freezer meals for later.
68. Go geocaching.
69. If you have garden space, start a compost bin.
70. Create your own filing system for bills, medical records, and other personal paperwork.
71. Start making or buying Christmas gifts in advance, save yourself time and money later.
72. Write a list of things you've accomplished in the past year.
73. Make some jello.
74. Memorize a poem.
75. Make a list of 52 books to read in the next 52 weeks.
76. Update your résumé. 
77. Spend a few minutes figuring out how to streamline your morning routine.
78. Make a mix cd.
79. Play solitaire.
80. Watch a documentary.
81. Donate 3 dollars to an organization you support.
82. Do some push ups.
83. Go for a 20 minute walk.
84. Research how to invest money for the future (index stock investing is a good start.)
85. Watch the sunrise or sunset.
86. Clean out and wash your car.
87. Go hiking.
88. Visit a free museum.
89. Take a typing class online.
90. Do some basic yard work to spruce up the house.
91. Go for a bike ride.
92. Google your local community calendar and find free events like live music, tours, etc. to attend.
93. Make a vision board.
94. Review your favorite books on Goodreads.
95. Listen to a new genre of music.
96. Paint a wall in your house.
97. Visit someone you know in a nursing home.
98. Google historical houses in your area and visit one.
99. Have a picnic.
100. Have friends over.
101. Devote 10 minutes to deep cleaning that thing in your house you hate cleaning.
102. Do a crossword puzzle.
103. Camp in your backyard.
104. Fly a kite.
105. Cut up old clothes and piece a quilt top from them.