Spiderman, Spiderman...

I recently pulled off a great prank. It was cheap to do, but time consuming. Luckily, I had accounted for both (well, I didn't need to account for the lack of cost; a little financial humour for all you accountants).

I like to make puzzles for people, and I also enjoy pranking people. That's why I set up a puzzle quest for a friend, thus giving me ample time to prank their bedroom. And what did I do?

"Spiderman, Spiderman,
Does whatever a spider can
Spins a web, any size,..."

I made a web in their bedroom out of string. It took me about one and half hours (it becomes a pain to move in a room where there is string tied all over the place) to actually make the web. At this point in time, I went to check up on my prankee. Apparently, many people like to solve puzzles in private. So I returned to my work, passing a washroom on the way.

*maniacal laughter*

I decided that a good teepeeing was in order. After a half an hour, my prankee finally returned. Did I get hurt for spinning a web and then teepeeing it? Not at all. Just laughter and a comment on how it was the best prank they had pulled on them or that they had pulled. Another successfully completed prank for me!

"ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN"

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.
These are the things I learned:

• Share everything.
• Play fair.
• Don't hit people.
• Put things back where you found them.
• Clean up your own mess.
• Don't take things that aren't yours.
• Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
• Wash your hands before you eat.
• Flush.
• Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
• Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work
every day some.
• Take a nap every afternoon.
• When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
• Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up
and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
• Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
• And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.

Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living. Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess. And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
[Source: "ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN" by Robert Fulghum.]

Gasp!

Do you know what's fun?! *bounces* I mean really fun?! Super-dee duper-dee fun?!

Being hyper! *dances* Yes! Skipping places, Smiling faces, No more traces, Since I erases?

Anyway, it's awesome to be hyper! Here's some fun ways to show your hyperosity!

1. Skip places. If you're going with someone and they won't skip, then just wait for them, yelling back "Hurry up ya slowpoke!"
2. Wave to people you know. Really fast and excited.
3. Wave to people you don't know. And smile really large.
4. Smile a lot. No matter what you do, laugh about it and smile.
5. Jump up and down. Especially when someone else is talking to you.
6. Dance. To any music you can thinks of, as if no one else was there.
7. Overreact to the littlest things. If you see a butterfly, say "Oh! A butterfly!" and then begin to follow it.
8. Gasp for no reason. Did someone drop their pencil, have their shoelace come untied, or sneeze? Then gasp!
9. Be overdramatic. Be like a mime who talks.
10. Hug people who you know. Not romantically, but just hug them quickly and then run off to have more fun.
11. Be random. Jump from idea to idea, activity to activity.
12. Talk like the stereotypical teenage girl. Like, say like, and totally, like never, and then, but when, oh my!
13. Say words three or four times in a row for emphasis. "I saw a really, really, really, really cute dog yesterday!"
14. Say everything you can as fast as you can. And then fall over from not breathing.
15. Don't make sense. Just ramble on and on about stuff that doesn't make sense.
16. Add -ly, -s, -ous, -ish, etc. to the ending of words. Its make my word uckyish overously!
17. Say how boring others are. Especially if they're boring.
18. Do things that you wouldn't normally do, and others think is weird. (Just look at stuff I do: wear dandelions behind my ears, wear a cape, sing camp songs, etc.)
19. Most importantly: Always be active when you're hyper. Never sit down, unless it's to get someone else to join you in what you're doing.
20. Actually, this may be the most important: Don't do illegal stuff! Even if you're hyper, contain yourself somewhat.

If you have other things that I've missed, just comment!