Comments on: 365 New Things http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/ thrifty and creative | home and garden | ideas and experience Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:22:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: domestika http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5114 domestika Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:37:55 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5114 @LA, soft-serve with fries - yuk! But you're right, they'd try to sell it! I love your idea of exploring the 'community ads' to find great gear and new adventures... that's something of how it feels to wander around the internet, too ... only, just a bit less of that healthy Yoga activity when you're parked in a chair and web surfing... ;) @LA, soft-serve with fries - yuk! But you’re right, they’d try to sell it!
I love your idea of exploring the ‘community ads’ to find great gear and new adventures… that’s something of how it feels to wander around the internet, too … only, just a bit less of that healthy Yoga activity when you’re parked in a chair and web surfing… ;)

]]> By: LA http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5111 LA Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:22:14 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5111 lol...the cheapest thing on the menu at McDonalds in Australia are the 30c Soft Serve Cones...they're yet to put a price on smiles here Down Under. I'm sure they'd try and up-sell you to some fries with that anyway. One thing I thought of from my recent experience of having no internet access at my home office for 2 weeks (and having to travel to the local library to use theirs) is 'reading the local commumity ads' that appear in the library...I now have a new Yoga Class to attend and my printer is sitting on a gorgeous 2nd hand bamboo table...all from those wonderful ads. lol…the cheapest thing on the menu at McDonalds in Australia are the 30c Soft Serve Cones…they’re yet to put a price on smiles here Down Under. I’m sure they’d try and up-sell you to some fries with that anyway.

One thing I thought of from my recent experience of having no internet access at my home office for 2 weeks (and having to travel to the local library to use theirs) is ‘reading the local commumity ads’ that appear in the library…I now have a new Yoga Class to attend and my printer is sitting on a gorgeous 2nd hand bamboo table…all from those wonderful ads.

]]> By: Lisa365 http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5068 Lisa365 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:15:54 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5068 @cardiogirl, LOL... those are definitely things I can do! Adding them to my list! @cardiogirl, LOL… those are definitely things I can do! Adding them to my list!

]]> By: domestika http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5060 domestika Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:42:51 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5060 @cardiogirl, I've thought the same thing - sure, McDonald's likes to advertise that "the smiles are free" but I'd need to be a whole lot braver than I am before going to the counter to order one! @cardiogirl, I’ve thought the same thing - sure, McDonald’s likes to advertise that “the smiles are free” but I’d need to be a whole lot braver than I am before going to the counter to order one!

]]> By: cardiogirl http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5059 cardiogirl Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:32:25 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5059 How about walking backwards into work tomorrow. Then hopping on one leg back to the car after work. Nice idea on coming up with something new to do each day. I don't think I could order a smile at McDonald's. Strangely, I don't think I have the guts to do that. Isn't that wild? How about walking backwards into work tomorrow. Then hopping on one leg back to the car after work.

Nice idea on coming up with something new to do each day. I don’t think I could order a smile at McDonald’s. Strangely, I don’t think I have the guts to do that. Isn’t that wild?

]]> By: domestika http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5031 domestika Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:23:31 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5031 Haha, my eager-beaver Askimet spam filter really didn't like Rebecca's idea about :gasp: no electronics... and it didn't like Claudia dropping those hints that *some of us* really need to get some more exercise, either! So... how about... New Thing: start a petition demanding that your gym start offering Wii classes. Or get on the treadmill (or exercise bike) and text everyone you know with the play-by-play on how hard you're working out. Haha, my eager-beaver Askimet spam filter really didn’t like Rebecca’s idea about :gasp: no electronics… and it didn’t like Claudia dropping those hints that *some of us* really need to get some more exercise, either!
So… how about…
New Thing: start a petition demanding that your gym start offering Wii classes. Or get on the treadmill (or exercise bike) and text everyone you know with the play-by-play on how hard you’re working out.

]]> By: Lisa365 http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5029 Lisa365 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:47:49 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5029 These are really great ideas! These are really great ideas!

]]> By: Claudia http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5028 Claudia Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:25:14 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5028 I've made a commitment to go to the gym every, single day. So far so good. And I'll confess, it's as painful as it is amusing. ;) I’ve made a commitment to go to the gym every, single day. So far so good. And I’ll confess, it’s as painful as it is amusing. ;)

]]> By: Rebecca Muller http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5027 Rebecca Muller Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:03:14 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5027 New Thing: Go an entire day without electronics. New Thing: Go an entire day without electronics.

]]> By: domestika http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5026 domestika Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:54:07 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5026 New Thing: Make your own fortune cookies. New Thing: Make your own fortune cookies.

]]> By: Rebecca Muller http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5023 Rebecca Muller Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:01:53 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5023 New Thing: Walk with your mailman/woman as they deliver mail on your street and have a conversation to get to know them. New Thing: Find a flower in someone's garden that you like and don't know the name of and then go about determining what it is and planting it at your home. (Of course the weather would have to warm up first and flowers would have to bloom) New Thing: Walk with your mailman/woman as they deliver mail on your street and have a conversation to get to know them.

New Thing: Find a flower in someone’s garden that you like and don’t know the name of and then go about determining what it is and planting it at your home.
(Of course the weather would have to warm up first and flowers would have to bloom)

]]> By: delia http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5017 delia Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:45:08 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5017 New thing: Make an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_sandwich" rel="nofollow">Elvis Sandwich</a> and actually eat it. In front of witnesses. New thing: Make an Elvis Sandwich and actually eat it. In front of witnesses.

]]> By: Lisa365 http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5009 Lisa365 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:39:33 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5009 Thanks so much for this, Jen! I'm going to keep checking these comments for new things to try :-) Thanks everyone! Thanks so much for this, Jen! I’m going to keep checking these comments for new things to try :-)

Thanks everyone!

]]> By: Leisa Watkins http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5008 Leisa Watkins Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:13:22 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5008 What a fun idea! I'm going to add "doing one new thing a day" to my new things I want to do list. What a fun idea! I’m going to add “doing one new thing a day” to my new things I want to do list.

]]> By: domestika http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5007 domestika Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:36:17 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5007 New thing: Do (or pretend to do) one of <a href="http://arnoldthemethodical.wordpress.com/2008/01/05/odd-jobs-and-old-jobs/" rel="nofollow">Arnold the Methodical</a>'s history of odd jobs. Now, granted, the opportunity to learn to drive a tractor does not come to everyone... but why not eat an 8-course meal, design a hat, or grab a clipboard and stand outside a nightclub, faithfully scoring the taxi drivers on driving skills or manners and deportment. New thing: Do (or pretend to do) one of Arnold the Methodical’s history of odd jobs. Now, granted, the opportunity to learn to drive a tractor does not come to everyone… but why not eat an 8-course meal, design a hat, or grab a clipboard and stand outside a nightclub, faithfully scoring the taxi drivers on driving skills or manners and deportment.

]]> By: Pinhole http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5006 Pinhole Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:30:47 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5006 New thing: Count all of the stairs you encounter before noon on Monday. Bonus Activity: Perform the previous activity out loud, in Mandarin, and count all of the stares you encounter before noon on Monday. As a reward, drizzle some chocolate on your baked penne with chicken that day at lunch. New thing: Count all of the stairs you encounter before noon on Monday.

Bonus Activity: Perform the previous activity out loud, in Mandarin, and count all of the stares you encounter before noon on Monday.

As a reward, drizzle some chocolate on your baked penne with chicken that day at lunch.

]]> By: domestika http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5001 domestika Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:27:41 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/365-new-things/#comment-5001 New thing: Get out some washable markers or watercolour paints and create a summer scene on your window. New thing: Learn 3 slightly rude words in another language - Russian, maybe. New thing: Walk around the block and wave at everyone you meet. Better yet, wear a natty little hat and do a hand-tilt wave like the Queen on a public walkabout. New thing: Get out some washable markers or watercolour paints and create a summer scene on your window.

New thing: Learn 3 slightly rude words in another language - Russian, maybe.

New thing: Walk around the block and wave at everyone you meet. Better yet, wear a natty little hat and do a hand-tilt wave like the Queen on a public walkabout.

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