Some early ideas for April Fools pranks

I love April Fool's day. Probably because I'm such a gullible blonde and I can appreciate good prank - and the effort it took to think it up. You know you aren't too much of a 'stuffy' grown up when you pull off a funny, well-timed prank.

So that you too can prepare for the day of pranks and tom-foolery, here are some of the funniest idea's for pranks :

Simple prank ideas that don't take too much effort (or preparation)

- Salt can very easily be swapped with sugar. Should make for a nice salty suprise!
- Changeing all the clocks in the house is another great simple prank. We did this last year and watched mayhem unfold.
- Put food colouring in someone's shampoo (although that IS abit mean)

Pranks that will amuse your kids:

If they are too young to understand then try stay away from pranks that are going to be hard to convince them otherwise ( i still have a fear of watermelon pips sprouting in my tummy)

- Put some green food colouring in your cereal
- Cut a hole through an apple and put a gummy worm inside - that should liven up the lunchbox experience!
- At some stage in the night- sneak into your kids bedrooms and gently put them in each other's rooms.
- Buy some mini hotdogs , or any other food item that comes in super small sizes. Prepare the larger version, when your kids arent looking put the mini versions in the microwave and act shocked when you pull out your mini supper!

Pranks that will amuse your partner or friends:

- Put a rubber band over the spout in the kitchen. Secure it so that the nozzle is pointing upwards. Anyone who turns the tap gets a facefull.

A fun prank for schoolkids:

- If there is any point in the day when everybody's schoolbags are lined up together take the shoulder straps and tie them all together. You'll get a great laugh watching as everybody tries to figure out whats going on.

Pranks for strangers:

- The timeless superglued coin trick. Stick it to the sidewalk and watch people try!

Hope some of these suggestions help you decide on the best way to prank your family, friends and coworkers. I always have difficulty deciding so this year, for the first time, I am thinking about it beforehand.

There's nothing as funny as a well executed, prank as long as it isn't mean spirited in any way.

This is of course just my modest little list - i'm sure there are plenty more ways to celebrate April Fools day without spending any money, or taking too much time to set it up...

Joining the land of the working well (cue tumbleweed)

Oh my poor neglected little blog.

Sincerest apologies for my recent laziness with the blogging - i've been working like a slave. Am stoked to finally be earning a little bit of money and i guess my modest little blog took a backseat.

i have no idea how other people manage to keep up with a job and update their blogs regularly!

*tumbleweed rolls on*

Blogger hassles

Ok so nobody seems to be moaning enough about the problems blogger has been experiencing lately. Am i the only one who has constant problems uploading photo's? The connection seems to fail and it permanently seems like someone is doing maintenance.

Now don't get me wrong - if Google was a religion i would sing along and enthusiastically clap my hands. Google is fantastic and soon they will rule the world. But blogger seems set to become a big swollen pustule on the unblemished face of google.

There are 5 trillion blogs floating about and blogger is the most reliable free service around. I hope these constant hiccups aren't a precursor of bigger failures to come.

Drawing the line with homework help ...

Ok so new learning techniques and funny syllabus changes aside - what is happening with schoolkids?!?

Something that really grates my carrot is how nobody seems to be able to do their own homework anymore.

We all knew kids in school who didn't do their own homework. To me it's a bit LESS respectable than just not doing it. Not doing it is an act of open defiance - getting mummy to do it is just plain wimpy!

I used to have a friend at school called Nicole. She was an only child to an ageing couple and she got away with murder. Including having her mom do all her homework. Much to our dismay her mom got better marks than us. I remember being pissed off even then that her volcano project was cooler than mine becuase I spent time making mine and working out how to make it explode just like a real volcano.

My brother is becoming that kid. He's 12 and somehow managed to get the whole thing done for him! grrrrrrr. What pisses me off the most is that I helped them! A 12 year old child cannot possibly understand what makes Kubla Kahn such a beautiful poem!

But who's fault is this whole homework for is actually moms mentality? It the teachers who give them homework that is too complicated or too much? Is it the kids just being lazy? Is it the parents who just do the stuff for them?

Maybe it's a combination of the above but i know when i was a child i did all my own homework - thats what its for isnt it? What is the point of homework otherwise?

Are we breeding a generation of helpless adults?

On being a newbie and a quitter

So I have been at this for juuust over a month now and i think my blog is becoming more respectable. Still nothing like the uber blogs but *sigh* one day...

In case you are wondering why the tumbleweed seems to be moving around this spot it's because i'm taking some time to start a new - slightly less modest blog.

I'm trying to put some hard learned lessons into practise. It's my quit smoking blog. I'm quite proud already - i hope my little public shame forum will help me
1) quit smoking and 2) become a better blogger.


Go have a look :

http://its-time-to-stop-smoking.blogspot.com/

An acute sense of weltschmerz

I've had it my whole life - an acute sense of weltschmertz. It's a german word which looosely translated means "to feel the worlds pain" - an accumalated sense of the pain the world faced every day.'world weariness', sadness about the evils of the world..

And evils are something we aren't short of - good people die, children are raped, poverty, illness, tragedy, crime, the elderly, abuse, unemployment. the mind boggles.

one of my girlfriends had a boyfriend who claimed to be what he called 'an empath'. despite his personal shortcomings - i liked the idea. Here was a man who claimed to be blown away when he walked into a room by the collective pain of everyone - which he claimed he could tune into and feel- acutely.

It's a fascinating idea.

I never really beleived him entirely because if anyone could feel everyone else's pain - that person would probably not live to see their fifth birthday.

I have always thought i was tuned into other people's pain. I would never go as far as to claim i can feel everyone's pain - but i always had a sense of a greater pool of the stuff.

I have always been plagued by a sense of overwhelming sadness, can't pinpoint where or when it started - but its gotten steadily worse. The older you get the more you understand how sad a place the world is.

Lord Byron was also stricken with this ailment...

Anyway. I'm sad. I'm so over freakin come by sadness to the point that everytime i think too long i get tired becuase my thoughts weigh as much as an elephant. at least.

at the risk of oversharing i stop here. for now.

i have this feeling like .... something's gotta give.

stay tuned

anyway on the lighter side of the subject - here's a very cool cartoon on the subject of weltschmertz . I love canadian things. well thats not entirely true - i used to love brian adams (that now=crinkly canadian rocker), my tv lecturer (the cool one) was from canada, - and one of the hottest men i ever met was from canada... so enjoy the canadian cartoon *

Insomnia - hey at least its not death

Although at this point i may as well be dead.

Insomnia - i hate it! I've seen sunrise every day and I'm getting pretty sick of it. I just want one normal nights sleep. Is that too much to ask?

Since those damn powercuts I have been existing at night and sleeping at the oddest of hours. On the bright side - the moon is soo beautifully full and the sky so clear.

I'm not sure if it's related to the insane amount of worrying i've been indulging in but i'm just not able to sleep anymore.

I have always been a night owl - preferred working through the night when there are no distractions. It's just abit pointless when there isn't any work. Although thats probably a large part of the problem. Another day of this and i'm going to need a padded cell!

Anybody have any real ideas about encouraging some normal hours?

Waitressing - it could happen to you!

I just watched It could happen to you, and it left me with a strange urge to go back to waitressing. Well at least considering it. I'm thinking- it could happen to me! You never know - sometimes good things happen to good people (well assuming I'm a good person).

What a charming movie.

Nicholas Cage does the good guy thing so well with those soft eyes and gentle demeanor. He's a good cop who offers a waitress a share of his lottery ticket instead of a tip. They win and of course fall in love. Not the best movie (hardcore cynics won't enjoy it) but really enjoyable and kind of leaves you with a warm feeling inside.

I used to waitress - for far too long. I hated it and I loved it. Just thinking about it conjures up images of drunken ass grabbing and the worlds worst tippers who undoubtedly I had the pleasure of serving. You know the kind - they make you run through hoops for them and then tip badly. I once had a woman insist that I take the pips out of her tomatoes for her. Serious.

Anyway so I am thinking abit about waitressing and looking around to see if anybody has ever gotten even remotely that lucky and I stumbled upon find the coolest games! (even me who is a general game retard).

You are a waitress, "new and easy to fire". You need to keep your customers happy or you will die. This game is a great way to gain apprecaition for the skills involved in waiting tables. And it's fun - really fun. It starts off slow but builds to quite a pace. Every customer that walks off means you lose a life and eventually you die.

Give it a go here.

You'll find it does have some problems that get abit irritating. The waitress doesn't walk any faster than a stroll - which just isn't good enough when the restuarant is full! The kitchen only makes one order at a time.

Yahoo also has a waitressing game that is great. This one is also fun - faster waitress more customers and tables as well as some add ons like music and extra tables.

Try out Diner Dash here.

This one improves upon some of the faults of the one before it - but for some reason I prefer the other one. The Diner Dash has plenty more special features ; like the ability to add more tables and music.

I wonder if we get some bad tippers to play if they will change their ideas about how undeserving waiting staff is of the small service fees?

Here's an idea - if when you do go out again; leave a generous tip because:
1. It's good karma
2. If you don't you might come back in your next life as a waiter!
3. You don't want to worry about spit in your food - DO YOU...?

My Simpsons alter ego...

I took another one of these quizzes and nearly pissed myself when I read the results - freakishly accurate? *burp*

You Are Barney

You could have been an intellectual leader... Instead, your whole life is an homage to beer You will be remembered for: your beautiful singing voice and your burps Your life philosophy: "There's nothing like beer to give you that inflated sense of self-esteem."

The Simpsons Personality Test

Google's sense of humour

Just a little laugh for today - type "Miserable failure" into a google search and see what comes up!

Mini- me

I found the most awesome site that makes Barbie playing almost legitimate. This is my mini-me lovingly created here.

I think she reflects the way i see myself more than the reality. And it doesn't look like you can change the body type - but a pretty cool likeness anyways :P

go ahead have a try...

power cuts yet again

Power cuts are making it impossible to post regularly. And just about impossible to anything else either. Soon there will be a very very long post about what exactly it is going on here in our dark little corner of Africa. Until then theres some work to be done before we get cut off again .

*sigh*

Blood, guts and popcorn

Yet again, another one and half hours of my life that I want back!

I'm talking about the movie I just watched - Shaun of the Dead. Starts off great - funny intriguing, but turns into just another pedestrian zombie movie with intestines and a little love story.

Blood, guts and popcorn.

Its part of a trend towards comedy-horror. It's almost like people think that by poking fun at how cliched their movie is that makes it more acceptable (or even watchable)? Don't get me wrong some movies pull it off brilliantly - the Scary Movie series is still brilliant and makes me laugh - but mostly becuase it's not trying to make me scared too.

Shaun of the Dead is silly and afterwards you will feel cheated. Yep it's just another zombie movie.

*Yawns*

At least our power was *knocks on wood* uninterupted enough today to watch it !