envy challenges

94. List 10 of your habits.

1. Biting the heads off of gummy bears
2. Making Patrick drive me to the Circle K at 2 am for Empeadoras and Slushies
3. Cleaning my nails when I get bored in class
4. Sleeping in late, even when I shouldn’t
5. Spending too much time on the computer
6. Buying expensive/fancy ingridents, then procrastinating and not using them before they go bad
7. Eating too much roasted soynuts and matchstick carrots, even when I’m not very hungry
8. Studying late, late at night instead of during the day (thus why i’m taking online and night classes only this semester)
9. Getting into arguments when I don’t have any proof to back up my statements
10. Going into Target just to see what they have in the dollar bins by the doorway

foods to buy more of:

• eggplant-matchstick carrots (better than potato chips, i ate 5 ounces in one sitting)
• cucumber
• imitation crab (or krab, as it is called)
• cal rose/sushi rice
• nori(seaweed sheets)(and a bamboo rolling mat)
• zucchini(for roasting and brownies)
• fruit teas(esp. stash pomegrante)
• minestrone soup

8. Find a photo of a person you do not know. Write a brief bio about them

Lillie and Banu, courtesy of Hel Looks.

Lillie and Banu are sisters and live in a fourth floor apartment with
their mother, father, and a small neurotic dog named Ant. When they
were little they got along well but fought over food - that hasn’t
changed much since then. Unlike many sisters, they are friends and
spend a lot of time together. Lillie once fought off a pack of
attacking pigeons with nothing but a plastic shopping bag full of cans.
This incident has scarred her for life - she has a constellation of
tiny scars across her shoulders from claws and beaks. They are thinking
of starting a band. Banu often confuses “parsley” and “paisley”,
leading to very strange fashion incidents. Lillie is a better student,
but Banu is most adventerous. They are saving up for a better sewing
machine. Lillie dyes her hair in their shared bathroom, and Banu
usually has to scrub the leftover pink out before their parents see it.
They have 2 neighbors that don’t like them, because of their style and
their dog, and 1 neighbor that does like them, mainly because she’s so
old that respectful young people make her happy, regardless of how they
dress. She is also too deaf to hear their dog’s constant barking. They
have opposite tastes in music and candy. Lilli’s favorite colors are
turquoise and pink, and Banu’s favorite colors are violet and silver.

33. List 100 uses for a tin can.

1. storage container for small things (beads, buttons, broken crayons)
2. little round tin hat
3. with a pair of tin snips, a little crown
4. an impromptu drum
5. a candle holder
6. a cereal or soup bowl
7. a throwing weapon
8. a scoop for grains
9. one half of a kid’s telephone system
10. bookends
11. doorstop (filled with rocks)
12. a flower vase
13. a lantern
14. a mouse or spider trap, if you have good reaction time
15. a cookie cutter
16. a pot for cooking hobo-style
17. a cup for drinking
18. a cup for peeing in, on long road trips
19. a spittoon
20. a water basin, for both carrying and boiling
21. a cup for begging
22. a flower pot
23. crushed - a dangerous frisbee
24. to trade for something
25. to stand on, to reach something a few inches too far
26. one half of a pair of tiny stilts
27. to fashion a fish hook, ala “the guide to survival at sea”
28. to hold the book you’re reading open
29. as a round shadowbox
30. with rubberbands, a strange musical instrument
31. as a hockey puck
32. to play catch
33. in place of a cup in a game of three card monty
34. to trap or smash an angry bee
35. to hold paint
36. to hold melted chocolate for dipping, for fondue or truffle making
37. as a pinhole camera
38. for decoration in a ultra modern home
39. with a little decoration, in the place of a pet rock
40. for keeping your yarn balls from rolling away as you knit
41. paintbrush holder
42. toothbrush holder
43. to make tiny crop circles in your lawn
44. tied to your car, to scare off bad spirits after you’re married
45. as christmas tree decorations
46. with small holes punched in the bottom, as a makeshift pan for precious stones
47. as currency, in a post-apocalyptic scenario
48. to make a makeshift knife
49. as a building supply, in place of bricks
50. to trace to make circles on paper or fabric
51. to hold something nasty to attract flies
52. as a lump under your roommate’s mattress to bug him when he tries to sleep
53. to make a small table - cans for legs, and a plank of wood for a top
54. to kick around a dusty field or parking lot with your friends
55. crushed, as a bizzare medallion
56. as a decorative belt buckle(or just a belt decoration in general)
57. to hold water or food for your caged pet
58. as a toy for rabbits (trust me, they love them)
59. as a temporary aquarium for one small fish
60. to destroy a microwave
61. to bake something runny
62. to hold enough glitter to engulf a person
63. to hold a strange present
64. as a very ineffective bailing bucket
65. to transport red nightcrawlers for fishing
66. to catch insects
67. to distract a bear
68. as a cheap model for a still life photo/painting
69. as the subject of a song
70. to scare people afraid of cylindrical metal containers
71. to catch rainwater
72. as a makeshift petri dish for growing mold
73. as a mail container, in place of an envelope or box
74. to scrape a smaller amount of clay off of a giant block of clay
75. as a mini saucepan over a camp fire
76. as a shovel
77. as a tongue scraper
78. to hold a small fire
79. to tie to the tail of dog to scare it
80. as a cat trap - put food in it and the cat will get it stuck on it’s head
81. to make a windchime
82. as a car muffler amplifier
83. to make a spear/harpoon tip
84. as a whistle
85. as a level or a plumb line
86. as a baking pan
87. as an ashtray
88. to practice golfing
89. to hold scraps for composting
90. lamp shade
91. paperweight
92. for target practice
93. as a bombshell or for shrapnel
94. as a mold for sandcastle towers
95. to breed mosquitos
96. as a time capsule
97. as a bad jello mold
98. as a safe place to keep baby animals
99. as a pooper scooper
100. as a tea kettle(for boiling water)

current challenges:

keri smith’s 100 ideas (3/95)

current mail:

reply to julie c. (sendsomething.com)

package back to miss scotty (postcardx.net)

handmade postcards back to various senders

indie rock/life swap (swap-bot.com)

i should also probably:

charge my digital camera batteries

paint something new

take a shower