101 Things to Do in a Blizzard – Part 1 of 4

What I did during Snowmeggedon 2010(or would have done, had I thought of it at the time):

Please take into account that I was holed up in my house for a week straight due to a blizzard (two of them actually, back to back), with hubby, 4 year old daughter and infant son.

1. Dye your hair a fun color, one you’ve never tried before. (I dyed mine burgundy. My husband might tell you its purple, but it’s burgundy.)
2. Make your own slurpees or sno cones out of the new fallen snow. No lemon flavor please.
3. Take an axe to that ugly chair of your husband’s from his college days and throw it on top of the fire wood pile. “Sorry babe, we’ve got to keep the family warm.”
4. Drain your wine collection, one glass at a time.
5. Finger paint the kids bathroom walls. (you’ll have better results if you do this after #4).
6. Blog
7. Update your website
8. Write a murder mystery using an icicle as the murder weapon (it’s the perfect weapon as it melts to ice). Also casting every member of your family can be a very cathartic resolution to the cabin fever blues. NOT TO BE REINACTED, STORY FODDER ONLY. :)
9. Watch Seasons 1 and 3 of Roswell. Skip Season 2, it sucked
10. Watch past seasons of LOST. And still not get it.
11. Challenge your neighbor to a peeing contest in the 55 mph winds. (I swear my husband is a neanderthal) *Disclaimer on this one. Make sure your peeing with the wind not against it.
12. Alphabetize your refrigerator magnets.
13. Annoy all of your facebook friends with blow by blow updates of the snow. “Yep, it’s still white guys.”
14. During the second blizzard watch “The Shining” and reminse about the first blizzard.
15. Paint the toy poodle’s nails a nice shade of red. (Why? Because I can.)
16. Make a SciFi home video.
17. Drag the kiddie pool up from the basement and hold a luau in your dining room.
18. Set up camp in your living room. Roast marshmellows in the fireplace for smores and tell ghost stories.
19. Set up a podcast.
20. Write an iphone application.(A few bones for us geek types)
21. Set up another Twitter account so that you can have a legitimate conversation with yourself.
22. Refine your Bucket List. Because if you make it out of this blizzard alive, you’re going to want to get started on that list right away.
23. Write letters to your children in case you get lost in the 8 foot snowdrifts while shoveling.
24. Play all 13 levels of the Disney Princess game for the Wii with the four year old. Not once but four times. That’s 54 levels of a kiddie game. 54.
25. Take up ice carving using Instructional videos on You Tube.

Tell me what you did? Also, let me know if you got any suggestions to add to the list.

More snow is on its way so be prepared and I’ll be sure not to delay on further ideas.