Toss it mean and catch it clean.
Drop that jaw, tilt that head, and let’s get down to business:
• Level 1: Pop Practice. It’s important to start small with popcorn. There are no penalties for misses here, since the corn is light and doesn’t collect much dust if it hits the ground. This is a baby step and it will take time to master, but it’s an important rite of passage before hitting the next levels. (Note: In some circles, this level also covers marshmallows, Cheerios, and Corn Pops.) 5 points.
• Level 2: The Grape Beyond. Yup, next step is big ol’ grapes. Usually someone on the other end of the movie couch is munching on the vine in their own little bowl. If you’re feeling a bit hungry, simply drop your mouth and tap the couch cushion while saying ‘Uhn! Uhnnnnn!’ to get their attention. Soon a cold, hard grape should be flying fast at you. If the toss is good you should catch it perfectly. Other fruits like raspberries and strawberries fit here as well. 10 points.
• Level 3: Dog On A Bone. This extremely advanced move involves catching something larger than your actual mouth. An apple, peeled orange, or corn on a cob are good targets. You need to time the molar chomp perfectly and be prepared for embarrassing T-shirt stains and a black eye. 25 points.
Yes, when you catch food in your mouth you’re suddenly sitting high on top of the snack-eating universe. You’ve just combined equal parts laziness and athletic ability in a daring couch potato feat the likes of which this family room has never seen before. So when you nail it smoothly you know what to do.
Chomp it loud.
Chew it proud.
AWESOME!
Making spontaneous friends. It happened last weekend. I was sitting with my art group on a train from Chicago back to Kansas City when my friend Katie asked these two guys behind us if they wanted to play cards and they were like, “ok.” Their names were Mac and Will and I think they should start a detective agency together. We spent the entire night playing cards, talking, laughing, getting to know each other. It was hands-down my favorite part of the trip. They were on their way to California, so chances are we’ll never see them again. But the few short hours we had together were totally awesome.
Secret scratches ^^
The first bite is awesome.
For me, it’s usually cheesecake. I slice a piece, set everything up, and I’m doing this all in anticipation of the first bite. Just wonderful.
Twisting that Q-tip to the point of dangerously far into your ear, making shivers run down your spine, all in the name of personal hygiene!
Going to your favorite coffee shop and not having to place your order because they already know exactly how you like your coffee.
Awesome.
Poop. No – that’s not the awesome thing – I just missed the deadline.
But what I think is awesome is when your brand new kitten or puppy plays and plays and collapses in your lap for an uber-furry nap for the first time in your home, their new home.
That’s awesome!
the sound of rice krispies in milk
Getting a cute girls number which you are doubtful of getting…
-AWESOME!
When that song that you love comes on that movie that you also love. Dance a little in your seat, hum the tune, but most importantly smile wide, because you’ve hit the entertainment jackpot.
Your phone ringing in class, but the teacher not noticing, and then finding out that your sister, who never calls, just interrupted the class. And then texting her all day.
When old songs you have heard in years pop up randomly on your iTunes shuffle.
A hand written letter.
Having coffee with an old friend!
Watching the raindrop on the window that eats all the other raindrops on the way down. Awesome!
Being outside of the car and using your finger to connect those little raindrops to make one big one.
Awesome idea ; Finding a bunch of really old photo albums from when you were a kid. Because then you get all nostalgic and remember all your three year old shenanigans.
Caffeine
Your old Halloween costumes when you were a kid. Especially if home-made.
Jaywalking. For those days when you insist on getting where you’re going just a teeny tiny bit faster.
Your wedding day. It is definitely without a doubt breathtakingly awesome.
turning on the television to find that what you want to watch is on the channel you turned it on too.
no channel surfing required, just awesome.
Staying up past your bedtime. ;-)
And getting away with it. :-]
being a successful wingman/woman :).
You’ve done you job, now to enjoy the rest of the night. awesome.
I like this. And if the relationship works out you get to take all the credit.
That moment when you realize you’ve stayed up so late, you may as well make it a little longer and wait out the next hour or so until it’s an acceptable time to eat breakfast.
Sitting down for just 20 minutes to read a book, but it hooks you so you end up finishing it all in one session.
Having your best ideas late at night and getting up to jot them down before you forget.
Very similar to the awesomeness of doing your best work under pressure. Very satisfying.
Landmarks… and never needing to know street names!
Past the big rock with the dent that looks like a peace sign turn right, when you come to the stop sign that has the words “C+F= love forever” make another right. Keep going down that road until you see the house that has a green roof and a sculpted wooden bear on the corner, then make a left. If you keep going straight the road starts to bend where that store is that sells ice cream and beer. Turn right where we saw that duck and its ducklings crossing the road that one time, near the old hospital.
straight…straight…straight…. and my place is on the left with the big tree and the black and white garage.
AWESOME.
LOVE THIS ALECIA! Adorabley creative=)
wet-naps
there doesn’t have to be an explanation to how awesome the invention of wet-naps was.
How many times they have saved you in any sort of sticky situation.
Wings? Bring em on! as long as there’s a hefty supply of wet-naps to my side.
feeling like your hands could use a nice wash but have no sink… have no fear! wet-naps have been invented!
If you happen to have a whole bunch while camping… it’s the simple solution to a quick and easy shower.
no sink required, and easily disposable. AWESOME.
Finding an item from your past in the second hand store
Absolutely and totally remarkable!!!
Dive bars. Seriously. Sometimes you just need a drink and are driving by some unfamiliar place, see the bar sign, and decide “what the hell, how bad can it be”. Doesn’t matter how bad the decor, maybe the people could be some of the nicest you’ve ever met, or maybe the drinks are awesomely cheap. Whatever the reason, you may very well find yourself going back there again and again. Pretty soon it’s a place of some great memories. Your own personal dive bar.
Pushing the button on the elevator that you usually have to wait forever for and having it open immediately. Extra bonus for a friend stepping out at the same time.
Finding out someone that you’ve liked for years likes you back.
This happened to me once. I had a crush on someone, Kurt Schawalker, all through grammar school since kindergarten. I was always so shy around him that I didn’t even notice until my friend asked him without telling me. It was such an AWESOME feeling knowing that. Him and I are still pretty good friends.
Sealing away a photograph in a photo album knowing that your memories will be preserved behind a piece of clear film with the picture remaining untouched for the next few decades.
Making changes in the final draft.
When you’ve gone through hundreds of revisions to get that letter/essay/poem just right, you copy it out neatly for the last time, and the action of working the phrases that once more yields some perfect tweaks!
How could you ever have thought of submitting the sub-optimum ‘final’ draft?
going down a hill really really fast on a skateboard, and making it without crashing or running in to cars or the curb
You know that if you crash, you will probably end up with hug bruises, maybe a broken arm, or maybe be ran over by a car, and that voice keeps playing in the the back of your head, maybe you shouldn’t have done this, there’s no way I can stop without hitting the curb, and then you see your way out, the sidewalk and you run out your speed, and come down unscathed. AWESOME!
reminds me of many moons ago…a few beer and roller -skates at Stanley Park, singing the same song as you…+ avoid tree, kidlins, elderly, the fiddler, flipping over railing to the polar bear pit…slam down hard on pavement…thankfully, I’d had a beer and was a little mushy so only a mild sprained arm. Awesome;)
Taking an afternoon nap, a flowing breeze causing the curtains to dance in slow-motion, your skin so alive as the air glides across it.
Singing in the car. Loudly. With absolutely no cares if the windows are down or if you’re at a red light. :)
I love it! I would one day love to earn 25 points of awesome for throwing back and catching a whole corn on the cob. It’s something to strive for :D
You pull that off and I will give you 50 points, but the corn has to be buttered.
and when there are a bunch of articles that you love!
This book of awesome really isn’t awesome at all. Most of these things are boring every day things that happen that only idiots would be impressed with….ooohhh riiighhhttt. Carry on.
When you are sitting on a bus or are riding the metro alone and have nothing to do, no one to talk to, you realize (by way of what they are wearing, backpack, or what they are saying to another person) that they have the same interests as you do. You are then able to spend the next 10 or 15 minutes talking to your new found friend instead of sitting there quietly.
AWESOME!
Freaking out because you can’t find your class assignment, but then find out from your teacher that you already turned it in.
Awesome!
That long run up hug to someone you’ve not seen for ages! AWESOME!!
When you hit “shuffle” on your iPod, and the first song it picks is the one you were hoping for.
Glad I found this page!
In order to survive, a pet must be able to change on its own to help changing causes in their surroundings.
So far, the harvesting or the agriculture is call that should be the actual “feeders in the society”
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So totally not my thing to throw food in my mouth; far too dangerous an activity for someone as clumsy as me!
Perhaps it’s all serreal, bitter-sweet and really rather deep, but people of Awesomeland, I think you’ll relate on some level…
Awesome is thinking you’re done for and what more could the world want with you…and then the God’s and angels wake you up to somethig more than you ever could have imagined for yourself. As you see it’s unfolding, recognize it has actually been in action… perhaps even written in the divine master plan…came along with you and is your birth right. And so it is because you were paying close attention to the bigger picture that you kept a little flicker of faith aglow…the phoenix was able to rise up; Aurora of the dawn spoke out and from the light of the deep… the vibrant colours of your passion, of your essence takes on life, as it was meant to, the very day you were born!