What a difference chocolate chips make!
This morning my breakfast included a bowl of Flax-Z-Snax butter pecan hot cereal. I stirred in a tablespoon of cocoa powder and sprinkled the bowl with chocolate chips before digging in.
Though there weren’t a bazillion chocolate chips in the bowl, the small amount added some seriously rich and indulgent flavor to the bowl. I need to do this more often!
Along with the hot cereal, I also ate some mixed nuts and a cup of fresh blueberries.
My mom bought two huge cartons of blueberries from Costco, so we’ve been going to town on the fresh berries in our house throughout the past few days.
Now it’s time for some random and mindless fun…
Internet Amusement
I must admit, when I quit my full-time job, I was worried that I would totally miss out on internet sensations. Working in an office environment inevitably exposes you to chain emails that include links to hysterical YouTube videos and creative websites.
I’m not gonna lie, these random emails were often the highlight of my day.
Fortunately my friends still send me emails from their office jobs and my Twitter buddies tweet links to some hilarious websites, so my craving for internet hilarity is still satisfied.
Now I’d like to share with you some internet finds that have been greatly amusing me lately…
As a former diver in high school, I only wish we learned dives that were this cool.
2. Planking
I’m going to try to talk Ryan into “planking” all over Sarasota with me this weekend.
3. The Blogess’ Blog
Some of her more recent posts have made me just about die laughing.
4. How To Do Everything Faster (Video)
This video blew my mind. I’ve been wasting SO MUCH TIME!!!
5. Sasha and Twitch’s Amazing Routine from So You Think You Can Dance
By far my favorite routine of the season!
Question of the Morning
- What website or video has provided you with some much-needed internet amusement lately?
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I just wasted an hour of my day looking at all this great stuff! Thanks, Julie! 🙂 Have a great weekend!
There is a video on youtube called How to workout from home, and it is a stay at home dad who does funny exercises with his kids. Hilarious! I tend to get sucked into the internet for hours so i have to try and not zone out or else I get nothing else done!
Great links! I love lol cats 🙂
Oh my gosh, leisure dives is hilarious!!!
This is Owling http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/owling-the-new-planking/2011/07/12/gIQAaLerAI_blog.html
It’s funny. Even the Washington Post says so!
The blogess makes me want to buy a gigantic chicken… she is seriously hilarious!
Kristen Wiig on SNL imitates Suse Oreman. SO funny!
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/suze-orman/250061/
Perfect timing for this blog. I’m at the Orlando airport with a 2 hour layover. I was wondering how I was going to stay entertained. Now I know 😉 Thanks!
OMGoodness! How the heck did that girl get up on that pony like that????!!!!
these are hysterical… but the creepy voice on the “do anything faster” video is now haunting my thoughts.
OMG! You have to watch this video on youtube. It is hilarious! PS: I thought I was the only one who watched silly videos at work.
http://youtu.be/GTstIEr4tDw
i want to hang out with them!
Buffalax!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdyC1BrQd6g&feature=youtu.be
AHHHH. this is great!
Those diving pictures are saweeeet! I use the StumbleUpon app on my phone…something entertaining is always sure to show up!
I am LOVING Adventures of an Awkward Black Girl as of late – she is HILARIOUS.
Is it REALLY possible to peel a potato like that?! How the heck did she fold those shirts like that?! WOWWW. And my favorite thing to watch a zillion times over is the You Tube Crank Yankers clip of Spoonie Luv placing a personal ad. Makes me laugh every single time. I have to post it on my blog soon!
I only see like one or two comments about the Blogess but what I will say is thank you for introducing me to her. She. Is. Hilarious.
nevermind the planking/owling/blah blah – the blogess is one of the best blogs I have read recently. She is definitely a nice addition to my blog list!!!
Haha! THe diving is hilarious!
ANd I LOVE fresh berries. YUMM.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm3JodBR-vs
You have to check this out…and possibly share it!
I laughed so hard, but I’m a dork and love humor like this….
“that’s pretty neat” 😉
“you can tell it’s an aspen tree because of the way it is.”
Omg…the planking pictures are hilarious! Anyway, just wanted to let you know I’ve been reading your blog for about a year and love it! I just recently started my own! You are great!
Planking has been a huge hit, my friends are always posting pics of them in some crazy places! Now I’m going to head of “owling”!! Hehe! (instead of laying flat you perch like an owl on top of things) I think it’s going to be revolutionary! Ha!
And am I completely dumb for trying to peel the egg like that?! Ha! Didn’t work for me:( maybe I need to master the perfect amount of “taps”!
HAHA! The other day I “Planked” on the corner of our bed and my husband walked in and said, “NO! We will NOT be a planking family!” HAHA
Ahahaha – I work in an office and still haven’t seen the “leisure dive” one. That’s amazing.
Have you seen the 2 videos of Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon doing “The History of Rap?” It’s hilarious. Do a google search, and enjoy. 🙂
Isn’t made by Mom the best kind of dinner? Our Mom’s sound a lot alike. My mom is also a nurse, and just as cute and active as yours 🙂
These videos/pictures made my morning…hilarious! I’m glad that you aren’t afraid to wate a bit of time 😉
Hope you have a good day w/ the fam and Sadie…and my favorite “bored” videos would be re-makes of rap songs…I love the “Look at me Now” by the lil’ white chick. So talented!
I’ve been watching a lot of Melanie on SYTYCD. As a dancer, she AMAZES ME. Also, I <3 <3 <3 sara benincasa's political satire. She does a DEAD ON Michele Bachman.
I love these! Keep them coming!
Apparently planking and owling are both so yesterday, and lamping is the new thing. You just stand around in different locations with a lampshade on your head. LOL it’s all so strange but so fascinating.
OMG I am dying laughing over those two entries from the Blogess. Love this post- keep em coming!
LOL that Leisure Dives is hilarious! I don’t quite understand the whole planking thing, though…maybe some day.
You must plank! That is hilarious!
LOL to leisure diving. I’m giggling at my desk. hee! (BTW, your leisure dive link goes to the bloggess instead).
who knew planking would be so controversial!
this kills me every. single. time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkXy12xVnRs
Have you heard of ‘owling’? So funny. The leisure dive site had me cracking up! Thanks and have a great weekend! -Emilie and the Running with Mascara blog
Oooooh emmm Geeee!!! I love to love your blog and this entry has me laughing, smiling, and craving blueberries! First, the planking webpage is AWESOME! And I have saved my episode of SYTYCD with THAT exact Sasha routine because I totally am smitten with her and this routine! And it’s needless to say I “waste” time online reading healthy blogs. PS I love the Blogess. She is totally insane and hilarious!
hhahahaa those pictures made me laugh out loud oh my gosh too funny!
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I’m always looking for funny things to look at on the internet. If only there was a website that compiled random websites and youtube videos that are funny…I don’t think I’d get anything done lol.
-Amanda Russell
http://www.amandarussellworkouts.com/
http://www.facebook.com/arussellfit
Thought I’d add this one to the pile. It’s sort of long, 5:30 minutes, but I think it’s worth it, except maybe when they stop singing to talk. The internet makes life awesome because of stuff like all the links here today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj-x9ygQEGA
Some of those “How To Do Everything Faster” clips were awesome! I have a suggestion for a new video blog for you, maybe you could test some of them out for us? I’d definitely skip the fast parking one though 🙂
omg please tell me youve seen the “yes dance”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyqUj3PGHv4
skip to 0:30 for the garbage disposal. you should whip that baby out next time your at a club i promise you will make tonsssss of friends!
dang it i meant “you’re” not “your” (gahh the grammar freak in me is disappointed)
ahhh! love this list! 🙂
I just discovered leisure dive the other day and couldn’t stop perusing the pictures – I was so sure I would see someone I knew, in my camp counselor days in college that looks like what we did…every. single. day.
I am definitely on the Planking is ridiculously stupid side and truely do not understand…. but then again so was “ICING” and I thought that was hillarious even though a lot more dangerous then just laying flat on a object.
Each to their own, im just tired of hearing about it already and seeing it all over fb. Oh well
I honestly think that story about the chicken was the funniest thing i read in a while. I’m dying laughing over here and I sent it to a ton of my friends hahahaah. thanks for the link!
Love those leisure dives! Google “my drunk kitchen” and watch about the cookies. Seriously hilarious and something that food bloggers would especially enjoy!
This is an epic post! I had not heard of LeisureDives.com and OH MY GOSH – so funny. As for planking, it seems to have not yet caught on in Milwaukee (at least in Downtown) but I think it’s soooo funny!
Request for you – Please consider a post about what it was like to be on the diving team in high school. I was on the swim team and always was so curious about the divers on our team!
Really, I don’t think you can ever go wrong with the bloggess, she is crazy funny!
That dance routine was awesome! I love that they are bringing back the all-stars to dance with this year’s contestants.
I LOVE Fail Blog!!! Also, for anyone in the DC area, the DC Summer Internet blog is full of hilarious and amusing stories!!
haha I loved the first pic, so funny! I like to read FML posts, they make me laugh!
This “planking” thing that apparently is all the rage, is the friggin weirdest thing ever! I feel like an old lady but, what the heck is the point!?
And, the Blogess is the funniest blog I’ve ever read. Have you read her big metal chicken post? I’m sure you have and if you’re not following “bigmetalchicken” on twitter, you need to be. Funny stuff.
yes! it’s the second link under her name in this post! love it!
Oh wow, I’m an idiot. I was expecting it’s title to be something about the “big metal chicken”. Sorry!
The mini pony plank is the FUNNIEST THING EVARRR! Totally something I would do, just to snorgle a mini pony.
The funniest things I’ve seen otherwise has been a videos of a bull doggie pulling a plastic wading pull INSIDE the house…
http://cuteoverload.com/2011/07/25/not-such-a-hot-idea/?replytocom=550554
…and a cat that is making barking noises but then when his owner catches him starts meowing
http://cuteoverload.com/2011/07/19/the-cat-aint-here-man/
The planking one is hilarious! How the heck did she do that on the pony? Haha 🙂
Leisure Dive is so funny!! I have never seen that site. I remember doing that stuff when I was little!