January 31

Well, January is now over. I've made it one whole month. 2010 has so far been great. Woot woot for me.

Today, I went around at school asking people "Do you know the muffin man?" Now, as I'm sure you know, the correct response would be "The muffin man?" Then the questioner would answer "The muffin man. Do you know the muffin man who lives on Drury Lane?" Then the same thing would happen in reverse ("Yes I know the muffin man...")
Unfortunately, out of everyone I asked, only 6 people answered correctly. Everyone else either said "Yes", "No", or "Should I?" It was disappointing. Then at home, I asked a couple of other people who I chatted with, and they both answered incorrectly. I proceeded to explain the correct answer, then ask again. They got it right the second time. My faith in humanity has been restored.

We had a bunch of people over later in the day, and a friend of mine brought his mandalin and played for us. I busted out my guitar and played some tunes as well. Everyone joined in singing. It was pretty cool.

Another pretty good day. Happy February everybody!

~JCS

January 30

All right. One more day left in January after this. Today was a good day, as Saturdays usually are.

For the first part of the day, I just kind of lounged around at home doing nothing. Then I walked to church.

After church I went out with some friends. Three of us started a movement. Quite a few people followed. We went to Burger King but then took a detour to pick up another friend. It was the full moon, so I started acting kinda funky. It's not my fault I'm a werewolf! :/

We hung out at Burger King, then someone asked me whether I did my insane thing yet. I didn't think so, so I jumped up and ran into the street and pretended to be a street musician. I didn't have any instruments, so I pretended to have a guitar. A friend joined me, and we sang Sesame Street at the top of our lungs. (Well, I did. She didn't know the words. I was proud of myself for remembering them.) After a while, a few other people joined, and we did the Hokey Pokey (that's what it's all about!). We got an audience for a while. Some people pulled over and watched us for about 7 minutes or so. There were a few people who actually got out of their car and came to dance next to us. Once we started doing the cha cha slide, we lost some people, including some of the members. It was still awesomeness though. We're going to do it again sometime. Maybe next time I'll bring a guitar.

Some of my friends who read this blog (wow, that's surprising. someone reads this insanity) kept saying "elite superawesome penguin" to see my pose. It was pretty cool.

All in all, a very good day. I love my friends.

~JCS

January 29

I woke up from the all nighter today for a start. Played xbox a little bit more.

Had a friend over later in the day. We played super mario brothers on wii. It was pretty fun. He kept texting someone the whole time but wouldn't tell me who so I tackled him and stole his phone. The person he was texting has a code name on his phone so I still haven't figured out who it is yet.

Played a bunch of guitar. Learned some new stuff. All in all, not an amazingly insane day.

~JCS

January 28

To start off, some girls put my hair into some hair ties at school. I had 14 in at one point. Once I get the pictures, I can show you.

I had a great time at youth group. We played ultimate frisbee (but with a dodgeball), and I made some pretty awesome catches. A teammate of mine said I get the MVP award.

Went to an all-nighter-ish thing afterwards. I ended up going to sleep at 1:30ish. We played Halo, ping pong, and guitar all night. There was also food involved. And a movie.

~JCS

January 27

Better day. I wasn't quite as down.

Today, I went into the sophmore english class during my free period with a guitar and sang a duet with the teacher. The kids thought i was crazy, but the teacher and i had a great time doing it.

~JCS

January 24, 25, 26

Let's see... ok, so i'm behind. to catch up, i'm going to just mention all the major things i've done these last couple of days.

sunday, i wore one glove on one hand for the whole day. boring, i know, but i've been feeling down and haven't been feeling very insane.

monday, i borrowed a guitar from the music room and walked around the halls for a while playing music. I played a lot of beatles and also american pie.

tuesday, i looked up a bunch of remedies for hiccups, though i didn't have them. i didn't get a chance to use them, but i wanted to.

Sorry about the lack of insanity here. I just haven't had a very good week. and i've been wanting some more positice feedback on here.

oh well

~JCS

January 23

I took the SAT today. That was fun :/

I sang Fireflies at the top of my lungs while walking across a crossover.

I danced like crazy in the courtyard before church to the song "Jump On It". Nobody was there except for another person who danced with me.

I have to go. I think that's it.

~JCS

January 22

Another one where I don't really remember everything...

Even though I was going to take the SAT the next day, I decided a relaxing day would be the best. I had friends over and we watched a movie. It involved lots of craziness. We played around with my sword :), fought over someone's knife, and knocked over lots of popcorn. It was fun :)

~JCS

January 21

Sorry for getting off schedule again... I'll see what I can do. I'm going to keep these next few short and two the point. I don't have too much time.

Today, I went to a gaming center and played Call of Duty for a while. It's not that crazy, really, but it's out of the ordinary for me. I didn't do very well.

~JCS

January 20

Good, back on track.

Interesting-ish day. I had an awesome duel in the hallways at school during lunch (Harry Potter style). That was exciting, though my opponent didn't know many spells and didn't react correctly to most of mine. That was the only annoying part.

Spent a lot of the day listening to my iPod during school :)

Anyway, that's about it really. Major things anyway.

~JCS

January 19

OK... getting closer to the right day. Pretty good day, I guess.

I ran outside randomly in the middle of lunch as it was raining. A few of us were just sitting around talking and in the middle of the conversation I got up and ran outside and stood there for a few minutes in the rain. That was fun.

I had to take a certificate for something (some sort of achievement). A few others got it too, and as they went to take it, they kind of walked up sheepishly, took it, and walked away while everyone clapped politely. Instead, I waved at everyone, accepted it, and waved some more, as if winning an Oscar. It was pretty fun.

I also invented an awesome pose, so now anytime someone says "elite superawesome penguin" I have to do it. If you want to see the awesome pose, you have to say "elite superawesome penguin". I dare you.

:) Coolness...

~JCS

January 18

Pretty good day. Had fun being crazy at school most of the time.

I auditioned for a school play today. For my audition piece, I compiled a story out of lyrics/song titles of Beatles' songs. The director loved it. I enjoyed doing it as well. It was oodles of fun.

Dang it! I can't remember what else I did... I think that was the main thing. It doesn't sound like much, but it was totally excitingness. :)

~JCS

January 17

I'd like to start off by apologizing to those of you who (I think) are out there who read this. I know I'm behind, and I'll try to post on the same day or the day after from now on. Because of my behind-ness, I'll probably forget some things i did on the previous days.

Today, I had a boring start to the week. Sundays are usually like that. I spent the first two periods listening to my iPod in the library, texted with my best friend for part of the second (by the way, it's fine, don't worry about it. you know who you are ;) ).

I actually had homework today for a change! Wow... that's strange. Anyway, I did it (it didn't take long), and once I finished, I did an awesome victory dance. I went outside on the balcony and danced for around two minutes. I also filmed it. (if people demonstrate interest, I will upload it, but I'm not sure if people are actually interested) It was excitingness.

:) ~JCS

January 16

Better day today. Took an SAT, that was annoying. Besides that, though, it was good.

Went to Whitman, passed the hard hat off to my friend. (you know, the one i found last week) Walked home. Got some weird looks as I walked down the street listening to my iPod. (i know, it shouldn't be strange, but it's Jordan...)

Played some awesome capture the flag at night. Pretty cool. Went to Burger King afterwards ;) As I walked with three of my awesomest friends, we decided to randomly run across the streets regardless of the coming cars. It was pretty fun crazy awesomeness.

That's it, maybe... see ya

~JCS

January 15

Slower-ish day. I was at home most of the day. (It was also a few days ago, so I may not remember everything).

The main thing I did was play full-contact spoons in my living room. That was pretty fun. I made some pretty awesome ninja moves.

I honestly don't remember what else I did. I was crazy with my friend Sam all day, beating him up and whatnot :P. I hid around a corner for a while, waiting to ninja-pounce on anyone who came around the corner. That was fun.

I think that's it. :/

~JCS

January 14

Pretty good day I think...

Boring day at school, but I did play in a rock band with a couple of classmates at school in front of the whole secondary school. That was fun. I finally used my headbanging for a very good cause (getting the crowd to cheer).

Youth group was fun. Was pretty crazy the whole time there. Educated a friend on how to talk to girls and taught him a very good pickup line ("Did you just fart? 'Cause you blew me away.") I skipped around the courtyard just for fun as others were mingling. Paul and I were pretty crazy together.

Afterwards a friend and I hung out together. We walked home from youth. The crazy part was skipping the whole way to my house from the main road. It actually got pretty tiring, believe it or not. He must be getting old or something, cause he was having a hard time keeping up.

I think that's it mostly. See ya!

~JCS

January 13

Another chemistry class supplied a great part of today's. When I first went into class with my friend, the teacher wasn't there yet. We waited for a while and when he came in, he randomly threw a crumpled up piece of paper at us. He left a little bit later again, and as he was gone I got some ammo. When he came in, I threw a piece back at him. I then started an epic war between the entire class. It was complete and total epic awesomeness. Indeed. Woot woot.

That was the real main thing today. I also headbanged a bunch as I practiced in the music room at school with my rock band. It ended up giving me a headache, but it was awesome.

I think that's it.

~JCS

January 12

Another day that was a few days ago, but I'll do my best.

Ummm... So in chemistry I started this awesome game-ish thing. Every time the teacher would turn to write something on the board, I would spin my chair around once. I tried to do it as much as possible and also at one point did 10 full revolutions in one try. It was exciting.

Later in the day I went to a court of honor for boy scouts and I went and did an awesome front flip on the soccer field. It was excitingness. Nobody saw it, unfortunately.

I also tried all day to see the invisible penguin hiding behind me, but it didn't work. He is a very evasive creature, and has evaded me thus far. I will see him someday, though. Mark my words, penguin. Mark my words.

That's it.

~JCS

January 11

Again, this was a few days ago so I don't remember quite everything. I'll do my best though.

The main thing really was that I built this epic fort. I went into my room and put up a bunch of sheets and blankets and whatnot in a totally epic fort. I then sat under it and ate a pizza and drank mango juice. It was pretty awesome. I tried to accomplish something but could not do anything productive because of the sheer epicness of my fort. The awesomeness was almost too much for me. It was pretty awesome.

That was the main thing. Yay. See ya.

~JCS

January 10

Hey, everyone. Sorry I haven't posted the last few days yet. I'll try to remember everything i did....

Today I pushed a door marked "pull". That was pretty exciting.

I couldn't find much to do. I was pretty bored and annoyed about going back to school. At night though some friends were over and one left without logging off of his facebook account. So I changed his status to "is a goof ball and needs to learn to log off his facebook account when he leaves somewhere."

Yeah, i know, not a very exciting day. That was out of the ordinary though, so it counts. See ya!

~JCS

January 9

Ah, January 9. January 9 indeed. 9 days in. Is it possible to say 9 this many times? I think it is. 9. Here we go.

Ok, so I was at home most of the day, and for the first half of the day, it was pretty boring. I went to Whitman and was planning on walking home after everyone left, but a friend of mine and I decided to be spontaneous and he came home with me. We had a pretty fun time. As we walked, we found a hard hat on the side of the road (you know, construction helmet thing). It was just lying there, so we grabbed it. I'm gonna wash it and we've decided that we are going to pass it between ourselves whenever we see each other, just for fun.

At home we just hung around, played Wii, etc. Then when it was time for me to go to church, we walked together and after a while I went my own way and he went home. We skipped down part of Mecca Street (Holy skipping weirdos, Batman!), which was fun, and also did plenty of jaywalking which was pretty fun too. Once we parted, I sprinted most of the rest of the way to church.

I went out with the small group, got 217 style points (for some amazing jumps), and got to order as I was the best arabic speaker there. I only ate 4 pieces of pizza because I had to leave early, and caught a taxi home. I'm pretty sure that my taxi driver was slightly insane.

That's it for today. Have a great day tomorrow! Of course, I'm posting it a day late, so it's more like "Hope you had a great day today!"

~JCS

January 8

Ok, I'd like to begin by adding to something I did on Thursday. I did do this, but I forgot to post it. So, at the beginning of the school day, I arrived at English class slightly early. The 8th graders had not yet finished homeroom, so I waited outside. Once they started walking out, I proceeded to tell every one of them "Have a great day at school." I know, it's not that crazy for some people, but I don't know any of them very well, and one of them was the princess.

So yeah. Today. January 8. Let's see...

Slow day. That's all I can say. I was at home almost all day. I played guitar, procrastinated, and did some slight SAT prep. Then I went out with some friends. I got there early and hung out with one of my friends who was there early to get tickets to the movie. We went and tried sunglasses on at Sunglasses Hut, where the cheapest pair is 104JD. So that was fun. We also went to Virgin Megastore and looked at all the movies, music, and more. (that should be their slogan!) The other friends arrived, and we went to the movie. During a dramatic part in the movie, when the main character was rallying some people, he said something, and everyone cheered and raised one arm up in the air (in the movie). So I raised my arm up too. (I thought it would not be such a great idea to cheer)

After the movie, we hung out, went to the food court, and whatnot. After a while, there was only me and one other person, and I was taking a taxi home, so I decided to wait until she had to go. We ended up going into the parking garage and having a photoshoot. So I think that qualifies as something out of the ordinary, especially since we got lots of weird looks.

One of my friends suggested doing everything with my left hand. I did my best, but there wasn't much to do. I didn't write anything at all, and I actually forgot to brush my teeth with my left hand. I did eat and drink with my left, though. I think this works too.

Anyway, I think that's it. If I remember anything else I can let you know later. See ya!

~JCS

January 7

Today was a pretty good day, I think.

I started out by wearing pink fluffy socks to school. I wore them all day (with my leather shoes). That was pretty exciting and possibly the main thing for today.

Later, I managed to convince my blonde friend that I have a sever case of anatidaephobia, which is the fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is always watching you. I told her a long story about how I developed it (when I was attacked by a duck in summer 2003), and that I don't eat duck because I'm afraid a duck will see me and get mad, (karma and all). She said she completely understood and felt really bad for me. Then I thanked her for being a part of my insanity.

I also came up with a word for the fear of tiny green rabbits eating your marshmallows. A friend of mine (a different one) apparently has this fear, so I researched the latin roots of each word and came up with pussilioviridicunuculusvorathaeaofficialophobia. She thanked me.

I texted during physics class, wrote a poem during chemistry, and threw stuff at people during math. I think that about covers it. It was a pretty good day. See ya tomorrow!

~JCS

January 6

Today was a very boring and pointless day at school. I had a bunch of free periods and thought I might be able to do something during them... but it didn't work out. I wanted to walk in on the 10th graders' English class and sing Beatles songs to the teacher, but she didn't end up showing up... not sure where she was.

At home I changed my guitar strings and played a bunch of guitar for a while.... but my real out of the ordinary thing was film a dance video. It's to Istanbul Not Constantinople by They Might Be Giants. For some reason it says that the video is not allowed because of a copyright infringement... :( I'll try again tomorrow. It's too late right now. I did do it, though. If you want me to email the video to you I can.

~JCS

January 5

Today, I started back at school, so that was pretty boring. ugh. I started off the day by "pleading" with my chemistry teacher to let someone out of the classroom to make a photocopy. She was asking, so I went and started being all dramatic, including getting down on my knees begging. Needless to say, he let her.

In history, when the teacher asked for a date, I raised my hand and said "I believe it happened some time before 2010." In math, the teacher asked us to prove an equation and I said "You're a math teacher, why can't we just take your word for it?"

I think probably one of the main things I did was start an impromptu game of fetch. It was using a stuffed animal, and no, it wasn't with the dog. It was with my dad. He threw the stuffed animal for me and I ran and grabbed it in my mouth then brought it back to him. He threw it again a couple of times, but got tired after a few. However, I did not cease to continue bringing it back to him until something else caught my attention. It was pretty exciting.

I wanted to film a dance video, but couldn't decide between two songs: Fireflies by Owl City and I've Got a Feeling by Black Eyed Peas. I asked my sis and she suggested doing both. I liked the idea but couldn't figure out how to do it, so she said she would dance to one song while I danced to the other. It was really cool, but she doesn't want her video on the internet. I wanted to film another dance video but the camera ran out of battery and I ran out of time. It's time to go to bed now. Sorry. I promise I will do it tomorrow. It will probably be Istanbul Not Constantinople since the camera I will be using doesn't film longer than 3 minutes.

See ya!

~JCS

January 4

Yay! Be happy people! 4 days into 2010! woot woot.

Today, I think I did some things that work as "out of the ordinary". The day started off boring cause I had to do homework which I have been putting off for a couple of weeks. I went to Whitman, a school where most of my friends go. I had my mom drive me there and drop me off when school finished, planning to walk back home. I had a really fun time there though I didn't do too much crazy. I started walking home when someone offered me a ride. They dropped me off on a main road near my house, then I played Frogger to cross the street into my neighborhood.
I had my iPod but no headphones. I did have a speaker, though, so turned it on. It was in my pocket, so I had to turn it up to hear it. As I was walking down the street with music blasting out of my pocket, I got a lot of weird looks, mostly from Egyptian guards. I also skipped part way down the street, including some backwards skipping.

The best thing I did, though, was film a how-to video on how to make Kool-Aid (or slightly flavored sugar water). There's not much to tell about it, except that I think it's kinda funny. I improvised it all and even when some things went wrong, I went with it. I think you should just watch it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml1VT_ohMr0. :) I think that's it

More insanity tomorrow :)

~JCS

January 3

Let's see... day 3... here we go.

Today, i was at home most of the day, so there wasn't too much for me to do... :/ sadness... i started choreographing a dance to I've Got a Feeling so that i can film a video. i broke a guitar string... you'd think that it would have been on a song that i was rocking out on, but no... i had been rocking out majorly, but then i stopped and was playing a slow song... Faith Like a Child i think.. i was playing it nice and slow and what not, and all of a sudden my a-string snaps. oh well.

I called my best friend (female), but that's not very crazy. I took part of an SAT practice test. not crazy either. yeah, like i said it was a slow day. But before I went to bed, I went outside on the balcony and lay flat on the ground on my back for a little while. i've decided to count the choreographing and laying outside to be combined as today's. i think that's it for today. if i remember anything else i can post it later... see you!

~JCS

January 2

All right. Two days in. So far so good.
Today, I couldn't think of too much to do... it's been a slow start. I did do a few things though. I hung out with my family most of the day, which always includes something slightly crazy. Oh yeah, I just remembered. I flirted with a 19-year-old girl who's a friend of my sister's (I've never met her) through my sister's facebook chat. Of course, maybe that isn't all out of the ordinary for me ;)
I almost stood up at church during the welcome time to say that it was my first time at church this year, but as soon as I did, my friends from both sides pulled me back down. :( oh well...
Afterwards, I did some running and jumping through the streets of Amman on our way to Burger King. At Burger King, I didn't feel like using my Arabic skills to order, even though I'm pretty much fluent, so I just said "two small drinks". I didn't really expect him not to understand me at all, but even when he didn't, I still didn't switch to Arabic. He ended up getting the manager to come take my order, cause he didn't understand at all.
At Burger King, I pretended to get annoyed at someone, stood up in a huff, and declared "I need to go fix my hair". I then borrowed a comb from one of the girls there, and proceeded to go fix my hair. I think I impressed the others there. I also made a necklace out of straws, and a flower out of a drink lid. One major thing I did was I proposed to my best friend (who is a girl, just to clear that up). She said she'll think about it... somehow I don't think she was serious.
Ummm... I walked home with my sis. Oh, I told her a bedtime story about a little boy whose lucky charms are stolen. He called the police, but they were making donuts and having lightsaber duels, and he could only come down if he had a snuggie, but his sister took the snuggie to Timbuktu. To make a long story short, he went with a boggart to the Alpine of New York who sent them to the Barracuda of Tennessee who knew where the wizard of the North lives (in Iceland). The wizard of the North told them that the lucky charms were stolen by the dragon from Down Under, so they went down under and met the Trix Rabbit, who was going to fight the dragon as well. There was an epic battle, in which the dragon "evaporated into a fit of lava". The boy got his lucky charms back, and everyone was happy.
Tomorrow's another day. Maybe I'll think of some more to do. :/ Give me ideas if you have them. I might film a dance video to cheer a friend I have up. Other than that, I got nothing so far. See ya!
~JCS

January 1

Today, the first thing I did (and in fact, the first thing i did this year) was to run up and down the street beating my chest. Someone dared me, originally to scream "Happy New Year" but I didn't want to disturb the peace.
I was at someone's house later, so I also spent the day saying random phrases in German that make little sense, including "THIS IS SPARTA!!!!", which i repeated quite a few times.
I can't think of anything else I did really... that's it I guess.
~JCS

Introduction

Hey. Sorry I missed a couple of days. I've been busy. Here goes:

This year, I have decided to do something every day that is out of the ordinary. It might be wild and crazy, might be hard, might just be something I don't normally do, but every day something. I will keep up with it on this blog, posting what I do every day. If I can, I may include pictures and/or videos. I think that's it....

Oh yeah. I'd appreciate ideas for stuff to do. It may be kinda hard to come up with 365 things to do this year.... let me know if you have any good ideas. Thanks!

~JCS