by Eva Dameron
Daily Lobo
The world is a colorful place. Some say the days grow shorter as we age. This happens because we get stuck in routine schedules and ways of thinking and acting. Differentiating between the days becomes difficult. There are small things we can do to enhance our quality of life. Spring break is a good time to take a load off and examine all the
possibilities.
Light
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It's a powerful force we take for granted when it comes to mind-set and mood. You can buy light bulbs from most grocery or hardware stores.
Switch in a green light bulb when you go on your spiel about aliens. Or screw three red ones around your bedroom for a romantic mood or the foreshadowing of a bloodbath. Go ahead and turn your house into a theater set.
Or you could put all those empty beer bottles to use and stick candles in them.
Food
Preparation and presentation are vital means to the delicious end. Liquid food coloring has no taste. Blue spaghetti is a twist with Smurfy flair on a favorite staple food. You can also make black ice cream, green rice, red beer and purple hummus.
Your tongue is watering, yes?
Do-it-yourself vacations
Throw up a flag, any old flag. You can make one. Romania, the state of Florida, Guam or India. Dress like you're from that place and learn as much as you can. If you call customer assistance for Macintosh, you're automatically connected to India. Free phone calls to India! You can ask them about their country. They won't mind. Their brains are probably swirling and sick with technical jargon anyway.
Give yourself a haircut
It's a personal trust exercise. If you mess up, you can love yourself anyway, flaws and all.
Contact an old friend
Maybe the kid from first grade who used to break your pencils during recess, or the one who ate glue and hibiscus and then burped loudly in your face right before peeing in the corner of the classroom while laughing maniacally, and then cried when the teacher wrote the rascal's name on the board. He probably goes to dentistry school in New York and forgot all about those good ol' days. He'd love to hear it all from you.
And after you spend a half hour thinking to yourself, I mean really thinking hard for the pure sake of it, you can go for the big Zen leap.
Burn all your clothes, drop out of UNM and run off to Brazil to learn Portuguese. Or hotfoot it to Hollywood where you can work as an extra on movie sets and bore everyone with your dramatic tales of close encounters with famous people.
Seize the day, kids. Seize
the day.
