It happens every year around this time. Your favorite TV shows are on hiatus, the kids are home from school and driving you buggy, you stare longingly at your TV listings wishing that the only things with a “NEW” listing were not the Real Housewives of New Jersey episodes. Before you snap at your husband/boyfriend/life partner/friend/coworker/neighbor, recognize the problem: you’ve got a bad case of the summertime blues. This, my friends, is a totally legit thing (even if I did just make it up) and I’ve got the cure.
Books, Books, and more Books
Go for it, join our Boozy Book Club. There is no way to put 5 of us on camera with booze and for hijinx not to ensue. It’s good for a laugh, but more so, befriend people in the good reads forum. Meet new friends that seem perfectly “normal” at first, until you see their Tumblr page and have the internal debate whether their taste in Manga is borderline sociopathic or admire their sense of internet freedom. At any rate, it sure will be entertaining.
Finally join Tumblr
Perhaps it was the thought of joining one more social network or perhaps it was all the questionable fan art/manips that seems to emanate from the vast void of Tumblr that has kept you away. Maybe you have even convinced yourself that Pinterest has all the funny Someecards pinned and what else could you want? I’m here to tell you that you are wrong. I say this as a friend. You are missing out. You can go Tumblr diving for hours and still come back for more the next day. See what zany GIFs your latest fandom craze has come up today and come back the next week for more. It’s an endless pit of everything wrong and oh so right in the world (that should totally be the description of TN’s tumblr page.) Bonus entertainment: become your bestie’s Facebook page troll. Know his/her guilty pleasures, find those amazing GIFs on tumblr and paste away on their wall. (Note: this action may start a FB wall GIF war, family will not get it, but it will be an amazing few days of laughter)
Netflix is your friend
You don’t even have to rent the DVDs. This can be you and if Battlestar Galatica doesn’t do it for you (IT SHOULD), there’s Friday Night Lights, or Buffy! Hell, there’s even Dawson’s Creek. Just don’t get fired from your job. The internet costs money and we need you coming back to our blog.
Find some new Man Meat
No, I don’t mean find a new piece on the side (who am I and where did I learn this speak?). Enjoy one of the many attractive men featured on the blog and explore the internet with that person in mind. OR obsess over Jericho Barrons. Not sure who he is? There, now you now what to do with your next couple of weeks.
How are you curing your summer blues? What keeps you entertained for hours?
Sources: sodahead.com, ew.com, gq.com, tumblr.com
