Category: Fun
Add a little more joy to your weekday with posts designed to bring out the fun in your life, featuring things to do, easy party ideas, games and more
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Meet Rigby the Red Panda!
Sometimes, more than an “Aha!” moment, you need an “aww” moment. Just something beyond adorable to boost your mood. This is that something. While at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, Nate and I found the red panda exhibit, and met one pudgy little red panda who couldn’t decide whether he was hungry or sleepy.…
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5 Board & Card Games Everyone Should Own
Think card and board games are just for kids? Pssh. We may have given up Candyland years ago, but we’ll never grow tired of these games. (Honestly — even the haughtiest, I-don’t-have-fun-at-parties types can’t resist them.)
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5 Things We Hope ‘Heroes Reborn’ Addresses
When Heroes went off the air in 2009, I was ready to start a petition for its return. In my mind, it was just starting to recover from the convoluted, achingly boring turn it took during the Writer’s Strike, and I held out hope that it could return to its chilling, I’m-going-to-lose-my-mind-waiting-until-Monday-for-the-next-episode drama that the…
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8 Things You Can Do to Push Yourself Out of Your Comfort Zone
It’s all too easy to get caught in routines, especially when it comes to the school/work/weekday grind. The repetition makes our lives easier, but it can also make waking up each morning just a little more “meh.” Sometimes you just need to wildly disrupt the same old, same old to truly feel alive and regain…
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Pretend It’s Someone’s Birthday Today
Two years ago, my cousin Shania (then 11), pulled one delicious, delicious prank: She discretely whispered to our server that it was my mom’s birthday, and at the end of our meal, half a dozen waiters plopped a chocolate fudge cake in front of us and serenaded Mom with a rousing rendition of “Happy birthday.”…
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5 Things You Must Know About Taylor Swift’s 1989 Tour
Whether your tickets are booked for an upcoming show — or you’re just curious to see what all the fuss is about — we’ve got you. Here are the top moments from Taylor Swift‘s 1989 tour (specifically, the New Jersey stop, but it’s applicable to the whole shebang), and takeaways to keep in mind if…
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This Artist’s Work Makes Every Day Feel Like A Vacation
Maybe it’s because we rarely (if ever) get a birds-eye view of the beach — or because, in a sea of word art and family photos, these colorful prints lack an obvious focal point — but it’s hard not to stare at Gray Malin’s images. They just reel you in. Seriously: A photo posted by Gray Malin…
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Reclaiming Mondays: Your July 4th Party Playlist
The Fourth of July may not be until Saturday, but that doesn’t mean you have to wait until Friday to start savoring the party weekend. We put together this playlist to get you pumped all week long, since studies have shown that looking forward to an exciting event can be just as enjoyable as the…
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A Workout That Tricks You Into Exercising
I’ll be real: I like the idea of exercising way, way more than actually sweating it out at the gym. Over the years, I’ve tried group classes, exercise DVDs, P90X, jogging, even a Bollywood Boot Camp — and while they were varying degrees of fun, there weren’t any I really looked forward to. It was…
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5 Shirts That Know You Better Than You Know Yourself
Okay, that headline is a bit — a bit — hyperbolic, but if you’ve ever found a phrase on a tee, mug or print that seemed to perfectly encapsulate how you felt at that moment, you know what I mean. For years, I shunned graphic tees or any shirt with text on it. They seemed…
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Your Guide to Staying Sane During a Long Flight
Nate and I are planning a trip to Australia this August, and I’m so excited I can barely contain my squeals of joy. (Seriously. I think I might explode one day in a burst of high-pitched shrieks.) The one thing I’m not so excited about? Nearly an entire day of my life spent on a plane.…
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