Things to do with your hands instead of texting ‘that guy’:
1. Eat some fruit. Certain fruit is actually quite labor intensive and requires intricate thinking and focus. Your mind needs to be focused on spitting out that seed when you’re eating a cherry or pulling a grape off a vine. You could lose a finger while you’re peeling the skin off that kiwi or mango.
2. Rearrange your apartment. Moving around your cabinets so that your wine glasses are in closer proximity to the bottles of wine will remind you why you live alone and why it’s nice to not have your priorities judged.
3. Make a list. Write a list of all the things you need to do that you’ve been putting off. I mean that Greek yogurt you ran out of this morning isn’t going to buy itself. You could also take this time to make a list of all the reasons why ‘that guy’ sucks at life. Or make a list of all the excuses you’re giving him for not texting you.
4. Facebook stalk your exes. Remember what it felt like to be loved? Those hands are going to have to free to hold the spoon for the ice cream and grab another tissue for your crying eyes.
5. Make a sandwich. It’s good practice for when you eventually get into a relationship and your man is hungry.
6. Brush your teeth and floss. Pearly whites, fresh breath, and a lack of gum disease are going to help you land the next guy who is going to infuriate you.
7. Pick up a new hobby. Photography requires your eyes to look at something else besides your phone screen and you need your fingers to click the button. Make some of the stuff you’ve seen on Pinterest (you only have like 923 DIYs pinned). Whatever you do, don’t pick up knitting, you’re still young. I’m training to compete in the next Olympics. They’ll be held in New Orleans this fall. My sport is drinking and I’m going for the gold…tequila.
8. Write a blog post. Using those quick nibbled fingers to type something other than that lame excuse for a text message. Preferably something that’s thought-provoking and relevant to today’s society.
9. But seriously, focus on yourself instead of him. Your time is better spent on what you need, want, hope, and dream than wasting time wishing for a guy to text you. I finished reading the hilarious book, My Boyfriend Wrote a Book About Me, and she writes in the end that you can’t keep trying to find someone else to complete you – you have to realize that you are complete just as you are, on your own.
10. Oh that’s another thing you could do, read a book (I’m starting On the Road by Jack Kerouac) instead of re-reading your previous texts hoping that you’re sarcasm, wittiness, and sexiness all came across in just 10 words.
Cheers to a new week and the hope that my cynicism is confined only to Monday.
Briana Wucinski 
love this post – it made me laugh and I used to use those same tactics ;). By the way, I am also doing that SAME pinterest DIY project, I swear that website is addicting. Keep up the funny and sarcastic blog posts. I for one love them!
Thank you SO much, this comment really meant a lot coming from you! (I read your blog constantly while I was in Florence!) And good luck on the project! Im starting mine tomorrow night! 🙂
by the way I am totally going to buy that book! It’s too bad they don’t have a version for kindle. Also I actually know of the ex-boyfriends book and OUCH, what he did was harsh. Good on her for writing a better book and getting it adapted to the big screen! Karma really DOES work in funny ways.
hahaha, did you write as advice for me? 😛 #guilty!!!!!
Oh man, I LOVE THIS!!