<h3>With half the country covered in a thick blanket of snow, here&#8217;s ten ways the CMNB crew has been killing time!</h3>
<p>It&#8217;s Day 3 of what has been affectionately nicknamed &#8220;<strong>Snowpocalypse 2011</strong>&#8221; and the staff at CMNB is starting to run out of ideas on how to kill time in the frozen tundra. Here&#8217;s what we&#8217;ve tried so far&#8230;</p>
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<li>We&#8217;ve resurrected the Myspace account that started it all, only to find that Myspace is no longer useful in any way. Instead it is overwhelmingly covered with advertisements, pop-ups, and is desperately just trying to keep up with facebook.</li>
<li>We have taken up leather crafts, creating necklaces, bracelets, wallets and keychains. Of course then I started having flashbacks of a childhood summer camp/child labor experience so we had to put that away.</li>
<li>We baked. Then we ate. Then we slothed on the couch watching Steven Tyler on<strong> American Idol </strong>until our brains went numb. Then the scale told me I shouldn&#8217;t do that anymore.</li>
<li>We video-gamed out on Little Big Planet 2, Red Dead Redemption and CoD Black Ops. Of course I&#8217;m not in any way coordinated with a video game controller so it was a lot of me dying right away and everyone laughing.</li>
<li>We played in the snow&#8230; for about 5 minutes before our fingers turned blue and we ran back inside.</li>
<li>I learned to use the brand new sewing machine that&#8217;s been in my closet since Christmas of 2010.</li>
<li>I learned that it costs $1 to bribe a child to trudge through the snow to the mailbox, and $2 to have them take out the trash. Me sitting on the warm dry couch while they perform these tasks is priceless of course.</li>
<li>We took bets on which cars were most likely to slide out of control on the highway running parallel to our property. The winner was a Toyota Camry for those keeping track.</li>
<li>We wrote songs about being snowed in, about the wonder of PAM cooking spray on a satellite dish, about the hot Arizona sun, and about our hound being an all-terrain-animal.</li>
<li>And finally, we gave up on entertaining ourselves, and Netflixed every <strong>John Wayne</strong> film in their library.</li>
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<p>Now we are halfway through Day 3 and out of ideas&#8230; what are YOU doing to battle cabin fever?</p>