Monday, June 16, 2008

Bucket List

Learn the Guitar
Send random cards to people
Improve my credit score
Set realistic goals
Buy stock
Cut back on spending
Find a career
Get out of debt
Make a will
Pay off and don't use credit card
Renovate and sell a house at a profit
Start a business
Start saving
Become a parent
Stop impulse buying
Walk more instead of driving
Work for myself
Become a mentor
Work hard
Be more self-confident
Achieve some of your life goals with friends and family
Be a better listener
Be happy
Stop procrastinating
Be present at a birth
Join a club
Buy a homeless person some food
Do something for the greater good
Give blood
Do something nice for someone who will never find out
Find an old school friend
Get married
Give an abandoned pet a permanent home
Give to charity
Attend at least one major sporting event: the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the U.S. Open.
Throw a huge party and invite every one I know
Swim with a dolphin.
Have your portrait painted.
Learn to speak a foreign language
Spend a whole day eating junk food without feeling guilty.
Be an extra in a film.
Tell someone the story of your life, sparing no details.
Make love on a train
Learn how to take a compliment.
Stop saying and start doing
Give your mother a dozen red roses and tell her you love her.
Give more compliments
Send a message in a bottle.
Continue to grow
Plant a tree.
Learn not to say yes when you really mean no.
Write a fan letter to my all-time favorite person
Learn to ballroom dance properly.
Be the boss.
Sit on a jury.
Write the novel
Run a marathon
Stay out all night dancing and go to work the next day without having gone home (just once).
Be someone's mentor.
Shower in a waterfall.
Write down my personal mission statement, follow it and revise it from time to time.
Go on a cruise
Spend New Year's in an exotic location.
Get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it, instead of just thinking about it.
Experience weightlessness.
Drive across America from coast to coast.
Own one very expensive but absolutely wonderful business suit.
Write my will.
Sleep under the stars.
Take a ride on the highest roller coaster in the country.
Learn how to complain effectively -- and do it!
Spend a whole day reading a great novel.
Forgive my parents.
Find a job you love.
Spend Christmas on the beach
Overcome my fear of failure.
Hike the Grand Canyon.
Donate money and put your name on something: a college scholarship, a bench in the park.
Buy a house
Grow a garden.
Spend three months getting my body into optimum shape.
Accept myself for who I am.
Scuba dive
Go to Coachella
Go deep sea fishing
Create my own web site.
Run to the top of the Statue of Liberty.
Create your Family Tree.
Catch a ball in the stands of a major league baseball stadium.
Ski a double-black diamond run.
Learn to bartend.
Run a marathon.
Reflect on your greatest weakness, and realize how it is your greatest strength.
Give your time to help a charity
Have a life coaching session
Help an elderly person with their housework
Help someone cross a road
Introduce two people who fall in love
Learn about Feng Shui
Learn about other religions
Protest against something you care about
See what's happening in your community
Set aside time to spend with people you love
Surprise someone
Take photos of your family and friends
Take time out by yourself
Tell someone you love them
Write a poem for a loved one

1. "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." ~Thomas Edison
2. "Hitch your wagon to a star." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. "If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius." ~Michelangelo
4. "I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much." ~Mother Teresa
5. "If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves." ~Thomas Edison
6. "All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them." ~Walt Disney
7. "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." ~Dr. Seuss
8. "Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts." ~Winston Churchill
9. "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." ~Henry David Thoreau
10. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
11. "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." ~Goethe
12. "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
13. "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." ~Eddie Rickenbacker
14. "Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there." ~David Zucker
15. "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." ~Albert Einstein

"She's Everything"

She's a yellow pair of running shoes
A holey pair of jeans
She looks great in cheap sunglasses
She looks great in anything
She's I want a reeses peeses
Take me to a movie
She's I want an onion on my sammy
She’s my little cutie

She's a Ford Escape with a roof rack
With her blonde hair a-blowing
She's got an aweso rack
And a good feeling knowing
She's a warm conversation
That I wouldn't miss for nothing
She's a fighter when she's mad
And she's a lover when she's loving

And she's everything I ever wanted
And everything I need
I talk about her, I go on and on and on
'Cause she's everything to me

She's a Saturday out on the town
And a sundae on Sunday
She's a tattoo on her back
And a cuss word 'cause its Monday
She's a bubble bath and candles
Baby come and kiss me
She's a one Irish car bomb
And she's feeling kinda tipsy

She's the giver I wish I could be
And the stealer of the covers
She's a picture in my heart
Of my unborn children's mother
She's the hand that I'm holding
When I'm on my knees and praying
She's the answer to my prayer
And she's the song that I'm playing

She's the voice I love to hear
Someday when I'm ninety
She's that wooden rocking chair
I want rocking right beside me
Everyday that passes
I only love her more
Yeah, she's the one
That I'd lay down my own life for

And she's everything I ever wanted
And everything I need
She's everything to me
Yeah she's everything to me

Everything I ever wanted
And everything I need
She's everything to me

Blah blah blah

"Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,"
SAID THE BEAST!

Completely Useless Facts!

"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.

The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.

Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!

What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath

There is a city called Rome on every continent.

It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!

Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!

Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.

The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!

The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!

One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!

The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!

The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.

O, The Oprah Magazine Five Friends Every Woman Should Have

1. The Uplifter
This woman's favorite word: yes. You could tell her you're trading your six-figure income for a career in offtrack betting, and she'd barely pause before yelping "Go for it!" Don't you need someone who looks past the love handles to notice the extraordinarily gorgeous you?

2. The Travel Buddy
When the hotel in St. Lucia is a bust, one characteristic becomes all-important: flexibility. This agreeable companion need not be the girl you traded pinkie swears with on the playground; it's enough that she's comfortable with quiet (between gabfests) and is a teensy bit mischievous (as in tequila after midnight).

3. The Truth Teller
Intent is what separates the constructive from the abusive. Once you've established that the hard news is spoken in love (not in jealousy or malice), you'd be smart to seek out this woman's perspective.

4. The Girl Who Just Wants to Have Fun
One Saturday a pal and I—and yes, we're both over age 12—pored over every glitter lip gloss in a drugstore aisle for an entire 45 minutes. Forget the crisis download (for that, see the Uplifter); this partnership is about spontaneous good times.

5. The Unlikely Friend
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive," Anaïs Nin wrote. My friends—some twice my age, others half, some rich, others homeless, some black like me, others Korean, Mexican, Caucasian—have added richness to my life that only variety can bring.