***wondering***

I came across this paragraph as I was browsing online. I added the photo to help emphasize that this is being seen from a male perspective. I know my family doesn't know the "complete me"; I don't think even my closest friend understands my fear or my point of view. Yes, yes, I wonder... as I continue daily to put on my mask.

 

"I constantly wonder how my life looks in other people’s eyes. Do they think I have it easy? Do they think I have nothing going for myself? Or are they fascinated with who I am? The thing is that no one will ever know my whole story. No one will ever know the things I’ve had to overcome. Not even my closest friends, not even my whole family. The thing is that people are so quick to judge nowadays. You only see a person from what they want and allow you to see. I always try to look as put together as I can, and I guess that’s my way of hiding from the truth. That way, everyone will assume that everything in my life is okay. That I never go through anything. If only people knew how broken I am, how I’m holding on for dear life on this one last strand that’s recently become very delicate. The truth is that no one really knows me. No one will ever know me, and sometimes that scares me because no one will ever know why I am the way I am." ~ Unknown





Only I know the melody of my life. 

GBE2.27 - LAUGHTER

Hi there... remember me? I know it has been awhile. This is just a quickie I am posting. Laughter is so important to all of us... I know it is something I need to do more. Just when I think I've found something to make me smile... *sighs* I shouldn't rely on others for amusement. Heaven knows I do enough to make myself laugh.

So, come on in, sit a spell laughter. Keep me company.

Emptiness

Emptiness is filling me,

to the point of agony.~




"Fade to Black" Metallica

GBE 2.4 - Control

So this week the topic is control. Seems like at one time or another, everyone wants and/or needs a little control.

That being said... Here is a flashback to listen to.

When I was 17, I did what people told me



Did what my father said, and let my mother mold me



But that was long ago





Chorus:



I'm in control, never gonna stop



Control, to get what I want



Control, I got to have a lot



Control, now I'm all grown up





First time I fell in love



I didn't know what hit me



So young and so naive



I thought it would be easy



But now I know I've got to take...





Repeat Chorus





That's right, I'm on my own,



I'll call my own shots, thank you





Bridge:



Got my own mind



I wanna make my own decisions



When it has to do with my life, my life



I wanna be the one in control





So let me take you by the hand



And lead you on this dance



Cause what I've got is because I took a chance



I don't wanna rule the world



Just wanna run my life



So make your life a little easier



When you get the chance just take...





Repeat Chorus





Free at last, out here on my own



Now control this



That's right, career moves



I do what's right for me



And me wants to groove



Is that ok?





Repeat Bridge





Hop to it



I'm in control (and I love it, that's right)



Control, now I've got a lot



Control, now I'm all grown up



I'm in control, I'm in control



Don't make me lose it

GBE 2.3 - Lost & Found (reversed)

Found and Lost

I remember when I first found her page on MySpace a few years ago. The page was so bright and summery. We became "MySpace friends" and slowly got to know each other. Over time, we became closer. We shared things. We talked. A lot.

We listened to each other. I tried to be a shoulder for her although I didn't entirely understand what she was going through. She got a piece of my heart.

She still has that piece, even though we grew apart. Like a star, our friendship flared and burned out, although it served a purpose. Still, in essence, I lost her. She will often cross my mind and I trust that she is doing well. I think she is.

GBE 2.2 - Success

The definition of success (səkˈses) in the dictionary is:
1. The accomplishment of an aim or purpose;
2. The attainment of popularity or profit.

I was raised and taught by my parents that successful people were happy with themselves and made a positive impact on the people around them. But when I was in middle and high school, I attended a school where the prevailing attitude was that you were only successful if you achieved fortune and fame. The more money you made, the higher your degree of success. In defense of the school, which was, and still is academically great and where I met some really fantastic people, I don't think they realized it.




Fast forward 30 years... I have not made a ton of money... yet (lol), nor has my life even gone in the direction I thought it would. "Lately it occurs to me, what a long strange trip it's been". Those lyrics sure fit my life. I have some regrets over things I have not become and accomplished, but my life is far from over. All in all, I am happy with myself. I also like to think I have a "quiet impact" on the people around me.




The song I Was Here by Lady Antebellum has a line in it that I am striving for. "I wanna try to touch a few hearts in this life... And leave nothing less than something that says I was here."




If I can accomplish that and be happy, then I'll think myself a success. See, I consider the following definition from Ralph Waldo Emerson to be the correct one for success.




"What is success? To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; That is to have succeeded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson






Now... some views from other people. What, you thought I wouldn't list some quotes??? lol.

"Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable." - Coco Chanel







"The only place in life where you find success before work is in the dictionary." - Mary V. Smith







"Impatience never commanded success." - Edwin H. Chapin







"If you want success, then don't rely on other people to do what YOU can do!" - Sasha Azevedo















"Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks and courage." - Charles Luckman










"You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes." - Denis Waitley










"Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success." - Joyce Brothers










"The great success of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters." - Sir Harold Nicholson





















"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." - Thomas Jefferson










"Learn to adapt. Things change, circumstances change. Adjust yourself and your efforts to what it is presented to you so you can respond accordingly. Never see change as a threat, because it can be an opportunity to learn, to grow, evolve and become a better person." - Rodolfo Costa










"Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom." - Euripides










"They can because they think they can." - Virgil





















"We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory." - Cicero










"Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself."- Theodore T. Hunger











"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen." - Frank Loyd Wright











"The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed." - Richard Brinsley Sheridan





















"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows." - Aristotle Onassis










"A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience." - Elbert Hubbard










"There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley










"Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats." - A. Branson Alcott





















"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will." - Vince Lombardi










"Success is refusing to accept defeat." - Zurek










"I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is: Try to please everybody." - Herbert Bayard Swope










"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." - Earl of Beaconsfield





















"Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time." - Josh Billings










"Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration." - Evan Esar









"If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius." - Jospeph Addison










"The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well." - Henry W. Longfellow




















"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it." - W.C. Fields











"Try not to become a man of success but a man of value." - Albert Einstein











"Success is the accomplishment of that which most people think can't be done." - C. V. White











"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." - Robert Collier

GBE 2.1 - Expectations

Expectation/ekspekˈtāSHən/Noun





"In the case of uncertainty, expectation is what is considered the most likely to happen. An expectation, which is a belief that is centered on the future, may or may not be realistic. A less advantageous result gives rise to the emotion of disappointment. If something happens that is not at all expected it is a surprise. An expectation about the behavior or performance of another person, expressed to that person, may have the nature of a strong request, or an order." [1]






I used to have expectations... of myself, of family, of friends, of co-workers. I have learned (the hard way) that you can't have them of other people. I keep them for myself as motivation to learn and grow. Continue and read what some other people have said about expectations.

"A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations." - Patricia Neal



"Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience." - Samuel Alexander



"Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity." - Lindsey Buckingham



"Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable." - Wendy Wasserstein







"Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality." - Ralph Marston



"Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent." - Baltasar Gracian



"Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating." - Michael Landon



"I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments." - Michael Landon









"Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser." - Roy H. Williams



"I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine." - Fritz Perls



"I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations." - Bill Watterson







"I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine." - Bruce Lee



"I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated." - Sylvester Stallone



"I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds." - Tommy Shaw




"I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them." - Mary Decker Slaney








"If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome." - Michael Jordan



"If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal." - Norman Vincent Peale



"It's great being blonde - with such low expectations it's easy to impress." - Pamela Anderson



"It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached." - Mike Huckabee







"Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs." - William Howard Stein



"Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations." - Ryunosuke Satoro



"Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations." - Richard M. DeVos



"Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be." - Max Lucado







"My expectations of other people, I double them on myself." - James Brown



"Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations." - Leo Buscaglia



"Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself." - Shannon Miller



"Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations." - Earl Nightingale







"Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon." - Denis Waitley



"Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations." - Paul Rand



"So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to." - Johnny Bench



"The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations." - Eli Khamarov







"The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools." - Confucius



"The fewer expectations you have, the better." - Laurie Anderson



"The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it." - Thomas J. Sargent



"The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations." - Roy H. Williams







"The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness." - Samuel Alexander



"The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity." - Olivia Goldsmith



"There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love." - Erich Fromm



"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect." - Joan Didion







"We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes mismatches between old expectations and current realities." - Anne C. Weisberg



"We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else." - Lauryn Hill



"We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations." - Adlai Stevenson



"Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event." - Brian Tracy







"You can't base your life on other people's expectations." - Stevie Wonder



"Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation." - Orison Swett Marden

[1] Wikipedia

Another open letter to Senator Andy Gardiner re: Wekiva Parkway

Hey Andy... me again

So let's add 1.8 billion to the "$2.3 billion in debt the authority has piled up over 46 years" Oh yeah, that's brilliant!

Yep, politics, pure and simple. Again, I must repeat something I said in my last two, count them, two emails that you never responded to. Go back and read them.

Why is it that politicians are so hyped to get this road built, but not the public whom they are elected to represent? I remember hearing a man say in regards to Rich Crotty's push to build it: That all he wanted was his name on the plaque. With mostly just politicians pushing it, it does make me wonder. Maybe it's that I just don't see the "whole picture" as to why this beltway is so freaking important.

I must also stress that the education and future of our children is more important than the completion of the beltway. You are saddling them with a debt that will not be payed off in their lifetime.

And why is a senator who doesn't represent or even live in the district it will impact pushing so for it to be built?

It does make me wonder...

An open letter to Senator Andy Gardiner re: Wekiva Parkway

Hello Mr. Gardiner. I tried to email you about this: State senators to Xway: Build Wekiva Parkway now, but got a "form letter" out-of-office response. Here is an open letter to you from me:

This is my opinion and I wanted to share it with you. I just read the article in the Sun Sentinel regarding your push to build a road that I feel is, not only NOT necessary, but also something that will put us further in debt.

You may wonder how I know we don't need it... that's because I live off SR 46W. Although it does get congested at times, it is nothing that four-laning would not solve. The land is there to four lane and to have turn lanes. But to add 10 lanes is not only idiotic, but you would also be bankrupting the future generations, which is immoral. Why is it that politicians are so hyped to get this road built, but you hardly hear a word from the public?

I have lived in Florida all my life and I have been hearing talk about this final, and needless, part of Orlando's beltway for years now. Just like high speed rail, it was a pipe dream and should remain such.

This is the first time I have ever felt compelled to email a congressman regarding how I felt about a situation. Yes, the area where I've lived for over 20 years will be disrupted. Sanford is still a small town at heart and this will kill that.

Use the money that you get for Education. The future of our children is FAR more important than a 26-mile long expressway. Use common sense.

I don't mean to sound harsh, but this road is a unicorn; a "bridge to nowhere". At least I've always thought that it was.

Andy, I wonder if YOU will even read this; I doubt it. I doubt you'll respond either. I guess I just had to vent.

Best regards

I Am

I am tempting, I am painful

I am everything you need

I am fearless, pure evil

On your soul I will feed

I will cut you to pieces

Of this I am sure

leave you anguished, alone

And writhing on the floor

I am jealous and envious

I cause nothing but pain

I will tear at your heartstrings

Again, and again

I will confuse you, amuse you

Make you suffer no doubt

When you think you are safe

I will rip your heart out

I am selfish, egotistical

I am pleasure and pain

I will torment you, absorb you

And drive you insane

I will make you believe

Then realize your worst fear

If you try to mistake me

You will pay most dear

You can not escape me

I will not allow

I will desperately hunt you

I will find you somehow

I will be in the shadows

I will wait in the rain

I will try and ignite you

Set your soul aflame

And once I have found you

Emotions run high

As I tear down your walls

Make you crumble inside

I will break every promise

I will always forsake

I am cold and as heartless

As a poisonous snake

My power you will harness

You are floating on air

And that's when I'll fill you

With dread and despair

You think you can't find me

And then when you do

I will take every breath

And emotion from you

In case you mistrust me

I'll go out of my way

To make you believe

Before I mislead and betray

Don't try to fight me

It is worse if you do

Then I will make you suffer

Like you never knew

I will make you surrender

you will be enslaved

And stand idly by

while I seduce and deprave

And when you recover

Which you will eventually do

When you least expect it

I will come back for you

So now you may wonder

Just who I am

I am love you poor fool

And I don't give a damn!

Copyright © 2007 Rose Rosen

Untitled Poem

Life.

Art.

Start.

Blank canvas’,

conception, idea.

Choices, strokes,

imagination, brilliance.

Adored, beheld,

intimate, infused.

Deliberate, impulsive,

rejected, abandoned.

Triumphant, adorned,

epitaph, framed,

Eternity, eternal.

A masterpiece.

Maria Virgilio

a reason, a season, a lifetime...

I came across this post as I browsed the internet. It talks of how people come into our lives and the degree to which they affect our lives. I know I come into people's lives as one of the three. Sometimes I think I'm only going to be in their lives for a short time, only to find myself their much longer. That is always a pleasant surprise.

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People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.When you figure out which one it is, you will know what to do for each person.





When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty; to provide you with guidance and support; to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend, and they are. They are there for the reason you need them to be.





Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled; their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.





Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has come to share, grow or learn. They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it. It is real. But only for a season.





LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons; things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person, and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life. It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.



Unknown

I Wish I Could Speak Like Music - Poetry by Hafiz

I Wish I Could Speak Like Music

I wish I could speak like music.



I wish I could put the swaying splendor

Of the fields into words



So that you could hold Truth

Against your body

And dance.



I am trying the best I can

With this crude brush, the tongue,

To cover you with light.


I wish I could speak like divine music.



I want to give you the sublime rhythms

Of this earth and the sky's limbs




As they joyously spin and surrender,

Surrender

Against God's luminous breath.




Hafiz wants you to hold me

Against your precious

Body




And dance,


Dance.




From "The Gift" by Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky

Let's Talk About:: Body Language

The video of the song that you are watching and listening to at the moment is not really what I'm talking about here, but I like it. I know you want to watch, so go ahead and then read what came to me last week as I was driving home. Okay? K. :D

I made this video playlist at myflashfetish.com

I hope you enjoyed that video. mmm-hmm. :P





Have you ever, in your "real life" and I know you have, met a person or persons that you have been drawn to. Hell, we all have. They can be an outgoing person, a caring one, or one that just has mutual interests as us. We talk to them and we gauge just how much they want to associate with us. We know where we stand all by their body language.



How much do they really want to talk?



Do they show an interest?



Do they just tolerate you?



Do they seek you out , or are you given the cold shoulder?

A necessary book for life. *laffin*

No, I'm serious.

So here is what I've been thinking.



It's the same here, just not as black and white. You gauge by the chatter. Or by the silence. This, to me, is the "online body language".



Far too often one person will be drawn to another, and the interest from one is not reciprocated by the other. This is sad, and I should know because it has happened to me. I have been in both positions.

What I mean is this. I have had a couple people over the three years I have been here that would message and comment me and want immediate responses. They were, as one friend of mine has pointed out, tiring.



There were a few people that commented me each day who I got to know and now really like. We became friends and I actually look forward to their comments.



A couple though, were persistant. So much so that I began to look at them a little different. I looked deeper into who they were, not just the surface. And I found some that I almost tossed away who turned out to be quite beautiful.



First impressions here can be brutal.



Yet there were others that I just wished would take the hint. Most of you reading this know me and if you don't, know this: I can't stand to hurt someone. But there were a couple I had to block. :(



Now I also have been on the other side where I'd be the one who wondered "Why don't they answer me?"



I was wanting approval.



I was wanting acceptance.



I was now the tiring one. And I didn't even know it.



What I want to say here is, don't just give one look. I've found that I have discovered diamonds in amongst those persistent rocks. They are rare, and I know that for some of you, you do not have the time to give each and everyone that friends you that attention. I'm just saying, maybe more than one impression should be allowed.



I am constantly discovering things about myself and life. I am truly a work in progress.



In conclusion, I want to say a thank you to all the wonderful people whom I have been allowed to really get to know. Thank you for allowing me into as much of your world as you are comfortable.

And also an open apology to those who I have been a "persistent rock" to. To those people whose boundaries I pushed just a little too much.

You know who you are. ;)






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Tell me what you think about body language. I'd love to hear your thoughts.

From now on....Friendship with none of that Sissy Stuff

Are you tired of those sissy 'friendship' poems that always sound good, but never actually come close to reality?

Well, here is a series of promises that actually speak of True Friendship.

You WON'T see cutesy little smiley faces on this- Just the stone cold truth of our great friendship.

Read to the end.












1. When you are sad,

















I will jump on the person

















who made you sad

















like a spider monkey

















jacked up on Mountain Dew!!!

















2. When you are blue,

















I will try to dislodge

















whatever is choking you.

















3. When you smile,

















I will know you are

















plotting something

















that I must be involved in.

















4. When you're scared,

















we will high tail it out of here.













5. When you are worried,

















I will tell you horrible stories about how much worse

















it could be until you

















quit whining, ya big baby!!!!

















6. When you are confused,

















I will use little words.

















7. When you are sick,

















Stay away from me

















until you are well again.

















I don't want whatever you have.

















8. When you fall,

















I'll pick you up

















and dust you off--

















After I laugh my butt off!!

















9. This is my oath...

















I pledge it to the end.

















'Why?' you may ask;

















-- because you are my FRIEND!

















***********************

Friendship is like peeing your pants, everyone can see it, but only YOU can feel the true warmth.


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A Pharmaceutical News Ha-Ha

In pharmacology, all drugs have two names, a trade name and generic name. For example, the trade name of Tylenol also has a generic name of Acetaminophen. Aleve is also called Naproxen. Amoxil is also called Amoxicillin and Advil is also called Ibuprofen.

The FDA has been looking for a generic name for Viagra. After careful consideration by a team of government experts, it recently announced that it has settled on the generic name of Mycoxafloppin. Also considered were Mycoxafailin, Mydixadrupin, Mydixarizin, Dixafix, and of course, Ibepokin.

Pfizer Corp. announced today that Viagra will soon be available in liquid form, and will be marketed by Pepsi Cola as a power beverage suitable for use as a mixer. It will now be possible for a man to literally pour himself a stiff one. Obviously we can no longer call this a soft drink, and it gives new meaning to the names of "cocktails", "highballs" and just a good old-fashioned "stiff drink". Pepsi will market the new concoction by the name of:

MOUNT & DO.

Thought for the day: There is more money being spent on breast implants and Viagra today than on Alzheimer's research. This means that by 2040, there should be a large elderly population with perky boobs and huge erections and absolutely no recollection of what to do with them.

Tangled

Have you had someone that was in your life that can still evoke strong memories? An old friend; a husband or wife; a lover perhaps? They can make you remember those good times, and also how much you miss them? Yeah, I think we all do.

As the second verse states, I came across some old emails this weekend, and this came to me as I worked today.

Tangled... Jingle-Jangled

I'm tangled up in memories,

Memories of you

That make me feel warm inside

And at the same time, so blue.

I came across some messages,

Emails and poems you sent.

How did I misconstrue what

Your words really meant?

I won't let my words become daggers,

I'm just making sure you knew

That as I stumble through these memories

I'm both happy and blue.

I got this as an email fwd.

It has some very good advice and in sending it this way, it is going to way more than 15 people. Peace everyone.

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There's some mighty fine advice in these words, even if you're not superstitious. This Lotus Touts has been sent to you for good luck from the Anthony Robbins organization.. It has been sent around the world ten times so far.

Do not keep this message..

The Lotus Touts must leave your hands in 6 MINUTES. Otherwise you will get a very unpleasant surprise. This is true, even if you are not superstitious,agnostic, or otherwise faith impaired

ONE. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.

TWO. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.

THREE. Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.

FOUR. When you say, 'I love you,' mean it.

FIVE. When you say, 'I'm sorry,' look the person in the eye.

SIX. Be engaged at least six months before you get married.

SEVEN. Believe in love at first sight.

EIGHT. Never laugh at anyone's dreams. People who don't have dreams don't have much.

NINE. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.

TEN. In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.

Eleven. Don't judge people by their relatives.

TWELVE. Talk slowly but think quickly.

THIRTEEN. When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, 'Why do you want to know?'

FOURTEEN. Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

FIFTEEN. Say 'bless you' when you hear someone sneeze.

SIXTEEN. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

SEVENTEEN. Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; and Responsibility for all your actions.

EIGHTEEN. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

NINETEEN. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

TWENTY. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice

TWENTY- ONE. Spend some time alone.

A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.

Dexter... Season 4

Last night I watched discs 3 & 4 of season 4 of Dexter. I don't want to give too much away about the show, but read this from imdb(dot)com:

"Meet Dexter Morgan. By day he's a blood splatter pattern expert for the Miami Metro police department. But by night - he takes on an entirely different persona: serial killer. But Dexter isn't your average serial killer as he only kills people who fit a very prolific and precise "moral code" taught to him by his late father Harry (he didn't kill Harry, honest), and developed very thoroughly throughout each kill."

If you've never seen it before, I highly recommend it. But you HAVE TO <--- note the caps * start with disc 1 of season 1. That is if you want to really understand Dexter and the story of his life.

Kev gives 2 thumbs up! Be forewarned... it's addictive. :)

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