A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....05-05-04....Celebrate Living #5

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A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day

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Celebrate Living 5...

Today we are featuring more suggestions, observations and reminders on how to live a happy and rewarding life. Some are private, most are excerpts from "Life's Little Instruction Book" by H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Please stop in..and add your own. Also,, please click on the music link below (Songs of Africa). We guarantee the combination will make you feel good all day. Enjoy!

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Suggestions on how to live a happy & rewarding life:

Take time to smell the roses.

Adopt a dog….or a cat (or some other creature from God)

Have a firm handshake.

Return all things you borrow.

Surprise loved ones with little unexpected gifts.

Make the best of bad situations.

Always accept an outstretched hand.

Use your wit to amuse, not abuse.

Take a photography course.

Hug children after you discipline them.

Hug pets after you discipline them.

Choose a charity in your community and support it generously with your time and/or money.

Forget the Joneses.

Make it a habit to do nice things for people who’ll never find out.

Visit Washington, D.C., and do the tourist bit.

When someone is relating an important event that’s happened to them, don’t try to top them with a story of your own. Let them have the stage.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

Be tough minded but tenderhearted.

Don’t waste time responding to your critics.

Be original.

Be neat.

Measure people by the size of their hearts, not the size of their bank accounts.

Don’t forget, a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.

Feed a stranger’s expired parking meter.

Commit yourself to constant self-improvement.

Don’t allow the phone to interrupt important moments. It’s there for your convenience, not the caller’s.

Spend less time worrying who’s right, and more time deciding what’s right.

Be willing to lose a battle in order to win the war.

Don’t be deceived by first impressions.

Never cut what can be untied.

Discipline yourself to save money. It’s essential to success.

Remember that winners do what losers don’t want to do.

Try everything offered by supermarket food demonstrators.

Just for fun, attend a small town Fourth of July celebration.

Be there when people need you.

Be decisive even if it means you’ll sometimes be wrong.

Don’t let anyone talk you out of pursuing what you know to be a great idea.

Get your priorities straight. No one ever said on his death bed, “Gee, if I’d only spent more time at the office.”

Have a friend who owns a truck.

Make a list of twenty-five things you want to experience before you die. Carry it in your wallet and refer to it often.

Laugh a lot. A good sense of humor cures almost all of life’s ills.

Look for opportunities to make people feel important.

Be a leader: Remember the lead sled dog is the only one with a decent view.

Never laugh at anyone’s dreams.

Believe in love at first sight.

When you feel terrific, notify your face.

Never be the first to break a family tradition.

Always try to keep up the important family traditions.

Don’t judge people by their relatives.

Say “bless you” when you hear someone sneeze.

When opportunity knocks, invite it to stay for dinner.

Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll get to enjoy it a second time.

Thank those who protect our skies.

Hug a skinny dood…..

Hug an angel…..

Give thank to those who open the Finest door every morning with prayers, coffee, goodies and words of wisdom.

Remember to tell your "sistahs and brothas" how much they mean to you.

Remember to give thanks for our FINEST Friends

And always give thanks to FreeRepublic

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[Lakeside]

Hey,Louie! Any good donuts lately?

[WVNan]

We need to add Kathey's son Brian to our prayer list. How ya doing girl? Recovered from all the partying yet? :)

[WVNan]

Today was my Father's birthday and my parent's anniversary. God rest their souls.

[WVNan]

Wow! jw, I believe that is the most touching picture I've ever seen. I can see a thousand sermons there. Thank you.

[WVNan]

Hey girl. I'm glad you slept longer this morning.

[Lakeside]

Thanks Nan. I am too. I needed it as I've been a bit under the weather since our trip to Nashville weekend before last. I go to the doctor for my regular visit Friday. He'll make it all better!

Best get some shut-eye now so I can be here at the Finest tomorrow morning in time for coffee and donuts! Wouldn't want wolfie to get them all!

[Lakeside]

Nan, here's wishing you many happy memories on your Dad's birthday and your parents' anniversary. May they live on in your heart until you are all reunited someday. Hugs to Nan on this special day!

[WVNan]

Wishing you a good night's sleep Lakeside.

[WVNan]

In keeping with the theme:

Four All Who Reed and Right

We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes;
but the plural of ox became oxen not oxes.

One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,
yet the plural of moose should never be meese.

You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice;
yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.

If the plural of man is always called men,
why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?

If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet,
and I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?

If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?

Then one may be that, and three would be those,
yet hat in the plural would never be hose, and the plural of cat is cats, not cose.

We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
but though we say mother, we never say methren.

Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
but imagine the feminine, she, shis and shim.

Let's face it,
English is a crazy language.

There is no egg in eggplant,
nor ham in hamburger;
neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England.

We take English for granted.
But if we explore its paradoxes,
we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square
and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea, nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing,
grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends,
but not one amend?

If you have a bunch of odds and ends
and get rid of all but one of them,
what do you call it?

If teachers taught,
why didn't preachers praught?

If a vegetarian eats vegetables,
what does a humanitarian eat?

Sometimes, I think all the folks who grew up speaking English
should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.

In what other language do people recite at a play
and play at a recital?

Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?

Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same,
while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which
your house can burn up as it burns down;
in which you fill in a form by filling it out
and in which an alarm goes off by going on.

~Author Unknown

[The Thin Man]

"Thank those who protect our skies. Hug a skinny dood….. Hug an angel….."

**LadyX is choking up, and is afraid to ask, but does that mean someone has pushed our dear Thin Man over the edge, and he now is an angel patrolling the skies above The Finest??!!**

Shame on you dutchess for worrying LadyX so!

I'm fine, Lady. FreeTheSausages did make an attempt early today to push me over the edge but it failed.

[The Thin Man]

Hey, wolfie took lessons from T-man!

LOL! It looks like Billie's scheme to change me backfired.

[LadyX]

"I'm fine, Lady."

Thank goodness I checked one more time on your status, T Man!!
Now I shall be able to slumber with serenity, knowing all is well....

How heartwarming it is to have Wolfie acknowledge the positive influence you have had on him..:))

Yes, yes - all is well - all is well - -

Good night to the Finest - - -

[dutchess]

It's Thursday...and that means it's time for another dose of reality from our Favorite Finest Resident Author...JohnHuang2. Please join us HERE

[dansangel]

My fuzzy sistah has relegated her fuzzy brotha to a ping list. : (

My life's been in a bit of a turmoil of late so I've been taking the easy way out, but I *promise* that won't happen again. You deserve *better* than that [[[[[{{{{{(((((Louie_Wolfie_Man)))))}}}}}]]]]]

[ST.LOUIE1]

You deserve *better* than that
[[[[[{{{{{(((((Louie_Wolfie_Man)))))}}}}}]]]]]

Yes I do! LOL

Nah, I know how busy you are, dansy, don't make any special effort.

((((((dansy))))))