20 Things That Are True But Nobody Wants To Admit

20. We all love a good musical. Admit it. You turn on High School Musical or Grease and next thing you know you've watched the whole darn thing.

19. Even guys think David Beckham is good looking. We compensate for it by making fun of his voice and saying we hate him but there is not a guy on earth that wouldn't like have the ladies throwing themselves at you .

18. Motorcycles are unsafe. It's not IF you are going to get hurt, but how bad

17. Your golf score is inversely proportional to the time you spend with your family. It is impossible to shoot in the 70's and spend the correct amount of time with your family if you work or have ANY other hobbies.

16. That old fraternity t-shirt needs to be thrown away. It's not getting any younger in the drawer and it certainly has too many holes to wear anywhere.

15. Valentines day is worthless. It's becoming more and more meaningless each year. Kind of like Microsoft.

14. You will never stay thin without exercise. You can diet all you want but it is next to impossible to diet forever.

13. Gambling is for the poor. Rich men don't gamble. It is OK to take a gamble now and then. More than once a year and you are wasting your money and time. The lottery is for the poor and uneducated.

12. You don't talk to your parents enough. We all know it but we don't do much about it. Everyone I've ever met regretted this at their parents funerals. Spend time with them now.

11. We hire people based on looks. You're not supposed to, but we all do it. Two people equally qualified will be decided on which one looks best. I choose the personality I can get along with best , but ugly usually loses. Not legal, not right , but true.

10. We overmedicate. Your body is made to heal itself of simple things. If you eat correctly, get a good nights sleep, and exercise, for the most part your body can take care of itself. If you take ibuprofen every day then how is your body going to learn to take care of itself?

9. Creativity is under emphasized. It's hard to put your creativity on a resume but it's a trait that is highly desired and needed in business. Everyone copies or improves. Creative people approach from a whole new angle.

8. "Inch by inch, life's a cinch". If you do a little everyday things will get done. Procrastinate or try and do everything at once and you will fail.

7. Republicans have 0 percent chance in the next election. I don't care if Reagan came back. This one goes to the other team this year. Let them figure out how to get out of the war.

6. The anonymity of the Internet has turned the younger generation into a bunch of online punks. The way they talk to each other on line is shameful. If some of these guys talked to me like that in person I would put them down like Chuck Lidell.

5. A human life is worth more than an animal's. Despite what PETA and the other crazy groups will tell you. DO NOT harm a human to save an animal.

4. A person that doesn't smoke is EXTREMELY bothered by someone who does right next to them. We never say anything because we don't want to cause a scene or make someone mad but almost everyone is bothered by it. Laws will take care of this over next couple years.

3. We all have the will but most don't have the dedication or the preparation to meet that desire. There are so many people that want the world but aren't willing to sacrifice anything to get it. Nice things take hard work. A healthy body means getting tired. Nice things take long hours at work. A good family means sacrificing some personal things (see golf above).

2. We love "bad people". The world would care less about Lindsay Lohan if she acted like a nice young teen. People are drawn to and curious about people that do bad things. Go to your local online news and see what percentage of the stories are about people doing bad things. Almost all. Why? Bad is entertaining.

1. Anything man made in large doses is most likely not good for you. Follow this rule and you will probably live longer. Remember the "everything in moderation" rule. This especially applies to man made ingredients. From Aspartame (my vice) to Zoloft, watch the intake.

Too Early Trivia July 31st, 2007

Question: One in five people take one of these on their vacation.

Answer: A laptop.

A NEW WEB SITE HELPS YOU GO ON WITH YOUR LIFE AFTER YOU DIE

If you died today, would your spouse know to turn the sprinklers off in the winter or even how to pay the cable bill online? Big details like burial sites or cremation plans may be discussed beforehand, but a new Web site called YouDeparted.com has dedicated itself to making sure every little detail is taken care of in case of death. One of the creators said "I actually sat there and tried to picture my own life ended. It's a hard thing to do." He said he thought about the mess his family would have if he suddenly died, and the idea was born.
The concept is simple: Users register and enter information, using either templates provided by YouDeparted or by designing their own. Information ranges from simple entry prompts in the templates like gifts and final wishes to more serious prompts like bank and brokerage accounts, debts owed, and secret accounts. Another feature allows users to create letters, nasty or nice, for an extra fee that can be mailed when they die.

Read more here:

http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/072807/met_187483553.shtml

Too Early Trivia July 30th, 2007

Question: One out of every 17 men has had a woman do this to them.

Answer: Reject their marriage proposal.

Too Early Trivia July 27th, 2007

Question: There is one of these in about half of all kitchens.

Answer: A Junk Drawer.

Too Early Trivia July 26th, 2007

Question: 33% of us have lost or broken this.

Answer: Our cell phone!

Too Early Trivia July 25th, 2007

Question: According to studies, having one of these in your house can significantly lower your child's risk of allergies..."

Answer: A pet.

Family Road Trip Tips

According to the Travel Industry Association, we usually take eight to ten summer car trips with the kids.

And sadly, most parents’ car trip recollections consist of antsy kids repeatedly asking, “Aren’t we there yet?” Luckily, with a little preparation, you can reduce the kid squabbles and boost the “family fun factor.”

1. Boredom: “There’s nothing to do!”

Pack the car with things the kids can do to pass the time alone and together:
•Mess-proof toys: cookie sheets with rims for lap desks so they can draw or play with magnetic letters and shapes reusable sticker-books, etch-a-sketches, and car bingo boards
•Pipe-cleaners, scotch tape, paper, foil: each passenger can take turns making something seen on the trip, while the others must guess what the creation is.
•Books on tape: listen as a family to Charlotte’s Web and Lord of the Rings. Check them out of the library or purchase individual cassette players and earphones
•DVD player and movies: do set a “limit rule” (i.e., you must drive three hours before they can watch, they can only watch a certain number per day, etc.)
•Clutter savers: Have each kid store their own favorite things (including stuffed animals, MP3 players or toys) in personal backpacks. For a great clutter saver, hang shoe pocket organizers from the neck rest for backseat passengers to store toys.

2. Discipline: “Kevin hit me!”

Research finds that 3 to 7 year old siblings squabble about 3.5 times every hour and 2 to 4 year olds squabble about six times per hour -- and that’s in your house!
•Post car rules: “No shouting and hands to self” are critical for both sanity and safety. Review rules before starting your trip. Tape them inside the car.
•Set boundaries: A mini ice chest or box set between two kids creates a boundary in close quarters and makes a great drink holder as well as drawing space.
•Take frequent stops: Stop at least every two hours for about fifteen minutes. Your kids need potty breaks and the opportunity to run off that pent-up energy.
•Keep on sleep schedules: Try to check into a hotel with a pool. Swimming not only cools kids off but also wears them down. They also sleep better at night and well-rested kids make better travelers.
•Use the brakes: If all else fails, pull over to the side of the road (after glancing in the rear-view mirror) and stop. You don’t need to say a thing –when you don’t start the car the kids have to know you mean business when it comes to no shouting or hitting.

3. Family Memories: “But you said we’d have fun!”

Involve the kids before you start the trip so each child can think about the one thing they would like to do or collect on the trip. A few ideas each child could do include:
•Assign expert status: Get out the travel guide and atlas so that each child can mark key places they want to stop along the way. You can also ask an older child to read up on a certain historical site and teach the others about the location when you all arrive.
•A journal: Each day write or draw a favorite memory.
•A disposable camera: Each day take a photo of a favorite spot.
•A scrapbook: Each day add to your collection (feather, wild-flower, post-card).
•A roll of quarters: Each day each child has a set allowance to spend in any way.
•A compass: Give each kid an inexpensive compass and teach them how to read it and plot the course in a small notebook.

4. Antsy: “Aren’t we there yet?”

Long driving stretches are tough on kids and drivers. Your best secret to fight the “aren’t we there yet?” battle cry is to use the scouting motto: “Be Prepared.” Here’s how:
•Sing camp songs: Make a list of songs to sing like “Wheels on the Bus”, “The Ants Go Marching…” or purchase one great CD of camp songs for the whole family to sing.
•Play car games: Research great family car games on the internet. A few oldies but goodies include: Bingo, I Spy, the License Plate Game, 20 Questions. Or get a great book of Knock-Knock jokes.
•Let your teen drive: Teach your teen to drive (if he has a permit) on those long, safe stretches.
•Provide blow-up pillows: Make sure kids are comfortable for needed snoozes.
•Give surprise treats: Give pre-purchased inexpensive treats (such as mini play-doh containers, notepads, colored pencils, stickers, fruit roll ups, gum) at strategic moments. Nothing’s wrong with bribery when sanity (yours) and safety (everyone’s) are at stake.

10 Things Not To Do Today

You want to lose a huge amount of weight, run the Comrades and never smoke again. Let's get real here. Start by avoiding these things today.

Caffeine overload. By all means have a cup or two, but don't have six or seven. That could be problematic, as it dehydrates you and could send your blood pressure skyhigh. Watch out for fizzy drinks, as they also sometimes contain loads of caffeine. So does tea, for that matter.

No seatbelt. Wearing your seatbelt costs nothing, could save your life and might spare you a traffic fine. It takes about three seconds to click it into place. Let's face it, if you're in an accident, having the seatbelt crease your linen shirt is infinitely preferable to having a fractured skull.

Not a drop to drink. Often when you feel hungry, you are actually thirsty. Don't forget to drink a few glasses of water today. Dehydration can actually cause fatigue and depression. Have a large jug of water on your desk and drink from it regularly.

Getting mugged. Don't draw money from dodgy ATMs in deserted areas. Go to ATMs inside shops. Don't carry a purse or cellphone in your hand and be on the lookout for muggers when you get in and out of your car. Always walk purposefully and, if possible, not on your own.

Losing your temper. When you lose your temper, your blood pressure shoots up and your energy resources are drained. If you lose your temper once in three months, OK, but if it is a daily thing, you need to look at your anger management skills. Do you take life too seriously? Do you make too many things your problem? What's it really to you if someone at work used your coffee cup? Keep your energy for really important things.

Headache blues. We all get these from time to time, but have them checked out if they're becoming a constant daily companion. It could be caused by stress, by failing eyesight, by diet. Find out what it is. Make sure you always have a few painkillers at work, as there is nothing worse than feeling really grim just before your big presentation.

Missing appointments. Keep a diary – your life is busy and you cannot remember everything. Missing appointments creates a huge amount of stress in your life – especially if it is with the only dentist you don't have a phobia about. Write these things down in a central and accessible place. Cancel well in advance if you can't make it.

Being used by others. Others can only use us with our consent. If we are doing things for others that they should be doing for themselves, we are not doing them a favor either. Why are we so eager to please? Are we scared people won't like us if we decline to do the runaround for them? Learn to say no – it could be the most liberating experience.

Doing the couch potato thing. It is very tempting, after a hard day's work to do the slouch-on-the-couch thing. But in the long run, it's not very good for you. Try and get out there – even if it's just for a brisk 20-minute walk round the block.

Eating junk food. Remember that the first syllable of convenience foods is 'con'. Yes, you fill up your stomach with pies and burgers and chips, but they don't provide you with much nutrition, while their high calorie content increases your waistline and the fat in them clogs up your arteries.

Too Early Trivia July 23rd, 2007

Question: You probably only clean this about once a year.

Answer: Your car's glovebox.

10 Virtually Instant Ways to Improve Your Life

(from Adrian Savage is a writer, retired business executive, and author of "Slow Leadership: Civilizing The Organization".)

Many of our problems come from within our own minds. They aren’t caused by events, bad luck, or other people. We cause them through our own poor mental habits. Here are 10 habits you should set aside right away to free yourself from the many problems each one will be causing you.


~~Stop jumping to conclusions. There are two common ways this habit increases people’s difficulties. First, they assume that they know what is going to happen, so they stop paying attention and act on their assumption instead. Human beings are lousy fortune-tellers. Most of what they assume is wrong. That makes the action wrong too.
The second aspect of this habit is playing the mind-reader and assuming you know why people do what they do or what they’re thinking. Wrong again, big time. More relationships are destroyed by this particular kind of stupidity than by any other.

~~Don’t dramatize. Lots of people inflate small setbacks into life-threatening catastrophes and react accordingly. This habit makes mountains out of molehills and gives people anxieties that either don’t exist or are so insignificant they aren’t worth worrying about anyway. Why do they do it? Who knows? Maybe to make themselves feel and seem more important. Whatever the reason, it’s silly as well as destructive.

~~Don’t invent rules. A huge proportion of those “oughts” and “shoulds” that you carry around are most likely needless. All that they do for you is make you feel nervous or guilty. What’s the point? When you use these imaginary rules on yourself, you clog your mind with petty restrictions and childish orders. And when you try to impose them on others, you make yourself into a bully, a boring nag, or a self-righteous bigot.

~~Avoid stereotyping or labeling people or situations. The words you use can trip you up. Negative and critical language produces the same flavor of thinking. Forcing things into pre-set categories hides their real meaning and limits your thinking to no purpose. See what’s there. Don’t label. You’ll be surprised at what you find.

~~Quit being a perfectionist. Life isn’t all or nothing, black or white. Many times, good enough means exactly what it says. Search for the perfect job and you’ll likely never find it. Meanwhile, all the others will look worse than they are.
Try for the perfect relationship and you’ll probably spend your life alone. Perfectionism is a mental sickness that will destroy all your pleasure and send you in search of what can never be attained.

~~Don’t over-generalize. One or two setbacks are not a sign of permanent failure. The odd triumph doesn’t turn you into a genius. A single event—good or bad—or even two or three don’t always point to a lasting trend. Usually things are just what they are, nothing more.

~~Don’t take things so personally. Most people, even your friends and colleagues, aren’t talking about you, thinking about you,or concerned with you at all for 99% of the time. The majority of folk in your organization or neighborhood have probably never heard of you and don’t especially want to.
The ups and downs of life, the warmth and coldness of others, aren’t personal at all. Pretending that they are will only make you more miserable than is needed.

~~Don’t assume your emotions are trustworthy. How you feel isn’t always a good indicator of how things are. Just because you feel it, that doesn’t make it true. Sometimes that emotion comes from nothing more profound than being tired, hungry, annoyed, or about to get a head-cold. The future won’t change because you feel bad—nor because you feel great. Feelings may be true, but they aren’t the truth.

~~Don’t let life get you down. Keep practicing being optimistic. If you expect bad things in your life and work, you’ll always find them. A negative mind-set is like looking at the world through distorting, grimy lenses. You spot every blemish and overlook or discount everything else. It’s amazing what isn’t there until you start to look for it. Of course, if you decide to look for signs of positive things, you’ll find those too.

~~Don’t hang on to the past. This is the most important suggestion of all: let go and move on. Most of the anger, frustration, misery, and despair in this world come from people clinging to past hurts and problems. The more you turn them over in your mind, the worse you’ll feel and the bigger they’ll look. Don’t try to fight misery. Let go and move on. Do that and you’ve removed just about all its power to hurt you.

Too Early Trivia July 20th, 2007

Question: Half of women would stop dating a man for this reason.

Answer: If her friends disapproved of him.

Recall of the Easy Bake Oven

Hasbro sent out another recall for about 1 million Easy-Bake ovens after getting 249 reports of children getting hands or fingers stuck in the opening, and one 5 year old girl having her finger cut off. There were 77 reports of burns -- including 16 of second- and third-degree burns, and the 5-year-old girl's finger was so badly burned that she had to have the finger cut off.

Adults are being asked to immediately take the recalled oven away from children and call Hasbro for instructions on how to return the toy oven for a voucher that can be used towards the purchase of another Hasbro product. For more information, call Easy-Bake at 800-601-8418 or visit EasyBake.com.

How Walkable Is Your Neighborhood?

How it works:
1. Type an address
2. See a walking map
3. Get your score

What is Walk Score?
Walk Score helps people find walkable places to live. Walk Score calculates the walkability of an address by locating nearby stores, restaurants, schools, parks, etc. Why is walking important?

http://www.walkscore.com/

Top 10 All-American Inventions

TOP 10 ALL-AMERICAN INVENTIONS

10. The Corvette
9. Bourbon whiskey
8. Colt .45 (the gun, not the malt liquor)
7. The Western film
6. Baseball
5. The airplane
4. Blue jeans
3. The steamboat
2. Jazz
1. The Presidency

Too Early Trivia July 19th, 2007

Question: On average we do this 73 times per year. It takes an average of 47 minutes.

Answer: Grocery shoppin'

Too Early Trivia July 18th, 2007

Question: People tip more when their waitress does what?

Answer: Touches them!

The University of Houston conducted a study and found that when waitresses touched their customers on the shoulder, tips increased from 11 percent to 15 percent. In a control group where waitresses did not touch their customers, tips remained the same.

Too Early Trivia July 17th, 2007

Question: We all have one and the the average one is more than two years old and rarely cleaned.

Answer: A pillow.

Too Early Trivia July 16th, 2007

Question: Most of us have done this nine times by the time we reach the age of 32.

Answer: Changed jobs.

What Your Pizza Topping Says About Your Personality

Think a candlelit dinner is the best venue to suss out a date’s potential? Well, a new study claims that ordering a good ol’ pizza pie can be much more telling. Here’s what certain toppings say about you, your date, and your future together.

If your date orders one meat topping…
People who order just pepperoni or sausage on their pie are generally irritable, prone to procrastination, and they often “forget” obligations (like that weekend getaway he or she promised to take with you in the spring).

Compatible with: others who prefer one meat topping

If your date orders multiple meat toppings…
Real meat lovers who pile on the pepperoni, sausage, and ham tend to be dramatic, seductive, sweep-you-off-your-feet extroverts who thrive as the center of attention.

Compatible with: people who prefer one meat topping

If your date orders one veggie topping…
Those who prefer one vegetable topping are empathetic, easygoing romantics.

Compatible with: everybody!

If your date orders multiple veggies…
These dates are trustworthy, loyal, humble, and avoid the spotlight. In fact, they’re so quiet and conflict-averse they tend to be taken for granted in relationships.

Compatible with: people who prefer non-traditional toppings

If your date orders non-traditional toppings…
People who prefer offbeat options like pineapple or extra onions tend to be aggressive, ambitious, and competitive. In other words: Don’t expect a mellow relationship.

Compatible with: others who prefer non-traditional toppings

Too Early Trivia July 12th, 2007

Question: 34 percent of single women are lookin’ for this in a man.

Answer: A YOUNGER man.

Which hobby best suits your personality?

From exploring the great outdoors, preparing exotic cuisine or persuing the hundreds of TV channels from your multi-media center, the options for leisure time in the modern world seem limitless. So, what's right for you? Take this quiz and find out which hobbies best suit your personality.


http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/leisure/quiz/index.html

Too Early Trivia July 10th, 2007

Question: Only 29% of married couples agree on this.

Answer: Political issues!

Too Early Trivia July 9th, 2007

Question: As consumers, we spend more than 8 billion dollars per year to get rid of this.

Answer: Hair.

Too Early Trivia July 6th, 2007

Question: According to a recent poll, these are the things we hate the most that we also say we can't live without:
1. Cell phones.2. Alarm clocks.What was #3?

ANSWER: Television!?

Rounding out the list at #4 was razors.

Too Early Trivia July 3rd, 2007

Question: There's a 1-in-3 chance the beans in your side dish of baked beans or pork and beans came from this state.

Answer: North Dakota

Too Early Trivia July 2nd, 2007

Question: What works best when trying to get your kids to eat something they don’t like?
The most popular solution (38%) is "bribes and threats";Number two (37%) is "ketchup";
What’s the third most popular solution for gettin’ kids to eat something they don’t like?

Answer: “Melted cheese." (22%)