I love eating. I share your passion for food. Food consumes my thoughts most of the time (I’m thinking food as I’m writing this). When I lie in bed at night, I think about what I will have for breakfast. Good food can turn a bad day around, while bad food can just as easily tear my day apart. This is who I am and I see nothing wrong with it.
If the same goes for you, then just say it out loud as I have here. 
Acknowledging it is the first step to managing it.
Christmas cards ain’t going no where because a REAL card beats an E-card any day! So you better pick up that pen and start writing! And why not? This is the one time in life where the messier it is, the lovelier it is. It shows that you care. It shows that you tried. Your handwriting is the soul of the card. And don’t worry if think that your handwriting won’t be legible – come on, we all know what those cards are supposed to say anyways. We are smart enough to guess! And quite frankly, we much rather guess than to get another e-card! Your writing carries intimacy. The messier, the more intimate. It is what makes it more special than any of the ridiculously funny e-card filled with fantastic digital art and moving graphics. It shows that you care enough to go out and find a card. It shows that you are cool enough to not care about little details like handwriting.
And here’s another reason why you should stick with hand-written cards. It used to be that handwritten cards were the only way to go. But since the start of the internet and the evil e-cards trend, the handwritten cards standards have turned more lenient. The reason is simple. In the digital age, any physical card (regardless of content and handwriting) makes you a better person because 1)you didn’t skimp by sending e-cards 2)you held your ground by not giving into the temptation of the easy internet.
If all you have to do is to write “Dear” and “Love” to earn big points from family, friends, and loved ones, then why wouldn’t you? I hope the following article makes an even more convincing case for picking up a Hallmark card again!
by Meghan Daum
When you care enough to send the very best, it shouldn’t be an e-card.
Ok, people, what is it with the electronic greeting cards this holiday? Why are you sending me jpegs of the Himalayas accompanied by phrases I recognize from yoga class (“Peace to you and all living things . . .”)? Why am I being asked to download elaborate animation videos featuring singing snowmen or a Nativity scene with a manger that looks alarmingly like a tiki cabana? Why have my otherwise intelligent and dignified friends Photoshopped their faces onto the bodies of dancing Santas? Why, if I don’t open these cards right away, do I have to endure auto-generated reminders that I am a thoughtless and terrible person who does not care about my friend enough to sit through 60 seconds of flash animation sugarplum fairies?
Is it that you’re all environmentalists? Have you gone green and therefore paperless? Do you refuse to send a regular, old-fashioned card because you don’t want to waste the resources (the jet fuel to transport airmail, the gas used by the delivery truck, the calories expended by handwriting and addressing and licking an envelope) that are savagely pilfered whenever someone cares enough to send what is apparently no longer the very best?
Or is that you’re trying to show what an early adapter you are? How willing you are to try new things? How seamlessly you’re able to combine traditional holiday cheer with error messages that say “You must install Adobe”?
Maybe. But considering the number of you who (still) drive tank-sized SUVs and are so computer-wary that you don’t feel safe depositing a check into an ATM, I think there’s something else going on. An insidious societal scourge is at work. I think you’re sending e-cards instead of paper cards for the same reason that college students now bring laptops instead of spiral notebooks to class and some people have taken to writing shopping lists on their BlackBerrys and iPhones rather than the back of an old utility-bill envelope.
How do these people come up with the idea?
So original and highly entertaining!
After watching the video, I actually tried my fingers at it for fun.
I’m afraid it is harder than it looks and my coordination needs alot more work!!
I am embarrassed to admit the number of times I’ve watched this clip, but I still laugh when I watch it today…and I wonder when I will stop. But I hope I never stop because it is hard to come by such classic entertainment today. Have a great laugh, all!
This guy literally never took off his hat for 20 years!! I wish I was him sometimes. Then I will never have bad hair days. You know how sometimes in the morning, you just can’t be bothered, so you just put on a cap and go out and wish that no one will recognize you? Well, this guy doesn’t even need to do that!! He’s ready to go the minute he opens his eyes! hahaha
Now why hadn’t I thought of that….
Very very impressive…
I would have never thought a bucket of sand could create such powerful artwork. It just goes to show that real talent could manifest itself in amazing unthinkable ways. Without her golden touch, the sand was just the sand. But she made it come alive with her heart, skill, and passion. I love how she made it all into a story and let the music move us along. You could see and feel the fire within her with her every movement and every stroke. Heart and fire – that’s what moves and inspires people. That’s what we should all live for…
It’s the Age of the Boyfriend Style. You cannot avoid it. It’s ubiquitous. The boyfriend jacket, the boyfriend tee, the boyfriend jeans, the boyfriend watch, and the list goes on. So now, may I introduce to you, and drum roll please, The Boyfriend Cut. It is fast, cheap, and it could happen in the convenience of your own home. The process itself is satisfying and it gets the job done (i.e., you get shorter hair). But the best of all, you get to brag about it to your girlfriends! Imagine the jealousy on their faces when you say, “My boyfriend cut it for me.” And as if that’s not enough, you add in a playful whisper, “While I was half-naked…in the bathroom…”
All you need are a pair of scissors, a sexy undershirt that does not trap hair, and of course, a boyfriend. Long hair is preferred as that would certainly provide more room for error. But if you are the adventurous type, short hair could do just as well.
Here’s how I got my very first boyfriend cut. It all started with a bad hair day. Extremely overdue for a haircut and too lazy for an appointment at the salon, I decided to take matters into my own hands. I printed the world’s simplest hair cutting instructions from the internet and handed my boyfriend a pair of scissors. I told him it would be a simple job. All I needed was for him to trim off 2 inches all around. A monkey could do it. He didn’t think I was serious at first and it took me a while to convince him that I wasn’t being crazy. In the end, he made me sign a hand-written agreement that would disallow me to do anything to threaten or harass him no matter how the haircut would turn out. I hesitated at first, but taking another look in the mirror, I decided my hair couldn’t be any worse. So I signed.
With the agreement out of the way, we proceeded to setting up our at-home salon. I changed to my sexy deep V camisole (no, not on purpose – we don’t want to trap hair, remember) and matching panties (yes, on purpose) while he put on some soothing music to calm his nerves. Apparently, he was still skeptical about the indemnity contract. We spread some newspapers on the bathroom floor and put a chair in the middle. Following the dummy steps on ehow.com, he was done in less then 15 minutes.
What happened next is up to your imagination. But I can tell you this. What went down next was way messier than the haircut itself. And the result? Let’s just say that I was a satisfied customer with a lighter mane while he considered a possible career change.
Really funny and cute. I wonder what they did with all the bananas!
Talk about disciple. We have a lot to learn from these pets. Keeping their eye on the ball is what kept them going till the end!
Recently, I came across this line:
“Yes, you can skip your coffee without telling the world.”
Of course, it is referring to this online status feature on Facebook. And Thank goodness!! I thought I was the only one who felt that way…
To prove my point, I’ve got a funny story. It goes something like this. Some girl updated her current “status” by telling everyone she’s going to take a shower. Within an hour, about 50 people gave her the “they like it” thumbs up (I admit I was impressed – she had a lot of people keeping track of her). She was irritated. So she wrote back “Seriously guys??”
Ok, if she meant it to be funny, then that’s fine. But if she was truly irked, then I must state the obvious – what do you expect when you broadcast to the world that you are taking a shower!
And where is the statute of limitation here? I mean if telling the world you are taking shower is ok, then are you also going to tell them when you are going for a dump??
Many people come to Facebook for amusement., If you are going to post something of no particular value to anyone, then you can hardly blame your friends for making it into something entertaining for themselves. Don’t forget, you are the one made them read that useless piece of information first. And if they come back with something equally useless, it is only fair.
Another case in point, someone got robbed recently because he or she announced that he was going on vacation! See what I mean? You have to be sensible about what you post on Facebook or else you will suffer your own consequences !