Happy April Fool's Day!!

A collection (with permission) of great April Fool’s Day compilations by a comedian speaker by the name of Scott Friedman. He can be found at www.FunnyScott.com. Enjoy!

1. I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.

2. Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.

3. When everything is coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.

4. I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.

5. If you ate pasta and anti-pasta, would you still be hungry?

6. What happens if you get scared half to death, twice?

7. Time may be a great healer, but it’s sure one terrible beautician.

8. Forget about World Peace . . . Visualize using your turn signal!!

9.Always remember you’re unique, just like everyone else.

10. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot.

11. WARNING: Dates in calendar are closer than they appear.

12. Give me ambiguity or give something else.

13. Because madness takes its toll, please have exact change.

14. I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.

15. All I ask for is the opportunity to prove that money can't make me happy.

16. One nice thing about egotists: They don't talk about other people.

17. Some days you're the dog, and some days you're the hydrant.

18. Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop?

19. Is it possible to be totally partial?

20. You know it’s an April Fools kind of year when…you wake up screaming and you haven’t even gone to bed yet.

Happy Talk

Remember the musical movie, South Pacific? For some reason, the lyrics to Rodgers and Hammerstein's, “Happy Talk” has been whispering in the back of my mind for the past couple of weeks.

“Happy talk, keep talkin' happy talk, Talk about things you'd like to do. You got to have a dream, If you don't have a dream. How you gonna have a dream come true?”

How do YOU find your “happy place”? What lifts YOUR mood? I looked across the internet and did some twitter queries…here’s what I came up with. Feel free to comment with some more of your own!

• Smell a flower. (That always brings a smile to my face.)
• My mom always told me if I was feeling sorry for myself, to go visit someone else – especially the elderly. It never took long to quit focusing on me.
• Yawn and stretch. Seen a dog when he/she wakes up?
• Get out and exercise. Talk a walk or a bike ride! Go to the gym and push your limits.
• Polish a mirror. Smile at yourself, stick out your tongue!
• Brush your teeth.
• When I was a little girl, I used to spin. Spin in circles in our big back yard til I fell laughing to the ground.
• Make yourself a cup of hot tea.
• Brush your hair. Brush someone else’s hair.
• Drink two glasses of water, add a wedge of lemon or lime to it. Many times sadness is really just dehydration.
• Read the Bible. If you aren’t a big Bible reader, just open to Psalms or Proverbs…there’s always something there to touch you.
• Eat something healthy and fresh. Your blood sugar might have taken a dip. Set out a bowl of fresh fruits or vegetables.
• De-clutter a part of your home or office that needs it. Clean out your junk drawer!
• Reminisce. Look through your old scrapbooks, personal journals, blog archives, collections of your own paintings, poems, songs, yearbooks.
• Take a bubble bath.
• Watch the birds at a feeder or a hummingbird flitting around blossoms.
• Make a date night with your significant other, or one of your children – quality one on one time.
• Make lists. Who doesn’t like to cross things off a to-do list?
• Say a prayer. Give your problems over to God, Jesus, or your Higher Power.
• Turn on music. Use classical and jazz to de-stress; or energize with something lively.
• Write down and archive what’s bothering you. It’s amazing what a release it is to keep a journal or your thoughts or poetry.
• Call your mom.
• Make the decision: “History or baggage.” History can be the life events that shape us - our education, children, marriages, careers; all those things that come together to season us, to give us character, form, substance. Baggage is the emotional weight that drag after us, slowing (or even stopping) us from moving forward. Baggage has everything to do with our self image or how we feel about ourselves and then, how we perceive the world as treating us. History is who we are and what we’ve become over this thing called Life. (History and Baggage bullet is paraphrased from a blog insert written by Anne Perry)

What shapes you? History...or baggage? Where’s your happy place? ...keep talkin' happy talk, ...You got to have a dream, If you don't have a dream. How you gonna have a dream come true?”

We CAN do Something!!

Hi Readers:

About ten days ago or so, I wrote a post wondering about what can we do to help out. This past week, I came across this blog by Judi Moreo, a motivational speaker, and immediately felt that it would make a great followup. You can read the blog yourself, or subscribe, by following this link at www.Judimoreo.com:
http://www.judimoreo.com/ezine/archive/2009/0309.htm#article.
By the way, please feel forward to pass MY blogs on to your friends and relatives, and invite them to subscribe by filling in the email link at the bottom of my blog: http://swdeserthomes.blogspot.com. Thanks!

And so, without further explanation, here's something you can do!!!

Do Something

What have you done today? Sure, you got up, got the kids off to school, fed the cat, put in a load of laundry and made it to work. But what have you really done today?

Most people these days are so busy just getting by they don’t take time to think about what is really getting done. And, frankly, they just don’t care. It takes so much time and energy to accomplish the things that have to be done to insure survival, there is little left for figuring out what could be, if only we cared enough to make it happen.

Apathy, is the number one disease spreading around the world today. Somewhere between apathetic individuals with a total disregard for anything and extremists loudly and violently vocal about a single idea, there is a middle ground. It is a place where we all stop, think and do our part.

It doesn’t take much to pick up a stray piece of trash that has blown into the neighbors yard instead of just assuming someone else will take care of it. We all want ‘someone’ to “do something” about everything from the quality of education in our schools and the potholes in the road to the economy, global warming and world peace. We are all, each of us, that someone. And while we can’t just wave a magic wand and make it all better, we can do SOMETHING – anything.

Write a letter to your congressman/woman. Volunteer at your child’s school. Visit someone in a nursing home. Donate to a food pantry. Speak kind words, share a smile, help the gentleman in the wheelchair reach the box on the top shelf. Organize a carpool at your office or child’s school to save gas and the environment. Spend a few hours serving meals at your local homeless shelter. No matter how bad you think it is for you, there is always someone worse off than you who would appreciate a helping hand. Get involved. Hug a child, call your mom. If you don’t consciously get involved in life, in your community, in your job, you will wake up one day and realize that life just sort of happened. You didn’t live, you just took up space and air.

Stop waiting for things to get better...do something.

Positivity Is Positively the Best!

I ran across this blog and wanted to share it with everyone.
Let's, do, share and count our blessings!!

http://positiveenergy-polly.blogspot.com/
Let's have some Positive News for a Change!


"Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people." Zig Ziglar

"Positive anything is better than negative nothing." Elbert Hubbard

"Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down." Charles F. Kettering

"Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done." Bo Bennett

"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure." Norman Vincent Peale

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first." Mark Twain

All for now!

Cara