Advice on How to Stay Young

HOW TO STAY YOUNG

1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay "them "

2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.

3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. "An idle mind is the devil's workshop." And the devil's name is Alzheimer's.

4. Enjoy the simple things.

5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.

7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets,keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.

8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable,improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

9 Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.

10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

*Sent to me by a Mr. Robert McAden, one of the youngest people at heart that I know...

Looking Back

This is me looking for the last time I blogged...

A Promised Update

I am alive, and well.

I promised to update this page last night at a dinner/get together Erin & I were attending. It was a good time and it was filled with conversation and German food. Having been born in Germany, you think I would have had some authentic German food somewhere along the way. If I did I do not remember it, can you blame a 2 month old?

Today has been filled with other's taxes, filing old bills, church and we will top tonight off by starting our next "Financial Peace University" Class. Erin & I both facilitate a Personal Finance class for adults in the New River Valley area. The curriculum is by Dave Ramsey and we've enjoyed helping others in the area of finances. I enjoy it because of the math, the interaction and how we handle our finances relates directly to the things we value.

Well, I had better get back to things!

Virginia Tech Homecoming Weekend

So it's homecoming weekend. The time when a bunch of old friends roll into town and catch up. I'll have guests this weekend and am even planning on playing a little football on Saturday after Virginia Tech plays UNC. A few things arrived in the mail this week, the first is the Cabela's Camp kitchen. I put it together, took maybe 10 minutes, when it arrived. Should have taken a picture, but the camera is acting up.

I am debating taking it out to tailgate with this weekend. Not sure what the tailgates have been like this year and they may be set, but I figure if something like this could help, why not?

Also landed a pretty nice family size tent, that I have yet to put together. I'm sure that will be taken care of by the end of the weekend.

I was trying to think of more "Tales from the Trailer Park", but nothing too eventful has happened. The latest is that I called Social Services last week to see what they could do about getting the boys that live across from us in school. They have been living there about as long as I have and have not been attending. After being handed off to the school system and finally to the local elementary school I found out that they we attempting to get into school, but did not have all of the documentation since there mother is in Indiana or Ohio and their Dad is missing in California. Really a pretty confusing situation. The best part about it all though is that yesterday when they were returning a game cube game one of them said, "Hey! Guess What? Something really exciting happened to us today. We went to school!" I just smiled.

Flag Football Upcoming

Right around the corner is the yearly Flag Football Tournament in Delaware. It's a time for old friends to get together and really stick it to some other teams :) This will be my 5th consecutive year heading up and 6th year overall, having taken the title 3 of the last 4 years. Should be a great time!