Coffee-holics Anonymous

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Vmj5m3tC0tkD_ihmdVkGs4nNk_nym_sHCVkxJGG-lin3ahHKHOyBSPraz1sNW8pNhT77R2z059ArskX8DznJgizQXl9P55Gbs7kqx5zwZIjuVtYdbi73jSzJ7VK6SGx6y-JkI0R0D0w/s1600/coffee+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Vmj5m3tC0tkD_ihmdVkGs4nNk_nym_sHCVkxJGG-lin3ahHKHOyBSPraz1sNW8pNhT77R2z059ArskX8DznJgizQXl9P55Gbs7kqx5zwZIjuVtYdbi73jSzJ7VK6SGx6y-JkI0R0D0w/s400/coffee+2.jpg" width="386" /></a></div><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can barely function past 10am without a few cups of coffee. Coffee was discovered so that people like me can wake up early in the morning without harming or injuring others (and ourselves). I didn't consider myself as a coffee-addict until I 'tried' to cut down my intake. This didn't work out well, just ask all the friends and family I terrorized during my caffiene-deprived state. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><br /><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"></span></span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The longest I've been without coffee is two days, I couldn't make it any further...the anxiety and neurosis set in and I had horrifying hallucinations that all the world's coffee trees were extinct. Then there was the falling asleep at random times during the day; like during a work presentation, which <i>I</i> was giving. So I decided not to put myself in such jeopardy again and refueled on my life's elixir.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><br /><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"></span></span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you're wondering whether you're also a coffee-holic, here are a few signs that I have found to help you find out. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><br /><br /></span></span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;">Signs That You're a Coffee-holic</span></span></b></span><br /><br /><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can jumpstart your car without cables.</span></li><br /><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You watch DVD's in fast forward.</span></li><br /><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You never speak in complete sentences.</span></li><br /><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can type 80 words per minute with a coffee cup in one hand.</span></li><br /><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your doctor needs a scientific calculator to take your pulse.</span></li><br /><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You speak so fast, even 'The Chipmunks' don't understand what you're saying.</span></li><br /><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You walk 5km on the treadmill before realizing it's not on.</span></li><br /><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One shot of expresso and <i>other</i> people get dizzy watching you.</span></li><br /><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When you call into radio stations, the presenter asks you to turn yourself down.</span></li><br /><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Nescafe</i> has named a blend after you.</span></li><br /><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your personal first aid kit contains two liters of coffee and an I.V hookup.</span></li><br /><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You answer the door before people knock.</span></li><br /><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You think CPR stands for 'Coffee Provides Resuscitation'.</span></li><br /><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You haven't blinked since the last lunar eclipse.</span></li><br /><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You're so wired, you pick up 5FM.</span></li><br /><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At your local cafe, your coffee is made before you even order.</span></li><br /><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The only reason you go to sleep is so that you can wake up to the smell of coffee.</span></li><br /><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You get a speeding ticket even when you're parked. </span></li><br /><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your birthday is a national holiday in Columbia.</span></li><br /><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Walking makes you nervous. Sleeping makes you nervous. Actually, everything makes you nervous.</span></li><br /><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You drink decaf by accident and slip into a coma.</span></li><br /><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your coffee pot is next to your bed and your alarm clock is in the kitchen.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><br /><br /></span></span></li><br /></ul><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They say that sleep is sign of coffee depravation, which means I need to go make myself another cup...Ciao for now ;)</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br /></span>

Coffee-holics Anonymous

I can barely function past 10am without a few cups of coffee. Coffee was discovered so that people like me can wake up early in the morning ...

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Passing Youth

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Birthdays may celebrate all the years that have made your life beautiful, but it also indicates that you've grown a year older. Another year signifies that our carefree, idealized youth has passed and we unwillingly have to settle into responsible adulthood. As if trying to cram 20-something candles on a cake wasn't bad enough, there are many other signs out there that prove you're getting old. </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBmqhERo-a_CE3OsncNI6G5h5FATli7z3cd5l1mkTAjQSe9S7dhTv65oIcJ375s6l1iQ3eInrWIhBGqwBhQJqEZ33Mvl7mzwWUYRHqWnjPkiFPd-MScIR0EJ3TFSyNE5zDOUxTu_LXItc/s1600/cake.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBmqhERo-a_CE3OsncNI6G5h5FATli7z3cd5l1mkTAjQSe9S7dhTv65oIcJ375s6l1iQ3eInrWIhBGqwBhQJqEZ33Mvl7mzwWUYRHqWnjPkiFPd-MScIR0EJ3TFSyNE5zDOUxTu_LXItc/s1600/cake.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">"Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Satchel Paige</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, sans-serif;"><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">You Know You're Getting Old When...</span></span></b></span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /><br /></b></span><br /><br /><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The songs you listened to when you were young are now referred to as 'Classics' on the radio. When did <i>Genie in a Bottle</i> and Britney's <i>One More Time</i> become 'Classics'?</span></li><br /><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All your friends have kids old enough to call you Aunt or Uncle. After all, they were taught to speak to their <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">elders</span> with respect.</span></li><br /><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chatting to the above-mentioned kids, you begin all sentences with, "When I was your age..."</span></li><br /><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You've not only had to invest in an anti-wrinkle cream, but the entire anti-wrinkle, collagen boosting, skin-tightening, cell renewing, line eliminating product range.</span></li><br /><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You have to ask a 13 year old to interpret abbreviations & slang used in emails, IM's and sms's you've received.</span></li><br /><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You have no idea who Willow Smith, Justin Bieber, Taylor Momsen or Selena Gomez are. You've heard their names before and just assume that they are part of that <i>Twilight</i> movie or <i>The Jonas Brothers</i>.</span></li><br /><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You avoid going to places where the music's too loud and the crowd's too rowdy. In fact, you're appalled by the behaviour of 'Today's Youth', forgetting that 10 years ago, someone was appalled by <i>your</i> behaviour.</span></li><br /><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You don't use the newspaper as a floor-mat anymore, you actually <i>read</i> it.</span></li><br /><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You don't stay out later than 9pm on a Sunday, any later and you won't be able to wake up early for work the next morning.</span></li><br /><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You don't need to show your ID anymore to prove you're over 18. However, you need it to prove that you're still under 35. Ouch.</span></li><br /></ul><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwLVorjWC4JCe0zR9hMKO3G9m2i8ZnLhGwDLUb-Q9h_01VqUfiaXoj9JhxW9mpk05Atd9SbISciC-otMZNUDlVHZTA-0oxxuO2FyyM3kPfdb8gjalZ-vtkBwtfN1WEKdBgcZrmAc4y2a4/s1600/getting+old.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwLVorjWC4JCe0zR9hMKO3G9m2i8ZnLhGwDLUb-Q9h_01VqUfiaXoj9JhxW9mpk05Atd9SbISciC-otMZNUDlVHZTA-0oxxuO2FyyM3kPfdb8gjalZ-vtkBwtfN1WEKdBgcZrmAc4y2a4/s400/getting+old.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br /></span></div>

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Resolutionize

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigEGGTIWVKZXWcbg2Og2c4QRxSpzO_Y_lfbEv7E91xCNnMDsYrxBPC29eWdPzrnAbOGsfKHxn5V-VuchlO99DGi2bNCqa7sLRb750fFTCuCcjEYni5qi0XapNKtFxCjVfcT91LxFoTGUs/s1600/hny.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigEGGTIWVKZXWcbg2Og2c4QRxSpzO_Y_lfbEv7E91xCNnMDsYrxBPC29eWdPzrnAbOGsfKHxn5V-VuchlO99DGi2bNCqa7sLRb750fFTCuCcjEYni5qi0XapNKtFxCjVfcT91LxFoTGUs/s400/hny.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: auto;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /><div style="text-align: auto;"><br /><br /><div style="text-align: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is that time of year where we complete Chapter 12 of 2010, and begin afresh with 2011, eager to fill the blank pages with rediscovered dreams, new hopes and fervent aspirations. It is also a time when we reflect upon the year that has passed, willing to right the wrongs and change our lives for the better. This is when New Year </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Resolutions are formed, where people make (sometimes impossible) pledges of self-improvement and commit to accomplish (often unreachable) goals. </span></div><div style="text-align: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br /></span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: auto;">I don't do New Year's Resolutions. Simply because it's pretty hard to stick to. It's no wonder people make the exact same resolutions at the beginning of every single year. January goes as well as planned, you're still motivated in February, March is when you begin to slip, you start to neglect them in April and May is when you wonder why you made such unrealistic resolutions in the first place. You completely forget about it for the rest of year, until December, when you pledge that you will fulfill all those unresolved resolutions that you couldn’t attain within the year. It's a vicious circle. </div></span></div><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><b>These are some of the most popular new year resolutions that people make:</b></span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li>Lose Weight and exercise more </li><br /><li>Quite smoking </li><br /><li>Get out of debt and save money </li><br /><li>Find a better job </li><br /><li>Improve on their education </li><br /><li>Go away on a long holiday</li><br /><li>Find their soulmate </li><br /><li>Volunteer to help others </li><br /><li>Buy a house or move to a better place </li><br /><li>Become more organised and less stressed </li><br /></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">I bet that 3 or more of these were on your list for 2011. Instead, why don't you try some of these funny new year resolutions that I stumbled upon: </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li>I will no longer waste my time reliving the past, instead I will spend it worrying about the future. 
 </li><br /><li>I will not bore my boss with the same excuse for taking leave. I will think up other innovative excuses. 

 </li><br /><li>I will not spend every weekend in my PJ's, lazying in the living room. I will move the TV to my bedroom instead. </li><br /><li>I will give up chocolates totally. Completely. Honestly...Ok maybe just the white ones. </li><br /><li>I will stop sending e-mails, BBM's, SMS's and be on the phone at the same time with the same person. 
 </li><br /><li>I will not bribe any more traffic cops, but <i>only</i> because I need the money for petrol. I'll try to drive closer to the speed limit. </li><br /><li>I will learn to make decisions... </li><br /><li>I will cut my hair. I will grow my hair. Okay, maybe just a trim? </li><br /><li>I will stop worrying about things that don't worry about me. </li><br /><li>I will keep my opinions to myself. <i>Yeah right.</i></li><br /></ul><div><br /><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYCrY_3C0VLoq4s70yEPNfhGtmq7_fiQCawuVJPSUZgV7IA1Cbs9jDQICuCV7Mr5HOvOYES3R0At9r0ujoJPq8bRIhhWiYTz0g5TK5kTeSI5g7XBAOhlDwylZY5TNf3GNtS06ThyphenhyphenzJv9E/s1600/funny-pictures-cat-ponders-his-new-years-resolutions1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYCrY_3C0VLoq4s70yEPNfhGtmq7_fiQCawuVJPSUZgV7IA1Cbs9jDQICuCV7Mr5HOvOYES3R0At9r0ujoJPq8bRIhhWiYTz0g5TK5kTeSI5g7XBAOhlDwylZY5TNf3GNtS06ThyphenhyphenzJv9E/s1600/funny-pictures-cat-ponders-his-new-years-resolutions1.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><b>Here are some resolutions that anyone would be tempted to keep:</b></span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li>I will aim for the world record for number of hours spent watching TV.</li><br /><li>I will read something other than the newspaper. Like fashion magazines.</li><br /><li>I will chat more over phone. </li><br /><li>I will get more credit cards and max them out shopping. </li><br /><li>I will gain 15kg. Putting on weight is much easier and more fun than losing it. </li><br /><li>I will stop exercising, because it's such a waste of time. </li><br /><li>I will procrastinate more. Think I'll start sometime next year. </li><br /><li>I will spend less time at work. </li><br /><li>I will eat more junk food.</li><br /><li>I will take up a new habit. Maybe smoking, it helps keep tobacco workers employed. </li><br /></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Wouldn't it be easy to keep <i>these</i> resolutions for more than a week?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Okay, onto the serious stuff...My New Year gift to you is the wise and wonderful words of <i>Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen</i> (which I modified slightly). It's a timeless and insightful piece of modern poetry which will alter your view of life in some way or the other. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdjNF9_kzlFZWEBR9gf_DsJ2AbEhZBoyTOYPuC2HOzgis8gKp0s_Wy8zjajPzjVEp3j8J0XOa3igkZT4TdqUxIVJIucx6OjJO33SO9a_DK-E8k-I0elMzoiT_SC9DwOAZftWdzSWKzJx0/s1600/happy+2011+.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdjNF9_kzlFZWEBR9gf_DsJ2AbEhZBoyTOYPuC2HOzgis8gKp0s_Wy8zjajPzjVEp3j8J0XOa3igkZT4TdqUxIVJIucx6OjJO33SO9a_DK-E8k-I0elMzoiT_SC9DwOAZftWdzSWKzJx0/s640/happy+2011+.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><b><br /><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><b>Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of 2010, </b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists whereas, the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience…I will dispense this advice now. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth; you will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded. But trust me, in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked…. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">You are </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">not</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> as fat as you imagine. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Don’t worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Do one thing everyday that scares yo</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">u. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;">Sing</span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;">Floss </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Don’t waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind…the race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself. Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.</span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><br /><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;">Stretch </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life…the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Get plenty of calcium.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary…What ever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either – your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Enjoy your body, use it every way you can…don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;">Dance...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"></span>Even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Do </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">not</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.</span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Get to know your parents, you never know when they’ll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings; they are the best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future. Understand that friends come and go, but for the precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Live in Johannesburg once, but leave before it makes you hard; live in Cape Town once, but leave before it makes you soft. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;">Travel. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Accept certain inalienable truths; prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do, you’ll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders. Respect <i>your</i> elders. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Don’t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one might run out.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Don’t mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will look 85. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">But trust me on the sunscreen… </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;">Wishing you a very Happy New Year! </span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;">Looking forward to sharing more Frills and Thrills with you in 2011. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br /></span></span></div></span></span></span></span>

Resolutionize

It is that time of year where we complete Chapter 12 of 2010, and begin afresh with 2011, eager to fill the blank pages with rediscovered dr...

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