6-20-2011

“Because even if it breaks your heart to be ‘just friends’, if you really care about someone, you’ll take the hit.”
-Zach Braff as John ‘J.D.’ Dorian

Get Educated: When people ask you to do things with them, it's because they think that having you there will make the experience more enjoyable. This is true whether your friends invite you out to the bar for the night; your mom invites you to go grocery shopping with her; or somebody asks you to marry them.

Feel Inspired: These were created by a culinary genius! Mmm dip them in chocolate sauce.

Be Entertained: Who wouldn't be thrilled to get this love note?

6-13-2011

"It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Get Educated: If you aren't sure how fresh your eggs are, here's an easy way to test them.

1. Fill a deep bowl or pan with enough cold tap water to cover an egg.
2. Place the egg in the water.
3. If the egg lies on its side on the bottom, the air cell within is small and it's very fresh.
4. If the egg stands up and bobs on the bottom, the air cell is larger and it isn't quite as fresh.
5. If the egg floats on the surface, it it should be discarded.

Feel Inspired: It seems odd, but I would totally live in this thing!!

Be Entertained: Yep, next time I visit my friends house...I am stealing his remote!

6-11-2011

“There are two kinds of secrets. The ones we keep from others and the ones we keep from ourselves.”
-Frank Warren

Get Educated: When you wake up in the middle of the night for a snack or to use the bathroom, cover one eye with one hand and leave it there until you shut the lights out again. The eye you had covered will still be able to see well in the dark and prevent you from bumping in to things on your way back to bed. This is the reason pirates wore eye patches. After spending time in the sun up on deck they could go below deck, switch the eye patch and still see in the darkness.

Feel Inspired: The worst opinion people can have of you is to be completely neutral. People don’t have to love you, but at least be interesting enough that they hate you.

Be Entertained: This comic made me laugh.

3-27-2011

“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.”
-Dale Carnegie

Get Educated: William A. Mitchell was an American food chemist who, while working for General Foods Corporation between 1941 and 1976, was the key inventor behind Pop Rocks, Tang, quick set Jell-O, Cool Whip, and powdered eggs. What a brilliant man.

Feel Inspired: "So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do." -John Keating, Dead Poet’s Society

Be Entertained: Someone please find this place for me, I want to live there.

3-11-2011

“Do what you do so well that people will want to see it again and bring their friends.”
-Walt Disney

Get Educated: You are old enough to know by now: your parents’ birthdays; and when your best friend's birthday is. It’s not that they would mind telling you when they are - it's that you know without having to ask that makes the remembering so meaningful. Happy Birthday Kerry!! I love ya.

Feel Inspired: Can you even imagine living in a place like this?

Be Entertained: This little girl sounds so damn cute.

3-5-2011

"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Get Educated: Debaucherous - tending to indulge in sensuous pleasures. For example: Charlie Sheen’s debaucherous behavior has made him the tabloid man of the moment.

Feel Inspired: If you've got a lot of paint, and can dig out some of your old jeans from the early 90's, you too can have a fantastic piece of art. See?

Be Entertained: OMG! Thank goodness my dog has not found a phone book yet! Look at this face...how can you be mad?? The lady talking is kinda weird... lol I'm sorry.

3-2-2011

“At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart”
-Freedom, Jonathan Franzen

Get Educated: Jayus, an Indonesian word meaning- a joke so poorly told and so unfunny that one cannot help but laugh.

Feel Inspired: Well, now I have to go buy a bunch of fitted, colored t-shirts. I'll make you one of these too, what would you like on yours?

Be Entertained: Here are 6 reasons bacon is better than true love.

2-24-2011

“If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.”
-Mario Andretti

Get Educated: Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades: King David, Hearts: Charlemagne, Clubs: Alexander, the Great, Diamonds: Julius Caesar

Feel Inspired: If someone was bad talking your brother, you would defend him. If someone put down your best friend's accomplishments, you would stand up for them. You will always stand up for people that are important to you. So stand up for yourself when your inner voice or someone else tells you, that you can not do something. Don’t be afraid to be loyal to your brain and your heart. You know what you are capable of better than anyone else.

Be Entertained: Another clip here from one of my favorite comedians.

2-18-2011

“There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?”
-Danny Devito

Get Educated: Back in 1885, Sir Francis Galton wrote a paper called “The Measurement of Fidget.” He determined that people slouch and lean when bored, so a speaker can measure the boredom of an audience by seeing how far from vertically upright they are. Also, attentive people fidget less; bored people fidget more. An audience that’s sitting still and upright is interested, while an audience that’s horizontal and squirmy is bored. (Source)

Feel Inspired: I'm going to make these this weekend. I can't wait! Mmm...

Be Entertained: Wow this woman was brutal. Poor Mark!

2-15-2011

"Just pretend you're in a movie. Be as brave and as full of love as the main character. Because we all need to believe in movies, sometimes."
-I Wrote This For You

Get Educated: The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring around the rosey..."), these sores would smell very badly so common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously), so that it would cover the smell of the sores ("...a pocket full of posies..."), People who died from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease ("...ashes, ashes, we all fall down!")

Feel Inspired: I love Love LOVE what Kara did with this table! This looks so easy!

Be Entertained: This story about picking cotton will make you laugh for sure! I've watched it about 5 times now already.

2-14-2011

"When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon."
-Author Unknown

Get Educated: The Rock has finally returned to Monday Night Raw after 7 years. I know everyone is as excited as I am!

Feel Inspired: This cat is one sick, fearless bastard.

Be Entertained: I don't know how I feel about this Valentines Day gift. lol

2-13-2011

“When you date someone, it’s like you’re taking a class in them and when you break up, it’s like all that knowledge is useless. It’s the emotional equivalent of an English degree.”
-How I Met Your Mother

Get Educated: Be sure to call people by the name they introduce themselves as. If Tony’s mom says “Hi, I’m Gabrielle,” then you can call her Gabrielle, but if she says “Hi, I’m Mrs. Rae,” then you should call her Mrs. Rae.

Feel Inspired: There are people in your life who would do anything for you. You know who they are, but do they know how valuable they are? Tomorrow is Valentine's Day. Tell those people how much you appreciate everything they do.

Be Entertained: If I had this soap in my house, I would probably cuss like a sailor just so I could see if it tasted as good as it looks.

2-12-2011

"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being?"
-Oscar Wilde

Get Educated: Gilligan on Gilligan's Island had a first name that was used once, on a never aired pilot show. His name was Willy. The Skipper's real name was Jonas Grumby, it was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck, and the Professor's name was Roy Hinkley.

Feel Inspired: If you want something bad enough then nothing will stop you. For example- Horatio Nelson, one of England's most honored sea admirals, suffered from sea sickness his entire life.

Be Entertained: Four chords is all you need for every pop song ever made. See.

2-10-2011

"Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first-"
-Frederick Wilcox

Get Educated: If someone does not respond to your Facebook friend request in 3 days, they saw it already and decided to ignore it.(Except older relatives who don't know what the hell they are doing.) Don't fret, you're too good for them anyway!

Feel Inspired: Got a picture on your computer you'd love to have as a poster? Today is your lucky day!! As long as the pictures not too tiny, THIS site works great! A little tape and some scissors and you too could have a poster of you and Dwayne Johnson...lol

Be Entertained: Okay my favorite Superbowl commercial this year was THIS one!

2-9-2011

"Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers."
-Homer Simpson

Get Educated: Today is Joe Pesci's 68th birthday. Pesci has starred in a number of high profile films such as Goodfellas, My Cousin Vinny (my favorite), Home Alone 1 and 2, and many more. Check out his entire list of work here.

Feel Inspired: I did this at my apartment once. When you can't paint your walls this adds a bit of a personal touch to any room. Just remember to fill the little holes in before you leave so you get your deposit back.

Be Entertained: Have you ever been this angry?

2-8-2011

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.”
-Gloria Naylor

Get Educated: Ever wonder why you've never seen a cashew in it's shell? Well it's because they don't grown in shells. Cashews grow attached to a fruit called a cashew apple. The fruit looks like a boxing glove and the cashew nut grows hanging from the bottom. Look!

Feel Inspired: Hey you can stop evil doers too! All you need is a handbag! This article explains more.

Be Entertained: Now, I wouldnt buy these toys for kids, but I wouldn't mind having the "Running with Scissors" doll. Does that make me weird?

2-7-2011

“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!"
-Dr. Seuss

Get Educated: The voice of Tony the Tiger was a charming man named Thurl Ravenscroft, he also did many voices for Disney, and sang the "Grinch" song from the cartoon How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

Feel Inspired: Holy crap! He makes this look so easy... I could never do this!

Be Entertained: Oh sweet mercy! This has always been my favorite commercial! Thanks Zach for helping me find it again.

2-6-2011

"...nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should"
-Julia Child

Get Educated: Did you know that the tune for the "A-B-C' song is the same as the tune for "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star?"

Feel Inspired: If there's something big you need to get done, tell all your friends that you are going to do it. The fear of looking like an ass helps keep you motivated.

Be Entertained: Was showed this video... it's pretty funny.

2-4-2011

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.”
-Gilda Radner

Get Educated: The word 'pound' is abbreviated with 'lb' after the constellation 'libra' because it means 'pound' in Latin.

Feel Inspired: Date night idea: Try and visit as many people as you can in one night and turn as many things in their house/apartment upside down as you can without them noticing.

Be Entertained: Wow. Is this true men? lol

2-3-2011

"Look at all the stars. You look up and you think, 'God made all this and He remembered to make a little speck like me.' It's kind of flattering, really."
-Morgan Earp, Tombstone 1993

Get Educated: SOS is the commonly used description for the international Morse Code distress signal (· · · — — — · · ·). This distress signal was first adopted by the German government in radio regulations on April 1, 1905, and became the worldwide standard in 1908. One of the first ships to use the SOS signal.... the Titanic.

Feel Inspired: My best friend and I attempted to make these once. We didn't follow any directions, so I'm just going to tell you right now... FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS!! Do not, I repeat... Do Not skip step one. Although you think it might taste good to have orange and lime together... the color is not pretty... looks a bit like diarrhea, and who wants to drink something like that?? lol

Be Entertained: One of my friends posted this on his Facebook today... I want to meet this kid! I bet he is really cool.

2-2-2011

When I was a kid, when I was a little boy, I always wanted to be a dinosaur, I wanted to be a Tyrannosaurus Rex more than anything in the world, I made my arms short and I roamed the back yard, I chased the neighborhood cats, I growled and I roared, everybody knew me and was afraid of me, and one day my dad said "Bobby you are 17, it’s time to throw childish things aside" and I said "OK Pop", but he didn't really say that he said "Stop being a f**king dinosaur and get a job".
-Dr. Robert Doback

Get Educated: Spend money on things you use everyday, like work boots, or a memory foam mattress pad. It makes more sense to do that than to spend money on things you use less often, like expensive luggage or a carpet shampooer, things you use maybe once a year.

Feel Inspired: Ok I'm posting this here to inspire someone to make me one. Don't lie! You'd wear this everywhere if it came in your size. I know I would! (make mine blue please)

Be Entertained: This game is surprisingly fun. My top score is 16, can you beat it?

2-1-2011

"You should tell them the truth. Tell them that if they hold on too tightly, love might cut them. Tell them to hold on tightly anyway. Tell them everything is worth it and that the richness of life is only ever enhanced by its inevitable, brief flashes of sadness and loss.”
-I Wrote This For You

Get Educated: The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

Feel Inspired: You can do it! See.

Be Entertained: The Vulcan Death Grip looks terrifying.

1-31-2011

“We’ve all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes, we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today’s possibility under tomorrow’s rug until we can’t anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying.”
-Grey's Anatomy 2005

Get Educated: Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying Runny Babbit, instead of Bunny Rabbit. Do it today, make a spoonerism, and pretend it didn't happen. See who notices.

Feel Inspired: Sometimes de-motivational posters can motivate you too, or at least make you feel better about not being motivated.

Be Entertained: Juicy Fruit is gonna move ya...

1-30-2011

“At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”
-Chuck Palahniuk in Fight Club

Get Educated: Dictionary.com's word of the day is "vulpine." It means cunning or crafty. Try to use it in a sentence today.

Feel Inspired: Spend just two minutes on the beach, relax, and do nothing. Here's the beach.

Be Entertained: I can't stop clicking back to look at this picture. It's so funny.

1-29-2011

I want either less corruption or more opportunity to participate in it.
-Ashleigh Brilliant

Get Educated: "Sure, pets provide companionship and unconditional love. But research has shown that they can also help reduce stress and blood pressure in owners, increase longevity in those who've had heart attacks, and even relax and improve the appetites of Alzheimer's patients." Read the rest of the article here, or take a look at my best friend, Finnegan, right here.

Feel Inspired: This video is emotional, and amazing.

Be Entertained: I'm not sure this story is true, but it sure is funny.

1-28-2011

"A man's gotta make at least one bet a day, else he could be walking around lucky and never know it."
-Jim Jones

Get Educated: On this day in 1845, "The Raven" was published in the New York Evening Mirror, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe.

Feel Inspired: Well I just came across this page and am now inspired to get the ingredients and make them up. Who wants some?

Be Entertained: I never had braces, but this website is funny.

1-27-2011

“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.”
-Robert Fulghum

Get Educated: Protect yourself as you get older. Apples and apple juice protect against cell damage that can hurt your memory as you age. They also help with bone protection, weight loss, asthma, and many more things you can read about HERE. Turns out an apple a day CAN help keep the doctor away after all.

Feel Inspired: Meet the Australian Who's Saved 160 People from Suicide right HERE. What a great man!

Be Entertained: Gabriel Iglesias has got to be one of my favorite comedians. HERE is one of my favorite clips.

1-25-2011

“I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody... They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.”
-Neil Gaiman

Get Educated: There is no level cap on your intelligence. Research everything you hear today that you don’t know enough about, to chat with someone for at least five minutes.

Feel Inspired: Something about this apartment makes me want to redesign my living space. Pink couch?? Yes please!

Be Entertained: You know the movie quote... "Is this heaven? No It's Iowa." From the movie Field of Dreams? I just found the reason for this quote!! Click HERE and tell me you don't want one of these right now!

Happy Birthday Mom!!

1-24-2011

“Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you’re lucky.”
-Alan Moore

Get Educated: People tend to listen better when the quiet person in the room is talking. If you want to be listened to more, shut up more. Instead of giving your opinion about twenty things you only kind of care about, save it for the two things that you are really passionate about. The less you talk, the more valued your ideas will be, when you actually do.

Feel Inspired: Happiness is the whole point of life. Get it? You can read the short story here.

Be Entertained: Men really shouldn't give women advice. Here's why.

1-23-2011

“Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.”
-The Wonder Years

Get Educated: Ever notice how much static there is when you fold your laundry in the winter? To prevent that static cling in your clothing, throw a small crumpled up ball of aluminum foil into your dryer. It really helps.

Feel Inspired: I'm pretty sure my step mom has bought a few sets of these. Guess what. It's so easy to make your own.

Be Entertained: This is a great website to make your own play lists to share with people. Or you can listen to other play lists and discover new songs. This one happens to be a list I made.

1-20-2011

“When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box.”
-Italian proverb

Get Educated: Authorities arrested 121 organized crime suspects on Thursday in what the FBI called the largest single-day operation against the Mafia in history. (That's crazy... I only hear about the mafia in the movies. Read more of the story here.)

Feel Inspired: "Motivation gets you through the day, but inspiration lasts a lifetime." -Nick Vujicic. Watch this video of Nick, he's truly an amazing man.

Be Entertained: I'm not sure what this little guy is thinking, but the look on his face is priceless.

1-19-2011

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
-Albert Einstein

Get Educated: The monarch butterfly can detect its lover's scent from eight kilometers away.(That's nearly 5 miles.) Wow!

Feel Inspired: "The only thing you should be faking is confidence. If you don’t have it yet, pretend you do. In every new situation, pretend you’re not nervous, pretend you’re not afraid. After a few times doing this, the pretend part disappears." Great advice! You can read more of her great advice here.

Be Entertained: Saw this on Ellen today. OMG. He's amazing, and she's so adorable.

1-18-2011

"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise."

-Robert Fritz

Get Educated: Chicken nuggets. Mmm. Remember eating them as a kid? Maybe you still eat them. Want to see what they look like before they are breaded? Click here.

Feel Inspired: Be AWESOME instead.

Be Entertained: Johann Lippowitz (real name David Armand) performs his mime version of Natalie Imbruglia's 'Torn' right HERE. It makes me giggle.

1-17-2011

“The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.”
-Queen Elizabeth II

Get Educated: On the weekend, make a couple extra cups of coffee and dump it into your ice cube tray. Then, during the week, use the coffee ice cubes in your coffee when you've made it too hot so your drink is less diluted when the ice cubes melt.

Feel Inspired: This is the cutest video I've ever seen, if you don't feel inspired by this, nothing can help you.

Be Entertained: So I have this in my bookmarks, it makes me giggle every time I watch it. Bees!! Muah ha ha ha!

1-16-2011

"There are so many things I want to say to you but time's caught me up and now I'll never say them - except that I've loved you from the moment I saw you and every moment since."
-"Robin Hood" The Greatest Enemy 1985

Get Educated: “Tea deserves special mention on any list of the world’s healthiest foods. The second most widely consumed beverage in the world (after water), all forms of tea (black, oolong, white, and green) are loaded with antioxidants and anti-inflammatories.” Source

Feel Inspired: I love the idea of this page. I want to write random thank you notes too.
-Dear neighbor, Thanks for putting up the blue Christmas lights this year. I loved seeing them twinkle from across the street.

Be Entertained: This song has quickly become one of my favorite songs. It brightens my mood on a boring day.