You may not be her first

You may not be her first, her last, or her only.

She loved before she may love again.

But if she loves you now, what else matters?

She's not perfect- you aren't either,

and the two of you may never be perfect together,

but if she can make you laugh;

cause you to think twice;

and admit to being human and making mistakes,

hold onto her and give her the most you can.

She may not be thinking about you every second of the day,

but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break - her heart.

So don't hurt her,

don't change her,

don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give.

Smile when she makes you happy,

let her know when she makes you mad,

and miss her when she's not there.

The Knots Prayer

Dear God,

Please untie the knots

that are in my mind,

my heart and my life.

Remove the have nots

the can nots and the do nots

that I have in my mind.

Erase the will nots,

may nots,

might nots that may find

a home in my heart.

Release me from the could nots,

would nots and

should nots that obstruct my life.

And most of all,
Dear God,

I ask that you remove from my mind,

my heart and my life all of the ‘am nots’

that I have allowed to hold me back,

especially the thought

that I am not good enough.

Amen
- Author Known to God
(Liz Thompson)

Eleven Rules of Life

Rule 1 : Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2 : The world doesn't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: They called it opportunity.

Rule 6 : If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7 : Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8 : Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. *This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9 : Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. *Do that on your own time.

Rule 10 : Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11 : Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Success in Business: An Observation

Hard work, excellent workmanship and attention to detail will make your business flourish

- unless you're a paying member in a networking group that will promote you even if you are a half-wit with nothing but a half assed idea and zero drive to succeed.

Biggest Loser

I can't wait for this season to be over.
I think a lot of it isn't real and is set up -- I don't trust the scales and the way they make people vote off others, is just mean. If this was truly a contest to see who can be the biggest loser, they would automatically let the person with the lowest weight loss percentage, go home.

Also, last season they had a guy named Neil, who gained 11 pounds by drinking water. It was all a strategy so he would be one of the people up for elimination -- this way, the group would vote to get rid of the other guy. This made me angry! It's dirty, dishonest and physically dangerous and (in my opinion) impossible and unlikely. That's one of the reasons I don't trust the scale and think it could be rigged. Anyhow, this season there's a father - son team and the father is underhanded, sneaky and manipulative. He has said and did whatever he can to make sure his son in in the final four. Both of them ended up in the final four so the ending should be interesting.

I know who I'd like to see win but I'm betting it won't be that person....

Incidentally, I wonder how much a size 8 person weighs.
Also, I wonder what size a 161 pound person would be... curious because of something the biggest loser contestant, Helen, said.