Some good advice - specially for the days you feel down - ( those days seem to be growing in number , aren't they ? )

You cannot get any younger - but you can feel young and less careworn and down . Here is some good advice - even if you do not follow it - enjoy reading it !!

• Throw out nonessential numbers - this includes age, weight, and height. Let the doctors worry about them.. That is why you pay them.
  
  
• Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
  (Keep this in mind if you are one of those grouches!)
  
  
• Keep learning: Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever.
  Never let the brain get idle.
  "An idle mind is the devil's workshop."
  And the devil's name is Alzheimer's!
  
  
• Enjoy the simple things
  
  
• Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
  And if you have a friend who makes you laugh, spend lots and lots of time with him or her!
  
  
• The tears happen: Endure, grieve, and move on.
  The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourself.
  LIVE while you are alive.
  
  
• Surround yourself with what you love:
  Whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.
  Your home is your refuge.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Don't take guilt trips.
  Take a trip to the mall, even to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.
  
  
• Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

A tribute to Bob Hope - and thanks to his memories

Everytime I read something that pays a tribute to the middle ages or to the Seniors - I upload it on my Blog - so here is a tribute to a man who made us laugh and even when we think about him - we smile and feel happy.


BOB HOPE - May 29, 1903 to July 27, 2003

• ON TURNING 70 - "You still chase women, but only downhill".
• ON TURNING 80 - "That's the time of your life when even your birthday suit needs pressing."
• ON TURNING 90 - "You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake."
• ON TURNING 100 - " I don't feel old. In fact I don't feel anything until noon . Then it's time for my nap."
• ON GIVING UP HIS EARLY CAREER, BOXING - "I ruined my hands in the ring ... the referee kept stepping on them."
• ON NEVER WINNING AN OSCAR - "Welcome to the Academy Awards or, as it's called at my home, 'Passover'."
• ON GOLF - "Golf is my profession. Show business is just to pay the green fees."
• ON PRESIDENTS - " I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six."
• ON WHY HE CHOSE SHOWBIZ FOR HIS CAREER - " When I was born, the doctor said to my mother, 'Congratulations. You have an eight-pound ham."
• ON RECEIVING THE CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL - "I feel very humble, but I think I have the strength of character to fight it."
• ON HIS FAMILY'S EARLY POVERTY - "Four of us slept in the one bed. When it got cold, mother threw on another brother."
• ON HIS SIX BROTHERS - "That's how I learned to dance. Waiting for the bathroom."
• ON HIS EARLY FAILURES - " I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn't for the stuff the audience threw at me."
• ON GOING TO HEAVEN - "I've done benefits for ALL religions. I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality."