Don't you wish when life is bad
and things just don't compute,
That all we really had to do
was stop and hit reboot?
 
Things would all turn out ok,
life could be so sweet.
If we had those special keys,
Ctrl, Alt, and Delete.
 
Your boss is mad, your bills not paid,
your wife, well she's just mute.
Just stop and hit those wonderful keys,
that make it all reboot.
 
You'd like to have another job,
but you fear living in the street?
You solve it all and start anew,
Ctrl, Alt, and Delete.

You just awake... your eyes are still shut
 Still cant quite focus.....still draggin your butt
You know you need coffee......can taste that first sip
 You wait for the maker.....and put the mug to your lip

 The feeling is warm.... just what you need
But you know you need more....and its something to read
The paper you say??? no...dont think so.. not it...
 Its much more exciting... you cant wait to "click"...

 You boot up your puter.......you click that icon...
 Can't keep from grinning.... your really turned on!
 When the voice says "Welcome"...your heart skips a beat!!
 You know your addicted....all the friends that you'll meet.

 And then you see it.......you wait with a stare....
 The mail box lights up!! "you've got mail" waiting there!!
 OH.. what a feeling!!.... you look with delight!
 You hoped you'd have mail.... and you knew you were right!!
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 So you go thru the mail..... knowing this is the "Best"..
 Reading this reading that....as you go thru the rest.
 Some you give the "delete" key....others get your first click
 You know you must hurry......you gotta be quick!

 It is then that you hear it.... You cant wait to see
 Your heart gets a flutter... who's name will it be?
 And then there it is..... covering part of the screen
The sweet little sound....Oh..you know what that means!!!
 
 "Quick mail check" you promised....you said in your mind.
  But you just got an IM.... and your pressing for time!
 You know that you want to.... and respond  you will
 So you stop what your doing.. and go for the thrill!
 
 You "LOL" and "BRB",  give kisses and Hugs...
 You type and send words... refilling your mug
 You give your good friend your attention and time
 So that quick little mail check... turns to hours online!

1.   It's more fun to color outside the lines.
2.   If you're gonna draw on the wall, do it behind the couch.
3.   Ask why until you understand.
4.   Hang on tight.
5.   Even if you've been fishing for 3 hours and haven't gotten anything
     except poison ivy and a sunburn, you're still better off than the
     worm.
6.   Make up the rules as you go along.
7.   It doesn't matter who started it.
8.   Ask for sprinkles.
9.   If the horse you're drawing looks more like a dog, make it a dog.
10.  Save a place in line for your friends.
11.  Sometimes you have to take the test before you've finished studying.
12.  If you want a kitten, start out asking for a horse.
13.  Picking your nose when no one else is looking is still picking your
     nose.
14.  Just keep banging until someone opens the door.
15.  Making your bed is a waste of time.
16.  There is no good reason why clothes have to match.
17.  Even Popeye didn't eat his spinach until he absolutely had to.
18.  You work so hard peddling up the hill that you hate to brake on the
     way down
19.  You can't ask to start over just because you're losing the game

Right now ......
 
    -somebody is thinking of you.
 
    -somebody is caring about you.
 
    -somebody misses you.
 
    -somebody wants to talk to you.
 
    -somebody is obsessed with you.
 
    -somebody hopes you aren't in trouble.
 
    -somebody is thankful for the support you have provided.
 
    -somebody wants to hold your hand.
 
    -somebody is praying for you.
 
   -somebody hopes everything turns out all right.
 
   -somebody wants you to be happy.
 
   -somebody wants you to find him/her.
 
   -somebody is celebrating your successes.
 
   -somebody wants to give you a gift.
 
   -somebody thinks that you ARE a gift.
 
   -somebody hopes you're not too cold, or too hot.
 
   -somebody wants to hug you.
 
   somebody loves you.
 
   -somebody admires your strength.
 
   -somebody is thinking of you and smiling.
 
   -somebody wants to be your shoulder to cry on.
 
   -somebody wants to go out with you and have a lot of fun.
 
   -somebody thinks the world of you.
 
   -somebody wants to kiss you.
 
   -somebody wants to protect you.
 
   -somebody would do anything for you.
 
   -somebody wants to be forgiven.
 
   -somebody is grateful for your forgiveness.
 
   -somebody wants to laugh with you all night long about old memories.
 
   -somebody remembers you fondly and wishes that you were there.
 
   -somebody is praising God for you.
 
   -somebody values your advice.
 
   -somebody wants to tell you how much they care.
 
   -somebody wants to stay up all night watching old movies with you.
 
   -somebody thinks they shared a past life with you.
 
   -somebody wants to share their dreams with you.
 
   -somebody wants to hold you in their arms.
 
   -somebody wants YOU to hold them in your arms.
 
   -somebody treasures your spirit.
 
   -somebody wishes they could suspend time.
 
   -somebody praises God for your friendship and love.
 
   -somebody can't wait to see you.
 
   -somebody wishes that things didn't have to change.
 
   -somebody loves you for who you are.
 
   -somebody loves the way you make them feel.
 
   -somebody wants to be with you.
 
   -somebody is hoping they can grow old with you.
 
   -somebody wants you to know they are there for you.
 
   -somebody's glad that you're his/her friend.
 
   -somebody wants to be your friend.
 
   -somebody stayed up all night thinking about you.
 
   -somebody is very remorseful after losing your friendship.
 
   -somebody is "hankering" for you.
 
   -somebody is wishing that you noticed him/her.
 
   -somebody wants to get to know you better.
 
   -somebody believes that you are his/her soul mate.
 
   -somebody wants to be near you.
 
   -somebody misses your advice
 
   -somebody trusts you.
 
   -somebody needs you to send them this letter.
 
   -somebody needs your support.
 
   -somebody has faith in you.
 
   -somebody needs you to have faith in them.
 
   -somebody will cry when they read this.
 
   -somebody needs you to let them be your friend.
 
   -somebody sees who you are on the inside.
 
   -somebody doesn't know the words to show you how much they care.
 
   -somebody is waiting for your call
 
   -somebody is sending healing energy to you
 
    You don't have to send this to all of your friends. Those to whom you do
    send it, however, I believe would appreciate it.
 
    Add to it as you pass it along for the little or big things in life you
    want your friends to have and to know.
 
    Sometimes, in the hustle and bustle of life, we neglect our friends, and
    these little things that friendships entail.  These things are precious, as
    are our friends.  They are forever.
 
    The memories that we create with our friends can not be duplicated, nor
    can they be replaced.    They are once-in-a-lifetime  experiences.  As are our friends.
    There will never be someone exactly like a  friend who may be slipping away from us.
    We must hold onto them and love them or we must let them seek their own destiny
    and welcome them back after they have found the one thing that they are desperately
    searching for.

    We cannot just sit by and watch their lives pass, we must take an active
    role to express our love for them and protect them from the dangers lurking
    just around the corner.

    Hold onto your friends and tell them you love them.
    They may not know or they may easily forget.
    Love your friends and remind them frequently of this.
    They will find comfort in their knowledge when life deals them things
    that they feel they cannot handle on their own.  Live your love.

"Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by
sharing its griefs and anxieties."  ~ Cicero:  De AmicitiaVI ~

"Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals...Benefits which cannot be
repaid and  obligations which cannot be discharged are not commonly found
to increase affection; they excite gratitude indeed and heighten
veneration, but commonly take away that easy freedom and familiarity of
intercourse without which...there cannot be friendship."  ~ Samuel Johnson:
 The Rambler No. 64 ~

"To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your
eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still."  ~ Shakespeare:  Sonnets CIV ~

"No friend's a friend till he shall prove a friend."  ~ Beaumont &
Fletcher:  The Faithful Friends III.iii. ~

"The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend."  ~ Thoreau:
Journal, February 7, 1841 ~
 
 

John Blanchard stood up from the bench, straightened his Army uniform, and studied the crowd of people making their way through Grand Central Station.  He looked for the girl whose heart he knew, but whose face he didn't, the girl with the rose. his interest in her had begun thirteen months before in a Florida library. Taking a book off the shelf he found himself intrigued, not with the words of the book, but with the notes penciled in the margin. The soft handwriting reflected a thoughtful soul and insightful mind. In the front of the book, he discovered the previous owner's name, Miss Hollis Maynell.

With time and effort he located her address.  She lived in New York City.  He wrote her a letter introducing himself and inviting her to correspond. The next day he was shipped overseas for service in World War II.

During the next year and one month the two grew to know each other through the mail.  Each letter was a seed falling on a fertile heart. A romance was budding. Blanchard requested a photograph, but she refused.
She felt that if he really cared, it wouldn't matter what she looked like.

When the day finally came for him to return from Europe, they scheduled their first meeting - 7:00 PM at the Grand Central Station in New York. "You'll recognize me," she wrote, "by the red rose I'll be wearing on my lapel."  So at 7:00 he was in the station looking for a girl whose heart he loved, but whose face he'd never seen.

I'll let Mr. Blanchard tell you what happened:

A young woman was coming toward me, her figure long and slim.  Her blonde hair lay back in curls from her delicate ears; her eyes were blue as flowers. Her lips and chin had a gentle firmness, and in her pale green suit she was like springtime come alive.  I started toward her, entirely forgetting to notice that she was not wearing a rose.  As I moved, a small, provocative smile curved her lips.  "Going my way, sailor?" she murmured. Almost uncontrollably I made one step closer to her, and then I saw Hollis Maynell.  She was standing almost directly behind the girl.  A woman well past 40, she had graying hair tucked under a worn hat.  She was more than plump, her thick-ankled feet thrust into low-heeled shoes.  The girl in the green suit was walking quickly away. I felt as though I was split in two, so keen was my desire to follow her, and yet so deep was my longing for the woman whose spirit had truly companioned me and upheld my own. And there she stood. Her pale, plump face was gentle and sensible, her gray eyes had a warm and kindly twinkle. I did not hesitate. My fingers gripped the small worn blue leather copy of the book that was to identify me to her. This would not be love, but it would be something precious, something perhaps even better than love, a friendship for which I had been and must ever be grateful. I squared my shoulders and saluted and held out the book to the woman, even though while I spoke I felt choked by the bitterness of my disappointment.

"I'm Lieutenant John Blanchard, and you must be Miss Maynell.  I am so glad you could meet me; may I take you to dinner?"

The woman's face broadened into a tolerant smile. "I don't know what this is about, son," she answered, "but the young lady in the green suit who just went by, she begged me to wear this rose on my coat. And she said if you were to ask me out to dinner, I should go and tell you that she is waiting for you in the big restaurant across the street. She said it was some kind of test!
 

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         ( \  __   / )
         (  \ (  ) /  )
           ( /<>\  )           TAKE THIS LITTLE ANGEL
           ( \/  \/ )            AND KEEP HER CLOSE TO YOU
             /    \              SHE IS YOUR GUARDIAN ANGEL
            (      )             SENT TO WATCH OVER YOU
             ~~~

 1.    Compliment three people everyday.
 2.    Watch a sunrise
 3.    Be the first to say "Hello."
 4.    Live beneath your means.
 5.    Treat everyone as you want to be treated.
 6.    Never give up on anybody; miracles happen.
 7.    Forget the Jones's.
 8.    Remember someone's name.
 9.    Pray not for things, but for wisdom and courage.
10.    Be tough-minded, but tender hearted.
11.    Be kinder than you have to be.
12.    Don't forget that a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.
13.    Keep your promises.
14.    Learn to show cheerfulness even when you don't feel it.
15.    Remember that overnight success usually takes 15 years.
16.    Leave everything better than you found it.
17.    Remember that winners do what losers don't want to do.
18.    When you arrive at your job in the morning, let the first thing
         you say brighten everyone's day.
19.    Don't rain on other people's parades.
20.    Don't waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.

Laughter is the best medicine for a long and happy life.
He who laughs............lasts.

Forgiveness is our greatest achievement and our highest calling.

A friend is a person who knows all about you... and still likes you.

If you can't have the best of everything,
make the best of everything you have.

We are as healthy as our relationships.

Touch is a great therapy.

God help the man who won't marry until he finds the perfect woman,
and God help him still more if he finds her.

Don't marry someone you can live with.
Marry someone you cannot live without.

Life is too precious and marriage is too sweet to rush into
relationships that are less than best for you.

The most important things in life aren't things.

The trouble with most people is that they stop trying in trying times.

Don't let your children become more important than your partner.

A husband is a man who stands by you through all the problems you wouldn't
have had, had you stayed single.

If you're happy, let your face know it and show it!

Live your life and forget about your age!

Everyone has a future....... some people plan theirs.

We can't change anybody but ourselves.

One of our greatest strengths is to admit our weaknesses.

Obstacles are what you see if you take your eyes off the goal.

If the enemy is in range, so are you.

Incoming fire has the right of way.

Don't look conspicuous: it draws fire.

The easy way is always mined.

Try to look unimportant, they may be low on ammo.

Professionals are predictable, it's the amateurs that are dangerous.

The enemy invariably attacks on one of two occasions:
    When you're ready for them.
    When you're not ready for them.

Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy someone else to shoot at.

If you can't remember, the claymore is pointed at you.

If your attack is going well, you have walked into an ambush.

Don't draw fire, it irritates the people around you.

The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly
fire.

When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend.

If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid.

When in doubt empty the magazine.

Never share a fox hole with anyone braver than you.

Anything you do can get you shot. Including doing nothing.

Make it too tough for the enemy to get in and you can't get out.

Mines are equal opportunity weapons.

A Purple Heart just proves that were you smart enough to think of a plan,
stupid enough to try it, and lucky enough to survive.

Don't ever be the first, don't ever be the last and don't ever volunteer to do
anything.

The quartermaster has only two sizes: too large and too small.

Five second fuses only last three seconds.

It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.

 Your presence is a present to the world.
 You're unique and one of a kind.
 Your life can be what you want it to be.
 Take your days just one at a time.
 
 Count your blessings, not your troubles.
 You'll make it through whate'er comes along.
 Within you are so many answers.
 Understand, have courage, be strong.
 
 Don't ever put limits upon yourself.
 You have many dreams yet to realize.
 Don't leave important decisions to chance.
 Reach for what's yours; reach for your prize.
 
 Nothing wastes time like worrying does.
 The older a problem, the heavier it gets.
 Don't take everything too seriously.
 Live a life of serenity, not one of regrets.
 
 Remember that a little love goes a long way.
 Remember that much love goes forever.
 Remember that friendship is a wise investment.
 Life's treasures are people together.
 
 Realize that it's never too late.
 Do ordinary things in extraordinary ways.
 Have health and hope and happiness.
 Live life to its fullest in all of your days.
 
 And never forget for a moment
 How very special you are.
 Take time to dream and love what you have.
 Take the time to wish upon a star.