Highlight the things you have done:
1. Started your own blog - Obviously 
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7.Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo (does in the car count?)
11. Looked up an old boyfriend on Facebook
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept in an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitchhiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping.
27. Run a marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse (solar)
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung Karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gotten out of a speeding ticket
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Adopted a stray dog or cat
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone.
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating.
88. Had chicken pox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a lawsuit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Read an entire book in one day
100 THINGS!
7 Jan
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DADS
7 Jan
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WELL I HAVE BEEN TALKING TO MY DAD A LITTLE BIT. IT HAS BE OK. STRESSFUL AT TIME BUT THERE IS A LOT TO SAY AND A LOT OF TIME TO MAKE UP FOR. I KNOW IT WILL TAKE YEARS AND MAYBE ALL WE WILL BE IS FRIENDS IN THE END, BUT I HAVE TO TRY. IF I DIDN’T TRY I THINK I WOULD KICK MYSELF LATER IN LIFE. LIKE I HAVE ALWAYS SAID EVERYONE NEEDS FAMILY. SO I WILL GIVE IT A TRY AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS. I AM IN NO RUSH AND NEITHER IS HE. SO WE WILL TAKE IT SLOW AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS IN THE LONG RUN. I THINK WE WILL MAKE IT AS AT LEAST FRIENDS.
YESTERDAY WAS THE FIRST DAY I DIDN’T HEAR FROM JOSH AND I WAS SHOCKED HOW WELL I DID. I DIDN’T EVEN REALIZE THAT I HADN’T HEARD FROM HIM UNTIL LIKE 10 PM. I WAS SO PROUD AND IT AMAZES ME HOW TIME IS HEALING THE WOUNDS HE CAUSED. I KNOW I WILL HAVE STRUGGLES STILL BUT I WILL AND CAN SURVIVE IT. IT WILL TAKE TIME BUT EVERYDAY I GETS EASIER. I HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN THAT TIME IS THE BEST MEDICINE BUT I HAVE NEVER REALIZED HOW TRUE THAT IS UNTIL NOW. I KNOW THE MORE DAYS I GO WITH OUT TALKING TO HIM THE EASIER IT WILL GET AND THE LESS I WILL THINK OF HIM. I WILL ALWAYS CARE ABOUT HIM AND BE IS FRIEND IF HE WANTS BUT I AM READY TO MOVE ON WITH THE NEXT CHAPTER OF MY LIFE. I KNOW THE NEXT CHAPTER WILL BE BETTER THAN THIS LAST ONE WAS!
IMPORTANCE OF WALKING
7 Jan
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Walking can add minutes to your life. This enables you at 85 years old to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing home at $7000 per month.
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My grandpa started walking five miles a day when he was 60.. Now he’s 97 years old and we don’t know where he is.
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I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. *******************************************
The only reason I would take up walking is so that I could hear heavy breathing again. ********************************************
I have to walk early in the morning, before my brain figures out what I’m doing.. ********************************************
I joined a health club last year, spent about 400 bucks. Haven’t lost a pound. Apparently you have to go there.
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Every time I hear the dirty word ‘exercise’, I wash my mouth out with chocolate.
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I do have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them. ******************************************
The advantage of exercising every day is so when you die, they’ll say, ‘Well, he looks good doesn’t he.’
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If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country. ********************************************
I know I got a lot of exercise the last few years,…… just getting over the hill. ******************************************
We all get heavier as we get older, because there’s a lot more information in our heads. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
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THIS MAKES ME SICK!
7 Jan
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I SHOULDN’T SAY ANYTHING CAUSE I WAS A TEEN PREGNANCY BUT IT STILL MAKES ME SICK. AT LEAST I WAS 19 ABOUT TO TURN 20.
Mississippi has highest teen birth rate, CDC says
By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer Mike Stobbe, Ap Medical Writer – 13 mins ago
AP – HOLD FOR RELEASE UNTIL 8:30 A.M.; graphic shows the teen birth rate for 15- to -19 year olds for 2006 …
ATLANTA – Mississippi now has the nation’s highest teen pregnancy rate, displacing Texas and New Mexico for that lamentable title, according to a new federal report released Wednesday.
Mississippi’s rate was more than 60 percent higher than the national average in 2006, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The teen pregnancy rate in Texas and New Mexico was more than 50 percent higher.
The three states have large proportions of black and Hispanic teenagers — groups that traditionally have higher birth rates, experts noted.
The lowest teen birth rates continue to be in New England, where three states have teen birth rates at just half the national average.
It’s not clear why Mississippi surged into first place. The state’s one-year increase of nearly 1,000 teen births could be a statistical blip, said Ron Cossman, a Mississippi State University researcher who focuses on children’s health statistics.
More than a year ago, a preliminary report on the 2006 data revealed that the U.S. teen birth rate had risen for the first time in about 15 years. But the new numbers provide the first state-by-state information on the increase.
The new report is based on a review of all the birth certificates in 2006. Significant increases in teen birth rates were noted in 26 states.
“It’s pretty much across the board” nationally, said Brady Hamilton, a CDC statistician who worked on the report.
About 435,000 of the nation’s 4.3 million births in 2006 were to mothers ages 15 through 19. That was about 21,000 more teen births than in 2005.
Numerically, the largest increases were in the states with the largest populations. California, Texas and Florida together generated almost 30 percent of the nation’s extra teen births in 2006.
Some experts have blamed the national increase on increased federal funding for abstinence-only health education that does not teach teens how to use condoms and other contraception. They said that would explain why teen birth rate increases have been detected across much of the country and not just in a few spots.
There is debate about that, however. Some conservative organizations have argued that contraceptive-focused sex education is still common, and that the new teen birth numbers reflect it is failing.
Other factors include the escalating cost of some types of birth control and their unavailability in some communities, said Stephanie Birch, who directs maternal and child health programs for the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services.
Glowing media portrayals of celebrity pregnancies don’t help, either, she said. “They make it out to be very glamorous,” said Birch, who cited a calculation by Alaska officials that teen pregnancies were up 6 percent in that state in 2006.
In Mississippi, there were about 68 births for every 1,000 women, ages 15 through 19 in 2006. The New Mexico rate was 64 per 1,000; Texas was 63.
The national birth rate for females in that age group was about 42 per 1,000. New Hampshire, with a rate of 19 per 1,000, was the nation’s lowest.
A variety of factors influence teen pregnancy rates, including culture, poverty and racial demographics. For those and other reasons, kids in mostly white New England likely would delay child birth, said David Landry, a researcher at the Guttmacher Institute, a New York-based organization which supports abortion rights and gathers research on sexual and reproductive health.
“It’s more costly for youth in the Northeast to have a teen birth than for youth in the South, in terms of opportunities they’ll miss,” he said.
By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer Mike Stobbe, Ap Medical Writer – 13 mins ago
AP – HOLD FOR RELEASE UNTIL 8:30 A.M.; graphic shows the teen birth rate for 15- to -19 year olds for 2006 …
ATLANTA – Mississippi now has the nation’s highest teen pregnancy rate, displacing Texas and New Mexico for that lamentable title, according to a new federal report released Wednesday.
Mississippi’s rate was more than 60 percent higher than the national average in 2006, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The teen pregnancy rate in Texas and New Mexico was more than 50 percent higher.
The three states have large proportions of black and Hispanic teenagers — groups that traditionally have higher birth rates, experts noted.
The lowest teen birth rates continue to be in New England, where three states have teen birth rates at just half the national average.
It’s not clear why Mississippi surged into first place. The state’s one-year increase of nearly 1,000 teen births could be a statistical blip, said Ron Cossman, a Mississippi State University researcher who focuses on children’s health statistics.
More than a year ago, a preliminary report on the 2006 data revealed that the U.S. teen birth rate had risen for the first time in about 15 years. But the new numbers provide the first state-by-state information on the increase.
The new report is based on a review of all the birth certificates in 2006. Significant increases in teen birth rates were noted in 26 states.
“It’s pretty much across the board” nationally, said Brady Hamilton, a CDC statistician who worked on the report.
About 435,000 of the nation’s 4.3 million births in 2006 were to mothers ages 15 through 19. That was about 21,000 more teen births than in 2005.
Numerically, the largest increases were in the states with the largest populations. California, Texas and Florida together generated almost 30 percent of the nation’s extra teen births in 2006.
Some experts have blamed the national increase on increased federal funding for abstinence-only health education that does not teach teens how to use condoms and other contraception. They said that would explain why teen birth rate increases have been detected across much of the country and not just in a few spots.
There is debate about that, however. Some conservative organizations have argued that contraceptive-focused sex education is still common, and that the new teen birth numbers reflect it is failing.
Other factors include the escalating cost of some types of birth control and their unavailability in some communities, said Stephanie Birch, who directs maternal and child health programs for the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services.
Glowing media portrayals of celebrity pregnancies don’t help, either, she said. “They make it out to be very glamorous,” said Birch, who cited a calculation by Alaska officials that teen pregnancies were up 6 percent in that state in 2006.
In Mississippi, there were about 68 births for every 1,000 women, ages 15 through 19 in 2006. The New Mexico rate was 64 per 1,000; Texas was 63.
The national birth rate for females in that age group was about 42 per 1,000. New Hampshire, with a rate of 19 per 1,000, was the nation’s lowest.
A variety of factors influence teen pregnancy rates, including culture, poverty and racial demographics. For those and other reasons, kids in mostly white New England likely would delay child birth, said David Landry, a researcher at the Guttmacher Institute, a New York-based organization which supports abortion rights and gathers research on sexual and reproductive health.
“It’s more costly for youth in the Northeast to have a teen birth than for youth in the South, in terms of opportunities they’ll miss,” he said.
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