Good to be here without giving blood.

You may have heard me give parts of this speech before. It’s my favorite and I give it ever so often just because I need to hear it.

David...Bummy

DON’T REHASH THE NEGATIVE

Our teacher’s lounge For once, don’t get if off your chest Teacher I know..kids drive her crazy.. ..meet her in IGA...guess what she talks about...

Corrie Ten Boom “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorry, It empties today of its strength.”

Realize that no matter what factors determine your day, you are the Main Factor.. Mart Burrus...rain....”Ain’t that great?” Mom: Alcatraz

If life’s bumming you out, chances are you aren’t giving enough of yourself. Self-centeredness : depression. Becky...funeral... Carl Menninger A. Sweitzer: “The only ones among you who will be truely happy as those who will have sought and found out how to serve.”
Collect Interesting and enthusiastic people around you as you would rare coins or antiques. Marie...salt and pepper shakers.

Friendships don’t have to simply be things that happen...They can be created... Nuture friends who encourage you. Tony Compello “Five years from now you’ll be pretty much the same as you are now except for two things: The books you’ve read and the people you’ve met.

Don’t get so busy with the important things in yoru life that you forget the important things in your life. James Dobson..monopoly Dad...hay ...rain.... “When we forget ourselves, we usually do something that everyone else remembers.”

Choose carefully whom you try to please. Quest...Inner-Outer Self

HINEY THE MULE

Lighten up.... Jim Kern...MRS. BROWN

Post ..Jalepeno pepper

Reg....I’m gonna ‘cause some trouble!

PHYSCIAL CHECKUP... Illinois Power

LIGHTEN UP.... ....go barefoot more often ...eat nothing but ice cream for a whole day. ...wear underwear backwards...will break into uncontrollable giggles for no reason every time you think about it. ....walk up to biggest grouch in your school and say “I just want you to know that I feel great!” It’ll throw them off all day. Helen Dickens..”Jesus Loves you and I do too.” ...Jr High attack squad ...break the dress code occasionally.

Miscellaneous advice from Freida Marie Crump...she asks herself ridiculous questions when the tension of life gets too great: DOES JUDGE LAST ITO REALLY HAVE A RIGHT SIDE TO HIS FACE? HAVE YOU EVER SEEN IT?

DID CHRIST TAKE UP A COLLECTION AFTER THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT. WAS THERE A POTLUCK AFTERWARDS? DID HE HAVE A BUDGET COMMITTEE?

WHY DOES THE PIZZZA ON THE NEXT TABLE ALWAYS GOOD BETTER?