I turn 25 in 3 weeks. In honor of the occasion, I decided to impart some pearls of wisdom gathered through my vast experience in life.
- Alex Goot is fabulous. Both in his covers and original songs. This is incontestable.
- People who get married within 6 months of their missions never become normal again.
- gLee is both wise and amazing.
- So is Kristin Chenoweth. She is a recipe for awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQJaZO2nfGg (Idina is incredible too)
- Never put tomato paste in a crock pot for sauce without mixing it into the water really well. It burns.
- If you never expect to get payed back when you lend money, it always makes your day when you do.
- The time until the Harry Potter premiere is exactly 107 days, 23 hours, and 30 minutes from right now.
- Otter pops make the world go round.
- You can buy used dvds from Redbox for 7 bucks.
- Always go grocery shopping before you run out of food.
- If more people took advantage of the free public library, less people would be in debt over movies, books, and music.
- The most expensive camera isn't always the better one.
- Ellen Degeneres is under-appreciated in utah culture.
- There's a huge difference between having a hard life and having a miserable life.
- Cafe Rio really does deserve the hype.
- Christopher Paolini is officially the slowest author in the universe.
- There are some things you should think about before you do them.
- I'm becoming acquainted with more and more guys who are the same height or shorter than I am. Are they shrinking?
- Toshibas are better than Dells.
- You really shouldn't tickle sleeping dragons.
- The Spice Girls are a lot better than I gave them credit for in 7th grade.
- 7th grade was a really long time ago.
- Either indians, Fred Weasly's ghost, voldemort's horcrux, or cornish pixies,are currently infesting my apartment.
- Exercise videos were invented by big brother. There are hidden recording devices in them so that the makers can laugh at how utterly ridiculous you look when you use them.
- Bowling is always more fun with lots of other people.
- Not every book in the library should be taken as credible.
- Real intelligence is more than just being intellectual.
- There is a fine line between maturity and stupidly boring. 99% of people find themselves on the opposite side from where they think they are.
- Pizza is good frozen. Not uncooked, but frozen after ordered from Pizza Hut.
- 350 degrees is just an arbitrary temperature that food packagers decided on to make printing easier.
- If you avoid doing everything that you're scared to do, you'll go through life missing out on stuff that would otherwise end up being your favorite ever.
- When you're applying for your dream job, the worst they can do is say 'No.'
- Some stuff is only popular because some random popular person liked it.
- When you're the misfit who has the obsessive crush on the beautiful but deusch-baggy popular guy, you're acting just as shallow as he is.
- Some famous people are actually good role models.
- Adding more blood doesn't make a bad horror movie any better. Too much = fake as Monty Python.
- It's getting increasingly difficult to come up with new ideas. Millions of people had the same one before.
- Technology is the coolest thing ever. A couple of tiny wires, a battery, and some binary codes make up your 80 gb music library. Don't take it for granted.
- When shooting arrows, always aim first.
- Saying you can't before you've tried is worse than failing. Sometimes you even make it.
- There is a massive difference between constructive criticism and being a condescending jerk.
- If you're a light sleeper, wear earplugs. Your roommate can't stop breathing to cater to you.
- Their = belongs to them, there = that place that I'm pointing to, They're = They are
- Most acronyms don't save any more time than just typing or saying the whole phrase.
- "If you shoot for the stars and miss, at least you'll land on the moon."
- Read laws before you complain about them.
- Make sure there are lots of pillows on the floor before jumping on the couch.
- People are more likely to come over if you feed them.
- Meat markets are where the meat is.
- 97.34% of the time stress is a choice.
- Life is too short to not dance when your ipod is on.
- Some things are just as good in books as in real life.
- French fries taste better from Wendy's than McDonald's.
- Silly has scientifically been proven to lengthen life.
- Three year olds are highly capable of destruction.
- When you're afraid of looking dumb, the worst thing that could happen is someone not liking what you do. Soooooo.... they don't like it. And?
- The answer to life, the universe, and everything really is 42.
- It takes more work to be mean than to be nice.
- Sleep in a living room fort at least once a year.
- Youtube comments are not the end of the world.
- Touching something is a sure way to tell if it will burn you.
- The purpose of video games is to play them with people.
- The bigger the spider, the easier it is to spot.
- The story of Romeo and Juliet ended badly. Very badly. Pick a different analogy.
- Being star-crossed is neither good, nor romantic.
- Most people respect you for being unique. The ones that don't aren't worth impressing.
- Fox gets made fun of a lot, but it has all the best shows.
- Chocolate is an essential nutrient.
- Some things get better with time. Milk is not one of those things.
- Several Bon Jovi songs actually have really cool messages.
- When you're louder than your kids, the point of your lecture has kind of died.
- If Lancelot had just stayed in France, most of Camelot's tragedy could have been avoided.
- Ron Weasley lied. Both Peter Pettigrew and Sirius Black were Gryffindors, and no matter which was the true culprit, it still breaks the Slytherin-only evil streak.
- Having faith doesn't mean blindly following. It means asking the question, even if you don't know what the answer will be, or how it will come.
- Not all country music is about trucks, honky-tonks, or dead dogs.
- If you want to know what an acid trip is like, go play I am the Walrus on Beatles rock band.
- Only say 'no' when it's important.
- Severus Snape is undoubtedly the most tragic fantasy book character ever written.
- Susan is the spawn of satan. The only reason I tolerate her in Narnia is because there needed to be 4 of them. The Horse and His Boy is the only one where she doesn't drive me nutty.
- All you need is love.
- Comic writers sure do like alliteration. Peter Parker, Lois Lane, Clark Kent, Pepper Potts, Silver Surfer, Green Goblin, Wonder Woman, Teen Titans, Lex Luthor .... Those are just the easy to think of ones.
- There are seriously a zillion songs either called "Home" or with the word 'home' somewhere in the title.
- My sister's said it for ages, but Billy Joel really was awesome.
- French and Saunders is the other answer to life, the universe, and everything.
- British comedy is seriously undervalued.
- Anything is an adventure if you make it into one.
- Large amounts of taffy + 2 am = laughing at absolutely nothing. Amazingly fun.
- No one cares if you become rich and famous. But they do care that you tried your best.
- Changing the world doesn't have to mean changing everyone in the world at the same time.
- You think that killing people might make them like you, but it doesn't. It just makes people dead.
At this point in the evening, or rather the darkest reaches of early morning, it is a long while after I started, and I've completely run out of things to put on this list. But since it's a lot longer than I expected it to be in the first place, I can't hardly complain about that. I choose now to go off to sleep.
Ni!
1 comment:
Amazing! I agree with most of them. :)
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