Class of 2014

Class of 2014: For these students, Benny Hill, Sam Kinison, Sam Walton, Burt Parks and Tony Perkins have always been dead.
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1. Few in the class know how to write in cursive.
2. E-mail is just too slow, and they seldom if ever use snail mail.
3. "Go west, young college grad," has always implied "and don't stop until you get to Asia and learn Chinese along the way."
4. Al Gore has always been animated.
5. Los Angelinos have always been trying to get along.
6. Buffy has always been meeting her obligations to hunt down Lothos and the other bloodsuckers at Hemery High.
7. "Caramel macchiato" and "venti half-cafvanilla latte" have always been street corner lingo.
8. With increasing numbers of ramps, Braille signs, and handicapped parking spaces, the world has always been trying harder to accommodate people with disabilities.
9. Had it remained operational, the villainous computer HAL could be their college classmate this fall, but they have a better chance of running into Miley Cyrus's folks on Parents' Weekend.
10. A quarter of the class has at least one immigrant parent, and the immigration debate is not a big priority unless it involves "real" aliens from another planet.
11. John McEnroe has never played professional tennis.
12. Clint Eastwood is better known as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry.
13. Parents and teachers feared that Beavis and Butt-head might be the voice of a lost generation.
14. Doctor Kevorkian has never been licensed to practice medicine.
15. Colorful lapel ribbons have always been worn to indicate support for a cause.
16. Korean cars have always been a staple on American highways.
17. Trading Chocolate the Moose for Patti the Platypus helped build their Beanie Baby collection.
18. Fergie is a pop singer, not a princess.
19. They never twisted the coiled handset wire aimlessly around their wrists while chatting on the phone.
20. DNA fingerprinting and maps of the human genome have always existed.
21. Woody Allen, whose heart has wanted what it wanted, has always been with Soon-Yi Previn.
22. Cross-burning has always been deemed protected speech.
23. Leasing has always allowed the folks to upgrade their tastes in cars.
24. "Cop Killer" by rapper Ice-T has never been available on a recording.
25. Jay Leno and David Letterman have always been trading insults on opposing networks.
26. Unless they found one in their grandparents' closet, they have never seen a carousel of Kodachrome slides.
27. Computers have never lacked a CD-ROM disk drive.
28. They've never recognized that pointing to their wrists was a request for the time of day.
29. Reggie Jackson has always been enshrined in Cooperstown.
30. "Viewer Discretion" has always been an available warning on TV shows.
31. The first computer they probably touched was an Apple II; it is now in a museum.
32. Czechoslovakia has never existed.
33. Secondhand smoke has always been an official carcinogen.
34. "Assisted Living" has always been replacing nursing homes, while Hospice has always been an alternative to hospitals.
35. Once they got through security, going to the airport has always resembled going to the mall.
36. Adhesive strips have always been available in varying skin tones.
37. Whatever their parents may have thought about the year they were born, Queen Elizabeth declared it an "AnnusHorribilis."
38. Bud Selig has always been the Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
39. Pizza jockeys from Domino's have never killed themselves to get your pizza there in under 30 minutes.
40. There have always been HIV positive athletes in the Olympics.
41. American companies have always done business in Vietnam.
42. Potato has always ended in an "e" in New Jersey per vice presidential edict.
43. Russians and Americans have always been living together in space.
44. The dominance of television news by the three networks passed while they were still in their cribs.
45. They have always had a chance to do community service with local and federal programs to earn money for college.
46. Nirvana is on the classic oldies station.
47. Children have always been trying to divorce their parents.
48. Someone has always gotten married in space.
49. While they were babbling in strollers, there was already a female Poet Laureate of the United States.
50. Toothpaste tubes have always stood up on their caps.
51. Food has always been irradiated.
52. There have always been women priests in the Anglican Church.
53. J.R. Ewing has always been dead and gone. Hasn't he?
54. The historic bridge at Mostar in Bosnia has always been a copy.
55. Rock bands have always played at presidential inaugural parties.
56. They may have assumed that parents' complaints about Black Monday had to do with punk rockers from L.A., not Wall Street.
57. A purple dinosaur has always supplanted Barney Google and Barney Fife.
58. Beethoven has always been a dog.
59. By the time their folks might have noticed Coca Cola's new Tab Clear, it was gone.
60. Wal-Mart has never sold handguns over the counter in the lower 48.
61. Presidential appointees have always been required to be more precise about paying their nannies' withholding tax, or else.
62. Having hundreds of cable channels but nothing to watch has always been routine.
63. Their parents' favorite TV sitcoms have always been showing up as movies.
64. The U.S, Canada, and Mexico have always agreed to trade freely.
65. They first met Michelangelo when he was just a computer virus.
66. Galileo is forgiven and welcome back into the Roman Catholic Church.
67. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has always sat on the Supreme Court.
68. They have never worried about a Russian missile strike on the U.S.
69. The Post Office has always been going broke.
70. The artist formerly known as Snoop Doggy Dogg has always been rapping.
71. The nation has never approved of the job Congress is doing.
72. One way or another, "It's the economy, stupid" and always has been.
73. Silicone-gel breast implants have always been regulated.
74. They've always been able to blast off with the Sci-Fi Channel.
75. Honda has always been a major competitor on Memorial Day at Indianapolis.

Beloit College Mindset list for the Class of 2014.

Updates....

YAY! Data Drs recovered all my lost items on my hard drive. I will have my photos!! I promise (cross my heart) to subscribe to an online back up service. I can't be apart this long from all my photos and goodies on my PC :)

Oh, and I am SOOOOOO anxious to see this movie in a week :)

Also, when the kids go back to school I will be at the gym every day!! This summer I ate too much of this....

Happy Wednesday!!!!! Fall is close, my favorite season!

Summer Cabin Living 2010

A sweltering hot Arizona Summer turned cool with a trip to Flagstaff and "the cabin", which is a compound (more or less), or 3 family cabins built a few acres a part. The kids and I headed North from 115 degrees to 60 degrees in 1 hour!! Up North we enjoyed time with our cousins and grandparents, which involved Coke floats, fishing, BBQing and a drive to town for cupcakes :) Cabin life is pretty sweet in the Summer!



Cabin sunsets...


Paris has something on her line....Aiden helps REEL it in!!

Paris caught her 1st fish at the cabin pond, July 2010! (with great cousin Rob)











I wonder if this driver is Irish, or just really likes the band U2??? Only in Flagstaff :)

Live Well & Love Much

"Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually, " ~Jimi Hendrix

First Day of August...

"I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay", ~Bob Dylan

PS~ Still waiting for my PC to get back from Data Drs. So I can finish my trip entries and share photos. My PC died last week :(

Today is a gift called the "Present"

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

"The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it? " ~Rockerfeller

“I was early taught to work as well as play,
My life has been one long, happy holiday;
Full of work and full of play-
I dropped the worry on the way-
And God was good to me everyday" ~John D. Rockerfeller, (oil tycoon; Chairman of Standard Oil Company; investor; philanthropist)

*At 86 years old Rockerfeller wrote the above poem that summed up his life. He is the first American billionaire, and his worth was around $663.4 billion back then, by 2007 standards. As kerosene and gasoline grew in importance, Rockefeller's wealth soared, and he became the world's richest man and first American worth more than a billion dollars. Adjusting for inflation, he is often regarded as the richest person in history. Rockefeller spent the last 40 years of his life in retirement. His fortune was mainly used to create the modern systematic approach of targeted philanthropy with foundations that had a major effect on medicine, education, and scientific research. His work helped eradicate yellow fever and hook worm in the United States. Rockefeller adhered to total abstinence from alcohol and tobacco throughout his life. From his very first paycheck, Rockefeller tithed ten percent of his earnings to his church. His contemporaries described him as reserved, earnest, religious, methodical, and discreet. He was an excellent debater, and expressed himself precisely. As a youth, Rockefeller allegedly said that his two great ambitions were to make $100,000 and to live 100 years. Rockefeller died of arteriosclerosis on May 23, 1937, two months shy of his 98th birthday. 1839-1937

"Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it" ~John D. Rockefeller

I Love Me :)

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else" - Judy Garland

4th of July Fun in Kauai

"Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace," ~Paul Theroux

Our 2010 4th of July was spent with family on the island of Kauai


Glass Beach by Port Allen





Hotel Pool & Lagoon Fun







An Old (and now abandon) Sugar Plantation in Koloa



Shave Ice= Happiness



Kilauea Lighthouse began lighting the way for mariners in 1913. It served as a pivotal navigation aid for ships sailing on the Orient run.








Spouting Horn in Koloa (It's a Blow Hole that Sprays Water That Rushes Under the Lava Shelf. Can Get 6-10 Feet in Height)







Our Long Day at the Pool on 4th of July (We Love the Hyatt)






4th of July Evening








Leaving Kauai on a "red-eye" flight!