So, from now on, I am going to post a funny/sweet/inspirational quote everyday. Sunday, April 25th, 2010. Quote of the Day.

Smiles and tears, giggles and laughs. Hour long phone calls and photographs. I’ll be there for you ’til the day of my death…We’ll be best friends forever til my very last breath.

If you have not told your friends today how much they mean to you, do so now. Don’t say, “oh, i’ll get around to it tomorrow/someday” because you never know when it’s going to be too late.  To my friends who are reading this and/or are TNF staff, you guys mean so much to me and I can never thank you enough for everything you’ve done for me.

*Love, Sarah*

Waves surge and swell around me. Lapping at my feet. I search, not quite frantically, for a way through.  I see no opening in the mass of endless sea, streching as far as the horizon. The rock upon which I balance is now soaked. The cold water sprays onto my feet and I welcome the refreshing sensation.  As I accept my stranded fate, and turn my arms and face toward the sky-smiling as the wind lifts hair from my neck and splashes it with salt- single beam of sunlight shines down. A colorful prism lights the opening. A pathway is revealed. I jerk myself harshly back into reality. Stepping gingerly, I cross the freshly mopped floor, realizing that yet again, my imagination has gotten the best of me. However, I can’t fully complain. After all, that IS what you get when you’re a writer.

*Love, Sarah*

Ever wonder what popular children’s songs would sound like re-imagined by the Occupational Safety and Health Administrations? I didn’t, but these people did! (Hilarious)

For those people who are going European and riding their bike everywhere, it’s a hassle to map out routes with bike paths. So why not you just project your own PERSONAL bike path onto the street? With a laser? *le gasp*

picture courtesy www.treehugger.com

“Alex Tee and Evan Gant of Altitude write:

Our system projects a crisply defined virtual bike lane onto pavement, using a laser, providing the driver with a familiar boundary to avoid. With a wider margin of safety, bikers will regain their confidence to ride at night, making the bike a more viable commuting alternative.” (Quote courtesy of treehugger.com)

See? There you go. Now you can drive in the middle of the road and still have a bike path to your own! May those confused car owners be swerving to avoide your bike path!

Really, though, this could cause more harm than help. I’m just saying, people could have a little too much fun with this laser. Side effects include intentional traffic jams and perhaps even car accidents.

-Rika

Writing a novel in thirty days is harder than you think. Fifty thousand words don’t write themselves, apparently, and I spent forever trying to type out my novel as I tried to keep my ankle elevated and iced. It was very difficult to type.

So currently I have stranded my character in the middle of a deserted island, and she’s being followed. Right now I’m plotting to kill of this other character, but Jala wants him to survive, so I’m debating between him and this other guy, but really the original person that I was going to kill off is more melodramatic and actually has something to do with the plot.

Anyways, there’s my excuse for not writing as much, I have sixteen drafts waiting to be looked at for this site and an additional ten for Pinkymiranda, and I’m having serious trouble motivating myself to write anything besides my novel.

So, for today, I’ll just leave you with a very interesting documentary.

Oh, and did you know I reached 30k words? That’s sixty seven pages. I know, it’s amazing.

Sorry I haven’t posted in awhile, been in a long blank period. So now I am back, trying to get you a new thing to help you in life every week.

Sorry is just a word without action to prove it.

Do you have a Facebook account? I do too, but if you have kept up with the news, there are viruses that I think you should know about. Be very careful on what you do on there and make sure to keep your privacy settings very strict in order for you to be completely safe.

Below is an example, and you can either get only the message on your Wall or you can get an email as well. It will take you to another link and it may just look like the Facebook home page, but it is really an external link, and if you log in again, not only do you give that site your email address and password, you also let that message go to your friends too. I just caution everyone to be very cautious that you do not fall for this.

Has this happened to you? Let us know.

~Hope

So many lines we’ve never heard, but when have we truly opened our ears?

Calister’s Random Afternote

It’s not enough to just to open our ears, but we also have to act. For example, if a country is thinking of attacking another country (for some random, usually unfathomable reason) then everyone needs to listen to everyone’s ideas on how to inflict as much damage as possible on an innocent country that was minding their own buisness. But even if they come up with this great combat plan, it’s useless if they just stand around not doing anything. (Well, they’d save a lot of lives)

Don’t give up, if you have never tried.

Rika’s Thoughts:

This is a good quote, but not always true. You can give up if the goal your headed for might have more risks then positives, and giving up actually might be a better idea. For example, if the plant on top of the refrigerator needs watering desperately but you can’t reach it, what do you do? Go all Tarzan and climb on top of the counters to get to the plant? Or give up for fear of a broken or sprained bone? Giving up can sometimes be good for your help.

What happened in the past will only affect you as much as you let it.

Calister Again:

Mistakes are good. You can learn from them. But sometimes we get these people who can’t seem to get over the mistakes. They stare them down as if the mistake is a car in the rear view mirror who is trailing them. Or a foreboding homework assignment. One or the other. But the point is that if you let the constant thinking of ‘oh I shouldn’t have done that’ continue, it won’t help. Learn from your mistakes and get over them.

You cannot wish for something you never wanted.

Rika’s Thoughts:

Wishes are born out of goals; often times goals that are difficult or impossible. You can’t wish for something you don’t want, but you can’t wish for something so easily acquired: then the wish is just a mere thought and nothing more. The goal must be difficult or lengthy. Wishes have specific, unwritten definitions. Usually, wishes are naive hopes that something will happen to make the whole goal easier, the wish very unrealistic. Sometimes the wish is realistic, but unprobable. The whole point of wishing is restoring hope, whether that hope is realistic or not.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the mind is sharper than the pen.

Calister’s Thoughts:

Honestly, Socrates, I’m not into philosophy, but this is my favorite quote of all time. Sure, written words can hurt, but pure mind power beats all. If this was a game of rock-paper-scissors, knowledge could beat all of the above. And, technically, a sword would kill paper every time. Words verses wars? Words can’t win wars, and words can’t jump start a depressed economy, and even though words can help, they can’t do as much devastation as swords, and are certainly lacking against nuclear weapons.

Turn what you fear into something you can conquer and conquer it, what we conquer is nothing to fear.

Rika’s Thoughts:

Like Roosevelt’s famous quote “We have nothing to fear except fear itself” this quote is basically on the road to not having anything to fear. By making up our minds to not fear something, we can overcome it and enjoy life without that fear. That particular fear will always be present, but by not acknowledging it, we can live our lives more happily. That is what we strive for, correct? Happiness? And if fear is our enemy, why wouldn’t we want to conquer it?

Now this also applies to extreme phobias; even though those are often times more extreme, they still can be conquered, and without willpower they will not be conquered. Everything begins with will.

“It may do us best to not know and be happy, but knowing will, inevitably, make us stronger for the future.”

Rika’s Thoughts:

This is very true. For example, if one country knew that another country was planning war against the other, it would make them stronger for the war ahead. Or, perhaps, in the best case, the war could be prevented. I think that the more people that are in the know, the more wars could be prevented. But, on the other hand, some information is best kept away from the general public to prevent mass pandemonium. If an asteroid is to hit Earth in 2012 and the scientific community is sure of this, the question is “Is it ethical to keep this information away from the general populous to prevent pandemonium?” Because then knowing that fact would make us stronger for what future? The last moments on Earth? But then if we weren’t told, we would be happier. Or would we? It’s so hard to choose an ethical decision in any topic. Illegal immigration is another tough discussion, and every side seems unethical. Same goes towards choosing between saving the world and keeping our economy up and running.

Like I said, this is a good quote, but sometimes not knowing not only makes you happier, but makes you stronger. Stronger as in a clearer mind.