I wanted to make a fun post, so below are three things you should do today that will put a smile on your face or someone else's.  Try one of each today (Bonus: if you make someone else smile, it usually makes you smile, too.  The love you take is equal to the love you make.)

A smile for you:
1) Listen to this, breath deeply, and relax.
2) Count a few of your blessings.
3) Send money to yourself using your online banking app and for the message put "for being awesome."  It pays to be awesome.

A smile for someone else:
1) Make an origami samurai hat and put it on someone else.
2) Tell someone how much you care about them (as long as you actually care about them).
3) Tell someone this knock-knock joke: KNOCK-KNOCK.  Who's there?  INTERRUPTING COW.  Interrupting Co--MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

WOMEN.  AMIRIGHT?

Does anyone want my bean bag?  It's big, comfy, and hardly ever used.  I feel bad giving it to Goodwill because it's nice, but I don't really have the space.  It's denim and says "Bean's Bag" on it, cause my parents used to call me Andy Bean.  Takers?

What happened...

to this blog?

10 years ago.

What's your favorite memory from the college years?

Mine? "Two-day pass with camping? Horse shit!" That, and also the fact that I could leave my room at any moment and find all of my favorite people in one place.

Updates!

I love my new job. Grad school starts next week. My new car is fun to drive. I'm actively seeking a girlfriend, but I kind of throw around the idea of staying a bachelor because it's fun. I'm looking to move out in the next year provided my mom is good enough financially and physically to be on her own again. I write every day on my blog. I'm maintaining To a T's Twitter and Facebook pages. I haven't had much business, though. That's all I got. What about you? 

Phyllis Diller is Dead

Ummm... anyone else not know she was still alive?

World Peace Threw an Elbow

You don't hear this too often... "That's absolutely disgraceful, the way World Peace threw that elbow."  Not very peaceful, huh?

Dick Clark is dead

I had him on my list a couple years ago. Not this year. I suck at the Celebrity Death Pool.

Saturday Sadness

I worked from morning through the night on a Saturday yesterday. All I do is work. My life sucks. I hope your lives are better than mine.

Drama

Whenever I read in online profiles that a girl says she is "drama-free," I immediately assume she has a history of drama in her life. I don't mind drama. I plan to win an award for my performances in daily life.

The Bodyguard Can't Stop That

None of us saw the death of Whitney Houston coming on our celebrity death pool lists! Crazy!

Snow Job

On this unseasonably warm winter evening, a reflection: Those guys sure know how to have fun!

Celebrity Death Pool 2012

I know I'm way late on this and will abstain from competition and from also knowing who has already died this year. This is my list for the remainder of the year, just for the hell of it. I CANNOT win, just for fun for me. I'll try to remember next year.
1. Nelson Mandela
2. Prince Philip
3. Betty White
4. Jimmy Carter
5. Wilford Brimley
6. Sir Thomas Sean Connery
7. Queen Elizabeth II
8. Muhammad Ali
9. Casey Anthony
10. Joan Rivers

Oh no!

It's a five-day work week! Noooooo!!!

2012 Celebrity Death Pool

A reminder of the rules to Thom and anyone else who wants to partake in the 2012 Celebrity Death Pool:
1) You choose 10 people and post them to the Blog
2) You can only take five of the people from your list the previous year
3) At mid-year, five extra people can be chosen
4) Each entrant must forfeit $10 to the winner
5) In the event of a tie, monies are split

Also, Thom - since rule #5 says monies are split, I don't think we should continue over from last year. We both "won", so...

Here's my list:

1. Zsa Zsa Gabor*
2. Ariel Sharon*
3. Dick Cheney
4. Stephen Hawking
5. Billy Graham
6. Nelson Mandela*
7. Kirk Douglas*
8. Ernest Borgnine
9. Jerry Lewis
10. Fidel Castro*

* used last year

History of the Death Pool:
Thom won in 2010 with 1 death.
Thom and Waple tied in 2011 with 2 deaths apiece (Waple - Steve Jobs, Kim Jong-Il, Thom - Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Jong-Il)

Celebrity Death Pool 2012

Everyone will die, because it's the end of the world! No, just kidding.

Here is my list for 2012:

Aretha Franklin*

Ray Bradbury*

Jerry Lewis*

Billy Graham*

Zsa Zsa Gabor*

Margaret Thatcher

Joe Paterno

Mickey Rooney

Muhammad Ali

Eli Wallach

*Used last year.

May your days be shiny and bright.

Ok, so maybe I don't check/contribute to this blog often enough. However, when I do, I usually upload amazing photos from those sweet days at Collins. I miss you all a lot.

Dating Is Worthless (to Me)

Time to vent... I've tried all sorts of dating sites. Every girl I meet is not right for me. I've been on all sorts of dates without anything coming of it. I've even created a set of superficial guidelines to determine whether I should spend time pursuing certain girls. I've had too many worthless dates to not have a screening process. I have resigned myself to being a bachelor. I'm perfectly content being alone. It doesn't bother me. I know I'm awesome. If no one else sees that, it's their problem. In other words, dating is worthless to me.

Testing 1-2-3

Does anyone read this anymore?