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Happy 50Th Birthday to me!!!

Words of wisdom from me? I can hear allot of laughter right now! If I could focus long enough, I might have a few pearls of wisdom. Like.... ALWAYS go with your gut instinct, it will never fail you. Listen to yourself, get to know yourself, who you come from, understand why you do the things you do, and life get's a little easier. Your history gets carried around with you... learn to live with it.

I never thought I would be this old, I never thought I would be forty or thirty. I never thought about the future... I never thought! I lived day by day, just going and doing what made me happy at the time. Okay, sometimes living that way didn't always work out. At times money was not stretching, but at times I lived pretty good. And money is not a way to value yourself, foolish way to judge people. Don't get me wrong, living with money is allot easier than living with out! Get away from that line of thought. My socialistic tendencies will start to come out. It is the Canuck in me.

Friends... You meet allot of people through out the years. I have been very lucky in the friends I have had in the past, the friends I have now. I know at times I have been a very crappy friend. I am a spoiled, selfish woman, I was a spoiled and selfish child. But through the years I have gotten better, a work in progress. I always considered myself a loner, a Shadow in this big world, and that works for me. But I have such good friends out in this big world, the years have brought the most interesting and amazing people into my life.

Family... This is a hard one, but easy. You just got to love them. Ignore them when they piss you off, have fun when they don't piss you off! It is all in the editing. My childhood was magical, Aunts , Uncles, cousins, Mom and Dad, Kevin and me. A great life to start out in. The twins came along and life got really funny. Then the tough times, but it didn't stop us from having a good life. High School was only used as a social institution. I could never go through high school today... they expect you to get an education! My one regret in life... Not going to school, not finding my passion early enough to really accomplish what I wanted too. Going to Culinary school would be a dream come true, but it won't happen. So, work on finding and cultivating that passion early, you never know what the future will hold. We always think that time is on our side, one of those mistakes that get made over and over again. I was supposed to be writing about family. I have no children, and all the reasons are very good ones, I have no patience, and I am a spoiled and selfish woman. It was not in my cards for becoming a parent, and it doesn't bother me a bit. I know mt self well enough to make at least a few good choices in my life. Brian had the babies, good enough for me! I love my nieces. That spot in my heart is filled. I believe my family loves me, so the best way to get through a good life is be happy with the family you have, like I said before , if they piss you off just let it fly by, and back off for awhile. They will come to realize what a fool they where to piss you off in the first place. If it only worked that way...

Humor... Ya just got to have it! Or, you will be one unhappy and bitter human. Sarcasm is better than nothing! I tend to be on the sarcastic side of humor. But I love my cartoon laughs. We just need to laugh, I know it is easier said than done most of the time, it doesn't hurt!

Manners... Does anyone have them anymore? Through the years that is something I have always noticed, and it did start with technology, sorry all you people with cell phones, most of you are pretty rude in the way you use them. It is boring listening to other peoples conversation, and the multi-tasking bit with the phone, fuck that.

The last fifty years have been filled with great joys and deep tragedy's. It has been a carnival ride I am very glad I took. A life spent with moments that made memories that will never be forgotten. My only words of wisdom...Find your passion and follow it no matter what, then you will live with no regrets. One more thing... Don't smoke, it is a bitch to stop... I keep failing terribly.

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