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So I was reading the news and came across a couple of articles talking about the benefits of being tall.

In one article, the topic was on height and happiness, basically talking about how on average people who are taller are generally happier. This was attributed to taller people generally earning more money than their shorter peers, as well as on average being better educated than their shorter peers. Also, being tall can help with the self-esteem someone who’s tall is more likely to command the attention of others than someone shorter.

The second article was related to better athletes being taller, slender, and heavier. The article mentioned atheletes such as Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt and how they’re taller than most of their competition. The researchers tracked world record track runners and how their size had been increasing over time, with Usain Bolt standing a tall 6 feet 4 inches. Michael Phelps himself is also 6 feet 4 inches tall.

In other news, there was a study that came out saying that organic food was no healthier than non-organic food. So no need to spend the extra money on the organic stuff!

Just some more fun articles on the benefits of height

So as I was getting ready for work today, an idea popped into my head as to a post topic I could write on. This post idea comes at a relatively good time seeing how my birthday was a couple of weeks ago. With gaining another year, I felt like writing a post on signs that you’re getting older. Most of these are from personal experience, so hopefully you’ll find some humor in what I’m writing.

1. You spend more time and money taking care of your home than you do yourself. Since owning a home, I now find myself spending more time and money for my home than I do for myself. When you’re young, you want to spend money on primarily yourself. You don’t have to worry about maintence for your home since your parents always took care of that. However, when you get older and get your own place, you begin to have to spend both time and money to keep things in order. Getting your yard to look nice becomes weekly event that constantly needs attention. You don’t want to be the only neighbor to have brown grass and weeds as high as your knees.

2. A Night out on the town ends at 9 instead of starting at 9. When you’re in college, nothing really starts until after 9PM at night. However, the older you get, the more you find yourself ending your night early so that you can get yourself to sleep. I’ve also found that I also can no longer sleep in, and that I naturally wake up earlier and earlier. On the rare occasion that I do end up staying up past midnight, I find myself really tired and just waiting to go back home to go to sleep.

3. Loud music and noises begin to annoy you. This one I find myself more and more being annoyed with. It begins to really bother me when there’s a loud noise/music going on in the same room that I’m in. When I was younger, this wasn’t such a big deal, however nowadays I just enjoy my peace and quiet.

4. You begin to realize that you’re now older than the sports stars you cheer for. When you’re young, you look up to sports stars because they’re a star! However, when you get older, you begin to realize that “Hey, I’m older than Lebron James and can’t play basketball for the life of me” This is when you get sad and realize that you’re old. Instead of thinking “I’ll be a football star when I’m older” you start thinking, “If my back and knees were better I could do what they do” This can also apply to movie or music stars, take your pick.

5. You realize you have no idea who’s “popular” on the music scene. I was never really big on music. Never having really bought any CDs. Even so, I was still at least current on who was considered “Big” at the time when I was growing up. Nowadays, I’ll turn on the radio and have no idea who’s even singing the song. This one time, while I was watching American Idol, they had Flo Rider on as a singer. Not knowing who he was, I thought his name was pronounced “Florida” only to find out that it was “Flow Rider”… oops

6. It takes longer for your body to recover. When I was younger, I used to play soccer and have no problems playing 3 or 4 games during a weekend. I could run around and not get sore, and not have to worry about any health issues. Now as I’m older, I get sore just trying to pull weeds out of the ground. I also have to watch out how I lift things so as to not hurt my back. Maybe I should try to get back into shape…

7. You keep saying “When I was younger…” In working with a youth group of kids ranging from 12-18, I find myself constantly saying phrases that reference how old I am now. I’ll tell them about how things used to be when I was younger, or how I used to do things when I was younger. The phrase just comes out more and more, and I’m only 27! You definitely know you’re old when you start telling others about what you were doing when you were younger.

Well, here are 7 signs that you’re getting old! I find myself going through all of these. While I know I’m not that old yet, I’ve already passed the quarter century mark. I’ll definitely know I’m old when I find myself having spent more years out of school than in school. I still have a few more years before that becomes true.

So Mazie and I have a bare wall in our family room and we haven’t yet figured out what to put on the wall. So seeing how I haven’t posted anything for awhile, I figured I’d see if there were any suggestions as to what we should put on that wall. If you suggest art work, let us know what kind of art work too. Below is a picture of that wall.

If anyone suggests anything worthwhile, we may just put that on the wall!

So I was reading the news today and saw an article about Dora the Explorer and how they were updating her image. The article was actually pretty funny since it went on to describe how upset people were getting that they would change how Dora looked.

This got me thinking how people will say that they like change, yet when that change affects them, they’re completely against it. For the most part, I’d say the majority of people are simply against change because it’s different from what they’re used to. Take Facebook for instance, with their recently updated look, you have people complaining left and right about how they don’t like the new look. Maybe this just goes to show how addicted people are to facebook since they’re complaining as if it has a negative impact on their lives.

I saw another article recently that had surveyed people regarding government spending verses taxes. The conclusion that the article gave was that people were ok with government spending as long as it didn’t cause their taxes to go higher. They would be ok taxing other people though, just not themselves. Again, this shows the double standard people have with change. As long as it doesn’t cause things in their own lives to change, people are generally happy.

In my opinion, if people simply learned to accept that things will change, then they’d be able to be happier instead of constantly being upset when something they were accustomed to changed. I’ve heard a saying that said “Hell is where nothing changes.” Life would be pretty boring if nothing changed. So stop complaining and change!

So this past Sunday, Mazie and I watched High School Musical 3 at our place with some of the returning college freshman who were on spring break. I thought the movie was pretty good having only seen the 2nd movie before. One of the songs during the movie is “Can I Have This Dance?” where they dance a Waltz. At the end of the movie, Mazie and I were able to watch our own live version of the dance.

I’d have to say they did a pretty good job

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So recently I saw a photo of a man who looks almost exactly like President Obama and a news article about how similar he looked. This got me to thinking that for everyone out there, there has to be at least someone else out there who’s not related and looks like yourself. You may never meet that person, but of the 6 Billion+ people, the chances are pretty good that someone else out there looks like you.

What needs to happen is for you to become famous so that you’ll be able to find out who that person is! I apparently have already found my “twin”