We need to look over our shoulder just a little more often then we do now. You never know what might be sneeking up behind you to take you by surprise.

Sometimes you feel you need to use others to get to where you want to be. You may not even know that you are hurting anyone else and making them fall. "That's just the way it works," you say. There's no other way to get to that opportunity without using someone else. But nintendo games are not always right. I know it's a shocker, but in real life there are other ways than using people to get the same result without hurting anyone in the process. It's too bad no one ever thought about how rude it is to Yoshy that we use him all the time that way....

Don't you love it when everyone tells you that "your're unique. Not weird." Well this just proves that being unique is not all it's cracked up to be. Sometimes it is good to be unique. But in this circumstance, you don't want to be unique. You want to be just like everyone else and useful.

The reason I wanted to cull this picture is that it shows that everyone fails sometimes. Everyone has to exude their real self, and make mistakes. This is just a funny representation of that concept. Sometimes when people fail, others give a paroxysm. Which i have always found very hurtful. Who wants to have someone freak out at you for your failure? But sometimes when we make mistakes we can bilk them, and try to fix the problem before anyone notices. In this case though, I think everyone noticed....

The best thing we can learn about from this picture is that there usually is no candy. No matter how many times we tell ourselves that they are telling the truth, they probably aren't. And lets face it. If someone told you to get in their trunk and that they'd give you a piece of candy, would you do it? I know I sure wouldn't. But there are those people who just really like candy....

We need to see what a person is really like before we say they are a certain way. This guy immediately thought "tiger!! Bad!!" But as you can see that was not the case. This is one exception where the tiger is a good tiger. He was not planning on eating this guy. We need to follow this example and see what a person is like before we say they are weird, crazy, dangerous, etc. We can never know till we meet them.

What I love about this picture is that if you saw it from the side, it would not be nearly as funny. The thing that makes the picture is that it is from this angle. That is so like life. If you have the wrong angle or the wrong attitude about things, it will not make the big picture and you wont get the joke. You have to have the right attitude and view of life to make it fun and exciting.

This is what we shouldn't do. Just because someone is different, doesn't mean they cant fit in. Those Pepsi cans didn't even give the Coke can a chance. Maybe the Coke can had a really good sense of humor that would totally have fit in with theirs, but the Pepsi cans will never know that will they? I think we all need to give people a chance before we decide that they are too different to be in the same fridge as us.

The English language can be very interesting sometimes. What someone says can be taken in many ways. Sometimes a phrase can be taken as dirty, when it is in fact totally innocent and kind of cute. If you take someones words for what the words say, you may get the wrong impression. Or if you take someones words that are completely Innocent, you can give them a bad connotation. Life and language are all within our perception.

Wouldn't it be interesting if we could see exactly what hand each person had? Would that be a good thing or a bad thing? In my opinion it would be a little of both. It would be so much easier if we knew exactly what everyone was thinking, and their reasoning for everthing. But at the same time, if you were the one everyone could see through, it would be terrible. No one would want to have everyone else know exactly what they were thinking.

Fear. What an interesting emotion. We all experience fear in different ways. What is scary to one person may not be as scary to another, or not scary at all. To this snowman, the snowblower around the corner is a terrifying peak into the unmetionable future. He deals with this fear by hiding behind a tree and hoping he was not seen by the man clearing his sidewalk. But to us, a snowblower is just a helpful tool we use to keep us from the fear of slipping on the icy walkway.

I think we should all make our best efforts to be as happy as this chair. It looks so happy. If a chair can be happy when it is always getting sat on, then why are we not happy? We have it so much better than the happy chair, yet we don't show it. I think every person can learn something from it's example.

There are so many people in the world who are not what we expect them to be. Its so much more than just a wolf in sheeps clothing, its a polar bear with a mask. You can obviously tell he is going to eat you. But you still invite him to the movies. Why do we do these things? Why do we put ourselves in these situations? It's almost like standing on the edge of an enormous cliff and thinking, "It could be fun to jump... " Not for the thrill of death but for the thrill of falling.

How to play a D major scale on the viola
By: Alexandra Bauer

These instructions are going to help you play a D major scale on the viola. You will be plucking the strings. A scale goes up one octave. This one starts on D and ends on D up the octave. The strings on a viola going from left to right are: C, G, D, and A.

You will be using your first, second and third fingers on your left hand, as shown in picture 1.
(index finger is number one, middle finger is number 2 and ring finger is number 3)








Start on the D string, (the second one from the right). Pluck the D string as shown in picture 2.




























Place your first finger on the D string on the blue smiley face as shown in picture 3. Make sure you push the string all the way down.
























Place your second finger on the D string on the pink smiley face, while keeping your first finger down as shown in picture 4.





















Place your third finger on the D string at the white line while keeping your first and second
fingers down also, as shown in picture 5.


























Now take all our fingers off and pluck the A string, (the string on the far right) as shown in picture 6.









The next three notes are just like the first ones.
Place your first finger on the A string on the blue smiley face, as shown in picture 7.












Place your second finger on the A string on the pink smiley face as shown in picture 8. Remember to keep your first finger down too.










Place your third finger down on the A string on the white line. That’s the last note in the scale.
If you do it faster it should sound like it fits together. Picture 9 should show what it looks like to have all three fingers down at once.