¤Wear sunscreen.

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.

Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Sing.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss.

Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.

Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch.

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.

Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone.

Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.

Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.

Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out.

Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

But trust me on the sunscreen.

My Family (L)

---> So Funny!!! Yet so true!

When Girls Drink Too Much....
1. We have absolutely no idea where our purse is.
2. We think that dancing with our arms overhead and wiggling our butt, while yelling "WOOHOO!" is the sexiest dance move ever.
3. We've suddenly decided that we want to kick someones' ass and honestly believe we could do it.
4. In our last trip to pee, we realize that we now look more like a homeless hooker than the goddess we were just four hours ago.
5.We drop our 3:00 a.m. burrito on the floor (which we're eating even though we are not the least bit hungry) pick it up and carry on eating it.
6. We start crying and telling everyone that we love them SOOOOOO much.
7. We get extremely excited and jump up and down everytime a new song plays because "OH MY GOD I LOVE THIS SONG!"
8. We've found a deeper/ spiritual side to the random guy sitting next to us.
9. The man we're flirting with used to be our 5th grade teacher.
10.The urge to take off articles of clothing, stand on a table and sing or dance becomes strangely overwhelming to us.
11.Our eyes just don't seem to want to stay open on their own so we keep them half closed and think it looks exotically sexy.
12.We've suddenly taken up smoking (doesnt matter what) andbecome really good at it.
13.We yell at our friends who are acting as the bartenders, who we believe cheated us by giving us just coke, but thats because we can no longer taste the rum.
14.We think we are in bed, but our pillow feels strangely like the bathroom floor.
15. We start every conversation with a booming "OH MY GOD, WHATSUP I HAVENT SEEN U IN FOREVER.." or " Oh My God , I LOVE YOUU "
16. Our hugs begin to resemble wrestling take-down moves
17. We are tired so we just sit on the floor (wherever we happen to be standing ) and take a quick nap.
18.We begin to leave the buttons/ zippers open on articles of clothing to cut down on the time we're in the bathroom so we fit more drinking in.
19.We take our shoes off because we believe its their fault that we're having trouble walking straight.
20. One girl falls and she takes the others with her, the bad part is that we just lay there and laugh about it before attempting to get up....
21.You decide its a great idea to start calling random people at 3a.m..... I bet they're all just dying to hear what a great night they're missing out on!

~ i dont like girls who have slept with my brother... well cause he's my brother right? like thats not kewl!

~ ppl who dont clean up after themselves or don't follow my rules, haha. No sittin on the bed!!

~ When ppl leave the furnace room door open.. SO SCARY

~ Toast Crumbs

~ ppl who can't make decions

~Old sticky tape... SICKENING!

~ When they mess up my order at Starbucks