18 September 2012

Happiness ...

(I'd credit the source on this, but I'd have to swear, so, "thank you" to whoever thinks I stole it from them. Sorry for not crediting you properly.)

13 September 2012

20 ways to defeat depression

http://mindsportlive.com/Articles/Article/?articleId=218
learn from inspirational people
create a cause
make a choice to take responsibility for your happiness
surround yourself with happy people
remove limiting beliefs
exercise
set goals
disassociate from the label of depression
go to counselling
create
listen to music
do at least one fun thing everyday
understand the positive intentions behind depression
manage your time
sunlight! sunlight! sunlight!
use the power of belief alone - whatever you think helps, helps
direct your imagination toward past positive memories
imagine a hologram - your ideal self - and step into it
be inquisitive
create a miracle

http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/campaigns/defeatdepression.aspx



 

05 September 2012

First Day of School Jokes

courtesy: http://www.schooljokes.com/first_days/index.shtml

Teacher: How can you make so many mistakes in just one day?
Student: I get up early
Teacher: What time do you get up in the morning?
Student: About an hour and a half after I arrive at school
What would happen if you took the school bus home?The police would make you bring it back!
What is the difference between a school bus driver and a cold?
One knows the stops and one stops the nose!
Mother: How do you like your new teacher?
Son: I don't. She told me to sit up front for the present and then she didn't give me one!
Mother: Does your teacher like you?
Son: Like me, she loves me. Look at all those X's on my test paper!
Mother: How did you find school today?
Daughter: I just got off the bus and there it was!
Son: I'm not going back to school tomorrow!
Father: Why not ?
Son: Well I've been there a whole day, I can't read, I can't write and they won't let me talk, so what's the use?
I'm really glad you called me Fred, Dad
Why is that ?
Because when I got to school that's what everybody called me!
Teacher: If this class doesn't stop making so much noise I'll go crazy!
Class: Too late, we haven't made a sound for an hour!
 
I'm not going back to school ever again
Why not?
The teacher doesn't know a thing, all she does is ask questions!
 
What are you going to be when you get out of school?
An old man!
What did you learn in school today ?
Not enough; I have to go back tomorrow!
Mother: What did you learn in school today?
Son: How to write.
Mother: What did you write?
Son: I don't know. They haven't taught us how to read yet!
Mother: What was the first thing you learned in class?
Daughter: How to talk without moving my lips!
 
 
How do bees get to school ?
By school buzz !
What is the first thing a little snake learns in school?
Hiss tory.
What is the first thing a little gorilla learns in school?
The Ape B C's.
What do little astronauts get when they do their homework?
Gold stars.
Why did the little vampires stay up all night?
They were studying for a blood test.
TEACHER: Name four members of the cat family.
PUPIL: Mother, father, sister and brother.
TEACHER: Name six wild animals.
PUPIL: Two lions and four tigers.
TEACHER: How old were you on your last birthday?
STUDENT: Seven.
TEACHER: How old will you be on your next birthday?
STUDENT: Nine.
TEACHER: That's impossible.
STUDENT: No, it isn't, teacher. I'm eight today.
Where do monsters study?
In ghoul school.
Who sits in front of the class in ghoul school?
The creature teacher.
TEACHER: Name one important thing we have today that we didn't have ten years ago.
PUPIL: Me!
"Teacher, may I leave the room?"
"Well, you certainly can't take it with you."
TEACHER: Fred, go to the map and find North America.
FRED: Here it is!
TEACHER: Correct. Now, class, who discovered America?
CLASS: Fred!
TEACHER: Do you know "London Bridge Is Falling Down?"
PUPIL: No, but I hope no one gets hurt.
SON: I won a prize in kindergarten today. The teacher asked me how many legs a hippopotamus had. I said three.
FATHER: Three? How on earth did you win the prize?
SON: I came the closest.
Fred came into his kindergarten class with a squirming worm."What are you doing with that disgusting worm?" asked his teacher.
"We were playing outside," said Fred, "and I thought I'd show him my kindergarten."
With tears in his eyes, the little boy told his kindergarten teacher that only one pair of boots was left in the classroom and they weren't his. The teacher searched and searched, but she couldn't find any other boots. "Are you sure these boots aren't yours?" she asked."I'm sure," the little boy sobbed. "Mine had snow on them."
TEACHER: Goodness, Fred, haven't you finished washing that blackboard yet? You've been at it for an hour.
FRED: I know, but the more I wash it, the blacker it gets.
WATSON: What school did you go to, Holmes?
SHERLOCK: Elementary, my dear Watson!
It was the first day of school. As the principal made his rounds, he heard a terrible commotion coming from one of the classrooms. He rushed in and spotted one boy, taller than the others, who seemed to be making the most noise. He seized the lad, dragged him into the hall, and told him to wait there until he was excused.
Returning to the classroom, the principal restored order and lectured the class for half an hour about the importance of good behavior. "Now," he said, "are there any questions?"
One girl stood up timidly. "Please, sir," she asked, "may we have our teacher back?"
Mrs. Jones brought her son Elmer to register at school. However, Elmer was only five, and the required age was six.
"I think," said Mrs. Jones to the principal, "that he can pass the six year old test."
"We'll see," replied the principal. "Elmer, say the first thing that comes to your mind."
"Do you want logically connected sentences," said Elmer, "or purely irrelevant words?"
The first day of school is always special to me. It's the only day of the year when I'm not behind in my homework.
The first day of school wouldn't be so bad if it weren't followed by the second day of school, and the third day of school, and then the fourth day of school . . .
The first day of school is exciting, but so is riding a roller coaster, and I wouldn't want to do that for nine months in a row either.
Teachers always seem happy on the first day of school. That's because they're getting paid to be there. We kids have to do it for free.
Show me a kid who likes the first day at school and I'll show you a kid who likes to get his lip caught under a manhole cover.
There's one good thing about the first day of school. When it's over; you're one day closer to the last day of school.
Some kids enjoy buying school supplies. To me, it's like buying your own dental instruments.
One of my classmates gets carried away. He shows up for the first day of school each year with a smiling face and three pack mules of school supplies.
I show up at the beginning of each school year with a full pencil box and an empty head.
I love school supplies. If only there were some other place we could use them besides school.
My grandparents buy me so many school supplies for the first day of school that I have to take the first two weeks off just to sharpen pencils.
I buy pencils with an eraser at both ends. That's so I can make sure I don't make the same mistake twice.
PUPIL: Teacher, I don't have a pencil.
TEACHER: How can you come to school without a pencil?
PUPIL: I took the bus.
PUPIL: Teacher, I don't have a pencil.
TEACHER: I want you to write 100 times, "I will come to school prepared."
PUPIL: With what?
MOTHER: Now those are the kinds of clothes I wish I could have worn when I was in school.
DAUGHTER: They were probably in style back then.
MOTHER: There now, young man, I think that outfit is absolutely perfect.
SON: Mom, it's the first day of school; not a Pee Wee Herman look alike contest.
MOTHER: I want to help you pick out your new school outfits because I want you to buy clothes that last.
SON: Mom, the clothes you pick out will last forever because I'm never going to wear them.
MOTHER: Now these new clothes are expensive. I don't want you coming home from school that first week with a hole in the knee.
SON: Okay, Mom, where would you like the hole?
I don't know how my Mom does it, but she even buys shoelaces that are out of style.
MOTHER: What's wrong with the new clothes I bought you? They're indestructible.
SON: So is a Sherman tank, Mom, but I wouldn't wear it to school.
Moms like to buy "sensible" clothing. That's the kind that they only sell in the "Junior Nerd" department.
FRED: What room are you in this year?
HARRY: Room 12A.
FRED: Wait a minute, that's the gymnasium.
HARRY: When I registered for school this year, I told them I was a basketball.
TEACHER: I'm your teacher this year. My name is Mr. Wilson. Can you all remember that?
PUPIL: If we can't, we're going to have one hard time with the 9 times tables.
FRED: I have the toughest teacher in the whole school.
HARRY: How do you know that?
FRED: Last year he failed himself.
TEACHER: Everybody hand in your homework, please.
PUPIL: Teacher, it's the first day of school. We didn't have any homework.
TEACHER: That's right, and that's the last excuse for not doing your homework that I'll accept for the rest of the year.
HARRY: My teacher this year is Mrs. Wright. They say she rules the first grade with an iron fist.
FRED: I believe it. That's the way she plays the piano at school assemblies.
TEACHER: I'll be your teacher this year. Does anybody here know my name?
PUPIL: How do you like that? It's only the first day of school and already we're having a quiz.
TEACHER: I'll be teaching you English this year and there are two words that I will not permit on any of your writing assignments. One is "cool" and the other is "lousy "
PUPIL: Okay, what are the words?
FRED: Our teacher is going to be tough this year. We've been instructed to say "Yes, Sir" and "No, Sir."
HARRY: That's not unusual.
FRED: It is when your teacher's a woman