Ted’s Steamed Cheeseburger (Meriden location)

Today – Tuesday May 15th, 2012

11:00am until 9:00pm

Meriden, Connecticut

“Burgers for a Cause” is a fundraiser in support of Relay for Life (“We are Family” team). We participate in honor of Ted and Fran Moynihan, both cancer survivors. Also, Burton Underwood and Carleen Underwood, who lost their battle with cancer. Simply come by Ted’s Steamed Cheeseburger (Meriden location) and enjoy anything on their menu and a portion of sales will go to the American Cancer Society.

If this is something that you support please consider making a donation to them; it is a very worthy cause and I can’t think of more genuine people to help, on Mother’s Day or any other day for that matter.

Wear Sunscreen or Sunscreen are the common names of an article titled “Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young” written by Mary Schmich and published in the Chicago Tribune as a column in 1997, but often erroneously attributed to a commencement speech by author Kurt Vonnegut. Both its subject and tone are similar to the 1927 poem “Desiderata”. The most popular and well-known form of the essay is the successful music single “Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)”, released in 1999, by Baz Luhrmann.

Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of ’97 – 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 nevermind; you will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have 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’re 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 bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing everyday 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 the 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…what ever 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 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 in your own 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 are the best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but for the 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 you knew 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 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…

Since then I started a technology centric blog (which, like this one, has also become neglected) and three Wallingford local ones – mainly dealing with local politics and the Wallingford Fireworks Fund.

But I’ve decided, as part of my effort to live a more positive life, to start posting thoughts, messages and other inspirational musings. Many will be internet re-posts but when certain creativity sparks it will be something original.

I am doing this because as strong as a person as I am, life is starting to wear me down. I know I am better than to be beat or broken by it but I forget sometimes so I will write a little to remind myself to pick myself up and I’ll do that by re-reading what I have written when I am down to remember how strong I really am.

If while I am doing that I can lift someone else up, so much the better.

I am worth the time and effort and I deserve to be happy or at least content.

You are worth it too and deserve just as much.

The original post is here http://zandri.net/Blog/?p=1503 and the direct link to Mrs. Houston’s project can be found via the DonorsChoose.org website

There are now just FOUR days left BUT we’ve gotten more donations and are down to JUST $561.00 remaining for this project.

When you go to make your donation, once you place your pledge and choose “check out”,  there is a place for you to enter a “Match or gift code” in the PAYMENT section – in that field type BLOOM and the Friends and Family matching donation provided by the DonorsChoose.org Board of Directors will be activated.

Please consider helping a former Wallingford resident – Mrs. Houston – in this very worthwhile cause for some very under privileged kids