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Things I love


I love Humor
I love Everything that doesn't annoy me XD
I love Bouncy balls! they bounce soo high.. @.@

Things I like

I like the lightning filled skies
I like music
I like wrestling.. (nono, not that crap on TV. the real kind)

Things I dont like

I dont like Annoying people
I dont like People telling me what to do
I dont like Things repeatedly hitting me on the head

Things I am scared of

I am scared of That eerie darkness that haunts you while you try to sleep
I am scared of My mother XDD
I am scared of Being inside Catholic churches..( no offense to Catholic people)

Things I want

I want a pull-up bar TT^TT
I want to be able to get married in the temple
I want true happiness


I tag.... everyone who reads this! haha!

Our real name is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Or we go by LDS. Mormon is a nickname given us because we believe in the Book of Mormon. We usually go by Mormon because that's how people know us...either that or they tell us they've been hearing rumors that we have LSD.

We don't drink.

We don't smoke.

We strive to be modest.

Joseph Smith was the first LDS prophet. Brigham Young was the second.

Gordon B. Hinckley is our current prophet and we all love him. He's an amazing man.









BYU is a Mormon college...There are 3 of them - one in Utah, Idaho, and Hawaii. BYU stands for Brigham Young University.

The High School-aged youth go to a seminary (like Sunday school) class each morning before school. College students go to Institute which goes into the scriptures even deeper.

Our church session is 3 hours long and we love it.

The Mormon missionaries are awesome. Be nice to them

It's true. We make the best green jello salad you've ever tasted.

We think Mormon jokes are funny.

We're not supposed to date till we're sixteen.

We know that groups dates are more fun anyway.

We know that the funnest dates don't cost money.

We give talks in church or sing in front of 150-300 people.

We have refreshments at almost ANY meeting.

We celebrate holidays by throwing either a Bbq or a dinner with our familes.

We love to sing and dance.











If you go to a youth dance, you WILL see conga lines, break dancing, line dances and swing dancing. We have so much fun and we love to bring our friends.

We think that Do As I'm Doing, Once There was a Snowman, Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam and Book of Mormon Stories are the best songs ever.

We know what a Sunbeam is.

Almost every Mormon girl can play the piano.

We are not supposed to watch R-rated movies.

We CAN use technology.

We CAN eat fast-food.

We DO NOT practice polygamy.

If we ask you to go to an activity, it's NOT a conspiracy thing where we're trying to convert you. It means, we have fun and we want to share that with you. We won't force the church on you there

If we ask you to go to church, it's because we care enough about you to want to share with you what we know and the blessings we've received.

If we give you a Book of Mormon, we're giving you the most precious gift we have. It may not have the same meaning to you at first. That book has changed our lives for the better and when we see you going through hard times, we want to help. This is the best way we know of helping you. So don't be offended. Even if you don't want it, know that we care about you THAT much.

If you turn us down, it's ok.

If you think we're pushing you, tell us to knock it off! We'll stop. lol sometimes we get carried away.

There are 123 beautiful structures like these all throughout the world. They are called Temples. They are very special places to us. They are where we want to strive to get married.









We are stubborn as heck. We don't give in to peer pressure.

If you ask us what we believe, only for the sake of arguing, we won't tell you. It's pointless to engage on that when your not going to open your mind and listen. It's called respect.

Asking you to go to church, an activity, or giving you a Book of Mormon is incredibly hard. It's like a guy asking out his crush. Some of us are more comfortable in doing that than others. It's hard. So if we do it, be NICE!

Realize that if you go to a church meeting, we're not expecting you to be baptized next week. relax.

We don't care what you wear, what you look like, as long as you come! We're happy to see you!

We'll live on pizza.

We know what it's like to push a handcart.

We have all sorts of useless skills that our leaders teach us - like engraving a picture on leather, or knowing how to make sock snowmen.

We do genealogy. It's pretty darn cool when you find out you're related to someone famous...or that you're royalty.

Your parents will let you go just about anywhere, as long as one of us goes with you.

Mothers LOVE Mormons as babysitters.

PG movies ROCK!

We all love the Lion King.

The guy who owns the Marriott Hotels is Mormon.

Steve Martin is NOT Mormon just because he did Cheaper by the Dozen.

We DO tend to have big families. The more the merrier.

The boys go on two-year missions when they turn 19. And no, they don't get to choose where they go.

RM stands for return missionary. They make the best boyfriends and husbands and every Mormon girl wants one true story.

Contrary to popular belief, the majority of us would rather live in Antartica than Utah.

There are just as many Mormons in California then in Utah actually.

If you see anything bigger than a minivan and it's full of kids, odds are it's a group of Mormons...

It's nearly impossible to offend us - even if you do it on purpose.

Our church buildings DO have front doors. There's no crazy tradition about that or anything.

We try our hardest not to use bad language (swear words) and we don't really want to hear it from others. But if someone slips up, it's not a big deal. they're still loved.

People like, respect and even admire us, but are rarely interested in hearing what we believe.

Donnie and Marie? Mormons.

Gladys Knight? Mormon.

Paul Walker?Mormon.

We are not perfect. No one is. We make mistakes. We slip. Try not to judge us by one person who is struggling.

Every LDS member has their own beliefs and there's a saying in the church about that, and it goes like this: The church is true, but sometimes the people aren't.

If you EVER have ANY questions for us, we'd LOVE to answer them! Don't be shy!

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care

-James Graff(A guy at my church)

Self explanitory. I read this in the September Reader's Digest
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Two worms sit on a couch at a party. The male worm smiles suggestively and chats up the female. Nearby, two other male worms cast the couple a sidelong glance."You gotta check this out, Stuart,"one says."Vinnie's over on the couch, putting the moves on Zelda Schwartz- but he's talkin' to the wrong end."
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John Allman, PhD, laughs quietly as he reads the caption for this Far Side cartoon. Ther neuroscientist from California Institute of Technology is lying inside a dark, clanking metal cylinder, watching Gary Larson's drawing on a screen. His legs protrude from the manchine into a windowless basement laboratory on the Caltech compus. In the control room next door, Karli Watson, a graduate student, sits at the console, which controls the MRI scanner into which Allman is inserted. As Allman gets the joke, Watson is taking readings of his brain. Welcome to humor research, circa 2006.->(next page)

What's So Funny?
Humor is so clearly central to the human adventure that it's surprising how little attention science has paid it until recently, preferring instead to tackle weightier subjects like global warming, earth-menacing asteroids and the dangers of trans fats in Girl Scout cookies. "No one takes humor seriously," jokes Ed Dunkelblau,PhD, a psychologist, humor consultant and former president of the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor.Nonetheless, Allman and a smattering of the other scientists have forged bravely ahead, to the occasional consternation of their more earnest colleagues, probing minds and brains to find our funny bones.
And they're finding them, buried deep in our gray matter. Humor, it turns out, is a wholebrain experience, with networks of brain parts-- call them "humor muscles"-- passing signals quickly and efficiently to help us get a joke. We need relatively few of those muscles to comprehend simple slapstick like that in The Three Stooges, which requires us only to chortle when Moe pokes Curly in the eye. But comlex humor, such as the jokes, cartoons and funny stories in Reader's Digest, puts our brains to work.
Today, using the tools of neuroscience (functional MRI machines PET scans and statistics) and psychology (questionnares, psychology students and more statistics), researchers like Allman are beginning to understand exactly how our brain's humor muscles figure out what's funny, and how exercising them may sharpen our minds. They aren't saying that regular helpings of jokes or Adam Sandler movies will qualify us all for Mensa. But a growing body of research suggests that humor can tune our minds, help us learn, and keep us mentally loose,limber and creative.

Flexing Your Humor Muscles
The scientific hunt for the brain's humor muscles begins with(what else?) an academic hypothesis of humor. It's called incongruity, and it's a widely accepted idea about how humor works.
For example, take this joke(please):Why won't sharks attack lawyers?
Professional courtesy.
The punch line makes no sense at first and briefly trips us up. That's incongruity. To get the joke, we rifle through our mental files on language, syntax and social know-how. Then, in a flash, we mentally shift gears and see the story in a new light. We delight in the logic, especially if it reveals a rarely spoken truth about human nature. Then we laugh. We do all that in a fraction of a second--no mean feat, even by the high standards of the human brain.
Neuroscientists suspect that separate humor muscles are resonsible for each of these mental tasks. By exercising them, we learn and develop."Each humor event you experience makes you grow a little bit-- as the brain has expanded and taken on new connections,"explains William Fry, MD, a pioneering humor researcher and professor emeritus of psychiatru at Stanford University School of Medicine.
In studying patients with brain injuries, neurologists came to suspect that the right frontal lobe was critical for appreciation what's comical. In 1999, Donald Stuss, PhD, and Prathiba Shammi, PhD, two neuropsychologists at Baycrest, a hospital and research institute in Toronto, tested that idea. They identified 21 patients with damage limited to either their right frontal lobes or another brain region; then they had the patients read humorous statemnts. (Example: A sign in a Hong Kong tailor's shop read "Please have a fit upstairs." Another example: A sign in a Tokyo hotel read "Guests are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid.")
Only patients with a damaged right prefrontal cortex didn't get the humor at all. The patients still appreciated the slapstick, though. All this means is that the right frontal humor muscle is exercised only during so-called thoughtful forms of humor.
To locate other humor muscles, neuroscientists like Allman have recently begun placing healthy people in functional MRI scanners, then showing them cartoons or television sitcoms. The scans reveal blood flow to several different brain regions, which shows how hard they're working.

Your Brain on Ha-Ha
Other brain-scan results are painting a new picture of the brain's humor system. Here's how scientists think jit works: When you hear a joke, a language center on the left side of your brain makes sense of the words, then send the message across to the right side of the brain. There, the right frontal cortex delves into regions including those that store emotions and social memories, then shuffles the information until it clicks and you get the joke. Next, a structure deep in the brain pumps out dopamine, a "reward system" chemical that makes you feel good, and a primitive region near the base of your skull makes you laugh.
At Caltech, Allman and Watson discovered an important new humor muscle by scanning Allman's brain, as well as those of 19 other people. Inside the scanner, each subject viewed 47 Far Side cartoons and 53 New Yorker Cartoons, while pushing buttons on a handheld device to rate how funny each was. The results suggested for teh first time how humor might change our brain to sharpen our intuition. Allman and Watson had already focused on two parts of the frontal lobe that work when we react intuitively. The results of the experiment, which were published in March in the journal Cerebral Cortex, showed that the funnier the subjects rated the cartoon, the harder those two brain parts worked.
But the same two regions also activiate when we experience complex emotions, such as love, lust and guilt. Since both intuition and emotions come into play when we make social decisions, Allman suspects that the two new humor muscles play a role in the fast, intuitive (and sometimes wrong) judgments we routinely make about others.
Allman believes that complex humor may actually recalibrate our intuition, allowing us to make better social decisions. "I think we've hit upon the mechanism of that," he says. If so, then lightening up could keep our hunches on target.
Don't Forget This!
Meanwhile, psychologists have come up with other reasonsto look for the lighter side of life. For starters, humor can improve memory. That's what advertisers have long suspected. "Otherwise, you would never have a lizard selling insurance or a dog selling beer," Dunkelblau says.
But there was little hard evidence until 1994, when psychologist Stephen Schmidt, PhD, of Middle Tennessee State University had 38 psychology undergraduates read sentences like this one: "There are three ways a man can wear his hair: parted, unparted and departed." He also had them read straight versions of the same sentences: "Men can wear their hair with or without a part, unless they are bald." The students remembered the funny sentences, and words from those sentences, better than they remembered the unfunny ones.
Ron Berk, PhD, a psychologist who taught statistics at Johns Hopkins University, has put such knowledge to work in the classroom, using jokes, funny examples, sight gags and skits. Each semester he'd untuck his shirt, put a cigar in his mouth and a baseball cap on his head, and show up to his statistics class with an impeccably dressed, somewhat formal female colleague. "I'm Oscar and this is Felice, and we're going to talk about relationships," he said, as the theme from The Odd Couple played. The students laughed because their professors looked ridiculous. But as they listed the couple's similarities and differences, the humor helped them learn an important statistical concept.
Berk has published a series of studies showing that sharing a laugh helps students learn more. Even funny test directions helped students do significantly better on an otherwise identical exam, according to a study Berk did that will be published later this year. He also detailed his unorthodox teaching methods in a book, Humor as an Instructional Defibrillator.

Gettin' More Creative
Humor can loosen up oiur minds, allowing us to play around with ideas and be more creative. That's according to years of psychological studies, many of which got people to laugh, then asked them to come up with creative things to do with a brick. After years of brick studies, psychologists were still skeptical, so in 1987, Alice Isen, PhD, a professor of psychology and management at Cornell University, began using what she says is a better measure of creativity: She challenged undergraduates to nail a burning candle to a corkboard.
More specifically, Isen and her co-workers gave subjects a candle, a book of matches, a box of takcs and ten minutes, and told them to attach the candle to the wall without dripping any wax. People who were not amused spent most of their time trying repeatedly to tack the candle to the corkboard. "That won't work because the candle it too thick," Isen says. "Besides, the wall would catch fire."
But subjects who had just watched funny outtakes from old TV shows were more than three times as like to find the correct, and creative, answer: Dump the tacks from the box, tack the box to the corkboard, and use the attached box as a candle holder.
Last year, Barbara Fredrickson, PhD, a psychologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, found similar results when she showed subjects either videos of comical waddling penguin watchers were more likely to think broadly.
These results have convinced psychologists that amusement and other positive feelings make people think more flexibly and try more novel alternatives when solving a problem.
All this suggests the by enjoying humor, playing and exploring, we can better understand ourselves, others and the world we live in. What's more, those changes last, and help us during hard times. So limber up your mind and wise up by having a laugh.
Hey, did you hear the one about the two worms at a party?

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[x] You have a boyfriend/girlfriend
[x] You have your own room.
[] You own a cell phone.
[x] You have an ipod/ mp3 player.
[x] Your parents are still married.
[x] You have more than 2 best friends.
[x] There is a swimming pool in your backyard.
T 0 T A L: 6

[x] You dress how you want to.
[x] You hang out with friends more than once a week.(Twice a week )
[] There is a computer/ laptop in your room.
[x] You have never been beaten up(;_
[x] You never cry more than twice a month. (I haven't cried for a long time.. )
[x] You are allowed to listen to the music you want to.
[x] Your room is big enough for you.
[] People don't use you for something you have. (>.>?)
[x] You have been to a concert.( a band concert )
T 0 T A L: 7

[] You have over 50 friends on myspace
[x] You have pictures on myspace.
[x] Your parents let you have a myspace( very reluctantly..)
[] You get allowance
[] You collect something normal.
[x] You look foward to going to school. ( school=:#2:
XDDD)
[x] You play a sport. (as often as I can )
[x] You do something after school.
T 0 T A L: 5

[] You own a car.
[x] You usually don't fight with your parent(s).
[] You are happy with your appearance. (no comment)
[] You aren't self-consious at all
[x] You have never got a failing grade in your life
[x] You have friends
T 0 T A L: 3

[] You know what is going on in the world.
[x] You care about so many people.
[x] You are happy with your life(somewhat)
[x] You know more than one language(sort of.. but not fully)
[x] You have a screen name.
[x] You own a pet.
[x] You know the words to more than 5 songs.
[x] You dont have any enemies( I may be someones' enemy, but they aren't mine)
[x] You are a generally nice person.
T O T A L: 8
Now count your numbers and multiply by three.

My life is 87% happy....wow..