emilyg's Blog

  The measure of your Life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.

Found in the instructions for NAPA automotive fan belts:

            CAUTION: Before starting service work, be sure engine is off.

A warning for people who also hate stopping the car to change a flat tire.

  The secret of abundance is to stop focusing on what you do not have, and shift your consciousness to an appreciation for all that you are and all that you do have.

Found in the instructions of a Murray snow thrower"

                      Do not use snow thrower on surfaces above ground level such as roofs of residences.

Anyone determined to haul a snowblower to the roof of a house has our permission to use it wherever they darn well please.

  The highest form of ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about.

Found on a box containing a VCR"

              Instructional video on hooking up your VCR included

  ALL of us are on our own paths, doing exactly what we know how to do at the moment, given the conditions of our lives.

Found on inside of cabinet door:

        CAUTION: To avoid personal injury and damage to cabinet, do not move the cabinet while in a loaded condition.

Yeah, it's better to wait until you've sobered up.

At the heart of every administration, there is one relationship above all others that shapes history.  Ron and Nancy.  Poppy Bush and James Baker.  Billary.  Cheney & Rummy.

W. is the hood ornament, but Cheney & Rummy are the chittychitty bang bang engine of this administration.

          Maureen Dowd  n.y. times

  If there's a pattern of seeing others as failures, you need to notice this pattern as evidence of what you're attracting into your life.

Found on the handle of a hammer:

  CAUTION:  Do not use this hammer to strike any solid object.

Such as, perhaps, the head of the idiot  who came up with this warning in the first place?

  There are some people who live 70 years, and there are some people who live one year 70 times, repeating what they're doing over and over in the name of the gold watch or whatever.

Found on instructions for folding up a portable baby carriage:

                        Step 1:  Remove baby

Baby?  Oh my God!  We forgot to put the baby in the carriage!

To appear Monday.  Military newspapers call for Rumseld's resignation.

  Money - like health, love, happiness, and all forms of success that you want to create for yourself -  is the result of living purposefully.  It is not a goal unto itself.