Share Your Ears for Make-A-Wish

In honor of Disneyland's 60th anniversary, and Disney recently granting its 100,000th Make-A-Wish, Disney Parks will donate $5 for each photo you share on social media (Facebook, Twitter...) with you wearing Mickey ears.  The ears can be from the parks, or homemade out of just about anything round (like coffee cup lids, lollipops...). Share and tag the picture: #ShareYourEars.

You have until March 14th, and can share as much as you want. Disney will donate up to $1 million!

How to Save Countless Lives - Drunk Driving

Drunk driving is entirely avoidable, and yet numerous lives are lost each year to this reckless act of stupidity.  Here is my idea for a possible partial solution...if someone could figure out the technology and governments would be on board with requiring it.

Steering wheels should be required to be equipped with blood alcohol scanners.  It would be read periodically through the skin (and able to read through gloves).  If at any point, the alcohol level is over the limit, license plate, and GPS coordinates would be sent to the nearest police station for an officer to pull the car over.

That way, no matter who was driving, and no matter how soon after drinking they got behind the wheel, the car would sense they should not be driving.

I'm just one person, trying to come up with ideas to help the world.

See the World

There are many places I would like to see in this world.  Some, just to say I've been there.  Others, I want to explore its deepest and most hidden secrets.

I have been fortunate to be able to visit London a few times already, and plan to venture there several more times throughout my life.  I never want to look back and regret NOT going somewhere when I had the chance.  While I am young, and single, I want to take every advantage of being able to travel.  

Wouldn't it be awesome, if the world was a safe place, and everyone got along?  If there were no dangerous places, and no reason to fear traveling?  There are many more places I would venture.  Hatred and violence are two things I cannot only not understand, but have no tolerance for.  People need to learn to be better Global Citizens. 

Every person should visit another country, and immerse themselves in another's culture for a few months.  Maybe there would be more understanding and cooperation.

Just a thought.

It's All How You Read It

I'm nothing

I'll never feel that

I'm important

I have value and that

I matter

I wholeheartedly believe that

I'm worthless

I'm a loser and that

I'll never amount to anything

You can't ever say

I'm special

(Now read again, this time from the bottom upwards.)

Homemade Popping Chocolate - Recipe Repertoire

1) Melt 16-24 oz of milk or dark chocolate chips in a double boiler.

2) Remove the chocolate from heat, and mix in 1 cup of mini M & M candies, and 4 individual packages of Pop Rocks. Add in any additional toppings you would like (gummies or pretzels, perhaps?).

3) Spread the candy into your mold of choice. (Shown here is a 13 x 9 pan, lined with Aluminum Foil, and slightly greased for easy removal.)

4) Place in the refrigerator to chill for a few hours until hardened.

5) Break into pieces as big or small as you would like, and store in an air tight container in the refrigerator. Keeps for at least 2 weeks...of you don't eat it all before then!

Enjoy!