Thoughts from ME

In one of the classes I took this past semester, we had to write a life journal. In a binder, we combined our life stories, a life timeline, funeral plans, resumes, document proofs of our lives, and a bucket list. If you've seen the movie that came out in 2007 starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman (who I just love!), then you know what a bucket list is. For those of you who don't, it is simply a list of all the things you want to do before you die. Mine is pretty lengthy. The other day I was updating it and the realization came to me that a lot of the items on my bucket list, I need to be doing sooner, rather than later. Here is my bucket list: • Run a marathon • Do a three day hike • Serve a mission • Earn a BA • Earn my MA • Earn a Psy. D. • Own my own clinic • Ride a horse • Live the rest of my life not needing any kind of surgery • Learn to salsa dance • Fall madly, incredibly, insanely in love • Do service in at least two other countries • Be married in

 Fat Caskets. A new line of caskets for a new race of people - XXL. Never would they have thought in the days past when they were making caskets out of wood that one day we would have to make caskets three times as big as a regular person. But the term regular person no longer means an average size. The reason for this is because there no longer IS an average size. And if there is, heaven forbid it, for it's got to be huge. In the United States of America, 64% of adults are overweight and 26% are obese ( "Obesity Statistics: U.S. Obesity Trends" . North American Association for the Study of Obesity. 2006 . http://web.archive.org/web/20060206185213/www.naaso.org/statistics/obesity_trends.asp . Retrieved 2008-03-08 .) Over 20% of children are obese in the US and the rate at which it is growing is outstanding. More children will grow up to have heart problems, asthma, diabetes and that's if they grow up at all. The increase of obesity is parallel to the increase in ch