Since it's the end of the school year, I suppose I'll bid you all a (temporary) fond farewell with some words of wisdom.  This is especially for all the graduating seniors, but you little'uns can take notice if you're smart:

Don't get sarcastic with your hairstylist.

Enjoy that extra food-thing once in awhile.  If you live your life in constant deprival, one day you'll go psycho and hoover everything in sight.  Or you'll die miserable.

Sing along to the radio at least once a week.  Preferably while you're on the highway, going 75 with the windows down.

Learn to play some sort of instrument.  It doesn't matter if it's a concert bassoon or a kazoo.  Make music, even if it's not "good".

Tell jokes to old people and youngin's.  Laugh at other people's jokes, and then tell them to someone else.

Learn to stretch $10 as far as you can in a supermarket or clothing store.

Try not to eat things with preservatives that you can't pronounce.

Invent a new word and try to slip it into the conversation.  See if anyone calls you on it.

Weed an overgrown garden and then think twice before you mock the landscapers, even if they can't speak perfect English like I know you can't either.

Don't play frogger against the light.  One day the bad car-ma is bound to catch up to you.

Don't openly challenge someone's religion, especially if they've challenged yours.  The worst genocides in history were spawned from people bad-mouthing other people's gods.

Foot the bill from time to time.  That's what money's for.  And eventually the favor will come back around.

Your first car should not be right-off-the-lot, spankin' new.  It should be a piece of four-wheeled functional crap that you will learn to depend upon and appreciate and treasure for its purpose and not for its looks.  This way, when you have an accident or crash it, you will be very distraught because you have affected something important to you.

Host the party.  Then get help.

"One for the road" should not apply to alcohol.  Someone who asks for this should be relieved of their keys - forcibly - and locked in a bedroom.

Maybe a List v.2 will be posted, but for now that's all.  Now go forth and experience.  We are only issued a brief time to live and we must choose carefully who we spend it with and what we do while with them.

Life is long.  But good friends and good times can make it seem all too short.

This has been your friendly neighborhood Snyderwoman, soon to be your friendly distant Snyderwoman based out of TCNJ in Ewing NJ.