"Never frown. You never know who could be falling in love with your smile"

My grandfather is a wonderful man. He was a social worker and has always made it a point in his life to make other people happy. A trait he has passed on to his son (my dad) and also to me. I plan to follow his foot steps in Sociology, maybe as a social worker. We'll see.
But what is amazing about my grandfather is that he cannot smile. He was born with Moebius Syndrome. Moebius Syndrome (as defined by wikipedia) is "an extremely rare congenital neurological disorder which is characterized by facial paralysis and the inability to move the eyes from side to side. Most people with Möbius syndrome are born with complete facial paralysis and cannot close their eyes or form facial expressions." My grandfather has always been good at making friends and is always talking and meeting new people. He recently went to a Moebius Syndrome conference in Colorado along with many people that also have Moebius or family of those that do. There were people of all ages, from young children to seniors. I learned that he is the oldest living person with Moebius Syndrome.
My grandfather has told me a couple times that I should always smile and never take it for granted because not everyone is blessed with the ability to smile. A lesson that I have not fully taken to heart though I should. We shouldn't take any gift, even seemingly small ones, for granted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY2dWqA2z_Q
This is a video slide show of the conference that he went to. It truly is amazing to see how much of a difference a smile makes.

Can I Rant?

Why yes, yes I can. I can't let this go by any longer with out saying something about it. American's are becoming increasingly less intelligent (which I guess is just decreasingly intelligent...). Anyway, my main gripe is that people, teens and young adults mainly, don't spell things correctly. Okay so I can't really judge on spelling because I suck at spelling but it's not that they don't spell things correctly its that they spell them incorrectly because they spell things the way they sound! It irks me. For example the phrase "what's the matter?" when said quickly is pronounced "what's 'da matter?" or even "what's 'a matter" if the "d" is included in the "t's" in what's. I just saw someone post on face book "whats a matter?". NOT a grammatically correct sentence at all. First of all: if you just said "what's a matter" you are saying what is a matter? Matter is a noun but isn't really a singular object. One could say "what is a form of matter?" or "what is matter?" but "what is a matter?" is incorrect.
So I know that whole first of all suggested that I had a list but I don't... There are other examples. Than doesn't equal then. Than is used in comparisons. The purse is more expensive THAN the wallet. Then is used in progressions like "THEN I went to the store".
There are a LOT of others, I can't think of them now and I'm sure I do the same thing all the time. I will receive my punishment by the grammar gods eventually but until then (not than) it will annoy me.

Also, just found a link to the most commonly misspelled words check it out: http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/misspelled.html

One last thing. The silly English language has all those words that mean different things and are spelled differently but are said the exact same way. I have way's to help me remember so PLEASE come up with your own if these don't help. This bothers me way more but is also way more understandable than my previous gripe.
You're/Your
You're is a contraction of you are its like can't or don't
Your... is not a contraction

They're/Their/There
There is a location like here
They're is a contraction
Their is neither

To/too/two
Two you should just know
Too is like also or too many like too many o's
To you should also just know

Know/no
just know it

(sources) Cite/(eye) Sight/(web) Site
ummm I have definitely struggled with this one and don't know a clever way to keep the separate...

ok done with that, I just had to get that out of my system and I'm bored... not board