Green Up My Life, I Promise!

Yaaa, we're still here! Those smart guys are pretty smart. One scientist said while being interviewed today, "No black holes yet..." Well hallelujah! More time to blog and really enjoy life...

Which reminds me of what I was thinking while waiting at the Dr's office today...shoot blogs are supposed to be short and to the point. I think I'm too long-winded to blog about recycling minds. Heck, it'll end up being a two pager and that ain't cool.

Anywhoo, I was thinking about how fast life passes. I'm approaching 40 within the next couple of weeks and see how fast time flew by. I don't understand how it went so fast but it did. I decided to really get into the recycling thang. I had just thrown away an empty plastic bottle in haste after finding it outside on the grass instead of putting it in the plastic bag I kept in the garage for recyclable plastics. Unacceptable, I proclaimed to myself.

After I left the doctor's I went to buy a big 'ole green garbage pail since the co. who picks up our trash doesn't supply them anymore. :( Way to encourage recycling. Hmph. So I found one for 13 bucks at True Value but they had a small actual recycling bin for, like, 19.00?! Why? Well the sales guy said b/c the recycling emblem was on there.

Sooo...I'll be painting that on the front myself with some white outdoor paint. Pictures of my recycle arrow circle design coming soon. I know ya'll don't know me but drawing is so not my talent...we'll see how it turns out. I think I'll try to trace it or something first.

Okay, so back to life going so fast...If I have a day or a decade or fifty more years left to live, no matter how fast it goes, I am gonna make a conscious effort to make one "green" habit a week. If I live to be 90 then that's...oh gosh, where's the calculator? That's about 600 months to become the greenest granny (or great granny) in the universe, ya heard? That'll be something the earth will thank me for as it spins feverishly into my 50's and beyond. Sloooooow down Mama Earth!

Seriously though, life is short but you don't have to leave the living without adding some "green meaning" Besides laughing a heck of alot, living for the good passion(s) in your life...don't forget to thank the earth that sustains ya.


picture courtesy of "A Day in The Life of our Homeschool Journey" blog.

Soapbox is officially put away for the day.

TTYL (type to ya later)

Hadron Collider?? WTF??

OK, so, I'm ready to see some changes to our planet but not THIS! My 15 y.o. told me last week about some experiment that could possible destroy the earth?! WTF??? I meant to Google that night but forgot about it...until this morning while watching the morning news.

The news anchor said, "Opponents fear the $9.3 billion machine, which will generate temperatures of more than a trillion degrees centigrade, could create a black hole that could swallow the planet...." It's called the Hadron Collider and it's in the Swiss Alps. Hey, scientist guys in the Alps, please don't kill us in attempt to recreate the "big bang"!

Now, I'm all for experiments to find out how this big old globe operates but sometimes these scientists take it too far. This could be my 2nd and final post because of this experiment.

The experts say, "The LHC team hopes to find the theoretical Higgs-Boson Particle" Ay, Dios! What's next, recreating the terrifying dinosaurs through recovered DNA? A reinactment of the beginning of the Ice Age? Sheesh!

Well, if this earth is going "bye-bye" then I'm off to do some fun stuff today. After I leave the Dr's office, I'm going to take off to my local park, put my toes in the grass barefoot and lookup at the big blue yonder.

Hope to be here tomorrow though :(

Free Yo' Mind....The Rest Will Follow

Mind freedom. Ah, words that sound breathy when spoken. When I was a little girl (like 8 or 9) my mom used to belong to this group that focused on freedom of the mind and breaking down boundaries that our minds created in order to be successful in life. Although some of the stuff seemed spooky to me back then, like, transcendental meditation and telepathy, it was also a spiritual walk of sorts. The teachings were fundamental to the open mind I have today.

New concepts, ideas, new ways of doing and using old things, shaped my business of wrapperfashion.com and helped me take a strong look at my green "footprint" index #. I found that if you free your mind from your old way of doing and thinking - throwing recyclables away without regard, keeping the water running while brushing your teeth, or casting an old garment into the trash instead of upcycling, ect, ect, ect - the rest will definitely follow. The rewards will follow, and you can have the feeling of flowing and rolling with mother nature and essentially yourself since we all extensions of this big ole' globe!

With this being my very first EVER blog (I know, I'm laaaate!), I thought long and hard what matters to me. Justice, growth, witty inventions...hmm, what else? I finally rested upon "Free Yo' Mind" and couldn't get EnVouge's 1990's hit, "Free Your Mind" out of my mind since! And in freeing your mind, you can recycle and change your mind to live, move and have your being in synergy with your world. I'm putting my soapbox away for now...

In the meantime, I want to keep my mind free and continually renewed; keep my hands busy and most assuredly, the rest will follow! Until my next ramble, green-love ya'll!