Aug 6, 2011 | Cultural chaos
Yes, I said candy. If I ever needed to question how much I dislike wastefulness, this would be the telltale answer. A few months ago, my youngest asked if he could get some Jelly Bellies at the grocery store. I agreed after glancing at the rack filled with small...
Aug 5, 2011 | Cultural chaos
116°?!!?? I really have no idea how hot hell is, but I’m pretty sure we have to be close. So how is this good? I find a lot of good in this crazy hot weather. Don’t get me wrong, I’m tired of it since it’s been over 100° for over a month...
Aug 4, 2011 | A better way, Cultural chaos, Read the fine print, Repurposed, Salvaged, Save $
Yes, it’s time to start preparing for back-to-school. My kids are in denial that they’re going back soon. I’m in denial that I have to spend a lot of money on school supplies. Of all the challenges a year of no retail shopping posed on our lives,...
Jul 16, 2011 | Abandoned places, Cultural chaos, Just plain good |
18 hours in a car? Not a problem for us! Yeah, I would love to fly and get to my destination quickly, but I’m good with a road trip. There’s more adventure in driving. (Texas to northern Colorado) I don’t have photos of all the beautiful sights...
Jun 11, 2011 | Am I still here?, Cultural chaos, Read the fine print |
Procrastinating is something I try not to do, but I seem to do it well. Apparently it’s one of my many gifts… Procrastinate. Watering my plants, returning the 1,000 emails in my inbox or renewing my drivers license. The plants are dead, I have a few...
May 27, 2011 | Cultural chaos, No retail shopping
Wow! It’s been a year already. A year of no retail shopping. It started off as a year of no retail shopping, however it ended up as a year of so much more than that. It would be impossible to sum up the year in one blog post, but I can say this. It’s...
May 12, 2011 | Cultural chaos, Flashback, No retail shopping
When I stated the challenge almost a year ago, a few people asked, “Did you buy a bunch of stuff in preparation to not shop for a year?” The answer is no. This was an idea I had when I woke up one morning and I implemented it the moment I thought about...
May 9, 2011 | Cultural chaos, No retail shopping |
Okay, so maybe I have taken this paperless thing a bit too far… or have I? Yesterday, Lindsey, my friend and coworker, said the most awesome thing to me. She said, “Happy Mother’s Day!” and followed that up with something like, “I was...
May 6, 2011 | Cultural chaos, Ideas, No retail shopping
Twenty days left in the challenge. I’m going to answer this question again, as I hear it 3 or 4 times a day now. “When it’s over, are you going to go shopping?” The answer is no. Honestly, the only thing I was going to buy is a 7.5 amp fuse...
May 5, 2011 | Cultural chaos, No retail shopping |
I personally don’t understand all the hype with the royal wedding stuff, but then again, I’ve never been one to enjoy large events, movie stars or fame. Listening to the radio about all of the consumerism around the royal wedding didn’t surprise me,...
May 4, 2011 | Cultural chaos, No retail shopping |
I’m pretty sure when God handed out our humanly traits, he did so in alphabetical order. Clearly I received my ADHD first, because something distracted me from a few of the other lines like crying and fear. I was probably off looking for abandoned clouds or...
Apr 26, 2011 | Cultural chaos, Downsizing, No retail shopping
I met Dave Bruno several weeks ago at SXSW. He’s the author of The 100 Thing Challenge: How I Got Rid of Almost Everything, Remade My Life and Regained My Soul. The basis of the book is simplicity, minimalism and living with less stuff. I finished reading his...
Apr 19, 2011 | Cultural chaos, No retail shopping, Repurposed, Save $, Sharing |
I was given a challenge several weeks ago to come up with an artistic creative element to do during a church service. I remembered about two years ago, I had seen some motion sand art created on a light table with a camera mounted above it. As I started fantasizing...
Apr 16, 2011 | Cultural chaos, No retail shopping
The challenge is done in 40 days. Will I run out and retail shop? No. If I did, that would only mean that I learned nothing from this amazing experience. Will I have changed my shopping habits? Yes, in a major way. It’s all about making wise choices, not...
Apr 16, 2011 | Cultural chaos, No retail shopping |
I went out last Saturday night with a group of people to a busy restaurant. We had a pretty large group, so we had to grab the first table we could find. There was a table about to become available, so we stalked it, and slid into the seats at the same time the...
Oct 27, 2010 | Am I still here?, Cultural chaos, Seriously
Fun? At the mall? Yep. Fun to me is processing my surroundings. This includes activities like people watching, looking at marketing trends and seeing current styles while taking photos of all these observations. If you need to know my underlying reason for poking...
Aug 11, 2010 | Cultural chaos, Just plain good, Trying to matter
You know I have a difficult time doing anything simple. I started painting these hearts, and was about halfway done, when I had an idea. Yes, I usually change direction midstream on art projects. :) The hearts have meaning because we love all of the kids at Casa...
May 5, 2010 | Cultural chaos, Just plain good |
When we arrived to the Mission Arlington conference Saturday morning, Tillie was quick to put us to work. What better way to see what is going on there than to experience it first hand? Works for me, I’m ready! She quickly found drivers for the three buses filled with...
Nov 30, 2009 | Cultural chaos
I’m at the store blogging this, waiting for bringer card proofs to be printed for tinselectomy.com. I have to say, with the ‘tinselectomy’ concept, I feel guilty purchasing 1000 candy candy canes and 500 feet of tinsel. Does it take all this...
Mar 21, 2009 | Cultural chaos, Trying to matter
Wow. I have thousands of stories from just 5 days. Where to start… Not only did we spend a lot of time at Casa Hogar Elim, many of us wandered out into the surrounding areas. We went into “las colonias”, the local neighborhoods surrounding CHE,...
Jan 1, 2009 | Cultural chaos, Seriously |
About two months ago, I got a really cool pair of shoes from a friend’s teenage daughter. She said she was not wearing them anymore, so I took them home with me. The shoes were awesome, great colors and artwork! As soon as I got home, I put them on and went...
Oct 29, 2008 | Cultural chaos |
Well, there goes the neighborhood… I guess by the photo, it is obvious that I live in a neighborhood with no homeowner’s association. My front door was a blah shade of hunter green, blending in with all the other doors in the area. I suppose it could...
Nov 15, 2007 | Cultural chaos
Nov 15, 2007 | Cultural chaos, Just for fun
These are pics from my art show in 2006. The show was called ‘excessable’. It about the excess in our society and the accessibility to a lot of stuff we don’t need. (iPhones are NOT included here!) Some of the details: -All of the photographs are...
