Life update: I'm back at work (2 months now) - part-time (which is amazing) and I have a six month old (!). With four days at home, I've had the chance to read a bunch of blogs and be inspired by all of these other moms who have such neat stuff to share!
Topics I've been thinking about lately are creative ways to save money, freezer cooking meals, cloth diapering, and home decorating.... Actually, if I could find a way to make all of these be my job, I would be...oh LOVE. :o)
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
born for leaving?
Well...it's been a while i spose.
I was listening to the radio this morning on a rushed run into the office to pick up the FMLA paperwork I accidently left on the top of a random filing cabinet (GAAA). Anyway. A Zac Brown Band song was on and there's a line in it that "he's a gypsy soul, and he was born for leaving" and I realized that there are several country soungs with this line in it. It made me pause because we are NOT made for leaving. NO one is made for leaving. Where does this concept originate? Is it an easy way to excuse us runnning from/leaving problems? Is this related to our difficulty in taking responsibility for our actions? IE - "the report was overlooked" instead of "I overlooked the report"? It made me sad. We are made for a lot of things, but leaving isn't one of them. We're made to be in community with one another, we're made for love, we're made to glorify God...but we're not made for leaving. I may need to write the ZBB a letter.
Happy Tuesday and post-valentine's day! I hope yours was pink and red and everything lovely. :o)
I was listening to the radio this morning on a rushed run into the office to pick up the FMLA paperwork I accidently left on the top of a random filing cabinet (GAAA). Anyway. A Zac Brown Band song was on and there's a line in it that "he's a gypsy soul, and he was born for leaving" and I realized that there are several country soungs with this line in it. It made me pause because we are NOT made for leaving. NO one is made for leaving. Where does this concept originate? Is it an easy way to excuse us runnning from/leaving problems? Is this related to our difficulty in taking responsibility for our actions? IE - "the report was overlooked" instead of "I overlooked the report"? It made me sad. We are made for a lot of things, but leaving isn't one of them. We're made to be in community with one another, we're made for love, we're made to glorify God...but we're not made for leaving. I may need to write the ZBB a letter.
Happy Tuesday and post-valentine's day! I hope yours was pink and red and everything lovely. :o)
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Laundry
Okay, I didn't believe the info-mercials or the blogs, but now I'm a believer. I got a coupon in my costco mailer last week for $4 off a 15lb box of Oxiclean. Just did about five loads of laundry with it and OH MY GOODNESS does it work!
My whites have never been whiter, my colors never brighter! You know how socks get pretty grungy from all of the MN-non-shoe-ness? Well, no more!! They look like they're almost brand new! Seriously. If you're a costco member, you can get the coupon at the courtesy desk, it's good through the 31st I think. With the $4 off it was $13.50 for 15 pounds of the stuff! I don't know if it's a good deal, but I know it works and 15 pounds is going to last for a looooong time.
Happy cleaning!
Saturday, October 10, 2009
I have a great idea - I wonder if it already exists.
It would be awesome if there was technology that tagged every word you recorded when working in radio. After a few months, you'd have a great repository of words, that you could use to put together a new tag line or sub a word with another because of a swear or something. You'd just search for "crap" and then find & replace within the recording. Wouldn't that be awesome? I bet it'd save radio stations a lot of money - instead of having to edit and "splice" segments together, you could just find and replace.
The other idea I had today (it was a productive drive to freezer cooking!) had to do with stop lights. I think it would be great to link the stop lights to car engines. Basically, by using GPS and the signals the stop lights already follow - your car wouldn't be able to run a red light. When you're heading towards a red light, and you get within a certain distance, your car would begin slowing down. I guess there would be some debate around whether the car should speed up for a yellow light or slow down for a yellow light. Maybe you'd have to take an IQ test before they determine which your car would do. I'm sure there are some kinks in the idea - but all those tech people will figure it out.
The first snow the year makes me think of my best idea from a few years ago - indoor gas stations!!
Happy Saturday!
It would be awesome if there was technology that tagged every word you recorded when working in radio. After a few months, you'd have a great repository of words, that you could use to put together a new tag line or sub a word with another because of a swear or something. You'd just search for "crap" and then find & replace within the recording. Wouldn't that be awesome? I bet it'd save radio stations a lot of money - instead of having to edit and "splice" segments together, you could just find and replace.
The other idea I had today (it was a productive drive to freezer cooking!) had to do with stop lights. I think it would be great to link the stop lights to car engines. Basically, by using GPS and the signals the stop lights already follow - your car wouldn't be able to run a red light. When you're heading towards a red light, and you get within a certain distance, your car would begin slowing down. I guess there would be some debate around whether the car should speed up for a yellow light or slow down for a yellow light. Maybe you'd have to take an IQ test before they determine which your car would do. I'm sure there are some kinks in the idea - but all those tech people will figure it out.
The first snow the year makes me think of my best idea from a few years ago - indoor gas stations!!
Happy Saturday!
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