I am way too excited that this came out today.
New tracks, go-karts & motorcycles, play up to 11 other people, and race people around the world via the internet. Awesome.
that is all.
Once a week blogging
Apparently I haven’t had much to say lately! I just haven’t felt like blogging much lately, I am sure that will change soon enough and I will be back to boring everyone with the details of our not so fascinating life. Continue reading “Once a week blogging”
Holding Out
I told Matt a couple of weeks ago that I was going to hold out until May to turn on the air-conditioning. Is holding out really that difficult? Continue reading “Holding Out”
Human Footprint Part 2
I did get to watch the Human Footprint the other night and was a little disappointed. Even though it held true to its promise of showing all the things we consume in our life time, it didn’t express the impact of the consumption, or even suggest any changes to our lifestyles. I admit I could have missed it if they brought up either of those things briefly as we (Matt and Eric) were a little chatty during the show. In their defense they were discussing the show. At one point they waited anxiously for the show to tell us how much a woman spends in a lifetime on clothing, it had already told us how much a man spends, so it is only fair if they tell us how much a woman spends. It never told us and they were sorely disappointed.
Instead of watching the Human Footprint, if you haven’t already, I highly recommend the Story of Stuff. It is only 20 minutes compared to two hours and goes over the basics of human consumption and its impact on the world. There is even the suggestion that we can change the consumption driven lifestyle.
Human Footprint
I think the Human Footprint looks interesting. It airs tonight on National Geographic at 9pm. It shows the total American’s consumption in a lifetime all at once. I think we tend to be a wasteful society and there are areas we can cut back. I encourage you to watch this.
I will not be watching tonight as we do not have cable, but my neighbor is tivoing it for me and we will watch it out their house sometime soon.
I think I fixed the subscribe feature
maybe this will work.
Test Post
It has come to our attention that subscribers are not getting emailed, so I played with a few setting and I am testing it. If you get an email please let me know by commenting. Thanks!
comments fixed
so I broke the comments when I upgraded our blog to wordpress 2.5. I have them fixed. Sorry.
Feel free to comment on all the posts, 3 times to make up for it.
Waiting
As you may have noticed we have not blogged about our adoption in a while. Quite honestly it is because there is nothing to report. Continue reading “Waiting”
Garage Sale, Babysitting, and More
On Saturday we held a garage sale and we considered it a success. We cleared out a lot of stuff and made some money. We also babysat our neighbor Ethan. He is just about five months old and is really smiling a lot and starting to make fun noises! (Matt also changed his first diaper this weekend!) Here are some pics to enjoy! Continue reading “Garage Sale, Babysitting, and More”
Cut the Crap
I have signed up for yet another challenge this month to go along with the Buy Nothing Challenge. I am going to work on seriously de-cluttering the house. Those of you who live around us know we are having a garage sale tomorrow and are thinking, “Didn’t she do that already?” Well no, not really. I have cleaned out areas and found stuff to sale, but I have not truly de-cluttered. I have a couple of closets and drawers I don’t even like to open (come on you know you do too). I save stuff just in case I might need it one day, but I haven’t needed it in five years, but I still might need it some day. Ummm more than likely not!
Anyone can join me if they wish!
Blog Updates
We made some updates to the back-end of our blog last weekend and had a couple of glitches. We think everything is all worked out now, but we did lose some of our email subscribers. We re-registered the emails we could remember, but we could have missed a few. So, if you usually get an email from us when we update the blog and you no longer are, please re-subscribe. Sorry! It is all Matt’s fault. Really it is, because I don’t know how to do any of the stuff he did, so there is no way it is my fault. Of course, I probably wouldn’t even have a blog if it wasn’t for him, so I really shouldn’t blame him, I should just be thanking him. Thanks honey for maintaining the blog and all the crap that goes with it!
Buy Nothing Challenge
Matt and I have decide to participate in a Buy Nothing Challenge. We have actually been kicking around the idea since January 1, and one of the blogs I read regularly issued a challenge and we decided to go for it. For the month of April we can only buy the essentials.
That means:
- No new clothes
- No new gadgets
- No new furniture or housewares
- No salon services
- No makeup
- No tools
- No bike parts (that one is just for Matt 🙂 )
- No whatever else people buy
Anyone want to join us?
Our weekend
On Saturday we went to the botanical gardens to see the butterflies and spring wild flowers. Everything was beautiful. Continue reading “Our weekend”