This is a wonderful essay written by a dear friend of mine. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) nolawitch is an amazing, funny, strong, wise and intelligent woman. I wanted to share her words with anyone willing to read so they might inspire you as she continually inspires me.
( Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something About It )
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If you are a fan of The Killers you might want to check out their new video, "Don't Shoot Me Santa" on iTunes. You can download if for $1.99. The cool part is that every single penny goes to Product Red for research. If you aren't familiar with Product Red, it's a great cause, check it out.
Anyway, "Don't Shoot Me Santa" is an amusing video. Very well done.
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Fall has sprung! It is currently around 67 out! Okay, nevermind that it is supposed to climb to near 90 this afternoon. The point is it is finally cooling off in the evenings. Hmmm...time to start checking out patio furniture. I could actually sit outside and enjoy my coffee in the mornings.
Okay, off to finish putting out a few fall decorations. I need more. It always seemed like I had a lot when we lived in the old house, but it was a lot smaller. Here my few things seem almost silly.
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I meant to post this last week and completely forgot. My bad. I was listening to the news on NPR on my way to work. They were doing a story about an interesting sounding company, TerraCycle and their organic gardening product. Long, gross story short, it's worm poop. In case you aren't aware, worms and worm poop are great for gardens. What really caught my attention about this company is their entire deal is that they reuse waste. The packaging is recycled soda bottles! They collect them, remove the labels, wash them and reuse them with new labels! I thought this was a great way to reuse these again instead of being tossed in a landfill.
You can read on their site how this company came into being, but long story short, it's a small, inner-city company founded by a group of friends when they were in college. They cared about the environment and wanted to create an environmentally friendly company.
So what does this have to do with my boycotting Scotts Miracle Grow? Well, it seems that Scotts couldn't be happy with their estimated 60%+ share of the gardening market and they are suing TerraCycle. They are suing on the bases of false advertising and similar product packaging and said packaging will confuse Scotts customers and they'll buy the wrong product. Apparently Scotts takes their customers for morons. I've looked at both packages and fail to see a similarity. I would not confuse the two products. I don't think many people would....that big TERRACYCLE printed on one product might help with that "confusion".
It's really sad that Scotts feels so threatened by this little tiny company that they feel the need to file a lawsuit. I guess if they can't have a total monopoly they pull out their big bully attorneys and go to town drowning the little guy in legal paperwork. *sigh*
So I'll be doing my part to help the little guys. While I have always bought Scotts products (their organic stuff) in the past, no more! I will either find a local store to buy TerraCycle from or I'll order it from their website. I do A LOT of gardening, my yard is full of flower beds. Those beds will be Scotts free from now on! Yes, pun intended.
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Top 10 professions:
1.Director of Photography <=== this is really the only one that fits me at all
2.Fitness Instructor
3.Set Designer
4.Costume Designer
5.Personal Trainer
6.Recreation Therapist
7.Clergy
8.Special Effects Technician
9.Automotive Painter
10.Sign Maker
I don't know about some of these...LOL
EDIT to add how to do this if you want:
1. Go here: http://www.careercruising.com/default.asp
2. Put in Username: nycareers, Password: landmark.
3. Take their "Career Matchmaker" questions.
4. Post the top ten results. (or however many you feel like)
Bonus: Add your own comments.
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When did Tropical Storm Humberto form? How did I not notice a tropical storm forming at my back door? Color me surprised!
While this is by no means a complaint about work, but how exactly, did I get named the administrative coordinator for a major project/contract? Like I said, not complaining. Another feather in my cap and on my resume. Oh, did I mention that this new turn of events has me swamped with work?
Okay, back to that work!
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My friend posted this in her journal and I really like this idea. Given that today is the new moon, I thought it quite fitting.
"Light two white pillar candles standing next to each other and then reflect on what positive changes have come about since that horrible day 6 years ago."
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Sorry I haven't been doing much posting of late. We've been busy getting caught up on everything at home after vacation. I've also been doing some organizing around the house. We have a storage unit about half full that I still need to empty out, so we've been pulling boxes a car load at a time and bringing the home and dealing with them. We have come to the painful conclusion that we need more bookshelves. A lot more bookshelves. So those boxes will get neatly stacked in the home office until one by one, they'll get unpacked and more shelves are procured.
( lots of rambling )
Anyway, enough of the babbling. When we were in Key West we visited The Key West Butterfly and Nature Conservatory. Beautiful! Worth going to see if you are in Key West.
( Here are some butterfly shots for your enjoyment )
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The North and South
( cut for length )
AND REMEMBER: If you do settle in the South and bear children, don't think we will accept them as Southerners. After all, if the cat had kittens in the oven, we wouldn't call 'em biscuits.
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Here are a couple of random shots from Key West. Work is super busy, so I haven't had a chance to do much editing or anything. If I have a chance tonight, maybe I'll even post a picture of me from the trip!
( Enjoy )
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While we were in Key West, we went to the Hemingway House. I wanted to see the house, but mostly, I wanted to see the Hemingway Cats for myself. The house is beautiful. It house no air conditioning though and they have quite a few first edition copies of his books sitting in antique bookcases and curio cabinets. While it's cool looking, it's kind of sad too. Those first edition books are slowly deteriorating in the hot, humid Key West weather.
( I leave you with a couple of pictures of the house and grounds and cats! )
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Yesterday it rained on and off all day long. Just when you thought it was stopping, the sky would open up again and more came down. I spent most of the day inside reading. I did run a couple of errands, mainly to the camera store to get my camera cleaned. There was a dust spot somewhere and I could not find it, but it kept showing up on my shots. It was small, so it's easy to Photoshop, but still annoying. Got that taken care of and all was well. I'm really too chicken to mess with the sensor on a digital camera myself, if it had been one of my film cameras, no problem. But everything I've read (including non-factory info) says to pay someone that's trained. Luckily the little boy at the camera shop didn't charge me! I forgot to take the underwater cameras with me to be processed, so those will have to wait until next week.
On the way to the camera store we stopped at Starbucks. Now I try to limit the dollars I give to them, I'd rather stop at CC's and keep my dollars local. But, there is a Starbucks just down the street from my house and I didn't want to drive way out of my way (hello gas!) to hit CC's. Oh.My. Fall has come to Starbucks! All of their yummy fall drinks were on the menu! Pumpkin spice latte. Yum. So of course, I had to have one. Fall is my favorite time of year. I love fall decorations, fall foods and anything pumpkin. It's also when we begin to get teasers of a reprieve from the long, hot Louisiana summers.
On our way home from our errands, the sky opened back up on us. It was coming down really heavy, so I decided the best thing to do was go out on the front porch and take pictures of it! Yes, I'm crazy. I already know that, thank you. So, I will leave you with some rain pictures for today. I need to get going this morning. We have a break in that rain and I really need to go to the storage unit and pull a bunch of stuff out. I'm determined to get it cleaned out before the end of the month.
( Rain pictures )
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I'm coming down with a cold. I feel achey and my throat is scratchy. I think my wonderful husband gave it to me while we were on vacation. Thanks babe.
Anyway, while I'm sitting here sipping my hot tea (I highly recommend the teas from Teavana if you are in the market for some lovely loose tea. Just heavenly.) I thought I would load up a new photo for your enjoyment. While we were on vacation we went to this yummy restaurant for lunch one afternoon. The Keys Fisheries is the name of the place and I highly recommend stopping by if you are on Key Marathon. It's off to the right just before you get to the 7 mile bridge. While we were waiting for our food we were watching the tarpon swimming around and I noticed these lovely beauties docked in the marina. I just loved their names and had to take a picture of them.
( Pagan Boats! )
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I was watching the Today Show this morning while I was getting ready for work and saw a fabulous commercial. It was a Tide commercial, but it was a particularly special one- at least to me. When you have a chance, please check out Tide Clean Start and buy a shirt from them. It's a classic Tide t-shirt selling for $10.00 and all of the sales go to rebuilding homes in New Orleans. A very good cause if you ask me, and you get a t-shirt!
I lived in New Orleans when Katrina hit and I was lucky, I had the ability to evacuate. Many did not. To honor my friends and complete strangers that have lost so much, I am posting a few photos from the Lower 9th Ward.
( This area was one of the hardest hit areas. )
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You may have noticed that I went on a little vacation to the Florida Keys recently. I took about 400 photos and I'm still working on editing and posting a few of those, though I promise, I won't post all 400 of them! Anyway, we had a lovely time. We stayed on Key Marathon at The Reef Resort. My in-laws have a time share at that resort. It wasn't anything fancy, but it was nice, clean and they had a fantastic pool that we frequently jumped in after a long day site seeing or playing in the ocean. Because you know, we needed even more water after bobbing around in the ocean.
While we were there, we ran to the grocery store quite a bit. Mostly for snacks and beer. Publix, the big grocery chain in Florida impressed me. They sell the reusable grocery bags! Similar to these bags. I was perusing their magazine and book section and was surprised and happy to see a pretty large selection of books and magazines on green living. I was very happy to see a major grocery store chain selling these items and actually encouraging people to be more environmentally friendly. Kudo's to Publix!
( And now I will give you a couple of evening sunset pictures. )
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I took this on the old bridge on Key Marathon. Once upon a time, this was an old railroad bridge that was turned into a two lane road for cars. Now you can only walk on a small part of it (it runs along next to the 7 mile bridge from Key Marathon to Big Pine Key...I think that's the name of the next island) and people go out there to watch the sunset.
Today was my last day of vacation, the real world returns tomorrow. Nooooo! I'll post more from my vacation throughout the week.
( When they pulled up the only railroad bed, they used all the old track as railings. A good way to recyle! )
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These two photos are from last Saturday. They were taken just after we arrived at the resort. I wasn't able to post any of these while we were away. The resort we were at had limited wifi access, it was availabe in their office and around the pool area. Not at all convenient. I had to take my computer to the pool after the sun went down to check email or post anything and there was no outlets to plug in to and this baby is a battery hog. Enjoy. I'll post a bunch more later this morning or tomorrow. We are flying back home late this evening.
( one more behind the cut )
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