Watch this. It is truly inspiring and will change the way you think about your stuff.
As I said before, I was in Las Vegas for the week at a tradeshow. The booth I was in had a green room to showcase the way their product can change the way your house uses energy. Did you know that there are 11 watt lightbulbs that shine way brighter than the normal ones you are using? I didn’t, and I found it truly amazing until someone else told me they contain mercury. Mercury = toxic, right?
As I was at this tradeshow, I thought of enormous amount of resources used. If companies were truly going green, wouldn’t they try harder to put less promotional crap out there. Most of the stuff other people don’t really need and just take home and throw away. And then there are the huge banners that cover entire sides of hotels, and parking garages. These are one time use things.
I found the technology amazing, it is always inspiring to go to this show. However, I had a slight pit in my stomach when I thought of the hole we had left in the earth.
I am excited to get some good food and going out to play at night. It is going to be hard work during the day, but thank goodness for a break from real life. Breaks are nice.
my resolutions :: open an etsy shop / use my gocco machine :: :: keep exercising :: :: get over my fear of being pregnant :: :: do a homemade Christmas and start now so that I am not frantic at the end :: :: figure out a way to keep the the little guy happy, the check book balanced and toilets clean ::
I forgot to talk about the star on the top of my tree. When jj and I were first newly weds and had nothing but a Christmas tree and lots of hot, hot love, I made the star out of desperation. I needed something to top the tree, but was fairly unwilling to spend the money for a once a year tree topper decoration.
This lovely is made of a toilet paper roll, construction paper and tin foil. I was a little embarrassed by the ragged rawness of it then. Now however, we have the money and I could get a new fangled glowing with the reverence of the world tree topper, but I am a little fond of this one. I find myself repairing it every year. It reminds me of our first Christmas together, and the tree I knocked over on myself twice while trying to water it. But mostly of our humble beginnings together, when less still made us happy and we were glad to have each other.
This is my tree. I love Christmas and decorating. I wish things had been a little less hectic this year, hopefully I will learn to relax next year. There is a resolution.
We had a lovely Christmas. The 23rd we had a progressive dinner with my family. We drove around to each of my siblings homes and had a course of dinner. It was fun to see how everyone had decorated. Later that evening we went back to my mom’s house and opened our Christmas gifts for each other. She spoils us, especially Gentry. He got a blinking Spiderman hoodie that he will not take off.
The next morning we went to my cousins Megan’s house for her annual Christmas Eve Birthday Brunch. I remember when she was born 17 Christmas Eve’s ago. I remember thinking that because her mom was in the hospital her sisters would get to have Christmas at my house. I was ecstatic. Unfortunately some moms are super moms and theirs came home and pulled Christmas together, really an amazing feat. I remember her though, a day old and lying on the couch as we all screamed through her house with new Christmas goodies.
After the brunch we headed to Logan where we spent the rest of the week. We came home this morning. It was a lovely holiday with jj’s family. They spoil us. We got lots of nice gifts and ate lots of tasty food, all day everyday. My starvation diet is not working at all. Dang it. It is hard to starve when chocolate and sweet potatoes are calling. They also let jj and I take naps, that is a treat I get so rarely these days. I love a warm nap, or just reading a book. It is nice to have just a few minutes to myself.
• start and finish an 8 page brochure (before 5) • wrap christmas • clean toilets (they are getting the ring of dread) • gocco cards and boxes • make bread/pizza dough • answer questions/emails like crazy • fold laundry it has been hanging out since monday • iron all the wrinkled articles/put laundry away/
And look at this photography. Eyescapes. The most gorgeous thing I have seen today.
Yesterday was our six year anniversary and jj’s work Christmas party. The party was at Snowbird and we got a room and stayed the night. Mostly we wanted to play in the hot tubs outside in the freezing weather and watch snowboarders rush by. I am to scared to snowboard with a recently broken appendage. I think I have broken my bottom before and dang, Gina, it hurts. I didn’t want any repeats this year. So we just relaxed. It was nice.
