While it would be very fun indeed to start my own business, in this economy I'm not sure it'd be a good way to start a new life and marriage. Also I would need money to start a business....
I could...
Substitute teach
Work in a parish
Work as some kind of assistant- I can be obnoxiously organized.
Be a nanny
Be a server at a fancy restaurant
Get my bartenders license? :-/
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Monday, February 6, 2012
Friday, February 3, 2012
A list of things I want to do in 2012
Hello! I have made it safely, if not a little begrudgingly, back into the arms of Indiana. I have been thinking a lot of things I want to learn how to do. Nothing crazy like, scale a mountain or learn to Sanskrit, but things that I want to know and use to better my self and my life. THis list also includes things that I want to get in the habit of doing but already know how to do. Here we go! (*mario voice*)
1. Learn how to properly plant, grow, harvest and maintain a garden that includes veggies, fruits and herbs.
2. Learn how to make home made salsa, jams and preserves with the afore mentioned home grown delights.
3. Learn how to can the above things and try to eat off of them all winter, only buying things that were not grown locally out of extreme craving or random necessity.
4. I want to use the rest of my shampoo then switch to baking soda and apple cider vinegar for my main source of haircare.
5. I want to continue making my own bath treats using olive oil and essential oils.
6. I really REALLY REALLY want to start getting up at a realistic hour every day and going to bed at a realistic hour every day. I don't know why I STILL have a hard time with it but one of these days my internal alarm clock is going to have to be that of a grown up and not that of a 15 year old boy.
7. I want to clean my room more regularly. And by that I mostly mean maintain my rooms cleanliness better. Staying caught up with laundry and that kind of thing.
8. I want to bake more things. Start baking fresh bread every other weekend and eat it all week long. yum.
9. I would like to lose at least 15-20 pounds.
10. I would like to get a nice camera and be more intentional about taking photos.
11. I would like to get a sewing machine and learn how to use it. Maybe take a class or something. It would be lovely to make or at least be able to mend clothes for the kiddies some day.
12. Marry my best friend. :- )
13. Get the manager job at LUSH GreenHills in Nashville or at least the MIT position there so I can further my career with the company I appreciate so much.
14. If LUSH doesn't work out, I would like to go to cosmetology school and learn how to cut and style hair and then work out of my home. Along with this goes starting my own Etsy shop where I make bath and beauty products on a very smell level indeed and sell them to whomever would like to have a lovely bath and lovely skin.
15. Get through my supply of LUSH lotions and use coconut oil instead. Find out if purchasing fair trade organic cocoa butter is an affordable option. Begin to make my own body butters if it is.
Thats all I can really think of at the moment but I'm sure there will be more to come. Enjoy your weekend!
1. Learn how to properly plant, grow, harvest and maintain a garden that includes veggies, fruits and herbs.
2. Learn how to make home made salsa, jams and preserves with the afore mentioned home grown delights.
3. Learn how to can the above things and try to eat off of them all winter, only buying things that were not grown locally out of extreme craving or random necessity.
4. I want to use the rest of my shampoo then switch to baking soda and apple cider vinegar for my main source of haircare.
5. I want to continue making my own bath treats using olive oil and essential oils.
6. I really REALLY REALLY want to start getting up at a realistic hour every day and going to bed at a realistic hour every day. I don't know why I STILL have a hard time with it but one of these days my internal alarm clock is going to have to be that of a grown up and not that of a 15 year old boy.
7. I want to clean my room more regularly. And by that I mostly mean maintain my rooms cleanliness better. Staying caught up with laundry and that kind of thing.
8. I want to bake more things. Start baking fresh bread every other weekend and eat it all week long. yum.
9. I would like to lose at least 15-20 pounds.
10. I would like to get a nice camera and be more intentional about taking photos.
11. I would like to get a sewing machine and learn how to use it. Maybe take a class or something. It would be lovely to make or at least be able to mend clothes for the kiddies some day.
12. Marry my best friend. :- )
13. Get the manager job at LUSH GreenHills in Nashville or at least the MIT position there so I can further my career with the company I appreciate so much.
14. If LUSH doesn't work out, I would like to go to cosmetology school and learn how to cut and style hair and then work out of my home. Along with this goes starting my own Etsy shop where I make bath and beauty products on a very smell level indeed and sell them to whomever would like to have a lovely bath and lovely skin.
15. Get through my supply of LUSH lotions and use coconut oil instead. Find out if purchasing fair trade organic cocoa butter is an affordable option. Begin to make my own body butters if it is.
Thats all I can really think of at the moment but I'm sure there will be more to come. Enjoy your weekend!
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Feb photo challenge
To help me along my blogging way I decided to do this photo challenge. You photograph something each day the month of february and post it.
Right meow I'm in Scottsdale AZ with my company Lush. It's a lively place to work :) it just so happens that my bestie lives here as well so today's photo was taken at the Scottsdale Mall. The subject was 'your view today'. I took a photo of a horse at a furniture shop with a sign on it discouraging passersby to please not ride the white horse. When i took the photo I was thinking a lot about animal rights and how they dont have voices to speak out against cruelty that's often done to them and their kin. We talked a lot about this at one of our meetings today. More profound details when it's less late and I have to get up less early. Til then -- xx
Right meow I'm in Scottsdale AZ with my company Lush. It's a lively place to work :) it just so happens that my bestie lives here as well so today's photo was taken at the Scottsdale Mall. The subject was 'your view today'. I took a photo of a horse at a furniture shop with a sign on it discouraging passersby to please not ride the white horse. When i took the photo I was thinking a lot about animal rights and how they dont have voices to speak out against cruelty that's often done to them and their kin. We talked a lot about this at one of our meetings today. More profound details when it's less late and I have to get up less early. Til then -- xx
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Sleep is tircksy
There are just some nights when sleep evades me. I have this weird anxiety all pinned up and I can never put a name on it. It's not quite insomnia, those of you know me know that I am world champion sleeper. Once I fall asleep I generally have no troubles staying asleep and it takes a promise of a hot hot shower and nine cups of coffee to get me out of bed in the morning. I dont know what it is. I just call it sleep anxiety. Its almost like I am afraid I am going to miss something if I give in to Brother Sleep...I feel a lot like a kid when these spells come over me. Remember when Christmas was a little more magical and a little less exhausting? When you use to wonder that, while mother and father said Santa wasn't real....is that the jingle of a sleigh bell? Was that a boot on the roof? I use to get so excited thinking about the prospects of reindeer I'd would nearly make myself sick. Imaginations are wild and beautiful things. I only wish mine would silence itself for the night. Nine year old me did not have to be up at 730 in the morning!
Monday, January 23, 2012
Four times is once too much for luck...how about 2 then?
Hey kids,
2 posts in one day? That's how you know blog and I are still in our honeymoon phase. I bet if I put a penny in a jar every time I blog this year and start taking them out every time I blog next year I'll never find the bottom. We'll see.
I just wanted to share some of my evening with you...its a photo blog post!
For Christmas my not yet fiance decided to help me take the first step in making easy remedies for what ales you. Working at LUSH I have unearthed a passion for essential oils and all natural living that has seeped into my every day life. All natural tooth paste, chemical, preservative and waste free lotions, and deodorants that let a girl sweat just to name a few. Tonight I decided to start my endeavor by creating a little bath cocktail using the essential oils Jon got me, olive oil as a base and the dried flower petals from the flowers Jon sent me the day he proposed *all swoon*. I have attached a photo of the sachet of flowers and also the flowers as they looked the night he popped the big question. I am missing him terribly, that may be what brought on such a (pathetically) heart felt bath time concoction. Enjoy!
1/2 Cup Extra Virgin Organic Olive Oil
5 drops all natural tea tree essential oil
7 drops all natural jasmine essential oil
10 drops all natural grapefruit essential oil
1 tsp coarse sea salt
for a lovely touch - 1 sachet of whatever kinda flowers ya got (we're not formal here...)
2 posts in one day? That's how you know blog and I are still in our honeymoon phase. I bet if I put a penny in a jar every time I blog this year and start taking them out every time I blog next year I'll never find the bottom. We'll see.
I just wanted to share some of my evening with you...its a photo blog post!
For Christmas my not yet fiance decided to help me take the first step in making easy remedies for what ales you. Working at LUSH I have unearthed a passion for essential oils and all natural living that has seeped into my every day life. All natural tooth paste, chemical, preservative and waste free lotions, and deodorants that let a girl sweat just to name a few. Tonight I decided to start my endeavor by creating a little bath cocktail using the essential oils Jon got me, olive oil as a base and the dried flower petals from the flowers Jon sent me the day he proposed *all swoon*. I have attached a photo of the sachet of flowers and also the flowers as they looked the night he popped the big question. I am missing him terribly, that may be what brought on such a (pathetically) heart felt bath time concoction. Enjoy!
1/2 Cup Extra Virgin Organic Olive Oil
5 drops all natural tea tree essential oil
7 drops all natural jasmine essential oil
10 drops all natural grapefruit essential oil
1 tsp coarse sea salt
for a lovely touch - 1 sachet of whatever kinda flowers ya got (we're not formal here...)
The research
The oils !
The finished product!
Aren't they lovely?
<3
Today
Today I am home sick. This always sounds better than it actually is. My cat (Folly) and I have had the pleasure of spending the day together and she always enjoys my company even when no one else does. She is the most talkative cat I've ever know, and I have known some chatty felines in my day. She is never too bashful to let me know when she needs or wants something. This usually happens before dawn when I am in the deepest of sleeps but I guess thats what good parenting is- no deep sleep.
I hope to find out more about parenting in the semi-near future, which is exhilarating and terrifying all at once. I am betrothed to a lovely gentleman and we will be saying our vows to a married life in July. This day can not come soon enough.
I'm not sure what lead me to start a blog today...probably a happy combination being medicated and boredom but I'm sure finer things have started as a result of those two states. Mostly I've had a few people who are dear to me say that I'm a nice writer and perhaps I should flex that muscle a little more frequently. The only writing I really do is sending emails for work and while I'm sure they are composed very well indeed, I don't really write for fun any more and haven't for several years now. I have found, in the past, that I sleep a lot better when my day consists of at least one thirty minute writing session. I think my head needs to occasionally drain all that information and hubbub thats floating around in there. For all of you Harry Potter people out there, this blog will be a bit of a pensieve (sp?) for my day to day. While I am sure you have far better things to do than sit around on the internet reading the blog of an average twenty something girl, I assure you there will be the (at least) occasional aesthetically pleasing photo or witty antidote to enjoy. In the mean time, I look forward to sharing life with those who are far away, as most of my loved ones are...I am terrible at and not particularly fond of or good at lengthy phone calls.
Until next time, cheers!
I hope to find out more about parenting in the semi-near future, which is exhilarating and terrifying all at once. I am betrothed to a lovely gentleman and we will be saying our vows to a married life in July. This day can not come soon enough.
I'm not sure what lead me to start a blog today...probably a happy combination being medicated and boredom but I'm sure finer things have started as a result of those two states. Mostly I've had a few people who are dear to me say that I'm a nice writer and perhaps I should flex that muscle a little more frequently. The only writing I really do is sending emails for work and while I'm sure they are composed very well indeed, I don't really write for fun any more and haven't for several years now. I have found, in the past, that I sleep a lot better when my day consists of at least one thirty minute writing session. I think my head needs to occasionally drain all that information and hubbub thats floating around in there. For all of you Harry Potter people out there, this blog will be a bit of a pensieve (sp?) for my day to day. While I am sure you have far better things to do than sit around on the internet reading the blog of an average twenty something girl, I assure you there will be the (at least) occasional aesthetically pleasing photo or witty antidote to enjoy. In the mean time, I look forward to sharing life with those who are far away, as most of my loved ones are...I am terrible at and not particularly fond of or good at lengthy phone calls.
Until next time, cheers!
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