Archive for March, 2009

Where Are They Now?

So, I know that I have neglected my blog, but I don’t have a team of writers like Perez Hilton, and I guess I’ve just had other stuff going on. I’m sure you’re wondering where I am if you’re even reading this, and maybe you think I’ve just faded into obscurity like an old Top Model winner. I have been semi-active over on Facebook and Twitter, so I suppose those are the best ways to see what I’ve been up to. Although, I’m probably going to set some better privacy filters over there. Believe it or not, I have been having an internal struggle the last 3-6 months about how much of myself I want to share online. I don’t really know where this has come from, but I think I’m starting to find the balance.

Rob is back from the Recording Workshop and he is now interning over at Azmyth Studios. In addition to it being a good studio with a diverse group of clients, it’s also the closest studio to our house.  I am so glad he’s back. I really missed him. The first month wasn’t that bad, but oy February seemed so long.

Anyway, I’m really going to start blogging more now. I think I’m finally to a point where I can start sitting down and doing some writing, as I have not been able to do any since my main concentration has been purging my clutter.  Frankly, I feel like I can start doing a lot of things now because my house is almost that of a normal person. I do know that I will officially be leaving my pack-rattedness in 2009.  I have recently been working on purging clothes.  It is now to the point that everything clothes-wise has a home in my house, yet there is not enough room and the spaces are overflowing. So, now that it’s all amassed together, I get to go through and go category by category and make myself get rid of at least 1/3 of each category of clothing. I am still battling with some stuff going on in my basement. Apparently my joists are too short to support by floor properly. And there’s some erosion. I am getting back in contractor mode and it sucks.

On a better note, my most recent obsession has been green breakfast smoothies. I’ll do a whole post at some point here, but I have really been enjoying my breakfast. I basically stuff whatever I can into a blender that’s good for me- greens, fruit, flax oil, protein powder, Centrum liquid, Benefiber- and blend it all up into a delicious morning breakfast drink. I’m sure a lot of the green smoothie purists would scoff at my additions of Centrum, Benefiber, and protein, but whatever.  Today I am mourning the return of my friend Jennette’s Vita-Mix to her. You may remember when I met Jennette at BlogIndiana (yeah, lot of good it did my blog to go to that *wink*). She’s such an awesome blogger that companies send her stuff, just hoping she’ll start using it.  Anyway, I was reading up on blenders and apparently the Vita-Mix and the Blendtec are the Canon and Nikon of blenders. So, I put out some feelers on Twitter to see if anyone had any experience with either blender, and she offered to let me take hers for a spin. My Cuisinart is a pretty awesome blender, but it just can’t hold a candle to the Vita-Mix. My next mission is to get a Blendtec to try.

Anyway, that’s what’s been going on here. I may take a day off, but I’m going to try the whole blog-every-day-for-a-month-straight exercise in April, so get used to coming back here.

Nothing but love!

Pledge to End Hunger

So, I plan on knocking out a couple blog entries this weekend as long as I’m not getting whatever sickness Rob has acquired since coming home from Chillicothe. I was sick for a week after returning from Vegas (as were a bunch of other people I know all over the country- all the same week). It was weird. I have some pictures and I want to tell you about my tour of Zappo’s.

But before this week ends, I do want to share with you another philanthropic/altruistic endeavor. It’s really simple. It’s the Pledge to End Hunger. You go to the site. You sign your name and for doing that 140 meals are delivered to a food bank in Austin, TX. And it’s kind of a competition between states as well because the top 2 states that lead in pledges, get a truckload of food delivered to them more locally.

So, head over and sign it. You can also put in your ZIP code to find more info about hunger charities local to you so that you can volunteer, and of course you can make a financial donation if you wish. But all you HAVE to do to get some meals delivered is to sign your name to the pledge.