Happy Earth Day!

Happy Earth Day Everyone!! Here are some tips to help out the environment and to make your bills a little less expensive! Please pass along the information so everyone can be involved in the bettering of our Earth's future!

Keep the lint filter on your dryer cleaned so the dryer uses less energy.

Make sure your windows and doors are well insulated.

Use both sides of the paper when printing.

Turn off your computer when you leave the office for the day. (Companies save hundreds of thousands of dollars by doing this)

Get your printer ink cartridges refilled instead of buying new ones. It's cheaper and saves on packaging and material costs.

Regulate the temperature of your water heater to 120 degrees.

Get a trash can or barrel of some sort to catch the rain from your rain gutters on your house and use the water to water your plants and things like that.

Use a lid when warming a pot on the stove. It'll save energy and warm faster!


I know that all this sounds like little things that wont make that much of an impact but if you pass this information on and everyone starts making these little changes, WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE! The Earth isn't gonna last forever and it's our children that will inherit it, why not make it better than it was for us?

Class Project

In my Global Consumer Culture class we had to do a documentary on Globalization. It was a group project so I can't take all the credit!! Here it is, hope you enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoUnf-oGs1s

Another documentary that I really liked and learned a lot from was one on Human Trafficking, yeah.. true story, its like the modern day slavery! Check this video out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LjULP2M7Hc


Hope you all enjoy! or at least learn something!!

Plastic Bags

Hello all,
So recently in some of my classes we have been talking about different ways to go green and help the environment. One of the issues we talked about was the dangers of plastic bags. Here's what I learned:

Somewhere between 500 billion and a trillion plastic bags are used worldwide each year and less than 1% of bags are recycled. It costs more to recycle a bag than to produce a new one.

A study in 1975, showed oceangoing vessels together dumped 8 million pounds of plastic annually. the real reason that the world's landfills weren't overflowing with plastic was because most of it ended up in an ocean fill.


Plastic bags have been found floating north of the Arctic Circle near Spitzbergen, and as far south as the Falkland Islands.

Plastic bags account for over 10 percent of the debris washed up on the U.S. coastline.

Nearly 200 different species of sea life including whales, dolphins, seals and turtles die due to plastic bags. They die after ingesting plastic bags which the mistake for food.



If we use a cloth bag, we can save 6 bags a week, 24 bags a month, 288 bags a year, thats 22,176 bags in an average life time. If 1 out of 5 people in our country did this we would save 1,330,560,000,000 bags over our lifetime.

Bangladesh, China, Ireland, and Rwanda banned the use of plastic bags. Israel, Canada, western India, Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Taiwan, and Singapore have also banned or are moving towards banning the plastic bag. And in March 2007 San Francisco became the first U.S. city to ban plastic bags.

Plastic shopping bags are made from polyethylene: a thermoplastic made from oil. Reducing plastic bags will decrease foreign oil dependency. China will save 37 million barrels of oil each year due to there ban of free plastic bags.

So next time you go to Walmart, pick up one of those shopping bags that cost $1 .. remember what you will be doing for the environment! If you read this please pass the information on!

"Be the change you want to see in the world" - Gandhi

To Twitter or not to Twitter?

Has anyone else heard all the hype about twitter.com these days? I was watching "The View" this morning and they had a long discussion about it and how Elizabeth and Sheri love it but the others are rebelling against it. I decided to see what it was all about and I have to admit it is addicting but only because I can take a look into the personal lives of celebrities. Like I need to do anymore of that! Just one more thing to distract me from studying when I need to.
So my thoughts on Twitter are cool to look at everyone else's but i'm just not that into updating what I'm doing every hour or so.. Check it out if your into stalking celebrities :) you'll pleasantly surprised that you can find just about anyone on that website!

Have a good week!

Thoughts on Love

When is the right time to say "I love you" in a relationship? So often these days people are saying it faster and faster in their relationships. When do you know you are in love? In my previous relationships I've told 3 people I loved them. Did I love them all? No, two of them yes definitely. But I can't remember how far into the relationships I said them, well I do but I don't remember why I felt it was the "right" time to say them. Does that mean I didn't really love them? I don't think so.. I find myself in a new relationship, we've been together for around 3 months and I'm getting some serious feelings for him. But i'm not sure that I love him, yet. I definitely know that theres the potential there.
Since I've changed my major I've been taking some different classes, one in particular Marriage and Family in the Global Context. And I've just finished studying a chapter on love, passion, and commitment. It basically teaches various ways of defining those 3 words and the different doctors that came up with ways to evaluate them, a very interesting chapter I might add. Here's a little something from it.. "According to Robert Steinberg, the intimacy, passion, and decision or commitment can be combined in eight ways, with these combinations forming the basis for classying love:"

• Liking (intimacy only)
• Romantic love (intimacy and passion)
• Infatuation (passion only)
• Fatuous love (passion and commitment)
• Empty love (decision or commitment only)
• Companionate love (intamacy and commitment)
• Consumate love (intimacy, passion, and commitment)
• Nonlove (absence of intimacy, passion, and commitment)

So this lead me to start trying to figure out what kind of relationship I now have and if there's love and if so what kind? Is it the right kind? The wrong kind? What kind of love do you have?

I missed it again!

Right now i'm supposed to be studying for a Biology test, but as you can see i'm not doing what i'm supposed to be. :( Anyway onto the reason for this blog! This is the second time it has snowed in Auburn since I moved up here and the 2nd time i've MISSED IT! I've been in Dothan both times the heavens finally opened up and dropped snow into south Alabama. We did get to see it snow some in Dothan but nothing compared to what Auburn got. We left Dothan early Sunday afternoon to get back and hopefully see some of the gorgeous snow everyone kept talking about. We got into town about 4 or so and this is what we found!

This is our house :)

It was so pretty! Me and Rich were like little kids coming into Auburn seeing all the rooftops covered in snow. I came home unpacked the car and went straight to making snow angels. It was such a pretty day and the snow stayed all night and when I got up for school this morning it was still everywhere. It was so cool.. it actually looked like it was a normal thing. Excuse me for my amazement with snow but come one I'm from Alabama!
These pics are from school this morning:

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1.) What would your babies look like with the last person you texted?
hott

2.)What are your plans for the weekend?
going to dothan

3.)What do you look like right now?
a bum

4.)Do you have friends who use drugs?
yup

5.)Do you have a new years resolution?
nope.. never keep em whats the point?

6.)Have you ever regretted kissing someone?
yes!

7.)What should you be doing right now?
i should be at the gym!

8.)Do you wish someone you like told you they liked you?
i dont have to wish anymore :)

9.)Ever cheated?
yes.. i was younger though!

10.)Ever kissed someone you thought was too good for you?
yes

11.)Did you kiss anyone today?
nope

12.)Who is the last person you want to see right now?
mmm... do i have to say?

13.)Would you date someone 5 years older than you?
yeah

14.)Will next Saturday be a good one?
always.. its saturday!

15.)How old do you look?
18 or 19 i dunno... i dont know.. not my age

16.)Do you think you have made anyone happy recently?
i hope so

17.)Your plans for tomorrow?
gym, tan, class, dothan!

18.)What is the first thing you usually do in the morning?
take zoe outside

19.)Anyone you're looking forward to seeing soon?
YES!

20.)How many times have you eaten sushi?
too many to count!

21.)What do you want to do right now?
mm.. go home!

22.)What time is it now?
5:55pm

23.)Do you think anyone will repost this?
maybe

24.)Do you have a bad habit?
who doesnt?

25.)Do you have any credit cards?
just 1... but i dont use it

26.)Do you have any bills?
yes :(

27.)What do you want to be when you grow up?
a therapist

28.)How often do you log into blogger?
mm.. once a day or so.. more if i'm bored

29.)Do you like candy necklaces?
uh YES!

30.)What kind of drunk are you?
the happy kind

31.)What is your favorite season?
Summer!

32.)Name three moods you are feeling?
sleepy
happy
anxious

33.)Where will your next vacation be?
beach

34.)Whats your favorite song?
right now Satellite by Guster!

35.)Do you have any "friends with benefits"?
Nope

36.)Where were you at 3:02 AM this morning?
sleeping

37.)Have you ever cleaned up someone else's vomit?
unfortunately.. i might be friends with some hellians? :)

38.)Have you kissed someone out of revenge?
umm... i dont think so but i dont have a good memory

39.)Did anything happen last week that made you upset?
yeah

40.)Is there someone you will never forget?
a lot of people i will never forget

41.)Tell me about your life right now?
its great.. chaotic at times but it could be a lot worse.. i'm lucky

42.)How many texts are in your inbox?
124

43.)Are your parents over the age of 40?
yep

44.)Do you have siblings over the age of 21?
sure do

45.)What is your favorite color shirt to wear?
purple right now.. it changes

46.)Do you like hugs?
love em!

47.)Are you a loud person?
if need be

48.)Are you ready to get out of this town?
for the weekend yes!

49.)Are you wearing any jewelery?
a ring!

50.)Have you ever been on the television?
yes

51.)Do you live near your best friends?
yes luckily some of them are REALLY close.. others not so much :(

52.)Are you scared of bugs?
ew yes

53.)How old do you want to be when you have kids?
i dont know? when the time comes i'll know

54.)Are you a fast typer?
yes

55.)Are you listening to music right now?
nope.


56.)Have you ever churned butter?
nope

57.)If you were a crayon, what color would you be?
hmm... yellow!

58.)What woke you up this morning?
my phone alarm

59.)How was your weekend?
good minus some sickness

60.)Ever thrown up in public?
haha yeah

61.)What kind of house would you like?
a cool one